Sentence examples for point of comedy from inspiring English sources

It would be sprezzatura to the point of comedy to say there was nothing to it.

The point of comedy is that it's an innocent pleasure, that it offers relief from thinking.

Their distrust of anything connected with image is intense to the point of comedy.

The point of comedy, Coogan claims, is to prick pomposity and not to pick on the weak.

But what had appeared, at first, to be a political brushback pitch from Bloomberg's team began to seem, as the spring wore on, like running up the score, with the attacks persisting, and even intensifying, to the point of comedy.

He is unashamedly didactic (drastically limit TV and tablet use, don't drink in front of your children), sometimes to the point of comedy (tickle your kids, dads, but never while driving; don't forget to wash).

What's worse is that MacFarlane is not just an artist but also a comedian – and the whole point of comedy is to make your subject look ridiculous.

He took endless trouble with me... and taught me during those two short weeks many technical points of comedy acting which I use to this day".

To date, almost every one of the channel's successes has been the equivalent of a stand-up act: what Ms. Ganeless calls "singular point-of-view comedy".

Broadcast to 3.5m viewers, it introduced a new audience to stand-up.The bigger names have less time for television than others, as they need to keep their material fresh for the arena shows that are increasingly on offer, points out Shane Allen, head of comedy for Channel 4. So television is constantly in search of new talent.

The point of the comedy was to shake people up.