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Example sentences for: comedy

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How could he possibly be inspired by Steven Phillips, who thinks of nothing but writing a summer blockbuster comedy set in a ramshackle aquarium and starring Jim Carrey?
The Upright Citizens Brigade (Comedy Central; Wednesdays, 10:30 p.m.
It's nice to see him playing a self-serving wisenheimer in a light comedy.
New York 's John Simon says the Broadway adaptation of the comedy by 18 th -century French playwright Pierre Marivaux includes "rowdiness and bawdry [which] are as out of place as a belch in a declaration of love."
Critics lavish director Wes Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson (who performed similar duties on Bottle Rocket ) with praise for their film about a bright but underachieving high-school misfit (Jason Schwartzman) who ends up competing with Bill Murray for the affection of a young teacher: "an exuberantly original comedy" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Murray has won several critics' awards for his performance, but now that the film is in general release (it had a brief run in December to qualify for the Academy Awards), a few dissenters have surfaced, including the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern and Slate 's David Edelstein, who says the writers "spend a lot of time patting themselves on the back for being aggressively unconventional."