broad comedy

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He seems to think the assignment was to do a sort of Peter Sellers turn, as though under the impression that the project was a broad comedy like last year’s “Fackham Hall.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

I wondered about the suitability of McDonald’s vocal style and questioned her comfort level with broad comedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025

Qualley and Viswanathan are fantastically committed and charismatic, with Qualley demonstrating a capacity for broad comedy.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024

And ” About My Father,” the broad comedy starring stand-up Sebastian Maniscalco and Robert De Niro, was sixth with $4.3 million.

From Washington Times • May 28, 2023

The blending of magic, phantasy, broad comedy and serious tragic interest in the Fiabe allies them to the Morgante Maggiore far more closely than to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo