There are stoner comedies, family comedies, dark comedies, animated comedies, campy comedies, indie comedies, slapstick comedies, chick flick comedies.
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There are family friendly comedies, romantic comedies, and a couple of offbeat musical comedies on the service.
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Romantic comedies — true romantic comedies — have slowly dwindled from the marquee.
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There are great romantic comedies, and there are terrible romantic comedies.
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If a night was dedicated to comedies, it's still dedicated to comedies.
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Their musical comedies were musical, but they were also comedies, meaning they were plays.
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There's everything from comedies and dramas, Netflix originals and HBO blockbusters, zany comedies and serious dramas.
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There are comedies and crime stories, historical epics and slices of ordinary life, socially conscious dramas and sublimely silly comedies.
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More and more comedies take this as their style, and more and more comedies turn logy and flat because of it.
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Where to watch it: Netflix Detroiters isn't just one of the year's most overlooked comedies; it's one of the year's best comedies, period.
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They tend to lead comedies, or at least what critic Matt Zoller Seitz calls "comedies in theory"; their social ineptitude is mined for (oftentimes dark) humor.
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So if I ask my Apple TV to show me "only free comedies," it will show me all the comedies available on the services I subscribe to.
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In the early 2000s, Judd Apatow was putting out all these comedies, and the genre was having a serious moment with these critically acclaimed, fantastic, and unbelievable comedies.
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Most recently, "Joker" director Todd Phillips, who had been known for R-rated comedies like "The Hangover" trilogy, said that he stopped making comedies because of "woke culture."
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This isn't a call for more big-budget comedies smothered by special effects; in fact, more comparatively small, subversively specific comedies like Blockers and Game Night would be great.
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And then also for me, having done comedies and different types of comedies, it was important to me from the very beginning to be able to do visual comedy.
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" In this imagined future, "even romantic comedies would be staged under the sign of warming, as surely as screwball comedies were extruded by the anxieties of the Great Depression.
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There is a wild double standard between male-led comedies and female-led comedies, and every once in a while one slips through and really gets the praise it deserves.
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ABC is moving two of its single-camera family comedies to Fridays, a spot where multicamera family comedies once reigned, back before time-shifted viewing and the miserable march of modernity.
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" Or there are classic comedies like "Hitch" and "Kingpin.
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I don't know — I have always loved romantic comedies.
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" Occasionally he detoured into comedies like "Will and Grace.
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CW's one-hour comedies: Most one-hour shows categorized as comedies are light on laughs (it's been an awards strategy more than an accurate description), but the CW has bucked that trend.
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When it comes to romantic comedies, everyone has an opinion.
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Sure, romantic comedies might have been historically targeted towards women.
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Many of the shows on this list are comedies, too.
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So often, emotional resonance gets lost in risqué studio comedies.
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Comedies have changed since "Cheers" and "Friends" in the 1990s.
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Romantic comedies aren't dying — they're just on Netflix these days.
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What you probably wouldn't think of are comedies and musicals.
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Once upon a time, romantic comedies were movie theater staples.
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The dads always fat and dopey and stupid in comedies.
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Producers choose six episodes of their TV comedies or drama.
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A: We've been writing comedies for a substantial time now.
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Basic cable didn't lack inspired, funky little comedies in 2017.
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His cartoonish compositions become the characters in his dark comedies.
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Even comedies like Arrested Development benefited from intense fan scrutiny.
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Day turned almost exclusively to comedies by the late '19963s.
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We are not in a golden age of multicamera comedies.
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TV comedies love callbacks, running jokes, and hidden Easter eggs.
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But all good dramas and comedies need a supporting cast.
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They love providing opportunities for many different types of comedies.
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Hulu's comedies and HBO's dramas also received dramatically different scores.
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Like all great movie comedies, it hurts, but it's true.
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Both of these comedies boast great casts and interesting concepts.
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The comedies I love are the ones that are surprising.
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In comedies you can get away with a lot more.
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Many were on some of the medium's most revered comedies.
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"It's why they make comedies after the war," McCarthy said.
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I was raised on two great eras of romantic comedies.
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Plus I like comedies in general, regardless of their genre.
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Netflix has its own reboots and animated comedies, of course.
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All of us watching horror-comedies and feeling so ... seen
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You're known for going deep into character for your comedies.
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Structurally in romantic comedies, you have bigger things happening, right?
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There are so many great comedies on television right now.
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In many romantic comedies, external obstacles keep the characters apart.
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So many shows — comedies and dramas — have been about escapism.
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Think of most TV comedies — even the ones you love.
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I think there's a very specific reason that romantic comedies need to be formulaic in order to be great — and I think it has everything to do with what romantic comedies are all about.
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One of the things I love about Shakespeare is that he started out writing comedies, and then he moved into tragedies, and then he came back to comedies, and that's where he ended his career.
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The first is that network comedies are just too darn short.
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So did action-filled comedies, like Ocean's 8 and Game Night.
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Skip if: You're over dystopias and/or aren't into dark comedies.
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A copy of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, published in 1623.
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They're still the biggest comedies on their respective networks — easily so.
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More than half are watching dramas over comedies without their loves.
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These Netflix comedies show teens in all their gross, embarrassing glory.
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Jobs that people in romantic comedies seem to be good at.
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But there are lots of soap operas and dramas and comedies.
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I feel no shame admitting my unbridled love for romantic comedies.
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Raw and bawdy comedies gave way to grappling and full desire.
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Love triangles are a staple in TV dramas and romantic comedies.
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Yes, it's the epitome of every cliché of early romantic comedies.
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The yoking of opposites is a dependable ploy in situation comedies.
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She's not exactly the protagonist network comedies are usually built around.
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She loves romantic comedies, though her parents had an arranged marriage.
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He stopped making romantic comedies, stopped making original dramas for adults.
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Comedies rely on the element of surprise and shock to work.
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Primetime television suddenly had three mockumentary-styled comedies running at once.
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The 1990s brought us many memorable films, from comedies to thrillers.
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Then came the Neil Simon films and the Richard Pryor comedies.
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"The Farewell" is the best family drama/comedies of the year.
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This template can be used to frame both comedies and dramas.
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ARMONK "The Other Side of Now," series of six short comedies.
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Comedies have always picked apart the neuroses of people behaving badly.
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I haven't done enough comedies recently — I'm doing more dramatic stuff.
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Both were R-rated comedies about women on wild weekend getaways.
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This was another kind of equality, one certain romantic comedies predicted.
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Secular comedies which feature religion as a theme are even rarer.
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There's been so many bookstores and cupcake stores in romantic comedies.
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Ms. Packer kept going, through comedies and histories, tragedies and romances.
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Five of the 11 shows on the list are British comedies.
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It is easy to think of twins as comedies of nature.
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That makes him one of TVs highest-paid actors in comedies.
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In comedies like "Bad Moms," unruly mothers use cursing and alcohol.
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Or relax with buddy comedies that all have something in common.
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That might be bad news for fans of '90s TV comedies.
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It consistently shows up on lists of television's best comedies ever.
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There were also a few teases of new comedies to come.
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NEARING 90: And Other Comedies of Late Life, by Judith Viorst.
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It does what great romantic comedies do — makes you laugh, smile, cheer for the heroine, and root for love — but it also challenges some conventional expectations about Hollywood romantic comedies, and not just in its casting.
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Demme's star rose in the '80s with a string of pitch-perfect zany comedies, which captured the freewheeling feel of the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s and '40s as well as anything had since that era.
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From comedies to cop shows to historical dramas, Amazon has it all.
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Written by Adam Brooks Definitely Maybe is the whodunit of romantic comedies.
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Thus, diversity in comedies often begins at the level of the premise.
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And it's renewing two freshman comedies, Pen15 and Ramy, for second seasons.
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The Freuds lobby contains a copy of William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.
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Most teen comedies, like this one, depict bullying as a verbal act.
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When it comes to romantic comedies, Hollywood is in a serious drought.
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The site also offers a number of comedies, action films, and documentaries.
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There's no shortage of similar comedies starring two men instead of women.
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Or, you know, using teen comedies as inspo for your music video.
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Matthew McConaughey has a long history of romantic comedies under his belt.
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Young Adult's plot takes most of its elements from bubbly romantic comedies.
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There are a lot of Really Good Comedies on television right now.
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Sometimes she watches TV comedies to try to dissipate her black moods.
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These movies aren't purely funny, but they were all submitted as comedies.
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I'm aware now that romantic comedies are confections, but they have construction.
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I'll tell you what: watching stoner comedies on 420, the weed day.
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You also remember that expectations were different for comedies back in 1978.
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And I also think comedies, you need set pieces, you need scope.
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How is VR going to enrich romantic comedies and brooding family dramas?
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The network's new comedies, at least superficially, are a little more interesting.
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Earlier this week, we talked up our most-anticipated comedies and actioners.
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"She was in everything — drama, musicals, mysteries, comedies," he said by telephone.
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And Fox tried and failed to establish three conventional comedies last year.
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Yet good comedies should be among the best places to treat religion.
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The world is made of coincidences, not meaning, the Coen comedies say.
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Even most of the acclaimed comedies, like HBO's scabrous "Veep," are dark.
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We thought we'd remake some of our favorite Christmas comedies into thrillers.
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"My husband and I have watched more comedies on Netflix than ever."
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The directors were classmates at Parsons, and before "Bushwick" they made comedies.
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If you like grounded comedies in which the details count, try this.
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"I do like comedies and can play the snooty whatever," she said.
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Largely immune to change, action comedies remain mired somewhere in the 1980s.
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Note: We've ranked Netflix's best stand-up specials and romantic comedies separately.
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Those include independent films, documentaries, comedies, non-English-language titles, and blockbusters.
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As in every tragedy — but a few comedies, too — character is fate.
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You hit the nail there, especially as someone who's done romantic comedies.
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And it's not a fluke that comedies are the shows being greenlighted.
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And the month's many romantic comedies will make you believe in love.
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As comedies of economic decline and arrested development go, it's refreshingly optimistic.
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As comedies of economic decline and arrested development go, it's refreshingly optimistic.
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But they feel less like comedies and more like declarations of brands.
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If you like your comedies dynamic and clever, this is for you.
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Though these are all comedies, they take their horny girls quite seriously.
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Here are the best straight-up comedies available on Netflix right now.
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It's a comedy, and comedies, short of Shakespeare's or Wilde's, are unstable.
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But was it a conscious choice to leave those wacky comedies behind?
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Superstore needed a few episodes to find itself, like most comedies do.
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But the longer Ryan (and Roberts, and eventually Sandra Bullock and Barrymore) stayed in romantic comedies — and the longer romantic comedies kept rearranging the same tropes into new configurations — the more their personas seemed to smell a rat.
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Romantic comedies and their tropes are easy to mock, in part because these tropes were so omnipresent in so many bad romantic comedies 10 years ago, and in part because our culture loves to mock things associated with women.
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My Cousin Vinny is one of the most memorable comedies of the decade.
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That's not to say that he's completely giving up on action-comedies, however.
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Aside from Little, he has built a solid career starring in television comedies.
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So if there are any two-handed comedies out there— LB: Two-handers?!
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They then complimented each other on their work peeing and pooping in comedies.
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It's one of the raunchiest comedies the "misbehaving women" genre has ever seen.
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You may recognize him from his work on TV shows or in comedies.
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Financing the first of his ensemble comedies, "This is Spinal Tap", wasn't easy.
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Try "show me good movies from the 80s" or "show me TV comedies".
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Which I think is why so many studio comedies are just abysmally unfunny.
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There are comedies and dramas, sci-fi stories and coming-of-age ones.
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All three were comedies, and all three scored under 30% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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As you might expect, things get hugely complicated, as only romantic comedies can.
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Adam Sandler seems to be entirely focused on producing popular comedies for Netflix.
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Love Actually is one of the most popular romantic comedies of our generation.
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Turns out, romantic comedies may want to rethink their moniker – to romantic creepies.
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Guys have "bromance," a brandable word for their buddy comedies, but we don't.
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Nostalgia is enjoyable, and the movie does nod to some classic horror-comedies.
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Jonathan was as quirky as his comedies and as deep as his dramas.
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Although this decade has arguably been one of women-led comedies, Marvelous Mrs.
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We don't even have the equivalent of teenage sex comedies in video games.
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Its return may hinge on how strong Fox's crop of new comedies are.
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Even in romantic comedies, men speak more than women (413 to 42 percent).
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The flashback-heavy framing works better for dramas than it does for comedies.
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How important is it for trans women to be represented in romantic comedies?
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Eventually, she waded into film and television, starring in both dramas and comedies.
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How many comedies still retain their full force and power for 40 years?
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Movies about teenage girls aren't usually Oscar bait, especially not if they're comedies.
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In some romantic comedies, the leads' sheer unpleasantness is part of the humor.
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It turns out the network will actually continue with comedies on Friday nights.
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Any theories as to why there are so few great sports-centric comedies?
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From comedies to dramas to documentaries, these films made us think this year.
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This is the second of four comedies Mr. Sandler has created for Netflix.
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One of your favorite romantic comedies is about to get a television makeover!
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You'll find new shows and old, comedies and dramas, and everything in between.
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He makes comedies with a lot of depth, a lot of substance. Mrs.
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Since then, he's directed family comedies, the most recent of which was Pixels.
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But also I wanted to do comedy, dark comedies, Afrocentric pieces, foreign films.
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"The Good Place" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" are two of my favorite comedies.
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We like comedies, thrillers and dramas- anything really as long as it's good.
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STANLEY CAVELL & THE COMEDIES OF REMARRIAGE at Anthology Film Archives (Nov. 23-29).
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He made blockbuster comedies, mind-blowing sci-fi spectacles, musicals, you name it.
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As with most ensemble comedies, the movie's biggest selling point is those actors.
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Memorial Day means blockbusters, horror tales and indie comedies are headed your way.
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Not gangsters, but crazy con men and ne'er-do-wells in black comedies.
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Eighties comedies routinely built bits around men harassing, stalking and sexually humiliating women.
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Sure, I'm indulging in plenty of teen dramas, stand-up specials, and comedies.
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It's comforting to know that romantic comedies are the same in every country.
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Like many of Shakespeare's midcareer comedies, "Twelfth Night" doesn't have a death toll.
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There have never been more potential homes for top-flight comedies and dramas.
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It's that "together" that connects "The Good Place" to Schur's other communitarian comedies.
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"Comedies are less risky," said Mr. Shapiro, the former Seeso and IFC executive.
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"Rough Night" and "Girls Trip," comedies with ensemble female casts, arrive after that.
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Tableaux include traditional haka dances, floggings by Cook's men and comedies of miscommunication.
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The list of predictions should begin with two highly acclaimed and unusual comedies.
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"Rover missions are designed as situation comedies with an ensemble cast," Paige said.
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Among Ealing's most accomplished directors, Hamer was not primarily a maker of comedies.
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The Hulu series has been called one of 2019's best new comedies.
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Unlike tragedies, where everything just gets worse, comedies have a more cyclical form.
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I had no idea I'd do comedies—I just thought I'd be one of those muscle guys in Hercules movies, but I did comedies, dramas, and I had the most successful movie of the year with Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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Being involved with comedy for years and knowing the sporadic history of not just woman-directed comedies, but big studio comedies that dare to give women more than 10 lines, makes her aware of the high-profile gamble she's taking.
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But I think if we're talking about the broad assumptions surrounding romantic comedies, and if we're talking about more inclusive storytelling, and if we're talking about bankable romantic leads who aren't white, and if we're talking about whether romantic comedies can succeed at the box office, we can't not talk about the lack of consideration that's been afforded to black romantic comedies over the years by the broader film community.
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Perhaps the problem simply is that 2017 is the rare year where the list of comedies and musicals is just as stacked as the drama list: The four non-Greatest Showman comedies noted above all make appearances in the acting categories as well, along with the terrifically fun Baby Driver and three less solid movies (Battle of the Sexes, Victoria & Abdul, and The Leisure Seeker) that are also ostensibly comedies.
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Joel and Ethan Coen have stayed away from wacky caper comedies over the last
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Original episodes from each iconic Norman Lear comedies will be recreated for the special.
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I'd describe her as the next Diablo Cody, writing cuttingly honest women-centered comedies.
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But a few comedies will undoubtedly portray life in America with a President Trump.
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The Office remains one of the most iconic work place comedies of all-time.
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Ariel Winter gained fame as a kid on one of TV's most popular comedies.
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One of the fall's most promising new comedies is also one of its strangest.
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The Golden Globe nominee was one of the highest-grossing comedies of that year.
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He describes it as a homage to 90's teen comedies, with a twist.
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Comedies like GLOW and The Good Place might sneak their foot in the door.
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There are plenty of workplace dramas and comedies out there, including some about space.
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"New Girl" quickly became one of the best comedies on TV, and still is.
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Broad City alone has proved that comedies about two women — raunchy women – can succeed.
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Ariana Grande is casting herself in some of her all-time favorite romantic comedies!
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Here are the best horror comedies you should watch if you loved Get Out.
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The film is directed by Peter Farrelly, who is white, and known for comedies.
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It's the stuff you see in fiction, in romantic comedies, not in real life.
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This copy is in three volumes: comedies, histories and tragedies, according to Professor Smith.
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That happens in romantic comedies but in real life you have to make time.
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Apatow: Done well, I think sports comedies are the best, but it rarely happens.
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It's almost as if network comedies don't trust a funny woman to galvanize interest.
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Its latest dispatches from the front line, or just behind it, are raucous comedies.
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From period pieces to comedies to contemporary dramas, it's a perfect streaming watch list.
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But Silverstone instead pivoted the conversation to highlight the amount of female-driven comedies.
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At press screenings, even for comedies, the reaction tends to be a stony silence.
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Animated comedies like "Family Guy" and "The Simpsons" have repeatedly taken jabs at Trump.
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Ariana Grande recreated iconic outfits from popular romantic comedies for "Thank U, Next" (2018).
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Most networks, though, have struggled in recent years to find new mass-appeal comedies.
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"A Very Secret Service" Watch this Netflix show if you like oddball foreign comedies.
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One of Netflix's hit comedies is returning this weekend for audiences' binge-watching pleasure.
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The studio also was responsible for popular comedies "Blockers" (2018) and "Girls Trip" (2017).
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In 2019 Netflix released countless original dramas, comedies, and thrillers to varying critical reception.
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Yet from the point of view of civilized development, you can't just watch comedies.
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Sweet sentiments crop up in serious dramas and comedies sans love stories as well.
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That means our map is limited to romantic comedies from the past few decades.
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Critics say her comedies are just sanitized versions of a time she's nostalgic for.
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If there's a second thing, it's comedies set in and around the entertainment business.
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VICE: This movie felt like a lot of action comedies I grew up with.
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If you like tender and humane comedies, try this quiet sweetheart show from Australia.
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The color schemes and production designs in the Hudson-Day comedies pulsate with whimsy.
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"The Green Ray" is the fifth in his six-part Comedies and Proverbs series.
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If it was a rough summer for sequels, it was even worse for comedies.
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For decades, Brad Pitt has appeared in dozens of films, from thrillers to comedies.
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The city's history has been immortalized in Scorsese mobster films and now classic comedies.
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It was a departure from the action films and comedies he was known for.
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Weeknight wines ought to be undemanding, like easygoing comedies rather than Ingmar Bergman films.
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Typical programming includes romances, comedies and historical dramas, some of which reflect current events.
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The plot, pilfered from laughing comedies, is a story of love and real estate.
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"Michael also points out inaccuracies in scenes from mob comedies such as "Analyze This.
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"Succession" is one of the best dramas (or honestly, comedies) on television right now.
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The advice specified that "dramas with comedic overtones" should compete as dramas, not comedies.
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But what follows does not adhere to the rules of standard-issue sex comedies.
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Romantic comedies were corny and retrograde, so why does he miss them so much?
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Zendaya and Holland shine in scenes that channel the very best teenage romantic comedies.
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Among the comedies, all eyes will be on the showdown between two probable Oscar nominees, neither of which are really comedies: Ridley Scott's space survival saga "The Martian" and "The Big Short," Adam McKay's cautionary tale about the 2007-08 financial crisis.
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It's sort of a loose variation on those Hollywood comedies of remarriage like "The Philadelphia Story" or "The Awful Truth," which, as the scholar Stanley Cavell pointed out in his insightful book "Pursuits of Happiness," often seemed loosely inspired by Shakespeare's romantic comedies.
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It also doesn't mean that those comedies won't make yours truly cry a little bit.
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"Comedies are great but my soul lies within telling stories about the heart of life."
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Pretty Woman, Clueless, The Best Man — those are the romantic comedies we watch on repeat.
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Climate predictions—kind of like romantic comedies—are full of will they/won't they suspense.
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She is in control despite the rejection, a revolutionary move in romantic comedies even now.
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Atlanta just challenges the tone of half hour comedies and sitcoms and what that means.
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"Authenticity" is manufactured in nonfiction, much like laughs in comedies and scares in horror films.
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But the split among comedies, tragedies and histories remains similar to that in 1740-1800.
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Because even though I love romantic comedies, I know that life isn't actually like one.
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"I'm a huge fan of romantic comedies and I'm all for doing more," he says.
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Over the years, Reynolds' focus shifted towards action comedies, or even straight-up action flicks.
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I couldn't relate to romantic comedies — marriage seems to be the whole point of them.
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Many comedies are propelled by irony, wit, and self-deprecation; others run on sheer absurdity.
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I'm curious how High Maintenance fits (or doesn't fit) into the evolution of stoner comedies.
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A time of superheroes, raunchy comedies, family-friendly animated fare and other big, noisy blockbusters.
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Of her over 30 films, Meg Ryan has only done a handful of romantic comedies.
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Ths trend give each installments a short-film quality you can't get from other comedies.
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Don't fret, Henry Golding is here to single-handedly bring romantic comedies back to glory.
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Comedies Young & Hungry and Baby Daddy will return with all-new episodes on March 13.
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Every year, there are dozens of comedies released, each embracing a nuance of the hilarious.
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This also leads to a broader discussion of what we're looking for in romantic comedies.
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Jennifer Lopez knows what the people want, and what the people want are romantic comedies.
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Quirky women in comedies often fall into the "hapless" stereotype — she's always losing her keys!
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This week, we try to solve our '80s comedies conundrum with A Fish Called Wanda.
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The characters themselves are an evolution of how Latinx people are seen in TV comedies.
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From comedies to dramas, these shows shine a surprising light on the current immigrant experience.
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Seinfeld was one of the first TV comedies to regularly use callbacks and running jokes.
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But its biggest difference from most of today's adventurous comedies is its short-story format.
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Ferrell has been in several fan-favorite comedies like "Step Brothers" and "The Other Guys."
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Or maybe I'm just weary of comedies that seem to contain more bullets than jokes.
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As in most Schurian comedies, its cast is an instantly lovable band of total weirdos.
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Sometimes being an adult is less glamorous than romantic comedies might lead you to believe.
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Documentaries, in other words, are as susceptible to formula as action movies or romantic comedies.
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The drama wasn't very good at my school, but we did a lot of comedies.
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I'm not the first to notice that romantic comedies sometimes hinge on stalker-ish obsession.
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How many B+ comedies — fairly funny, reasonably clever, ultimately disposable — can the television ecosystem support?
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Both are dark comedies, both about women in their 30s; both will star Ms. Piper.
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Ms. Iungerich created "Awkward," one of the best teenage comedies of recent years, for MTV.
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You know, Shakespeare pastoral comedies like the one in which Elphaba and Glinda are frenemies.
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It is in the nature of TV comedies to become meaner as they get older.
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First, though, let's look at the current state of affairs, starting with the network's comedies.
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But as long as Heigl was around, so were romantic comedies, and that was something.
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Younger stars weren't passing through romantic comedies at all; increasingly, they were making action movies.
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As it turns out, critics rate comedies and action flicks much more harshly than dramas.
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In many Hollywood comedies, Arnaud might be portrayed as just another man-child to mock.
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Watching it, you can trace lines to the sort of comedies from which it's descended.
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Like too many American movie comedies these days, "Downhill" seems afraid of its own shadow.
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Modern Love A director of romantic comedies finds herself attending weddings with her ex-husband.
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However, above all those beloved comedies and dramas looms one Goalith of a series: Game.
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Here are the 14 best romantic comedies, both movies and shows, now streaming on Netflix.
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JOHN NBC only ordered up two comedies for its broadcast network, but both looked good.
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But unlike most millennial comedies, we're never asked to excuse away our anti-heroine's irresponsibility.
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He also wrote the scripts for comedies starring Danny Kaye, Warren Beatty and Zero Mostel.
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What would teen comedies of the era be without their generous contributions to pop culture?
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A pair of fall comedies, "Nobody's Fool" and "Instant Family," fizzled at the box office.
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Until about three years ago, NBC regularly built its Thursdays around comedies like Will & Grace.
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Those numbers suggest the show would perform well among the more popular comedies on cable.
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As do many comedies, this bawdy sitcom ends its final season with a marriage. Probably.
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You mentioned you did a lot of research in watching old teen comedies in preparation.
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And perhaps weirdest of all is how many hours CBS has that pair multi-camera comedies (shot on soundstages in a very theatrical style, with live studio audiences) with single-camera comedies (shot much more like a film, sometimes on location, without a studio audience).
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It is a drama, which we all know does better than comedies in these sorts of discussions, for the same reason comedies get boned in awards: the emotional journey of a drama is more significant and stays with you longer than a good laugh does.
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And it's surprisingly gorgeous to look at, transcending its "Wes Anderson's aesthetic heads to TV" roots to look more like the '70s comedies of director Hal Ashby (who's also fond of making comedies about dark, despairing topics and was a huge influence on Anderson).
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While Baumbach's excellent recent movies (like 2012's Frances Ha, 2014's While We're Young, and 2015's Mistress America) are gentle comedies about youth and inexperience, The Meyerowitz Stories returns, for the most part, to familiar topics from the director's earlier, darker comedies.
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She's worked on heavier material like the 2015 Tim Roth-led Mexican cartel drama 600 Miles, but she's best known for female-led comedies and romantic comedies like 2003's Ladies' Night and 2008's Casi Divas, the latter of which she also directed.
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You've worked in a lot of acting pairs — that's sort of your thing, especially in comedies.
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It's featured in at least two of the best comedies of the last decade or so.
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Yes, comedies help you laugh at life and laughter feeds your soul (or something like that).
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And yet so few single-camera comedies take advantage of this particular ace in the hole.
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Bong is known for weaving social themes into stories that play as both comedies and thrillers.
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"Comedies don't work anymore," he said, because all of the comedians are afraid of offending people.
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Both manic comedies were built up from outrage that made the laughter stick in your throat.
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It's no secret that both Haibon and Iaconetti have a huge soft spot for romantic comedies.
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Ahead, the romantic comedies that involved magical spells or intervention, ranked from least to most absurd.
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The bigger issue is that there's just no like comedies are not really resonating right now.
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It used to be that nerds in '80s teen comedies were the only people who coded.
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" She's also known for starring in a number of romantic comedies, such as "Along Came Polly.
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But he said the industry should drop its resistance to seeing comedies represented in serious contests.
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It is part of a series of comedies about unlikely stories from arts and cultural history.
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The SNL dream team has a small overlap in filmography, including animated features and ensemble comedies.
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As nearly every awards show has signaled, Atlanta is one of the best comedies out there.
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Comedies have historically shrugged off those kind of expectations—until they started sailing into deeper waters.
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Some of the scariest movies are actually rom-coms, bawdy comedies and animated features for children.
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Since then the actress has starred in everything from feel-good romantic comedies to dark dramas.
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Meg Ryan (Carole), 56, the onetime queen of romantic comedies, has famously stepped away from Hollywood.
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With hit comedies in short supply, networks are putting their weight -- and money -- behind proven shows.
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This is to say the show, as is typical for HBO comedies, is not for everyone.
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Baumbach's comedies pull on the tensions between families, friends, and lovers without ever forming a noose.
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Legacy businesses used to rely on scripted dramas and comedies to draw in audiences every season.
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If you like light, fizzy comedies and are ready to appreciate Duff, give it a whirl.
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According to Bloomberg, Apple shows will be more like This Is Us or family-friendly comedies.
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Since then, he's branched out to dramas like "Rush" and comedies like the 2016 "Ghostbusters" reboot.
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They offer their picks for the best 100 American TV dramas and comedies of all time.
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The theatrical buffet includes 27873 shows, an assortment of dramas, comedies, musicals, dance and stand-up.
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"Insecure" (beginning on Sunday) stands out, even among a very strong crop of new television comedies.
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Critics and audiences held some clashing opinions when it came to comedies from Netflix and HBO.
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This movie loves that it can find humor where most other comedies aren't bothering to look.
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That scene pretty much encapsulates the state of big-budget studio romantic comedies in the 20113s.
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What it's about: As far as workplace comedies go, "The Devil Wears Prada" can't be beat.
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However, some found the plot to be predictable when compared to other animated comedies like "Zootopia."
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Still, watching a handful of romantic comedies for guidance would have saved a lot of anguish.
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The service will have both scripted and unscripted content, including comedies, dramas, reality shows, and news.
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When he studied theater, for example, the Greek tragedies drew him far more than the comedies.
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About 60% of the lowest-rated sequels are comedies; horror and action flicks comprise another 22%.
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" That rhythm became the standard for family comedies right on up through, say, "Everybody Loves Raymond.
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Actresses like Katherine Heigl, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Jennifer Lopez almost exclusively act in romantic comedies.
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"Aliens in America" debuted on the CW in 19833, when comedies were in a weird place.
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Stock up on root vegetables, watch comedies and other things you can do to stay sane.
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And you know streets are always wet down in romantic comedies because they're shiny and beautiful.
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Alongside meta-comedies like Fleabag, it swiftly became TV's most self-defined and self-propelled show.
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Like many workplace comedies, "GLOW" is about people who had hoped to end up somewhere else.
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" Mr. Phillips's previous films include comedies such as "The Hangover," its two sequels and "Old School.
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There are reality series, prestige dramas, romantic comedies, kids shows, and everything else under the sun.
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O'Hanlon, and its widowed owner — are straight from Molly Keane's black comedies of Anglo-Irish life.
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If you like sensitive, well-observed self-actualization comedies like "Shrill" or "Better Things," watch this.
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Why you should watch: We miss high-concept, "only-in-the-movies" '90s comedies like this.
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If you like baseball and hilarious comedies starring very likable kids, then you'll love "The Sandlot."
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These weren't merely costume dramas or comedies of manners, but struggles for the souls of women.
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" Now, he said, "you just about can't act in studio comedies without having an improv background.
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In those first few lonely years in LA, I turned to romantic comedies more than ever.
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That's in keeping with an important thing about romcoms: They're romantic, sure, but they're mostly comedies.
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Despite not arriving as fully baked as ABC's comedies usually do — which is a credit to ABC's comedies, and less a criticism of this show — The Mayor should fit in neatly with them, assuming it finds a way to be funnier (and I imagine it will).
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Washington and Wall Street are to blame in most of these works — comedies as well as dramas.
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Or we cut out a huge portion of our audience — then you say female comedies aren't successful.
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GLAAD also took issue with offensive depictions of LGBT people in a handful of big screen comedies.
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But the show initially was going off script from the romantic comedies that had come before it.
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And that might be part of why Kids is a cut above the year's other new comedies.
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"I Love Lucy" aired in the 1950s and is considered one of the greatest television comedies ever.
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Part of this may be that audiences haven't flocked to Julia comedies the way they used to.
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And the upcoming fall TV season is positively lousy with bad antihero shows — both dramas and comedies.
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Also, if we could love people based on convenience, romantic comedies, couples therapy and Tinder wouldn't exist.
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We'll take that over every single one of the laugh-track, lowest-common-denominator comedies out there.
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Yes, all four movies are comedies starring four protagonists, but in reality, they couldn't be more different.
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But there is a sense that comedies are also finding humor not in apathy but in sincerity.
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This right here is one of the all-time greatest American comedies, right up there with Airplane!
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For example: 2018 Emmy Nominees, IMDb's Top 250 Movies, Original Picks, Dark Comedies, British Humour, and more.
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For the studio chieftain, Mr. Stiller represented a movie business anomaly: an American whose comedies travel well.
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If we're going to keep doing this, Hollywood, how about some more female leads in stoner comedies?
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Los Angeles participants will have a comedy writing class focused on independent comedies and real-life formats.
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This is terrific, confident TV, and it ends with a wedding — just like comedies are supposed to.
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What I do know is that television doesn't need any more comedies about white Silicon Valley dudes.
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Netflix rebooted the show for a fourth season in 2013, its first foray into creating original comedies.
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Australian comedian and Daily Show correspondent, Ronny Chieng appeared in six different television comedies in five years.
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Some classic comedies are also getting the axe, and yes, I'm including Happy Feet in that description.
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So positive and accurate representation of trans women in comedies is something that's very important to me.
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And Brooklyn Nine-Nine is part of his tradition of joyful, sentimental, and down-to-earth comedies.
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In 2011, millennial comedies about young women were a rarity, so anything was appreciated and seriously necessary.
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It brought Grant a Golden Globe and launched a series of romantic comedies written by Richard Curtis.
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"There are romantic comedies – and then there's When Harry Met Sally," said TCM Festival host Ben Mankiewicz.
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There are horror films, comedies, romances, and supernatural science fiction parables, all shoved under the same marquee.
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The first thing you might notice about Corporate is how different it looks from most TV comedies.
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"I felt more freedom on this than I have a lot of comedies I've done," she added.
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But the show initially was going off-script from the romantic comedies that had come before it.
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For example, comedies are more likely to be viewed in the morning and end of the day.
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I started with that fast pace, like the screwball comedies, where the dialogue waits for no man.
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He wrote musical comedies in high school, served in the Navy and graduated from Yale in 1950.
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To us, he bequeathed his tragedies and comedies, his sonnets and verse, which would survive 400 years.
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To us, he bequeathed his tragedies and comedies, his sonnets and verse, which would survive 220 years.
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Zac Efron is an actor primarily known for his work in ensemble comedies, musicals, and romantic dramas.
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I think I drew more on the World War II films that I'd seen and some comedies.
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Yet "Hero's Welcome" remains a comedy, at least in the sense that Chekhov called his plays comedies.
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Judy Greer rose to fame in the early 2000s as a character actor in popular romantic comedies.
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For Thor's threequel, Marvel tapped director Taika Waititi, a New Zealand filmmaker known for helming independent comedies.
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A diptych called "Dog Days" (1983) calls to mind the black comedies of the filmmaker Todd Solondz.
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" Ms. Salke said the comedies they were looking for were the sort that "might not please everyone.
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Thankfully, Netflix has some great comedies that you can watch right now to brighten up your day.
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This week, Rob has convinced Austin to watch one of his favorite screwball comedies, My Man Godfrey.
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Then there are three comedies all starring white male actors who have previously been on successful sitcoms.
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In pop culture, it's often depicted as comical (how many comedies are powered by male nudity gags?).
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Arrested Development stood apart from most TV comedies for many reasons when it debuted in the 2000s.
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Outside of a few fluffy 70s sex comedies, though, the characters she plays rarely get happy endings.
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Bromance feels like a term reserved for mid-aughts comedies (think 40 Year Virgin, Pineapple Express, etc.).
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For years, she's appeared in a variety of films, including family-friendly comedies, superhero flicks, and musicals.
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If the fall doesn't have the most compelling dramas or cutting-edge comedies, what does it offer?
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Murdoch wrote "The Sea, The Sea" under the influence of Shakespeare's comedies, and that influence burns brightly.
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In animation, thrillers and romantic comedies, a cake was vulnerable, and usually a sign of imminent disaster.
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Have you tried to watch previous seasons of ABC's Black-ish, one of TV's best family comedies?
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Last year, there were no comedies and only one drama: "Bohemian Rhapsody," which doubled as a musical.
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Like many big-screen comedies these days, it errs on the side of caution rather than outrageousness.
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"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was a breath of fresh air in an era of raunchy comedies.
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Only 28 percent of the productions are classified as theater plays, and many of those are comedies.
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Meet Cute creates short, 15-minute audio fiction stories in podcast form, primarily focused on romantic comedies.
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In the director's chair is Gurinder Chadha, who has worked on several comedies featuring British-Asian families.
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I want to do more films — not just comedies, because I really want to show my range.
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"Review," on Comedy Central, is one of television's funniest comedies and darkest tragedies, for the same reason.
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It looks a touch bland to me, but at least it's different than most comedies right now.
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She's never brought up because she makes movies like "The Proposal" — light comedies that aren't taken seriously.
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Universal's "Good Boys" and STX's "The Upside" both showed that comedies aren't yet dead at movie theaters.
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Even lauded progressive comedies like Big Mouth treat fat characters less like people and more like tropes.
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Between "Men in Black" and "Bad Boys," Will Smith has proved himself a master at buddy comedies.
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Comedies love bizarro characters for slightly different reasons than comics — or comic series like The Flash — do.
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And Allen in particular has never been served well by longer running times, especially in his comedies.
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Her jokes are mostly based in human foibles, and that's a nice change from many mainstream comedies.
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Every year, without fail, there are at least a couple of new comedies that are actually funny.
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My Cousin Vinny is one of the most memorable comedies since it came out over two decades ago.
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High art it's not, but as breezy, reasonably clever comedies go, this NBC show earns a favorable verdict.
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Inevitably, such a list means leaving personal favorites on the cutting-room floor, especially in terms of comedies.
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There aren't many comedies out there that you still find yourself chuckling about 10 years after they've finished.
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Since the 1970s, it seems like Hollywood produces a healthy amount of body switch comedies every few years.
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Quyen Tran's lovely cinematography intentionally calls to mind the softcore porn farces and raunchy comedies of the 1970s.
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You may recognize Nicole Drespel from her roles on female-led comedies like Broad City and 30 Rock.
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I know that I've been requested, do I have any female-driven stories, comedies with leads of women?
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You can't truly call yourself a lover of romantic comedies if you're not familiar with Sanaa Lathan's catalog.
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In addition to slate of 30-minute comedies and one-hour dramas, Hulu also announced Hulu Documentary Films.
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Roseanne was one of the few woman-led, working-class comedies to hit a nerve with American audiences.
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Comedies such as "Twelfth Night" and "As You Like It", now featuring female actresses, came back into fashion.
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The two writers wanted to put a spin on the genre that harkens back to other great comedies.
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The dialogue is snappy, deprecating, and real, something that's not always the case for comedies about female insecurities.
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If you've tended to watch comedies, then you'll see a still of Robin Williams from the movie instead.
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Few comedies approach the scale and scope of an epic, but Walk Hard is one of those films.
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Some broad studio comedies flop in their original releases, but later earn an appreciative cult on home video.
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Basmati Blues is a love letter to multiple eras of Bollywood cinema, musicals, and classic Hollywood romantic comedies.
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In fact, there are an overwhelming number of Really Good Comedies competing for your attention right this moment.
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A new assortment of Netflix picks is on the way, including an array of gloriously simplistic romantic comedies.
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No matter the mood, one element all of the comedies on this list have in common is intelligence.
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Mindy Kaling has always been vocal about her love of romantic comedies and their influence on the show.
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But, comedies also took on abortion, proving that even the most fraught topic can be handled with levity.
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The show, which recently wrapped its first season, combines Brunson's love for animals with The Office-style comedies.
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This week's outing, starring Selena Gomez, borrows heavily from the Manic Pixie Dream Girl school of romantic comedies.
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The Sharp Objects reversal-of-fortune aside, HBO's bread and butter is still dramas and comedies, not superheroes.
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You can trace the lineage of Seinfeld, Louie, Community and a dozen other modern comedies from this show.
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The filmmakers were inspired by film noir and dark comedies, particularly Chinatown and shades of The Big Lebowski.
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She said the die was cast once the network decided to no longer air comedies on Friday nights.
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Kevin Hart has become a Hollywood punchline for his willingness to appear in multiple mediocre comedies each year.
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I streamed a few half-hour comedies while on my train commute and the video quality was excellent.
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There haven't been many actors, in comedies and other genres, who can so instantly put viewers at ease.
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Network comedies fail the lady comic because they assume she's not pretty enough to warrant a lead role.
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The House (June 30) Will Ferrell comedies have been hit or miss for quite a few years now.
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What do you think less female-friendly comedies are missing out on when they ignore or sideline women?
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The wrinkle that separates Rapture-Palooza from other apocalypse comedies is just how casual everyone acts during Armageddon.
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Grant is known for his charming roles in romantic comedies like "Notting Hill" (1999) and "Love Actually" (2003).
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The show is one of two new comedies picked up for the upcoming fall TV season by CBS.
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The Democratic presidential contender played bit parts in a pair of romantic comedies, according to The Washington Post.
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In fact, maybe the '90s and early-aughts were just an anomaly, a magical era for Black comedies.
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It's reminiscent of Coen brothers comedies, although there are moments when Blair's well-paced story starts to wobble.
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At least for a long while, I think we're done with comedies about white dudes and their families.
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It's comedies, more than dramas, through which we get stories of workaday and family life outside heightened circumstances.
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"Paul's movies have big, huge, high multiples, and there are no big comedies on the horizon," he said.
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"Roseanne," one of television's great comedies, made this kind of family work with sharp writing and good acting.
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Our data includes all comedies and dramas that are ongoing, renewed for more episodes or are pending renewal.
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These episodes clock in around 24 minutes, unlike today's half-hour comedies, which are much closer to 20.
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Streaming on: HBO Go TV doesn't have the best track record when it comes to sci-fi comedies.
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She's been in a variety of movies including family-friendly animated films, teen comedies, musicals, and superhero flicks.
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Ryan Reynolds is a film actor mainly known for his work in comedies, action movies, and superhero films.
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The others, "Life of the Party" and "The Happytime Murders," were comedies and were not quite so adored.
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" That timing was also apparent in her direction of comedies like "Big" and "A League of Their Own.
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It might just fall back on the old formula of romances and comedies with song and dance routines.
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You're privy to one another's impulse buys, fondness for corny '90s comedies and preferred brands of vaginal suppositories.
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The romantic remake is plenty dramatic, but the Globes has a whole category specifically for musicals and comedies.
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Watching enough screwball comedies can lead you to believe losing one's virginity will inevitably involve elaborate, wackadoo adventures.
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He appeared in a dozen productions while in college, mostly comedies, and wrote and directed some musical revues.
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Coming in April is his "Aristophanesathon," which will explore 220 Aristophanes comedies over four and a half hours.
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Our Back Pages This week Lisa Schwarzbaum reviews a new book about Nora Ephron and her romantic comedies.
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The clips ranged from videos of actual interactions with United Airlines to clips of comedies with sarcastic titles.
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" Comedies from Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and others, plus reboots of "Saved By the Bell" and "Punky Brewster.
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You'll find dramas, comedies, soaps, and docuseries, all guaranteed to be deserving of the investment of your time.
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The director Todd Phillips is best known for self-aware, dumb-yet-sly comedies like the "Hangover" movies.
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Over the years Netflix has released a variety of television shows, from animated comedies to suspense-filled dramas.
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After SNL, Sandler co-wrote and starred other hit comedies like "Happy Gilmore" (1996) and "Big Daddy" (1999).
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One hit movie, two mediocre comedies, a swanky New York condo, a $250 million yacht and a Picasso.
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The movie makeover scene is an important part of cinema as we know it, especially in romantic comedies.
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A couple of months back, I wrote about some of Netflix's original films, lightweight comedies of varying quality.
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Sincerity can be dangerous for comedies, though, burning away laughs and landing everyone in a lake of treacle.
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The movie, both a romantic comedy and a commentary on romantic comedies, stars Rebel Wilson and Liam Hemsworth.
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The New Zealand comedy "The Breaker Upperers" adds some welcome irreverence to the homogenized mix of Netflix comedies.
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And Nancy Meyers became a household name with her ebullient romantic comedies starring Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton.
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"If you want comedies to be really funny you have to have the biggest possible obstacles," Rudnick says.
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But Netflix saturated its market with romantic comedies this summer, and the move seems to have paid off.
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So why can't we begin more romantic comedies—teen rom-coms, especially—from a place of truth-telling?
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TV comedies, by and large, have been scared away from that darker, more dramatic place in recent years.
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Crossover episodes are the most fashionable TV trend right now, behind dark comedies and just being FX. The CW interconnected the worlds on The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl and now Legends of Tomorrow, and on Tuesday, Fox united two of its best comedies with a special Brooklyn Nine-Nine/New Girl event.
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The movie was directed by Showalter, whose film career has included slapstick cult classics ("Wet Hot American Summer") as well as offbeat romantic comedies ("Hello, My Name Is Doris"), and produced by Judd Apatow, who has specialized, recently, in helping almost famous comedians adapt their formative experiences into memoiristic meta-comedies.
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Other networks and services have made inroads with quirky comedies, whereas HBO has struggled of late in that arena.
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The joy of romantic comedies comes from seeing two people be their funniest, smartest, best selves for each other.
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Robert Herjavec is a master at finding loopholes, and apparently he's also a fan of Amy Adams' romantic comedies.
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While they had fun off set, this wasn't like the comedies the Saturday Night Live alum is used to.
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We break down our favorite comedies and dramas, and all of the (surprisingly plentiful) new series involving time travel.
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My brother and I would watch comedies like The Dick Van Dyke Show or The Tonight Show with him.
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Those nostalgia flicks are mixed with a healthy dose of history, horror, comedies, and the occasional original film too.
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I adore reading romantic comedies because they combine my two favorite things: swoony crushes and laugh-out-loud writing.
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Usually, they're going to, but the best romantic comedies come up with clever ways to prolong the inevitable union.
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After the film, the actress snagged roles in popular romantic comedies like Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail.
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Both have enjoyed successful, genre-spanning careers playing characters in everything from comedies to musicals to action to mysteries.
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Comedies continue the laughs with gag reels while other movies provide an epilogue or a recap to what happened.
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"It is part of a series of comedies about unlikely stories from arts and cultural history," a rep said.
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Jonah Hill is known for starring in comedies such as Superbad, 21 Jump Street, and This Is The End.
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The Fire TV Cube adds to Alexa's repertoire by enabling specific content searches, such as "comedies" or "action movies".
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I decided I'd cheat on my TV lineup of comedies and dramas  when the perfect thriller came along.
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This is why Russian Doll is destined to join the growing slate of recent great comedies about the afterlife.
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Though dramas are gripping and comedies are fun, odds are, you feel most alive while watching a horror movie.
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While Hollywood's interest in romantic comedies seems to be fading, Netflix has been picking up some of the slack.
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The director, who also co-wrote one of this year's best romantic comedies, Juliet, Naked, chooses her projects carefully.
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Also folded in to the press release: Premiere dates for two of FX's new comedies: Atlanta and Better Things.
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LOS ANGELES — Amazon has greenlit all three of its new comedies just over a month after the pilots debuted.
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Movies that broke the traditional summer movie mold — from singular epics to thoughtful comedies — were remarkably good as well.
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But those comedies rarely used their cold opens to expand their worlds, which were intentionally tiny to begin with.
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Marvel has taken other kinds of risks in casting superheroes, such as choosing actors known for roles in comedies.
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The TV flashback is nothing new; it's a standard way of advancing character development in both comedies and dramas.
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But it doesn't have much to do with the movie, which is less satirical than other Baron Cohen comedies.
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From romantic comedies to dark Italian dramas, each of these selections have the important components of a good movie.
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They're comedies, but one's about betrayal, and one's about finding a version of loving life, even when it's brutal.
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"Walk of Life" closes out comedies and dramas, sci-fi odysseys and character studies, happy moments and sad ones.
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What is it like to be a non-white woman going to other buddy comedies and not seeing yourself?
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Men rapped about smoking weed, and men smoked weed onscreen in stoner comedies like Harold & Kumar and Pineapple Express.
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But Rebecca herself sings because she's wrestling with the effects of those romantic comedies on her own well-being.
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The series shares a setting and sensibility with comedies like "Broad City," though its structure and aesthetic are different.
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Time Warner will make shows such as scripted dramas and comedies for the ephemeral messaging and augmented reality platform.
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There is no medicine on earth that has the power to heal me in the way romantic comedies do.
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In short time, an imagined bromance was born, with many envisioning buddy comedies, Netflix specials and more imaginative connections.
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The stupidity-of-high-school condemnation is a classic moment that only the most self-aware teen comedies contain.
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Hooker comedies like Night Shift and Risky Business, which feature men becoming pimps for kicks, came a decade later.
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"When we made the decision not to continue with comedies on Friday [cancellation was] where it landed," she said.
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At that time, TV comedy was tilting toward more cinematic "single-camera" comedies, which didn't contain any audience laughter.
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In memoriam: Garry Marshall, a titan of Hollywood and network TV who specialized in romantic, family and buddy comedies.
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Last season's crop of plays, although roughly the same size, included a number of slight comedies and solo shows.
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There are comedies and dramas, documentaries and sci-fi, animation and inspiration, horror and romance, and a lot more.
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The films that really stuck with me this year weren't generally the fun fantasies, the wish fulfillment action-comedies.
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And the subjects were broad, with comedies, dramas, westerns, literary adaptations, and dance films, often featuring surprisingly progressive themes.
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Those types of action comedies—especially Shane Black's movies—didn't require as much physicality as action films do now.
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Indie romantic comedies are swarming with aimless, emotionally damaged men seeking meaning in the arms of confident young women.
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Until very recently, it felt like romantic comedies — at least the big-budget Hollywood kind — finally might have died.
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I love comedies in which women are more than just kind of standing there next to brilliantly funny men.
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She's been doing this for such a long time and she's done such a variety of comedies and dramas.
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That "however" — the back-wrenching, stressful sweat equity of child care — has been productive material lately for TV comedies.
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At the Gaumont studio, where she worked until 1906, she directed hundreds of fantasies, comedies, melodramas and historical films.
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HARRIS Somehow the writers thought they were being clever with the many references to old school high school comedies.
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Where are the women who are the stars of their own movies, those comedies that you watch 15 times?
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Universal's "Good Boys" and "Yesterday" are the only comedies in the top twenty highest-grossing films of the summer.
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"Get me rewrite!" the city-room editor barks into the phone in nineteen-thirties comedies about the newspaper world.
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With all of our comedies, from 'Ride Along' to 'Bridesmaids,' we go slow overseas to find the optimal dates.
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Modern Love: In this week's column, a director of romantic comedies finds herself attending weddings with her ex-husband.
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A commercial for Avocados From Mexico features Molly Ringwald, the star of "Pretty in Pink" and other '80s comedies.
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All of these comedies have been rated R. Perhaps people have had all the crude humor they can take?
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CreditCreditBrinson+Banks for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — Kumail Nanjiani loves '90s romantic comedies, the mushier the better.
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Not a single one is credited as a writer or director for the comedies they won their award for.
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Comedy: Finally, comedy has always been about connecting incompatible perspectives: that's why traditional comedies often end with a wedding.
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Actress Amanda Seyfried has cultivated a filmography with a wide range, playing roles in musicals, horrors, and romantic comedies.
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The atmosphere is a bit like a sunnier Walerian Borowczyk, or an auteurist twist on Brazilian pornochanchadas (sexploitation comedies).
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These shows are workplace comedies with the workplace redistributed to the home, rom-coms where the romance is maternal.
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I didn't want more Madison, but I wanted very much for Deutch to be in more and better comedies.
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Really rotten people get forgiven, in the comedies and romances, at least, in ways that still make us uneasy.
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The brand later expanded and produced comedies like "Animal House" and "Vacation," as well as a weekly radio show.
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From a Justin Timberlake concert film to several romantic comedies, here are some of the director's most interesting movies.
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Better yet, ask Ms. Jane Austen, who featured zombies in all her exquisitely wrought nineteenth-century comedies of manners.
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I love comedies where we get to either make very direct satirical comments about what's going on or indirect.
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"In Germany, mainstream comedies are rather vulgar," said Katja Nicodemus, the film critic at Die Zeit, a German weekly.
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That was one takeaway from the Globes, where "Moonlight" and the television comedies "Atlanta" and "black-ish" won big.
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The Good Place has become one of TV's most interesting and elevated comedies in its short, two-season run.
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This physical possibility is a potent well from which to draw when constructing our tragedies, histories, comedies, and dramas.
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Romantic comedies, for instance, were still big business, and a rom-com could still get major stars to headline.
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I've seen "Green Book" with paying audiences, and it cracks people up the way any of Farrelly's comedies do.
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But David Yazbek, the songwriter behind the musical comedies "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and "The Full Monty," maintains the magic.
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Now there is some semblance of an answer: fairly popular, at least by the standards of cable television comedies.
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It was later ranked fifth by EW in its list of the greatest comedies of the last 25 years.
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Key and Peele are terrific comedic presences, with effortless chemistry that seems destined to fuel dozens of buddy comedies.
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Like most new comedies this fall, Young Sheldon isn't yet very good at conveying what it's trying to do.
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That would create a bit of a comedy pile-up on Thursdays at 8 (with both CBS and NBC also airing comedies in that time period), but ABC's would at least be family comedies (unlike CBS or NBC's offerings), ones that could easily decamp to another night when Scandal returned in the winter.
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I didn't want to separate myself from monster movies, but I did want to create a difference from romantic comedies.
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They are great, flawed characters, and there is a dramatic undertone to it that I think is rare in comedies.
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Among the titles on their way out are a few beloved comedies, like Wedding Crashers and the Austin Powers series.
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We like to think of them as comedies of manners, but Jane Austen's novels boil down to one thing: money.
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It launched a slate of successful comedies including The Mindy Project, Difficult People and the Golden Globe-nominated sitcom Casual.
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Paul Reiser: I had done one or two movies that were comedies, but I had really not been particularly established.
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Rose Byrne, Pamela Adlon, and Helen Hunt have all been in lighthearted comedies (Adlon also stars on Louie as Pamela).
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Despite Kaling's well-documented love of romantic comedies, this not-so-romantic twist is actually a whole lot more interesting.
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There are some comedies with improvised elements and others which are faux-documentaries, but his own working methods remain unique.
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And if you're thinking that sounds a lot like many comedies on the air right now, you wouldn't be wrong.
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There's a joy that runs through it that's infectious, and which is symptomatic of a growing trend in recent comedies.
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Among the four networks, according to some tallies, there was at one point about 20 family comedies up for consideration.
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In 2014, New York Magazine created a list of the best romantic comedies since 1989's When Harry Met Sally.
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The show has more than a little in common with some of the darker divorce movie comedies of the 1980s.
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But Klein also directed also two fictional comedies, mocking the fashion world in 1966's Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
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Comedy is used as a weapon throughout the film, almost daring us to laugh at this blackest of romantic comedies.
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Their decade-long partnership ended with a bitter split and Lewis went on to star in his own film comedies.
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Before becoming a big box-office draw in comedies, Kevin Hart was filling theaters thanks to his stand-up work.
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These are mostly comedies, with some, like The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" series, wringing laughs out of horror movie tropes.
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As I see it, the trouble with most romantic comedies is that they trade in the novelty of fresh love.
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When New Girl began it was part of the wave of female-led comedies taking over network TV in 2011.
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Ariana Grande's highly anticipated "Thank U, Next" music video is here — and she's bringing back all the classic teen comedies.
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There are plenty of decent sports dramas, biopics, and family films, but the list of great sports comedies is short.
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Shows are being developed for a wide range of formats, including documentaries, reality TV, scripted and unscripted, comedies and dramas.
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The 2014 movie, a sequel, is reportedly one of two Hollywood comedies U.S. authorities seized on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
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The weird thing about Charlie Kaufman's poignant, anxiety- and dread-driven fantasies is that they can usually be called comedies.
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In the 1940s, Ms. Yang found unexpected success as a playwright in wartime Shanghai with a series of witty comedies.
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The film proceeds like a melodrama, but you may leave the theater thinking you've just seen the blackest of comedies.
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I think networks have just shifted the way they're spending their money, so the focus is no longer situational comedies.
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Now, it has more than over 100 series ranging from comedies and dramas to reality shows and adult animated series.
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Mr. Ford had turned his attention to directing and producing both dramas and comedies for television, according to his website.
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Those who favored talk shows had a much higher tolerance for ads than those who preferred comedies, dramas, or news.
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I'm assuming that Ms. Backhaus deliberately shaped her characters in the mold of familiar domestic comedies to underscore their universality.
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It's the same basic setup that has undergirded any number of workplace shows and other comedies based on improvised families.
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The universe is that of 1950s and '60s television comedies and comes complete with a laugh track and canned applause.
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Both of these HBO comedies are Emmy favorites, having each received major nominations every year they've been on the air.
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And immersive drama and comedies are truly increasingly hard to find because of the proliferation of non-commercial streaming services.
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And "Secular Games," one of Graham's swinging-60s pseudo-comedies, falls short of justifying its inclusion on overstuffed, jumbled programs.
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PENELOPE GREEN Most comedies of manners use women's clothing and appearance to emphasize, mock or sometimes even celebrate class transgressions.
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But Todd [Strauss-Schulson, the director], made a pretty extensive photo reference of elements that get repeated in romantic comedies.
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As superhero movies have become more comedic, traditional comedies have had a harder time breaking through at the box office.
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High school comedies are especially popular on the service, both for television and movies, as are some Spanish-language series.
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In a television season full of nonconformist new comedies, TBS's "Search Party," beginning Monday, is one of the odder ducks.
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A former filmmaker, he created short, scripted comedies under his YouTube name "Matt Koval," which garnered more than 100,000 subscribers.
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These films — from the comedies, action and horror genres — share one common denominator: They're more Razzie-worthy than Oscar-worthy.
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Cohen, best known for gonzo comedies like "Borat" and "Bruno," discusses his dramatic turn in the new Netflix period thriller.
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One of television's breezier comedies, NBC's "Superstore," becomes, well, really breezy for its Season 2 finale on Thursday, May 4.
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Insider rounded up the best and worst romantic comedies that Netflix has to offer and ranked them by critical consensus.
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Watching them only makes the movie's time capsule quality more endearing, and it's definitely a staple of '90s teen comedies.
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He is the author of seven self-published comic books spanning topics from historical comedies to the importance of vaccination.
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Adam Sandler became America's most reliable comic star without ever leaving his comfort zone, largely made up of lowbrow comedies.
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New Line always has a strong slate of comedies and horror movies, but family fare hasn't traditionally been a priority.
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These comedies have little interest in considering how those men will feel when they are transported into a girl's bedroom.
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Past teen comedies tended to be about the desires of male virgins like Otis and their struggles to get laid.
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CF: Few shows — comedies or dramas — tend to get into what it means to be earning minimum wage and struggling.
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There's a partly cloudy sunniness to them that reminds me of the film comedies of Woody Allen or Albert Brooks.
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It's one of Shakespeare's earliest and bitterest comedies, and the bulk of its plot concerns a husband "taming" his wife.
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The reason that's still surprising is that sex comedies, and especially R-rated sex comedies, are still largely a male universe (think American Pie; Knocked Up; The Girl Next Door), more concerned with making sure the dude protagonists get laid than with the personalities of the women they're usually trying to trick into bed.
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In addition to lengthening Grey's Anatomy's current season, ABC ordered more episodes for its family comedies Black-ish and American Housewife.
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Summer comedies aren't designed to be the kind of movies you'll buy on DVD and watch over and over for decades.
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They are citing the concerns of the predominantly liberal-leaning stars and producers who make their comedies, dramas and other productions.
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There have already been so many romantic films telling man-and-woman stories, and those films are overtaken by romantic comedies.
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I'm just a girl, standing in front of the internet, asking everyone to love romantic comedies as much as I do.
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When both comedies returned years later, Dan Conner was alive and well, and Will and Grace were both older but childless.
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Perfect for engagement photos and climatic scenes in romantic comedies, the Bow Bridge oozes intimacy and demands a song to match.
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This is the stuff you see in medical TV dramas or Amy Schumer comedies, it doesn't happen to regular people—right?
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And, those two new comedies arrive on the heels of Russian Doll, Forever, and The Good Place's most lauded season yet.
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Case in point: Last year, ABC had in its hands one of the purest, most hysterical, most heartwarming comedies on television.
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Earlier this week, Quartz reported that the streaming service's most popular original releases were a dull pair of Adam Sandler comedies.
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Romantic comedies have always provided escape from the real world, and To All the Boys I've Loved Before is no exception.
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First, it launched a slate of successful comedies including The Mindy Project, Difficult People and the Golden Globe-nominated sitcom Casual.
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For Paramount Pictures yesterday, that meant an assortment of different movies, from comedies and thrillers to clever, tongue-in-cheek satires.
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The film's codirectors and cowriters, Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, were initially inspired by high-concept comedies like Big and Tootsie.
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You've talked about making this as a response to movies like The Hangover, bro comedies about male bonding over terrible behavior.
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This season, the show is rated in TV's top five comedies in viewers and is No. 1 in its 9 p.m.
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She stopped going to class and dropped out to star in late '90s comedies and indies, most notably American Pie (1999).
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It seems vaguely staged, but I've seen enough romantic comedies to know that this is an important part of a breakup.
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Comedies nearly always take longer than dramas to find their footing, and Blue certainly is winning as an overwhelmed working mom.
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In 2010, McConaughey made the move to revitalize his career, which up to that point had consisted mainly of romantic comedies.
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And romantic comedies remain one of the most segregated genres to this day, precluding many black-led films from critical consideration.
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Urban Myths: A Brand New Collection of TV Comedies billed itself as an eight-part series recreating rumored tales about celebrities.
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In the years after "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," Wilder continued to star in numerous comedies, with less consistent success.
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Julia Roberts has had great success starring in romantic comedies, but she might be done playing the leading lady in them.
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Despite what romantic comedies have been telling us for years, a blue box is not essential to a picture-perfect proposal.
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Meanwhile, states with higher incomes and education levels tended toward complex dramas and satirical comedies à la California fave Silicon Valley.
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Just press the remote and say, "Alexa, find romantic comedies," or "Alexa, next episode," and she'll do the work for you.
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But it also suggests a shared DNA with The Simpsons, The State, 1980s comedies, and classic Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell.
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We call romantic comedies "chick flicks" and berate women for being overly emotional even when an emotional reaction is completely justified.
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These new releases, ranging from fast-paced memoirs to light-hearted romantic comedies, demonstrate the enormous range of the LGBTQ+ experience.
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Almost exclusively, Feig directs and produces comedies led by loud, funny women, often alongside writer Katie Dippold (Parks & Recreation, Ghostbusters, Snatched).
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I can't watch comedies either as there's a trend toward 'injury comedy' that show people being clueless and crashing their bikes.
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The film, however, more than paid its way; dripping with wit and heart, it spawned a generation of imitation buddy comedies.
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They give each other a hard time all day long and they travel a lot, so they watch tons of comedies.
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But to really seduce audiences who frequent YouTube, Netflix, and cable TV, Facebook will need high quality scripted comedies and dramas.
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But because of its bright colors and unerring optimism, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has a warmth other dark comedies just don't have.
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And after you watch an Aziz Ansari special on Netflix, its own technology recommends some other awkward Millennial comedies for you.
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Research has found that comedies can activate the insular cortex and amygdala regions of the brain needed for a balanced mood.
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The new service offers a mix of dramas led by name actors and award-winning producers, grand spectacles and edgy comedies.
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The Coens make dark comedies that are tinged with the absurd and populated by exaggerated personalities with a tendency towards caricature.
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Taking inspiration from classic romantic comedies including The Notebook, the trailer shows Mack as he tries to navigate a new relationship.
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Also ending are the new comedies "Telenovela" and "Crowded," a sitcom about empty nesters played by Patrick Warburton and Carrie Preston.
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If British comedies about miserable people attempting to sort out their lives is your thing, let me point you to Fleabag.
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Ask, "Alexa, next episode," or "Alexa, find comedies," and you'll get to watch movies, TV episodes, and programs in a pinch.
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In the past 10 years, DeNiro has starred in 30 films, 11 of which have been comedies and one animated movie.
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In the past decade, a new genre of highly personal TV comedies, starring the people who write the scripts, has flourished.
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While Mr. Varnel, a French-born former actor, specialized in comedies, Mr. Menzies (1896-1957) was arguably Hollywood's premier art director.
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I didn't want to lower the church's august tone by asking if it was possible that Miller watched slapstick comedies there.
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"The Larry Sanders Show," now on HBO Go/HBO Now Watch if you like influential comedies and shows within a show.
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After "Neighbors," Efron continued to pivot his career by acting in several other comedies, some of which fared better than others.
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That's true of any genre, of course — but most characters don't run the risk of sudden, violent death in romantic comedies.
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INSIDER spoke with Victoria Lartey-Williams, Victorious Events NYC, about what romantic comedies get right and wrong about tying the knot.
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Jane, her abuela Alba, and her mother, Xiomara, relax by watching telenovelas, just as the Gilmore girls once watched screwball comedies.
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Hill went on to star in other seminal 2000s comedies like "Superbad," and recently wrote and directed his own movie, "Mid90s."
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"If I get a chance I will focus more on making movies like, let's say, thrillers or maybe comedies," he adds.
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Raising Arizona, for example, is one of the best comedies, so I'm glad I had the chance to do it again.
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Sure, Melissa McCarthy writes, produces, and stars in blockbuster comedies, but what the Oscar nominee really wants to do is...dance.
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Like comedies that you can leave the room for five minutes when they're on, and come back and not miss anything.
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LYONS I agree with that wild generalization, there are way more comedies I look forward to watching than there are dramas.
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" And Lex says of Express Scripts' industry, "Like Seth Rogen comedies, they are a U.S. institution whose utility eludes other nations.
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Her talent for deadpan comedy didn't go unnoticed, and Colman began to pick up bigger roles, mostly in sitcoms and comedies.
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Mr. Marcello intended "The Kissing Booth" to be a nostalgia-evoking homage to the teen comedies of the '80s and '90s.
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Yes, the traditional networks are throwing out spin-offs, new comedies, and freaking Batwoman in an attempt to catch your eye.
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These include classic comedies like Blackadder and Fawlty Towers, dramas like Brideshead Revisited, and over 600 classic episodes of Doctor Who.
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Also German comedies, Bulgarian costumes, Romanian hotels, fatherhood and the anxious, absurd state of the human race in the 21st century.
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Still, ABC has several comedies like "black-ish" and "Fresh Off the Boat" that are not afraid to address contemporary issues.
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A few elements of "Search Party" will be familiar to viewers of recent indie comedies about groups of drifty Brooklyn friends.
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"Nobody looked at it like, 'She can do anything,'" said Hamilton, who had hoped to pivot from action films to comedies.
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In the last few years, Netflix has branched out as a streaming service by producing a slew of original romantic comedies.
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The show understands, in a way comedies about more privileged families don't have to, that circumstances shape choices and exact costs.
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This new Netflix series was overwrought and hollow compared to many of the great comedies on TV, including its fellow nominees.
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But I was signing with a new agency and they said mob comedies were dead, so I should forget about that.
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Many ensemble comedies are aspirational ("Friends," say) and the ones that aren't tend to be cynical ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia").
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Like other Fox comedies, it's quirky and brash, and decidedly not for young viewers, but it does have an underlying sweetness.
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It tweets about representation for women of color; it's invested in series like "Dear White People" and diversely cast romantic comedies.
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Eddie Murphy's groundbreaking turn as Axel Foley was one of the most successful comedies of all time, both financially and critically.
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But this week brings three comedies — two returning for their second seasons and one brand new — that are worth checking out.
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For the first time in ages, NBC has two young comedies — Superstore and The Carmichael Show — that are genuinely worth watching.
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I also liked fellow comedies Dear White People, Atypical, and She's Gotta Have It. But most everything else was kinda lackluster.
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"When I first started, one of the things that I wanted to do, because I was Puerto Rican, Latina, was that I wanted to be in romantic comedies because I felt like all the women in romantic comedies always looked the same way, they were always white," Lopez, 50, explained of her own fight to make change happen.
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Comedies like Ghostbusters and Bad Moms did pretty well, too, with both grossing over $100 million, according to The Los Angeles Times.
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What sets I Feel Pretty apart from other "magic spell" comedies is that nothing about Renée's character changes physically after she's magicked.
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Although Issa Rae's new show on HBO gets compared to other female-driven comedies, it has a unique voice all its own.
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Also making an appearance are the stars of all of your favorite past television comedies, including Cheers, Taxi, Fraiser, and Will & Grace.
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Romantic Comedy Leading Man It seems natural that the dreamy singer of songs like "Sexyback" and "Mirrors" would star in romantic comedies.
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And in the last few years, there's been a rise in the number of comedies with more to offer than just laughs.
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If you're a fan of covers of songs by sexually-explicit 1960s weirdos, dark comedies and crime capers, this is for you.
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The streaming giant will add dozens of new television and film titles as well as new original dramas, comedies, and comedy specials.
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If you're already a fan of comedies like Superstore, The Good Place, or Speechless, Single Parents will fit right into your queue.
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She has also appeared on Desperate Housewives, The Fosters and Grey's Anatomy, as well as in comedies like Dude, Where's My Car?
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Before McKenna teamed up with Rachel Bloom to co-create the CW's twisted musical delight of a show, she wrote romantic comedies.
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Its message is one that few American comedies are comfortable in making: Trumpism is a symptom of the culture, not the cause.
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I'm loud and proud about Netflix serving me "Indie Romantic Comedies with A Strong Female Lead" as soon as I log in.
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Comedies are much cheaper, costing around $2 million per episode, while a drama can carry a fee of $5 million per episode.
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The Liz Meriwether-created series essentially functioned as the 2010's response to iconic hangout comedies like, most specifically, the aforementioned Friends.
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There are tons of new dramas, comedies, procedurals, and supernatural shows coming up in 2018; here are some of the most promising.
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For example, Margaret Atwood claims Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, one of the most lauded comedies in American film, as a guilty pleasure.
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Even soft, friendly comedies enforce this habit, from The Good Place — remember Chidi (William Jackson Harper) and the very bloody trolley problem?
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And if you aren't much for comedies like "You, Me and the Apocalypse," the avant-garde "Baskets," starring Zach Galifianakis, may appeal.
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Rather, in the vein of the best ABC comedies, it's a fun look at family worth unwinding with for roughly 22 minutes.
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Good news for fans of Apatowian comedies: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the Apatow-produced Jason Segel vehicle, is coming to Netflix this March.
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But I've compiled 213 buzzy movies already scheduled for release in 2018, from superhero films to animated comedies and a lot more.
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It's being animated by Diomedéa, the studio behind a number of comedies like Squid Girl and Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!
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So, if you're looking for undeniably British comedies like Derry Girls, here are the shows that will be your cup of tea.
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"For movies I repeat-watch, I like movies that make me laugh," he says of the Eddie Murphy and Steve Carell comedies.
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These messages have been re-packaged and re-told to women in all kinds of love stories, from fairytales to romantic comedies.
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Lawrence creates affable comedies filled with lovable people that nevertheless probe darker territory about death and broken human spirits and the like.
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" It has since helped produce or finance a handful of other movies including the comedies "Dumb and Dumber To" and "Daddy's Home.
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While more cinematic single-camera sitcoms have become the default for comedies, multi-camera sitcoms have a rich history of handling controversy.
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Grammer, best known for TV comedies "Cheers" and "Frasier," said the studio battles depicted in Fitzgerald's book also felt close to home.
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For her first foray into VR, Bravo delved into unfamiliar territory, trading her signature dark comedies for a heartfelt examination of injustice.
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Wilson recently appeared in three studio comedies — New Line's How to Be Single, Sony's The Brothers Grimsby and Fox Searchlight's Absolutely Fabulous.
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Great News would be one in a queue of irreverent workplace comedies were it not for one thing: Its dedication to farts.
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Fully six of the eight new series — three comedies and three dramas — will debut somewhere in the September through early November corridor.
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This goes for all of Facebook's programming, from comedies starring Oscar winners to critically acclaimed dramas starring Elizabeth Olsen to teen shows.
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But, no one cares about each and everyone of those nixed comedies and dramas — there is a reason they're ending after all.
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In a lot of comedies, that scenario would play out in terms of cattiness, but here it's about professionalism and, finally, sympathy.
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"BoJack Horseman," Friday, Netflix Watch if you like dark comedies, Hollywood-set stories, and a piercing look at depression and self-loathing.
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" Of Mr. Hare's screenplay, he wrote that everybody "talks in the same peculiar mixture of prissy clichés from bad drawing room comedies.
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They include the animated comedies "Big Mouth" and "Tuca and Bertie," the latter of which Netflix canceled after one season this year.
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This HBO comedy achieves something few extremely well-done comedies are able to do — it actually gets you invested in its plot.
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The whole movie is sloppy and incoherent and slow, in a way that lots of nominal comedies were in the early 1980s.
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Although she's been often offered romantic comedies, she tends to turn them down in favor of films with a clearer social message.
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The first pleasant surprise is that it's as funny as the first one, as comedies tend to lose steam with each sequel.
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But it's also laced with a dark and dreary streak, feeling more like a David Fincher film than most other TV comedies.
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Rick and Morty earned a top spot among comedies in 2017, scoring the best ratings of any series in Adult Swim history.
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The studio would produce dozens of short films known as the Alice Comedies before creating Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse.
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Put it this way: Twenty years ago, there were three pure comedies in the Top 10 highest-grossing movies of the year.
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Screwball comedies are typically populated by madcap socialites, irate plutocrats, plucky working girls, comic servants, idiotic lounge lizards and English-mangling foreigners.
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From big-budget comedies to indie Sundance hits, here are 14 movies directed by women you won't want to miss in 2018.
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Like "Romantic Comedies," the central piece, "21 Extremely Bad Breakups," pushes its conceit to the point of absurdity, and then far beyond.
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Here's a look at how, through an uneasy mix of insult and pride, gay male characters have evolved in big-screen comedies.
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" Maybe the show is trying to fit into the drawer of deliberately unfunny comedies, which has some decent residents, like FX's "Baskets.
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From American Pie to Blockers, there are plenty of teen comedies about students trying to lose their virginities before graduating high school.
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Double takes, grins and grimaces are magnified into crushing largeness, while the chase sequences bring to mind slap-happy Blake Edwards comedies.
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Classic tragedies and comedies, new plays and even a tuneful musical revival seem custom designed for this hot — and possibly overheating — season.
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Insider counts down the top 10 movies people were interested in this year along with the top comedies, thrillers, and romantic movies.
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Still, "What Men Want" often appears to be working too hard at being bawdy, in the way R-rated comedies sometimes do.
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You may think you're weary of septic comedies of human pain, feminist comics working blue, and graphic sex scenes—all prevalent trends.
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"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" has made a nice little business out of being one of the nastiest little comedies on television.
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After "Booksmart" disappointed at the box office despite critical acclaim, speculation swirled as to whether comedies still had a place in cinemas.
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It was developed in 18th-century novels like Pamela and Clarissa, and it lives on today in romantic comedies and romance novels.
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The show is so joyously clever and surprising, in an era where many other network comedies are cynical, predictable or just dreadful.
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Peter Farrelly makes comedies and this movie, if you're inclined to find laughs at the friendship at the film's center, is funny.
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You look at comedy especially, and it's been pretty tough going for comedies at the box office for the last couple years.
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That's what's so baffling about the total shutout of The Big Sick, one of the year's funniest, smartest, most well-made comedies.
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It's been the plot of countless romantic comedies, and many of my friends in loving relationships tell me it happened to them.
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The year was full of stunners in all categories: tear-jerking comedies, joyous musicals, moving dramas, haunting fables, and everything in between.
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Like the subjects of Guest's other comedies, mascots make up a strange little subculture with lots of opportunities for quirk and conflict.
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