Sentence examples for shrill comedy from inspiring English sources
There's also a smidgen too much shrill comedy with Hara, a busybody housekeeper (Carol Burnett), and with Arrietty's nervous mother, Homily (Amy Poehler).
I suffered a few of those afflictions during and immediately after the 95 minutes I spent hostage to Ms. Murray-Smith's shrill comedy about a feminist academic held hostage by a lunatic former student.
Based in New York, she's currently starring in the Hulu comedy "Shrill," which is set to have its premiere March 15th.
Now that it has opened in theaters (on Friday), it can be said: This shrill would-be comedy isn't easy to watch.
Ian Johns wrote in The Times that "her style of character-based comedy seems shrill and working too hard for laughs".
William Hamilton's play about a rich white couple who wake up to discover they've turned black is a shrill, sporadically funny situation comedy that is at heart nothing more than its central situation.
Of course, Hill hasn't been inactive, spending much of his time hosting TV Burp – which achieved the remarkable feat of finding a place for truly imaginative comedy in ITV's shrill Saturday night schedule.
Unleavened by comedy, Kelman's prose becomes shrill and lugubrious: [Her ex] had all the arrogance going and was as selfish, so selfish, as selfish as anybody ever could be.
In the forties, there were still some screwball comedies, but they were antic and shrill, except for a few strays: some of the Tracy-Hepburn pictures, and the comedies in which Preston Sturges reinvented slapstick in a more organic form — creating an image of Americans as a people who never stopped explaining themselves while balling up whatever they were trying to do.
In 2005 he was nominated for a Tony Award for his creepy turn as a shrill, mentally disturbed man in Martin McDonagh's black comedy "The Pillowman".
Writer and comedian Lindy West's popular memoir Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman will be adapted into a comedy for Hulu with "Saturday Night Live" cast member Aidy Bryant as the star.
