Still, there is a difference between trying to make
audiences laugh by saying the unexpected out loud and those unexpected things actually being funny.
Not exact matches
The spin - off is that not only do I enjoy it and feel «right» when I am working creatively, but the people who are my
audience also benefit
by being able to
laugh for a while, or quietly enjoying a painting.
and Michael replies with the expected, «Something came up» (uttered beforehand
by his own father, George Sr.), the
audience is already
laughing.
The Chinese created their own moves and lifts
by reading the rule books, and the first Chinese pair to perform outside the country was
laughed at
by audiences in Germany.
She got a
laugh from her
audience at the Thursday Morning Roundtable, a weekly symposium sponsored
by University College, a division of Syracuse University.
It was then that Mr. Decker woke up the
audience by suddenly stepping out from behind the podium and throwing his prepared speech into the air with a hearty
laugh.
Things weren't going well (the
audience was distracted
by a waiter singing Happy Birthday, and part of the stage collapsed), and the spectators began
laughing, upsetting Prince Charming - and he threatened them with his twisted sword: «Someday, you'll be sorry.»
By the time Spader showed up with wild facial hair (which the movie is full of) and a swaggering paunch, the
audience I was in was
laughing with every new arrival.
A shackled Shrek was lifted to the stage, where he was about to be killed
by Charming's sword - but he caused the
audience to
laugh when he contemptuously ridiculed Charming's acting and singing: «Well, it can't be any more painful than the lousy performance you're giving... Could you kill me and then sing?»
Written
by Jay Baruchel, he also plays Doug's best friend throughout the film, and while he is just present to make
audiences laugh, he does serve the purpose of giving his friend the much needed confidence on the ice.
The best way to release tension on film is
by making the
audience laugh.
It's one thing for a film to have corny dialogue that makes
audience members involuntarily
laugh but Sucker Punch somehow manages to unintentionally cause sniggers
by its music cues and the way it uses costumes.
«Breaking In» far too quickly devolves into unintentional
laughs provided
by the henchmen, complete with long stretches of near silence, affording the smart alecks in the
audience the chance to half - shout, «She's gonna ELECTROCUTE him,» or «There's ONE IN THE CHAMBER» and «Shoot SHOOT» at the screen.
Like the victims it introduces, this movie is no «victim», and
audiences will be pleasantly surprised
by their ability to
laugh in the face of what is a harrowing story.
The Riggs vs King tennis showdown played for a global TV
audience in 1973; here it's mined for both
laughs and drama
by directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.
Idiocracy a fun film for those who
laugh at, or perhaps lament, the sorry state of our society, where reading is increasingly being deemed
by youth culture as passé, popular entertainment has nearly no emphasis on story (Judge portrays films of the future as nothing but shots of bare asses that occasionally fart, which the
audience finds consummately entertaining), and people can't speak intelligently without being labeled as uppity snobs.
That showing would not have been marred
by audience members
laughing much too hard at the occasional tension - slicing moment, talking too much about what is going on, and cheering too hard for the heroes to catch the villains.
Hedges made
audiences both
laugh and cry in the drama «Manchester
by the Sea» — an awards - season front - runner.
This comment got a small
laugh from the
audience and I overheard quite a few people surprised
by this, many saying that it's clearly the best Sonic game in years and what people have been asking for, it seemed ridiculous that he or SEGA would be worried about showing it off.
As directed
by veteran Norman Jewison (Agnes of God, Rollerball), this is an ensemble comedy that relies on good cast chemistry and charm for most of its
laughs, and along those lines, the on - screen charisma does make for an enjoyable romantic comedy for most
audiences.
(The only time the
audience laughed was when it was tricked into thinking they were going to be treated to a second gratuitous Lara shower scene late in the film; alas, the camera panned down from the shower head to reveal the face of her rival archeologist Alex, played
by Daniel Craig.)
An almost clinical psychological study, it questions the power dynamics between the long - suffering wife, threatened at one point with having her vagina sewn shut (the first Mexican
audience laughed at the huge cord proposed for the deed) and the husband, unhinged
by sexual desire — whether for his wife or his butler remains somewhat ambiguous.
The best I managed were a couple of smirks, mostly based on situational comedy rather than actual attempts at jokes - but the young couple of 16/17 were
laughing their asses off at every fart joke - line, so I guess we know which
audience is really captured
by the film.
Riggs vs. King played for a global televised
audience in 1973; here it's played for both
laughs and drama
by directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.
It delivers exactly what the filmmakers presume their
audience wants: big, bold action sequences; hot guys and girls; and a few
laughs, prompted
by expertly delivered one - liners that ensure the proceedings aren't taken too seriously.
This not only catches the
audience by surprise (and generates a few
laughs), but it perfectly sums - up this 2014 version of the all - time favorite: it's out with the old and in with the new.
A History of Violence had most of the
audience in my cinema
laughing uncomfortably, squirming at the gore, and generally sounded disappointed
by the time the credits rolled.
But
by injecting humor into this horrific scenario, the experience invites
audiences to
laugh between the screams.
The fifth entry in the Ice Age series is a loud, lazy,
laugh - starved cash grab that cynically exploits its target
audience (I use the term advisedly)
by serving them scraps and calling it yummy.
But
by that point, the film has earned its
laughs by making the
audience care about characters who begin the film as broad comic types, but end it as sympathetic, fully formed, multidimensional human beings.
The fuzzballs in the
audience having thoroughly
laughed it up, the full clip package followed, followed
by a brief tribute to the late Carrie Fisher from Iger.
As played
by Julian Dennison, a 15 - year - old actor from New Zealand who starred in Taika Waititi's critically acclaimed Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Firefist gives Deadpool quite a parenting challenge and provides the
audience with plenty of
laughs.
Wilder knows that the longer time it takes for the group to get to the airport, the more
laughs he will be able to get from an
audience emotionally drained
by the anticipation.
From the outset there are some cheap
laughs that will certainly appeal to the younger
audience but the film suffers throughout
by failing to choose a target demographic or appeal equally to several.
The off - putting air of self - satisfaction is compounded
by his recurring comments about how certain scenes received so many
laughs from
audiences at both test screenings and regular engagements.
Then we see a chicken being inserted in an officer's behind
by the hero's sons in Me, Myself, & Irene, and we hear
audiences laugh.
A disclaimer in front of the first episode warns that it contains graphic language and content that «may not be suitable for all
audiences,» but the photography is really good, and I
laughed out loud at John Goodman's first scene, where he wakes up one of his roommates — played
by Bill Murray — to ask him about the police cars and television news cameras that are swarming outside their apartment.
By using text combined with image, they are able to communicate with their
audience in ways that are both immediate and subtle, and as a nation who isn't afraid to
laugh at themselves, we are lapping it up.
He continues, «Once I did a performance at the Fabric Workshop for Louise Bourgeois's «She Lost It» where I wrapped strips of printed gauze over my barely - covered body, and
by the time I got unwrapped, both Aggie (Gund) and Anne were there in the
audience laughing.
«Welcome to the play,
by the way,» it says at one point, taking a break from its free - flowing thoughts and earning
laughs from the
audience.
Skills Ability to create different believable facial expressions and accents; capture the
audience by making them
laugh, cry and become excited, shocked and scared; narrate or do voice - overs for video games, animation, advertisements, audio books and other similar work.
These films are designed to make the
audience laugh through amusement and most often work
by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect.
Things that you find beautiful or make you
laugh will likely also be appreciated
by your
audience.