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Here are the my ten favorite comedic movies that I will always get a laugh out of on any day!
1. Airplane!
2. Christmas Vacation
3. Wet Hot American Summer
4. Mystery Science Theater 3,000: The Movie
5. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
6. Step Brothers
7. Hot Fuzz
8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9. Caddyshack
10. Old School
The Comedy Carpet is easily my favourite addition to Blackpool in years. Stunning typography, almost overwhelming.
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 23JAN15 - Sarah Jones , Playwright, Actress and Poet, USA captured during the session Comedy and Empathy in the congress centre at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2015.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/Benedikt von Loebell
Abstract Comedy - Art By China Alicia Rivera
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The 2012 comedy "This Is 40", and sometimes referred to "Knocked Up part 2", was shot on location throughout the L.A. and Valley area.
This private residence in Studio City was used as the home of Pete's (Paul Rudd) father Larry (Albert Brooks).
This home is located at 12718 Valley Spring Ln, Studio City.
Comedy Club Recipe:
Three Shots: Cranberry Sprite
One Half to One and One Shot: Gin
One Shot: Chambord
Mix in a mixer and serve over ice in a cocktail glass. Enjoy!
SelfCritique: I rather like this one. I didn't like the softness at first but with everything in focus the glass is lost. The lighting could have been a bit brighter
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A Zeppoli Creation
A wonderful night at the Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip. Always gonna love these neon caricatures and, yes, I do recognize all of them!
Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, Ohio, presents Paul Slade Smith's hilarious comedy "Unnecessary Farce" -- live on stage from April 23 to May 10, 2015. The production is directed by Marc Moritz.
ABOUT THE PLAY
Two cops. Three crooks. Eight Doors. Go!
Thus begins a wild, theatrical ride that "The Fort Worth Star Telegram" called “A laugh-till-you-weep comedy on a par with Noises Off.”
In an economy motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant. In the room next door, two undercover cops are supposed to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's occupying which room, who's watching the video, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes!
THE CAST
CASSIE NEUMANN
Karen Brown
RACHEL GEHLERT
Billie Dwyer
BERNADETTE HISEY
Mary Meekly
TOM STEPHAN
Mayor Meekly
BRIAN O. JACKSON
Todd
SCOTT K. DAVIS
Eric Sheridan
DAN SEKANIC
Agent Frank
THE CREATIVE TEAM
MARC MORITZ
Director
MARYANNE COTTER
Stage Manager
MARY KATE CLANCY
Assistant Stage Manager
TOM ABDOO
Properties Designer
MICHELLE CONNER
Sound Designer
SUSAN STOUT DAVIS
Lighting Designer
JASEN J. SMITH
Costume Designer
ALAN SCOTT FERRALL
Scenic Co-Designer
KATHY KOHL
Scenic Co-Designer and Assistant Technical Director
JONATHON HUNTER
Carpenter
All photos in this Flickr set were shot by Scott Diese at the show's final dress rehearsal on April 22, 2015.
British autograph card.
Glamorous English film actress Sally Gray (1915-2006) appeared in many musical comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The hazel-eyed blonde Gray was seen as ‘a British rival to Ginger Rogers.’ After a break from performing, she emerged in the mid-1940s as a sultry beauty who starred in a series of moody dramas and suspenseful thrillers. Later she became Constance Vera Browne, Baroness Oranmore and Browne.
Sally Gray was born Constance Vera Stevens in Holloway, London, in 1915. Gray was the daughter of Charles Stevens, who drove a motor cab, and his wife, Gertrude Grace. Her mother was a ballet dancer and her grandmother a "principal boy" in the 1870s. Her father died when Gray was young. As a child, she trained at Fay Compton's School of Dramatic Art, and began acting on stage at the age of 10. Gray made her professional stage debut at the age of twelve in All God's Chillun at the Globe Theatre in London, playing an African boy. When she was 14, Gray appeared in a minstrel show at the Gate Theatre in London. She made her film debut under the name of Constance Stevens with a bit part in the comedy School for Scandal (Thorold Dickinson, Maurice Elvey, 1930) starring Basil Gill and Madeleine Carroll. The now considered as lost film is the only feature-length film shot using the unsuccessful Raycol colour process. Sally then went back to school for two years, training at Fay Compton’s School of Dramatic Art, during which time she performed in cabarets. She appeared in The Gay Divorce (1933) on stage with Fred Astaire. Astaire gave her private dance lessons. The agent John Gliddon, who had discovered Vivien Leigh, saw the 18 years- old Gray in the musical Jill Darling (1934) and signed her. Gray returned to films in 1935, with a small part in the historical drama The Dictator (Victor Saville, 1935), starring Clive Brook. She could also be seen in the comedy Cross Currents (Adrian Brunel, 1935), the musical Radio Pirates (Ivar Campbell, 1935), the comedy Lucky Days (Reginald Denham, 1935) with Chili Bouchier, and the crime film Checkmate (George Pearson, 1935). She returned on stage and was spotted by multi-talented actor-producer Stanley Lupino, who fell in love with her. Lupino was part of a theatrical dynasty that went back to 1634, and he was the father of the actress Ida Lupino. Gray had the female lead in his comedy Cheer Up (Leo Mittler, 1936) with Stanley Lupino. She also had leads in the musical drama Calling the Tune (Reginald Denham, Thorold Dickinson, 1936), the thriller Cafe Colette (Paul L. Stein, 1937) with Paul Cavanagh, and the musical Saturday Night Revue (Norman Lee, 1937) with Billy Milton. In 1936 she was earning an impressive £150 a week. Gray had support roles in the thriller Lightning Conductor (Maurice Elvey, 1937), the musical Over She Goes (Graham Cutts, 1937) with Lupino. The Edgar Wallace thriller Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (Norman Lee, 1937), and the musical Hold My Hand (Thornton Freeland, 1938) with Lupino. Gray was the female lead in the drama Sword of Honour (Maurice Elvey, 1938), the RKO production The Saint in London (John Paddy Carstairs, 1939) with George Sanders as Simon Templar, the musical comedy The Lambeth Walk (Albert de Courville, 1939) with Lupino Lane, Stanley Lupino’s nephew.
During the war years, Sally Gray continued her career smoothly. She played a non-musical role in the thriller A Window in London (1940), starring Michael Redgrave. According to Tom Vallance in The Independent “she was convincing in her offbeat role as an illusionist's wife in a neatly constructed thriller”. Then she played Miss America in the comedy Olympic Honeymoon (Alfred J. Goulding, 1940) with Claude Hulbert, and had the female lead in another British RKO production, The Saint's Vacation (Leslie Fenton, 1941) this time with Hugh Sinclair as Simon Templar. She had a sensitive role in the romantic melodrama Dangerous Moonlight (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1941). Tom Vallance: “Particularly remembered for its theme music, Richard Addinsell's "The Warsaw Concerto", the story of a Polish pianist (Anton Walbrook) who joins an air squadron against the wishes of his girlfriend (Gray), loses his memory after being wounded in the Battle of Britain, but regains it (and is reunited with his sweetheart) when he starts playing the concerto, had great appeal for wartime audiences.” The same year she appeared in Lady Behave, London's first major musical since the Second World War began. Stanley Lupino, who had cancer, had written the musical and co-starred. The show had to close after a month because of Lupino's illness. Gray returned to the stage to star in My Sister Eileen (1942) with Coral Browne. Lupino died, leaving Gray £10,000. Gray had a nervous breakdown, resulting in her retirement for a number of years. Lupino had been not only her lover, but her mentor and friend. She returned to the screen in 1946 and made her strongest bid for stardom in a series of melodramas. Tom Vallance again in The Independent: “Her husky voice was particularly attractive, and distinctively different from other stars of the time.” She appeared in the hospital thriller Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat, 1946) with Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard, the drama Carnival (Stanley Haynes 1946) with Michael Wilding and Stanley Holloway, the stylish, brutal Film Noir They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1947) with Trevor Howard, and the drama The Mark of Cain (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1947), starring Eric Portman. Grey then made the thriller Silent Dust (Lance Comfort, 1948) and the Film Noir Obsession (Edward Dmytryk 1949). Ronald Bergan in The Guardian: “Arguably Gray's best and meatiest role came in the McCarthyist exile Edward Dmytryk's Obsession (1949), as the cheating wife of psychiatrist Robert Newton, who plans a slow death for her latest lover.” Her final film was the spy thriller Escape Route (Seymour Friedman, Peter Graham Scott, 1952) with ageing American tough guy George Raft as an FBI agent in England. RKO executives, impressed with Gray, authorised producer William Sistrom to offer her a long-term contract if she would move to the United States. However, she declined the offer and instead retired in 1952 after getting married. In 1951, Gray had married The 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, an Anglo-Irish peer. They lived in a castle in County Mayo, Ireland. The couple kept the marriage secret until the 1953 coronation, at which she appeared with her husband. The final phase of Gray's life found her very much in the upper class, and she led a comfortable life, preferring not to talk about her acting career. In the early 1960s they returned to England and settled in a flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London. She tended assiduously to her gardening in later years. After 51 years of marriage, her husband died in 2002 at the age of 100. The couple had no children. Sally Gray died in 2006 in London, England. She was 91.
Sources: Tom Vallance (The Independent), Ronald Bergan (The Guardian), Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
So there I am, on the couch with my maitresse, trying to create a romantic atmosphere.
Alas, no peace for the wicked! We are disturbed by:
-a thief,
-the wife of the thief (who likes to ring her husband when he is out working),
-my own wife,
-my wife’s lover.
As you will understand: we are talking about a farcical comedy. The past months I found out how hard it is to do comedy. Pace and timing are essential. We worked hard, we sweated, we cursed, we almost despaired but in the end we pulled it off! We entertained a crowd of 500 people for an hour, kept their attention and got a lot of laughs. And afterwards: praise and real enthusiasm. It may not have High Art but we surely kicked ass!!