Sentences with phrase «of audiences laugh»

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?

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.

«We want to build more technology so that it gets the best of humanity and not the worst,» Nadella said as the audience of coders laughed.

TAMPA — Standing in front of an audience of several thousand scientists, data wonks, geospatial intelligence analysts and other big thinkers, Army Gen. Tony Thomas drew some laughs when he talked about the time he felt the urge to toss Google CEO Eri...

Luckily, a lot of you are so obscure you're not that busy (audience laughs).

(The Amazon reviews and the response of audiences when I give presentations suggest most readers have not needed clarification; they seem to know when to laugh.)

He is pleased when the audience laughs at some of his drinking escapades.

Up on a stage are the contestants, other gay men carry crosses, and exhibiting their naked bodies in the contest, before an audience of thousands who are laughing and cheering.

In terms of style, not only had the tent and stadium disappeared from the 700 Club, but the program «s elements were almost indistinguishable from those of the «Tonight Show,» with a genial host (Robertson), a foil with whom the host can banter (Ben Kinchlow, who now has become a «co-host»), guests lounging around a coffee table, musical breaks with cut - aways to commercials (for mission projects and CBN membership) and a «studio audience» to applaud and laugh.

I think his audience was laughing at his depiction of the «limp wrist» rather than what he claimed to be the «joke.»

The audience laughed as he began to fall apart before our eyes ¯ and quickly sobered as we realized that his pride is no more ridiculous or ugly than the self - delusion and the longing of many of the play's other characters.

We laugh, but it is the pained laughter of a Samuel Beckett audience.

Their shenanigans will have the whole audience laughing, and the show also contains an important lesson about the essence of Hannukah.

He loves to be the center of attention, knows how to perform innately, and keeps the entire audience laughing at his antics during choir performances.

Guests listened while Ms. Lauren shared her pathway to foster, adoption through Five Acres programs and told anecdotal stories (that garnered lots of laughs from the audience) and offered advice for people thinking about fostering or foster adoption.

The audience clapped and laughed in all the right places but it had to be squeezed out of them at times.

While Thomas's enthusiasm means the show rattles along at a rate of knots, and occasionally provides some decent laughs, there remains a sense that the audience are roaring out their anger over the expenses issue rather than fi nding it a source of comedy.

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.

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.

She got a laugh from her audience at the Thursday Morning Roundtable, a weekly symposium sponsored by University College, a division of Syracuse University.

«Whoever comes out of the primary I'm voting twice for that person in November,» he said to laughs and applause from the audience.

But these comedians managed to mix urgent political messages of the liberal left with crafty, irreverent punch - lines that had their audience laughing, often guiltily, at their riffs on the welfare state, immigration and Communist granola.

Come and visit us more often, and bring the shadow cabinet, in particular Liam Fox and Alan Duncan, who despite the prejudice towards the Tories of the QT audience managed to gain a few appreciative laughs.

The audience laughed again when he talked about research into what causes couples to stay together, relevant in light of the story of his biological parents.

The audience laughed at that — and also as he recounted his mother's deadpan response when he asked her how she wound up with six children, all but two of whom have different fathers: «It was the 1960s and people were having a lot of sex.»

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

Svante Pääbo got the biggest laugh of the day from the audience.

Was laughing with audience in the break about what @charliepick signed at the end of every show!

Whether you prefer splashing in the Pacific or hiking the Hollywood hills, window - shopping on Rodeo Drive or belly - laughing in a live studio audience, there is simply no shortage of Los Angeles date ideas.

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.»

As well as bringing audiences a fun, joyous film full of great laughs and seriously impressive effects, Waititi also appears in the film as CGI character, Korg.

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.

I'm not sure what kind of audience would really laugh at some of the stuff they do, but I guess there's a crowd for everything.

► An ogre stands nude in front of a commencement ceremony (in a nightmare) and the audience points and laughs (we see his bare back and chest).

Yet, somehow, those now all too familiar characters can still squeeze a belly - laugh or three out of any theatre audience.

Whenever a vaudeville comic of the 1920s wanted to get a quick laugh, he'd announce to his audience «Next Week: East Lynne.»

Tommy Wiseau in 2003 directed, produced, wrote and stars in «The Room,» amid the howls of audiences, a movie that evoked all - out belly - laughing tremors.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

Following an unlikely appearance as a football player in The Replacements (2000) and a turn as the son of Old Scratch in Little Nicky (2000), Ifans» role as a socially challenged forest dweller turned opera - loving socialite in the eccentric Human Nature provided audiences with abundant laughs and a further glimpse into the quirkiness of a truly unique actor.Of course the ever - eccentric Ifans was only warming up, and after supporting roles in such efforts as The 51st State, The Shipping News and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Ifans once again took the lead in the 2003 comedy Donnie Deckchair.

It was filmed without a live audience, yet the laugh track was actually a recording of an audiences» reactions while watching the episode, to give the illusion of a live audience.

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.

And to add injury to insult, the audience at the screening I attended were laughing through the majority of the film — and rightfully so.

Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.

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.

What's most wonderful is that this Michael Ritchie film not only paints a ruthless picture of a vapid «Young American Miss» pageant, steadily refusing to grant the audience any note of reassuring sentimentality, but that its gags are often laugh - out - loud funny (particularly during the talent competition).

Though Punchline defies the Hollywood penchant for producing either pure comedy or straight drama, its view of those with the guts to stand before an audience and dare them to laugh is oddly uplifting.

To the enormous credit of these preternaturally clever writer - directors, the above paragraph contains more low - hanging Lego puns than the movie itself, which relies on ingenuity and genuinely inspired twists on what audiences expect from such an experience to deliver a constant stream of engagement and laughs.