They could equally have been called 'Humorous Moments', for this dark world of resilient women, feckless men, withdrawn wives, sad husbands, depressed losers, self-deceivers, bullies and drunks is constantly illuminated by shafts of humour.
"It's very sad," her husband Patrick chipped in.
The sad, sweet husband flies in from Canada, and Nick has to break the news that the guy's wife was probably in N.Y. to cheat on him.
The diverse group includes a bitter, impoverished socialist (Andrew Young), a naïve priest (Lee Kasper) and a humble, sad-eyed husband (Ted Caine).
Kitty's sad-sack husband, Joseph Mr. Henryy), is holding on to a painful secret, which of course manifests itself in behavior both bizarre (more wandering off) and angry (he attacks the waiter).
The narrative is a jam-packed farce of romantic confusion and professional striving, played at languorous indie speed, with room for pockets of melancholy and melodrama, mostly courtesy of Carol's frustrated sister, Dani (Michaela Watkins), and her nice-enough, sad-sack husband (Rob Corddry).
Apatow's boys are usually fringe geeks or happy outcasts (comedy nerds, career stoners), while Phillips's characters are unhappy, neutered or denatured adults: dentists, stereo salesmen, sad-sack husbands and henpecked clods.
I told him I was enjoying the solitude and sun and that I was sad because my husband had left in December.
"Because my lung function is so low, I am told that I shouldn't have children, which makes me really sad, because my husband doesn't have the gene and we really wanted kids," Falletti said.
As in "The Vagina Monologues," the women offer speeches that praise their sexuality, but in "The Veiled Monologues" they usually end with a horrifying thud: the supposed virgin has been raped by a relative; the woman who has happily nicknamed her vagina Zebra is sad because her husband is a polygamist.
