And I've partnered with a local comedian who does a screamingly funny Hitler impersonation.
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If this all sounds terribly depressing, it's worth noting that The Lobster is also screamingly funny.
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It can be screamingly funny in one moment, then immediately become sad or scary or angry.
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The verbal acrobatics in which performers catch one another in midflight tend to be more clever than screamingly funny.
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They often focused on race and class (and were screamingly funny), for which they won acclaim, including an Emmy in 220.
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It might offer up a screamingly funny scene right next to one that ends in tragedy, and then it might cut to another character offering a soliloquy to the powers that be or a representative of the prison or a chicken.
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With the help of their eccentric Guatemalan housekeeper Agador (the screamingly funny Hank Azaria), Armand and Albert agree to the plan; chaos — involving Albert in drag as "Mother Coleman" ("the D is silent"), shrimp-and-egg soup, and some, er, questionable china — ensues.
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JENNIFER SCHUESSLER The talk-dirty-to-me monologue in Kate Tarker's bizarro comedy "Thunderbodies," at Soho Rep, was flamboyantly gross-out filthy, and the great Deirdre O'Connell wallowed magnificently in it, delivering a screamingly funny, revoltingly blue aria to a lover's prowess with his nose.
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Reviews for the play were mixed. In The New York Times, Alexander Woollcott said it was "screamingly funny at times and rather dull at others". A critic for The Drama called it "vulgar and immoral" and said it gave the wrong impression of chorus girls. The opinions of reviewers did not stop the play from being a hit.
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Tom Carson has called Get Your War On a "glorious excoriation of our post-9/11 loony bin",Carson, Tom (October 3, 2004). "Last Comic Standing". The New York Times, Pg. 20G while Connie Ogle, in her review of the second Get Your War On book, called it "Profane, decidedly anti-war and screamingly funny ... guaranteed to make you laugh yourself sick."Ogle, Connie (November 24, 2004).
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" He regularly featured in pantomimes and in music halls in London, and toured in South Africa, Australia, and the United States.Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, British Music Hall: A story in pictures, Studio Vista, 1965, p.131 It was said of his first appearance in New York in 1909: "Nothing funnier.. has been seen in a New York vaudeville theatre. The burlesque is pure artistry, subtle and screamingly funny.
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Bird has also garnered critical acclaim for his performance. Nell Minow of Common Sense Media wrote that Bird "plays the funniest character in the film", while AllMovie's Perry Seibert described his performance as "screamingly funny". Pete Vonder Haar of Film Threat wrote that Bird contributes "the best work" to the film as Edna in terms of dialogue and vocal performance, calling her rant about the "idiocy" of capes "priceless." Scott Chitwood, writing for ComingSoon.
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A review in The Advertiser in Adelaide said of the production: > "Sheerluck Jones, or Why D'Gillette Him Off" which is now the second item at > Terry's Theatre. To enjoy the latter thoroughly, and Mr. Clarence > Blakiston's inimitable imitation of Mr. Gillette, you want to see the > former. The travesty shows up the absurdities of the original in a > screamingly funny fashion. The detective's deductions fail, and Professor > McGillicuddy, the Lipton of Crime (Professor Moriarity, "the Napoleon of > Crime" in the original) simply romps in.
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He noted that it had "cheeky rap poking stereotypical fun at Southerners". J.D. Considine from The Daily Gazette said it is "the piece de resistance, a track so infernally catchy that you almost don't notice how screamingly funny it is." Tom Ewing from Freaky Trigger said that "Cotton Eye Joe” work "on that basic, energetic, ass-moving level". He added that "the hollering diva interludes actually change things up a little, though that decades-old hook is solid enough to stand on its own.
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The Bunnygraphs, as a genre, were representative of the cinema of the period, and were very successful, making Bunny the first American comic film star and Finch the first female star comedian. A Cure for Pokeritis, released February 23, 1912, was individually well-received, including in showings outside the United States. The Thames Star, a New Zealand newspaper, described the film as "screamingly funny". After John Bunny's death, interest in his films led Vitagraph in 1917 to announce the re- release of this film (retitled A Sure Cure for Pokeritis), along with many of his other works, as "Favorite Film Features".
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The film has had mixed critical reception, but the writing and acting have been widely singled out for praise. Variety, which described it as a "strong, well-thesped pic", indicated that it "scores simultaneously as romantic, tragic, grotesque and screamingly funny." Salon.com, which characterized it as "a highly disturbing combination of gruesome gore and earnest, tragic romance not encountered since David Cronenberg's "The Fly," if ever, singled out for praise the acting and the script, summarizing that "the film's strange blend of tragedy and surreal gore, à la Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, is surprisingly effective.
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His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring. What Will You Do shares many themes in common with Bareja's other comedies, especially Teddy Bear, with an emphasis on the sheer absurdity of life under Communism. The plot is too convoluted to be believed, but the director makes screamingly funny scenes from watching hapless citizens of Warsaw using a glass in a cafeteria that's been chained to the table so it won't be stolen or waiting in line for days to buy furniture.
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How Brown Saw the Baseball Game was released into theaters by Lubin Manufacturing Company on November 16, 1907, and was still being shown as late as August 1908. During this time, the film sometimes was presented as part of a double feature with the 1907 film Neighbors Who Borrow, a short comedy film about a man who lends nearly everything he owns to his neighbors until his wife returns home and berates him for doing so. Advertisements for the film touted it as "such fun", and Lubin himself promoted the film as a "screamingly funny farce". It received a positive review in the June 1908 issue of The Moving Picture World which described the film as "truly funny" and that it proved to be "a veritable success".
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In spite of this exposure, Blackstone does not appear in the actual film. The hype for Come Play with Me also spread to the letters pages of Sullivan’s magazines. A fan letter of dubious authenticity (as it refers to scenes that do not appear in the film) from "Bert U" to Mary Millington in issue 27 of Whitehouse claims: "Dear Mary, I must congratulate you on your film Come Play with Me, I found it screamingly funny and very sexy as well…I loved every randy moment… everyone was so natural, and Henry McGhee [sic] as the PM was superb." The letter goes on to falsely claim that the actor Roy Kinnear appears in the film, and that "(Roy) looked like a Roman Emperor in the swimming pool scene. I‘ll bet it took him all his time to keep his towel on during rehearsals for the film… it looked to me, Mary, as though you were fucked rigid during the film".
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