But to appreciate the CD episode fully it helps to have a taste for bitter comedy.

Looking for the more bitter, nasty comedy of the young physical satirists.

This powerfully bitter comedy won 10 Israeli academy awards, including best picture - Friday at 10 p.m. on Sundance.

But it is all a bitter comedy.

The smile of a Thalia preparing some bitter comedy.

Penguin Books India describes the novel as the strange and bitter comedy of Najeeb's life in the desert and a universal tale of loneliness and alienation.

That moment, at once touching and grotesquely funny, distills the raw emotions uncovered by this powerful and very bitter comedy.

The most benign of the stories here are bitter comedy.

This could be grim, but Chabon plays it as a kind of bitter comedy in which Richard finds himself unwillingly drawn toward the delivery room.

Most of Mr. Ayckbourn's bitter comedies are too threatening for American audiences.