comic drama

“Lahn Mah,” a small comic drama about a young man trying to wheedle his way into his dying grandmother’s good graces for a possible inheritance and accidentally growing up along the way, is a huge hit in its home country.

Incidents Ahmed describes as “comic drama” between him and other stand-up comedians have gotten him bounced from both the Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory.

The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Farber said while the movie "is not without its flaws, it is an engaging and often touching comic drama that builds power as it moves toward its immensely satisfying conclusion".

The celebratory season will include the 2018 adaptation of King Lear starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Shakespeare Live! from the RSC, and a semi-fictionalised comic drama on Radio 4 about the creation of the First Folio.

His stateside breakthrough occurred with the 2013 release of “Instructions Not Included,” a low-budget, bilingual comic drama that Derbez co-wrote, directed and starred in, about an Acapulco playboy struggling with first-time fatherhood.