Time Out London said it "starts promisingly as a sardonic comedy . . . but once in California lethargy settles in.

In a career that spanned more than 40 years, Mr. Beaubrun delighted generations of Haitians with his sardonic comedy on radio, television and in films.

It has always been a tactic of his - in such sardonic comedies as "Boys' Life" and "Search and Destroy" - not to name names.

Most productions play it safe by turning this sardonic comedy into a Marx Brothers spoof.

He was a master of sardonic comedy and could convey urban frustrations so deftly that audiences identified with him and thus were able to laugh at themselves.

He is a stage actor who never stops challenging himself and his audience and who swings gymnastically from the weightiest of classics to sardonic contemporary comedies.

Fowler particularly praised Armisen, who he said risked overshadowing the regular cast, and the sardonic comedy of Plaza.

This is the setting for Burns' sardonic comedy about Canadian corporate culture.

"A sardonic comedy, with slapstick smudes ans a liberal bedaubling of farce."

Molotov replaces the tattooed self-pity of rap-metal from the United States with a mixture of punk fury and sardonic comedy.