Sentence examples for pointed comedy from inspiring English sources

(That is, it provided Mr. Letterman with night after night of ferociously pointed comedy).

Before that, the most successful black filmmaker was Melvin Van Peebles, who directed the 1970 feature "Watermelon Man," a pointed comedy about a white man who wakes up black and experiences racism firsthand.

Woody Allen appears on screen assessig a fictional 1930's jazz musician in SWEET AND LOWDOWN (1999), his pointed comedy about "the second greatest guitar player in the world".

The young soldiers who are their captors seem to be just as confused and demoralized as the women themselves, and the films rich, pointed comedy arises from the sense that all of them, men and women alike, are trapped in an absurd, insoluble predicament.

If you rent the 1939 adaptation of A. E. W. Mason's novel, however, expecting to hear the solid creak of the reactionary, you will already find plenty of pointed comedy at the expense of regimental bores, and the characters are spurred into the fray with a directness that has been all but abandoned in the sluggish, meandering narrative of today.

And even if the machine did know, would it be best to recommend a pointed comedy — "Horrible Bosses," anyone?

Mr. Cox would go on to direct the definitive punk romance "Sid and Nancy" (1986) and a whole series of sly, politically pointed comedies and craftily subverted genre pieces (a favorite remains "Three Businessmen," a 1998 fable about the impossibility of finding an edible dinner in Liverpool).

A fair question in a way, or does it reveal an assumption based on my material: that I couldn't simply be a comedian doing an hour of pointed observational comedy.

March 22. * "AND YOUR MOTHER TOO" The Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón returns home after two Hollywood projects ("A Little Princess" and "Great Expectations") for a politically pointed erotic comedy about two upper-class teenagers who run away with a sexy older woman (Maribel Verdu).

In the wake of Donald Trump's election, Colbert's pointed political comedy has attracted an audience that is less compelled by Fallon's safe, middle-of-the-road humor.

"When we started out in Australia," says Rahman, "it was novel to have two young brown guys doing very pointed, overtly political comedy.