Where comics like Steve Coogan or Al Murray work hard to develop one or two distinctive characters, Franken creates a dizzying gallery of bizarre grotesques, flitting from one to the other in the same scene, and sometimes within the same joke.
He has created two distinctive characters and scene to scene there is fun to be had in watching David try and grab a smoke while Maria ploddingly insists on his attention now and then.
The solos in "Shortcomings" grew out of four distinctive characters, their simple pleasures and the fantasies they withhold from the rest of the world.
For 18 months in 2004 and 2005, these four distinctive characters came together to be the most potent bowling attack across the universe, offering captain Michael Vaughan an option for all conditions: conventional swing with the new ball from Hoggard; exceptional bounce from Harmison; reverse swing from Jones; and controlled aggression from Flintoff.
The Martis, Bulzi, Laerru and Perfugas galleries, though based on an axiom that unites them as a category, show four distinctive characters.
In spare, poetic prose Williams-Garcia layers nuanced descriptions and brief, evocative scenes to create three utterly distinctive characters — Fern, the youngest, looking out a bus window and singing to herself; the usually brazen Vonetta freezing up with stage fright at a rally; and the stoic Delphine remembering her mother before she left them.
She started writing seriously at age twelve, inspired by distinctive characters like Eminem and Eazy-E, who drew her toward a quick, colorful flow that sat well on the spiky grime beats bubbling out of London by 2005.
Each of the two has a distinctive character, as does the third and smallest of the Egyptian deserts, the Sinai.
She uses examples from colonists' writings to show that the American colonies differed from British society in three distinct ways: the distinctive character of the people who migrated to the colonies; the distinctive conditions of life in British America; and the nature of British colonial administration.
In man and other vertebrates, male and female individuals usually have distinctive characters in addition to the primary one of producing either sperm or eggs.
Brown breaks no new ground in the tale of two reluctant lovers entangled in enchantment, nor of presenting animals as sentient, distinctive characters with the ability to communicate.
