1.   Fortunately Scotland has always had a fine reservoir of comic talent and so I found the idea of letting a Scottish company loose on these plays totally irresistible.

2.   But as nearly everyone acknowledges, raw comic talent is not nearly enough for sitcom success.

3.   Diane Keaton, as the put-upon wife, plays her role straight, which wastes her comic talents.

4.   Fortunately, Carrey brings to the proceedings a real performance, raising the picture to his own new level as an important comic talent.

5.   He assembled six young comic talents, including John Cleese and Graham Chapman, and proposed a comedy show.

6.   Handsomely produced and cast with top-drawer comic talents, the play is nonetheless a fanciful sketch stretched to the point of emaciation.

7.   He has the comic talent to move up the ranks of movie stars.

8.   I can see practiced performers, but not the accompanying wellspring of comic talent beneath the gloss.

9.   In France, Balasko is known as a major comic talent who has written, directed and starred in five plays and four films.

10.   Picone, like a fellow Italian, the late Marcello Mastroianni, proves that a heart throb image does not preclude a comic talent.