Along the way you learn something about the history of American comedy.

This sort of situation would seem to be material for a great American comedy.

The result: the best American comedy of the year to date.

Certainly not the best American comedy around at the mo.

So how does all this food obsession affect American comedy?

There's been no other American comedy that's made light of anything after 9/11.

Each spoke about her father's continuing contribution to American comedy.

This is after all an American comedy and therefore by definition predictable.

On the way to the tube station she passed a cinema where an American comedy was about to start.

It is the greatest and most sophisticated American comedies in years.