After the disappointment of a dramatic film career, Day returned to her musical / comedic roots in 1957's The Pajama Game with John Raitt.

Jarmusch's approach to filmmaking — in the words of The Salt Lake Tribune critic Sean P. Means — involves " blending film styles and genres with sharp wit and dark humor ", and is pervaded by a signature deadpan comedic tone.

" The playwright made Suzanne the central character, endowing her with all the feisty comedic strengths of her classic film counterparts.

In college, he teamed up with his brother's roommate Robert Tapert and Campbell to shoot Within the Woods ( 1978 ), a 32-minute horror film which raised $ 375, 000, as well as the short comedic film It's Murder!

Sympathetic portrayals are few but notable, such as the comedic but tortured protagonist David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London, and a less anguished and more confident and charismatic Jack Nicholson in the 1994 film Wolf.

* Real Life ( 1979 ) is a comedic film about the creation of a show similar to An American Family gone horribly wrong.

In 2008, although he was reluctant to perform in an animated film, Hoffman had a prominent role as Shifu in the acclaimed film Kung Fu Panda, which was praised in part for his comedic chemistry with Jack Black ( whom he tutored in acting for an important scene ) and his character's poignantly complex relationship with the story's villain.

The film was successful and brought Tate strong reviews, with many reviewers praising her comedic performance.

The " monster in the closet " fear was developed for comedic possibilities in film Monsters, Inc ..

He made his film debut in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3 ( 1991 ) and received first notable critical praise for his performance in This Boy's Life ( 1993 ).

His debut film role was in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3, in which he played the stepson of an evil landlord, a role that DiCaprio described as " your average, no-depth, standard kid with blond hair.

He performed serious roles on screen and stage ( such as his one-man theatre show Darrow, in which he played Clarence Darrow ), as well as providing voice-overs and on-camera appearances for commercials ; cartoons like Zeroman where he had the leading role / voice ; children's shows, such as Pumper Pups, which he narrated, in addition to comedic film roles.

This style of music is sometimes used to comedic effect in mass media such as film, where intense or dramatic scenes may be interrupted or interspersed with such anodyne music while characters use an elevator ( e. g. The Blues Brothers, Dawn of the Dead, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra and Spider-Man 2 ).

The 1933 film Queen Christina includes light-hearted and comedic moments between Garbo and her co-star John Gilbert, although the movie is generally regarded as a historical drama.

His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles.

Although proposals for live-action and animated remakes have not been realised, Blake's 7 has been revived with two series of official audio dramas, a comedic short film, a series of fan-made audio plays, and a proposed series of official novels.

While disappointing on the narrative level the film nevertheless is a showcase for the rare gem that is early Kiwi comedy, highlighting a penchant for comedic understatment, an emphasis on New Zealand speech patterns ( verbal reversals and wordplay ) and the ironic stabs at the obvious.

From this comedic segue, the film opens on a writer for television advertising, Rockwell P. Hunter ( Tony Randall ), who is low on the ladder at the La Salle agency, the company where he works.

A common joke in comedic television and film involves people getting ESP ( an abbreviation for Extrasensory Perception, and an irony considering ESPN was initially supposed to be named " ESP ") confused with ESPN, often including someone saying something along the lines of " I know these kind of things, I've got ESPN ".

DeForest Kelley portrays Doctor Leonard McCoy, who is given many of the film's comedic lines ; Kelley biographer Terry Lee Rioux wrote that in the film " he seemed to be playing straight man to himself ".

Koenig commented that Chekov was a " delight " to play in this film because he worked best in comedic situations.

* In May 2007, the Spanish comedy troupe Tricicle opened a production of comedic sketches entitled " Garrick " in tribute to the actor.

* Peter Schickele ( aka P. D. Q. Bach ), wrote an alternate, comedic text for the score entitled Sneaky Pete and the Wolf, converting the story into a Western, including a showdown between Sneaky Pete and the gunslinger El Lobo ( which never happens due to some local boys giving El Lobo a hotfoot and sticking a paper airplane in his eye and Sneaky Pete's girlfriend Laura rendering El Lobo unconscious with a vacuum cleaner ).

In 2002, he also performed a solo stand-up show entitled Comedyoscopy, a deconstruction of comedy, comedic techniques and what makes people laugh.

They also released a collection of dark short stories in 1989, entitled Book, which took a markedly different tone from their comedic stage performances.

In 2012, Deezen will star in a live-action comedic short film entitled I Love You, Eddie Deezen.

Senancour also authored the comedic drama Valombré ( 1807 ), and late in life wrote a second novel in letters entitled Isabelle ( 1833 ).

In 2012 Johnston released her memoir, a comedic and tragic look at addiction and recovery entitled Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster, which has received positive reviews.

In ( 2006 ) she hosted a comedic podcast and website entitled Famous Shit Stories.

His childlike mannerisms and natural comedic charm ( he had no previous acting experience ) made him a hit with audiences, particularly children and women ( the latter usually finding the trio's humor juvenile and uncouth ).

At a later time in his life Agrelot would be called " The Puerto Rican Bob Hope " by journalists ( or they could say Bob Hope was the British José Miguel Agrelot ), perhaps because of his stand-up comedic style and media longevity, but his aptitude for physical comedy, straight face for risqué material and physical girth at the time predated-and would be quite comparable with-that of John Belushi's, rather toned-down for the conservative Puerto Rican audiences of the time.

The song Livery Stable Blues by the ODJB in 1917 personified the vaudevillian style that white audiences sought in Jazz: choppy, comedic, almost poking fun at itself.

Most of the comedic performers in the 1987 show were talents familiar primarily just to British audiences.

With one main stage production and comedic readings to form the " Summer of Laughter " season both audiences and tourists returned.

The London Dungeon is a popular London tourist attraction, which recreates various gory and macabre historical events in a grimly comedic ' gallows humour ' style, attempting to make them appealing to younger audiences.

Curly's childlike mannerisms and natural comedic charm made him a hit with audiences, particularly children.

Stojković's numerous comedic portrayals of the " small man fighting the system " made him popular with Serbian and ex-Yugoslav audiences, most of them coming in collaborations with either director Slobodan Šijan or scriptwriter Dušan Kovačević-or both.

Filipino audiences, specifically the lower-class population, supported Franzen because of his comedic and emotional nature.

Cheng performed in all three of the sold out shows and wowed audiences with her comedic ability.

From 1959 to about 1994 — before the Mother Lode tourist boom — a summer theater company called the " Claypipers ' staged comedic melodramas with interspersed " olio " ( song and dance ) acts to mostly standing room only audiences.

Comedians Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong ( better known as the comedic duo Cheech and Chong ) have stated that NBC president Brandon Tartikoff sent series creator James Komack to follow the comedians on tour for three months ;

In 1972, Joseph produced Connolly's first solo album, Billy Connolly Live !, a mixture of comedic songs and short monologues that hinted at what was to follow.

Translated from Latin as " it does not follow ", Non Sequitur is often political and satirical, though other times, purely comedic.

Rather than follow Hamilton's storyline, the filmmakers took elements of the plot, combined it with elements of the first Helm book, Death of a Citizen, and cast the story in a comedic vein, spoofing the James Bond film franchise.

We follow the comedic adventures and mishaps of their attempts at learning how to have sex as influenced by each other, other peoples ' experiences, and the media.

A non sequitur (; Latin for It does not follow ) is a conversational and literary device, often used for comedic purposes.

A series of satirical and comedic scenes follow.