Sentence examples for splendid comedy from inspiring English sources

The reviews reviewed: Splendid comedy, without the laughs.

Sayle collects himself, musters his rage, and an hour of mostly splenetic and often splendid comedy ensues.

I read his book before I read Tóibín's, and found that the splendid comedy of Author, Author showed up The Master as rather too unfunny and high-minded - not exactly precious, but a touch disembodied.

Alongside some splendid comedy – the King teasing the unctuously fawning Mayor during an innovative golf game – the play, warmly glowing, became ultimately most affecting in Danny Boyle's production as it moved into a powerful performance of the Mysteries witnessed by the royal party.

An energetic, ambitious first novel whose protagonist, a Russian-born graduate of an American college, tries to figure out what it means to be an American, a Russian, an immigrant, a Jew; a great deal of splendid comedy hangs on his inability to find out.

I was relieved as a young writer to learn that "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1939), another splendid comedy of theirs, in which the basic premise is delightful but less plot- and more character-driven, took months of hard labor before the two playwrights could contrive a sustaining story line.

The League of Gentlemen (1960, PG, VCI, VHS/Rental) One of the best British heist movies, this splendid comedy-thriller stars Jack Hawkins as a disgruntled ex-colonel who recruits a mess of disreputable cashiered officers to stage a military-style bank robbery.

We've got some splendid romantic comedy today — for starters, from Judd Apatow, Noah Baumbach, and a host of notable independent filmmakers.

This splendid romance-comedy-adventure has remained one of the most popular Hollywood movies of all time.

His most famous campaign was for Prime Pal dog food, but the fashion at the time was for copywriters to have a go at directing and he ended up making a more sex-heavy Carry On-type film, Rosie Dixon, Night Nurse, which featured a splendid cast of British comedy actors including Beryl Reid, Arthur Askey and John Le Mesurier.

Calling the New Victory home through Oct. 22, nine splendid performers, equally comfortable in comedy and drama, are accompanied by two equally versatile musicians as they revisit ancient Samarkand and Persia in the days of kings, caliphs and viziers and of Ali Baba, the 40 thieves and Sinbad (here called Sindibad) the Sailor.