First there was Blade: Trinity, then X-Men Origins: Wolverine, then the Green Lantern and, more recently, the train-wreck action comedy hybrid R.I.P.D., which bombed spectacularly and racked up a chastening 13% average at Rotten Tomatoes.
"Ass Like That" is one of many icky songs, a train wreck of failed sketch comedy.
It will be followed by CBS's only other new comedy, "American Wreck," starring Daniel Stern as a single father who runs a community center.
But then Lanie hears intimations of her own mortality, eventually leading to a change of heart in a romantic comedy whose relentless upbeatness "wrecks the possibility of either real laughter or genuine pathos" (A. O. Scott).
You have a comedy bit about how you wrecked your car by filling it with diesel.
"But whereas a lot of plays by young writers are gloomy things complaining how your mother wrecked your life, this did have the advantage of being a comedy".
"I Love Dick," on Amazon, is a feminist cringe-comedy and, like its horny antiheroine, it's a train wreck, freely mashing together theory and practice.
Yet this comedy of errors gave rise to a massive scandal that wrecked lives, unleashed a torrent of prejudice, and for a time seemed to be pushing France towards the brink of civil war.
In New York, of course, the central piece of comedy is the A-Rod watch, a sort of slow-motion train wreck that has The Post's Brian Costello calling for Kate Hudson to make a return cameo appearance for his sake.
This isn't uncommon in comedy, where such centeredness helps build tension as you wait for comic anarchists to wreck a meticulously organized world.
