Sentences with phrase «making audiences laugh»

Their insights into the process and psychology of making audiences laugh offer a rare glimpse behind the mic — but it's also proof, via hilarious tales of dealing with hecklers, that some people can't help being funny.

Rewind nearly two decades to writers Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein making audiences laugh with their transformative 1999 comedy

These new comedic species are not only making their audiences laugh with smart...

Writing and travelling are Kristine's passions, and she can also be seen onstage occasionally making audiences laugh at The Austin Bat Cave Story Department.

Making an audience laugh in the aisles while smuggling in deep political points is not as easy as it seems, and In The Loop's outrage at the events which led to the Iraq war shine through every minute of the film's running time.

[This makes the audience laugh.]

How often, and hard, these two can make an audience laugh.

He makes the audience laugh in one scene and in the next he makes you get a lump in your throat.

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.

Taika Waititi, the director of the film, leaves no opportunity to make his audience laugh.

Still, there is a difference between trying to make audiences laugh by saying the unexpected out loud and those unexpected things actually being funny.

Jackson also gives an extremely funny performance, calculated to make the audience laugh and then feel uneasy about how willingly they respond to his over-the-top delivery.

While The Happening never actually reached the level of atrocity that was Last Airbender, a horror film that continuously makes the audience laugh their asses off is never a good sign.

The best way to release tension on film is by making the audience laugh.

They still manage to find a few moments to make the audience laugh, but it was quite noticeable to me that most of the film I was only wearing a mild smirk.

I felt the writers were focusing most on making the audience laugh instead of keeping the story real, to go beyond the gags.

Their performances have made audiences laugh for years and it's no different here.

My requirement for a comedy is that it makes the audience laugh and that was certainly the case when I went to watch this film at the theater.

But as dark or twisted as the film gets, it never forgets to make the audience laugh.

It delves into the inspired and damaged psyches that inhabit the complex business of making an audience laugh.

Obviously, the more serious overtones of Smith's last two efforts, Amy and Dogma, are nowhere to be found in Strike Back, and don't come in looking for some innovations in plotting, either; the film is simply a road / chase comedy that wants nothing more than to make the audience laugh.

Wiig, McCarthy, Jones, and McKinnon have all demonstrated the ability to make audiences laugh on multiple occasions, but are about as far from action stars as one could imagine.

For better or for worse, SNL has consistently tried to make audiences laugh with movie versions of their favorite sketches.

The film tries to be funny (and don't get me wrong, it is pretty funny), but sometimes, the jokes come across as hollow, because the writers are 50 % trying to make the audience laugh, but 50 % trying to get some naked ladies onto the screen.

Thankfully, Stoller and his screenwriters never get sentimental about any of this, remembering that their first responsibility is to make the audience laugh.

From physical comedy (along side Will Ferrell) as the Cheerleader, Arianna, to impressions of Barbara Walters and Judge Judy, to wacky characters like Rita Del Vecchio, Nadeen or prescription drug junkie Collette Reardon, Cheri made audiences laugh so hard they often needed time to «Simma Down.»

A batch of familiar faces returned to make audiences laugh in 2008.

Director Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) seems to have assumed that the subject matter is enough to make the audience laugh, and he's wrong.

As a team, Garner and Taymor had the ability to surprise, entertain and make the audience laugh.

One of «Song for Marion's producers, Ken Marshall, has described the film as hilarious, and hopes it will make audiences laugh and cry.

Plays that made the audiences laugh and not feel uncomfortable with any issues, language or themes.

Dennis's challenge is to make his audience laugh and he's a master at it.

The Monthy Python-esque plots of each episode can seem familiar to those found in mainstream television sitcoms, but instead of trying to make the audience laugh Mellors unpicks the familiar comedic methods these programmes rely on.

(Make the audience laugh; it'll tell you if they are still awake.)

This made the audience laugh.

The Theater professional has to make the audience laugh and cry to get fame.

These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect.

Not exact matches

Within the span of 20 seconds, which you can see in the video excerpt below, he gets the audience to answer a question, makes them laugh, and then suddenly brings them into somber territory.

The director may have intended to draw the audience into complicity with the lovers» selfishness — and in fact, I was surprised at how long it took for the audience to stop laughing at Ernest, to lose their edgy sympathy for the lovers — but the ultimate effect was simply to make the lovers» erotic demands seem further from our own.

He has some of his audience laughing over names from other areas (used in alternate gospels) that would not make sense for alternate gospels, but that is not the only challenge against the Xtian gospels, right?

And this ingredient would make any laughter deeper without the audience's realizing how we were inducing belly laughs — we hoped.

Armed with a mixture of new ideas and old manifestos from places such as Cambridge and Leicester, Thomas reveals quite what makes jim and his audience laugh.

I suddenly discovered I got a massive rush from standing in front of an audience and making them laugh.

And I made the audience members laugh.

I've seen gross and dumb comedies that were well written and made me laugh, but somehow You Don't Mess with the Zohan shouldn't «Mess with the Audience» on this horrible movie.

An ambitious revue film with a two - pronged mission: making Western audiences laugh and exploring why Mideast audiences might not.

and wants couples whose arguments sometimes lead to «plates flying» (which draws a big laugh from the audience though if you or I said this there would be stony silence), to make peace before bedtime.

The Nutty Professor is just plain dumb fun, with not much more of a purpose than to get a rise out of the audience and make them laugh.

I think you make a valid point about those moments of humour, most of which did pull the audience out of the film for a self - aware laugh.

A light - hearted monster movie that offers up plenty of laughs, Lake Placid is still a really fun and well - made creature feature that doesn't ever treat its characters - or the audience - like morons.