Sentence examples for understated comedy from inspiring English sources

It was understated comedy, low key and paced as slowly as drying paint.

Since the nineteen-eighties, the films of Aki Kaurismäki, with their droll reserve and understated comedy, have commanded the international spotlight.

There's also understated comedy in those sections where Birju becomes a kind of pilgrimage site for the growing south Asian population.

Film production in Jordan, aided by the country's Royal Film Commission, grew in quantity and quality; Yahya Al-Abdallah's understated comedy Al juma al akheira (The Last Friday) was particularly notable.

This complex but understated comedy is par for the course for much of Heidecker's body of work on shows like Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! or the oddly endearing Check It Out! with Dr Steve Brule which stars John C Reilly as doctor of life.

While Crosby's so relaxed he looks half asleep, the rest of the players are full of life, from Sinatra's cynical reporter to Kelly's radiant exuberance, not to mention the understated comedy of Celeste Holm, who almost steals the show as the droll foil to the others' lovestruck antics.

Listen, there are plenty of fine understated comedy-dramas about at the moment – Togetherness, Transparent and Looking, to name three.

She is becoming a master at understated comedy--this time as a plain, shy, gangly, slightly wacky Norwegian maid who's got a terrific crush on her employer.

Watch the clip on YouTube As Bunny Breckinridge, Murray's gives a masterclass in understated physical comedy.

After that orchestral prelude, the curtain opens on a moving exploration of the passage of time, the nature of love and what it means to be noble, all under the vastly understated subtitle "Comedy for Music".

Many reviewers praised Offerman's subtle and understated style of comedy, and said he was often the funniest part of the scenes he was in.