Sentence examples for put on a comic from inspiring English sources
At Keystone Studios, where he started work, the director Mack Sennett told him to put on a comic costume one day – "anything will do".
Before an audience that included numerous people from the bureau and several federal judges, the employees put on a comic skit that included numerous sex jokes, an apparent reference to oral sex and a lap dance, the inspector general said.
John Updike became a fluent speaker, but never knew when his affliction would return, as it did on one embarrassing occasion at an American Academy annual meeting when his audience laughed, thinking he was putting on a comic act.
At 7 15 before each evening's performance, the troupe's Young Company will put on a preshow of comic scenes from different plays, titled "Clowns, Villains and Willie's Willful Women".
In this new musical from Theaterworks/USA, based on the television show of the same title (in turn based on the Max and Ruby book series by Rosemary Wells), the siblings want to put on a play for Grandma, and comic complications ensue.
In 2006, after an eight-year hiatus, Comic Relief reemerged to put on a show to benefit the victims of Katrina.
