Sentences with phrase «for easy laughs»

It shows a desire to create a smart comedy and not just go for the easy laughs.

While it might be good for an easy laugh, it just isn't true.

The humor should have been more whimsical, instead of trying so hard for the easy laugh.

And, of course, the title of the film itself is played for easy laughs when Darnell repeatedly asks James if he's hard.

With forced jokes and performances that go for increased zaniness without adequate material to take things to the next level first, Funny Money sinks into the comedy abyss due to spending too much time spinning its wheels in plot mechanics and desperate injections of trite shenanigans for easy laughs.

Pena fares better in his co-lead performance, but even he is hampered by having to force in dialogue that plays more for the easy laugh in the moment than as something this particular character might say on a day - to - day basis.

Comedian Woody Allen often goes for an easy laugh by inserting various outrageous statements into a parody, such as his takeoff on Kafka's Journals: «Getting through the night is becoming harder and harder.

You're already likely to have seen a brief glimpse of the caricature Mike Tyson plays of himself, but there's a lot more to his role than just a cameo done for an easy laugh, and he really brings a lot to the table.

A lesser actor would have glitzed up and camped up Rudy for easy laughs, but Cumming ---- witty, spontaneous, courageous, and moving — makes the character a mediocre drag queen performing in clubs because he lacks other options to survive.

If anything, West finds a way to work in even more, brutal action than the original, yet balancing that with the lighthearted camaraderie that makes for easy laughs and investment in characters whether it's Lee and Barney bickering like brothers or Toll Road and Caesar going back and forth like a married couple.

What's worse is that Dr. $'s music is incredibly tame by raunchy rap standards, so the creators couldn't even get any mileage out of the best chance for easy laughs.

But it is also funny — always searchingly and innovatively so, and never settling for an easy laugh.

Director Miguel Arteta, aiming for the easy laughs, overloads the film with them, missing more substantial opportunities, although he does get a few in like a high as a kite on cough syrup Emily coming out to perform on opening night or a cameo from Dick Van Dyke where he persists in doing a reading to a group of children, disastrous typo and all.

While others may laugh hearing meek - looking Kate mouth off profane comebacks, and in one scene, show off her goods at a cemetery, it made me wince at Payne's inability to push for easy laughs beyond the boundaries of the characterizations.

Except for that toilet, Sollett doesn't amp up his slender plot for easy laughs or fake suspense.

They could've played safe and used the usual otherworldly alien voice or gone for the easy laughs with an alien thesp but instead they play up to the alien's slacker qualities.

It is their own reputation that keeps them from being real filmmakers, as if they are afraid to not lean on the crutch of bad taste for easy laughs.

Not long ago, I offered up a retrospective review of the minor 1980s hit, Soul Man, in which I somewhat questioned the merit of the filmmakers for adopting this formula: exploit as many stereotypes against Black people for easy laughs, because in the end, it will go for affirmation of the ridiculousness of such stereotypes.

With a plot this anemic, it serves merely as a vehicle to showcase some bathroom humor and sexual shenanigans for easy laughs.

The scene could have been played for easy laughs, but Ayoade uses it to expose Oliver's palpable sense of alienation.

The screenplay by Michael Bacall (who also wrote the first film), Oren Uziel, and Rodney Rotham doesn't stop there; it doesn't just go for the easy laugh.

Comedies like this one appeal to the teenager inside all of us (myself included), and are good for easy laughs.

I'm all for the easy laugh myself but, I don't know, in my opinion giving birth is a sacred & beautiful right exclusive to women.

Although it certainly uses that template as a jumping - off point, «Dean» eventually settles into its own rhythm thanks to Martin's unique style, particularly the way in which he utilizes his simplistic drawings (often via split - screen) to illustrate Dean's current mood or just for an easy laugh.

They're thrown in for easy laughs but wind up flat.

In the course of the film, such things as the way Rosemary breaks every piece of furniture she happens to sit in, is ridiculed for wearing any revealing piece of clothing, and for Hal being shunned by his friends because they are embarrassed to be seen with a guy who has a fatty for a girlfriend are not only all played for easy laughs, but also treat people who may weigh 300 lbs.

But Turteltaub and Fogelman are too content to go for the easy laughs and rampant titillation of the «Sin Cty» atmosphere.

The first - time writer, Rebecca Blunt — this name might be another pseudonym for Soderbergh — never exploits it for easy laughs.