Sentence examples for surreal comedy from inspiring English sources

There is surreal comedy, family tragedy, melodrama and murder.

Wolitzer's surreal comedy of manners explores power, sexuality and the vagaries of female desire.

So it was the Pythons who spread surreal comedy around the English-speaking world.

As with all surreal comedy, however, not every idea can be a winner.

This is surreal comedy; it is also the terminal dark night of a dismal community's soul.

Selfiemania in art galleries has reached new heights of surreal comedy at a museum in Manila.

He made a surreal comedy, Les Affaires Publiques, with backing from the art historian Roland Penrose.

This week the Bush Theatre will stage Trance, the hugely popular surreal comedy by Japan's greatest modern playwright, Shoji Kokami.

He won plaudits for his portrayal of a corpse who befriends a man (Paul Dano) stranded on a desert island in the surreal comedy Swiss Army Man (2016).

This is both pure ritual and surreal comedy and on the opening night some of the audience were clearly discomfited by having to make the leap.

Good surreal comedy is unpredictable and illogical, with main characters that are memorable vehicles for the silliness (see Bill Bailey's Manny in Black Books for a masterclass).