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The simple-minded comedy of Dogberry and Verges, also familiar in a day that responds easily to jokes skimmed off the top of writers' heads, evoked laughter.
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In 2005, she began a recurring role in the animated comedy Family Guy as Brian Griffin's simple-minded girlfriend, Jillian.
* Boke, the " simple-minded " character in a Manzai team, a form of Owarai kombi ( Japanese comedy act )
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Generous and simple-minded but also temperamental, Ilya once went on a rampage and destroyed all the church steeples in Kiev after Prince Vladimir had failed to invite him to a celebration.
He also wanted to laugh at the young Japanese men, those born after World War II, who were simple-minded and much too direct and simplistic when it came to talking with girls about having sex.
In August 2010, Ozawa expressed admiration for American democracy and praised Americans for electing Barack Obama as President, but he also labeled Americans as " monocellular " and " simple-minded ".
Jokes set in the animal kingdom also feature characters, which draw their roots in the old Slavic fairy tales, where animals are portrayed as sapient beings with a stereotypical behavior, such as the violent Wolf, the sneaky ( female ) Fox, the cocky coward Hare, the strong, simple-minded Bear, the multi-dimensional Hedgehog and the king of animal kingdom, Lion.
However, she also bows out easily to peer pressure and appears more simple-minded and materialistic than Shirley is.
He is also simple-minded enough to be manipulated.
The movie also contains a movie in itself ; a short flick called Lakaisijat ( The Sweepers ) about newlyweds staying at a hotel run by a murderous psychopath who has trapped his simple-minded twin brother in the attic.
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By the time they catch up, Ivan is off collecting ivory and the simple-minded Igor is having second-thoughts about the plan, as he is easily intimidated by the noise being made from wind blowing through a nearby statue.
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* Ogres: giants of great strength, these simple-minded, strong creatures are often found in the company of Orcs, swinging large wooden clubs lopped off trees.
Murphy, described by those who knew him as a trusting, naïve and simple-minded man, had been enlisted by convicted child rapist Parnell ( who had passed himself off as an aspiring minister to Murphy ) into helping him abduct a young boy so that Parnell could " raise him in a religious-type deal ," as Murphy later stated.
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In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.
The comic strip stars Li ' l Abner Yokum — the simple-minded, loutish but good-natured and eternally innocent hayseed who lives with his parents — scrawny but superhuman Mammy Yokum, and shiftless, childlike Pappy Yokum.
Upon Ivan's death, he was succeeded by his simple-minded son Feodor.
Joey is a simple-minded womanizer with many short-term girlfriends throughout the series.
Comic strips such as Li ’ l Abner and Snuffy Smith, and radio programs such as Lum and Abner brought the stereotype of lazy, simple-minded hillbillies into American homes.
Harmony in pop music is often " that of classical European tonality, only more simple-minded.
: One of the reasons why the Wheel of Life was painted outside the monasteries and on the walls ( and was really encouraged even by the Buddha himself ) is to teach this very profound Buddhist philosophy of life and perception to more simple-minded farmers or cowherds.
Levesque argues Porter was not a simple-minded reactionary, uncritically committed to tradition, but a principled and selective conservative.
Becky is portrayed as a strong-willed and cunning young woman determined to make her way in society, and Amelia Sedley as a good-natured, lovable though simple-minded young girl.
Razumovsky was a good and simple-minded man, untroubled by personal ambition.
Edward of Warwick was described as " simple-minded ", and after Anne died, Richard promptly named another nephew — John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln — as his heir presumptive.
He quickly takes a dominant position over the town's simple-minded and lethargic miners, thanks to his aggressive personality and rumors that he is a gunfighter.
I suppose as one gets older-I would have described it at the age of 21 as the process of selling out, but another way of looking at it is to say, actually, the world is not a very simple place, and that as you get older simple-minded solutions seem less attractive.
" British historian Jeremy Potter mentioned ( in 1983 ) some of the contemporary evidence upon which historians based that conclusion: " Warwick ... may have been simple-minded: later he was said not to be able to tell a goose from a capon.
Alyson is extremely feminine, bubbly, and a little simple-minded, but she is very caring and a really nice person, friend, and girlfriend.
He seems simple-minded and has lived there his whole life tending the garden.
A simple-minded Fool asks the King why he suffers, and when the King says he is thirsty, the Fool gives him a cup of water to drink.
In the first edition of The Red Sea Sharks, the black victims speak pidgin French and seem rather simple-minded.
She is then able to continue transporting starships instantaneously by borrowing the vast mental capacity of the simple-minded Pequenino mother-trees.
In character he was upright and simple-minded, but shy and retiring, and often failed to make himself appreciated.
Hoppy Go Lucky ( 1952 ) was a parody of Of Mice and Men, with Sylvester accompanied by the giant, simple-minded cat " Bennie ," who wants a mouse " to hug and pet.
The hokum blues genre carried over the dandy, the wench, the simple-minded slave characters ( sometimes rendered as the rustic white " rube ") and even the interlocutor into early blues and country music incarnations through the medium of " race music " and " hillbilly " recordings.
Chahine himself plays the central character, Kenaoui, a simple-minded man, beneficently employed as a newspaper-seller.
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We now have not only what has been called over here the comedy of menace but we also have horror jokes, magazines known as Horror Comics, and sick comedians.
One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.
`` Where The Boys Are '' also has a juvenile bounce that makes for a refreshing venture in comedy.
He is also a prominent character in Aristophanes ' comedy the Thesmophoriazusae.
In the 2010 comedy Marmaduke two Afghan hounds appear in the dog park and are shown to resemble high school girls watching the more athletic dogs as if they were " jocks " and are also shown to be " air heads ".
Army of Darkness, also titled Bruce Campbell vs Army of Darkness, Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness or just Evil Dead III, is a 1992 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi.
In 1986, the film was featured in the syndicated series, the Canned Film Festival and was later featured on the comedy series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, which also featured other Wood films.
Chaplin quickly began work in another role, touring with his brother — who was also pursuing an acting career — in a comedy sketch called Repairs.
Chaplin also wished to " do something more " than comedy, and — as Louvish says —" make his mark on a changed world.
The impresario also taught his comedians to vary the pace of their comedy, that a hectic speed was not necessary, and used elements of absurdity that would become familiar in Chaplin gags.
Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertainment events, such as stand-up comedy, concerts, and sporting events.
It was not uncommon for the early romantic comedy film to also be a screwball comedy film.
Another style of comedy horror can also rely on over the top violence and gore such as in Dead Alive ( 1992 ), Evil Dead ( 1981 ), and Club Dread-such films are sometimes known as splatstick, a portmanteau of the words splatter and slapstick.
The release of comedy films also went into a decline during this decade.
Charles adds a comedy element to the role, but also has traumatic and emotional scenes with complicated storylines.
DeMille also appeared as himself in Paramount's 1947 all-star musical comedy Variety Girl and he narrated many of his later films, as well as appearing on screen in the introduction to The Ten Commandments.
Ditka also co-starred himself alongside actor Will Ferrell in the 2005 comedy film Kicking & Screaming.
As well as writing comedy, Anderson is also a frequent contributor to newspapers, and was a regular columnist in the Sunday Correspondent.
He also wrote and appeared on a local comedy series, The Late, Late Show, hosted by his friend Lenny Clarke and written by Boston comedy writer Martin Olson.
The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.
Italian companies also had a strong line in slapstick comedy, with actors like André Deed, known locally as " Cretinetti ", and elsewhere as " Foolshead " and " Gribouille ", achieving worldwide fame with his almost surrealistic gags.
By 1917 Chaplin was also introducing more dramatic plot into his films, and mixing the comedy with sentiment.
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