This ironic and rich comedy raises many modern issues, and made Marivaux into a forerunner of female liberation.

His literary and essayistic work is largely an ironic comedy of manners, focused on minds and styles in the upper realms of society.

Fears, hostilities and personal philosophies are subjects to be presented, carved and served out like the holiday ham in this studiedly ironic comedy.

Yet ironic comedy may also offer biting satire of a society replete with snobbery.

Director Dani Levy, himself Jewish, has made an ironic comedy about modern Jewish identity in present-day Germany.

The film is a lightly ironic, British culture-clash comedy.

The omission of this clearly available option signals the limits to Mr. Frayn's enterprise, set by the conventions of ironic comedy.

They serve forth its treasures with no sense of strain as the tone shifts instantly from gently ironic comedy to slapstick violence to bitter disillusion.

He's made the butt of Shakespeare's ironic comedy of fickle love.

This sort of ironic comedy can be found throughout Outlaw Star, creating excellent segues between the fantastic action sequences and the delightful characters.