Sentence examples for amusing setup from inspiring English sources
Too often, the pair default to a dull formula, whereby a joke peaks with its mildly amusing setup (Brits abroad miss their biscuits; why are no crimes other than murder re-enacted on activity weekends?) and is then demonstrated to death.
Using a bandanna/handkerchief instead is at least briefly amusing and requires only minimal setup typing".
By the end of the trip, the weird bathroom setup was more amusing than awkward.
Some of the scenes are sort of funny, a few of the songs are a bit catchy, and a couple of the setups are kind of amusing in "King Kong," a new musical that's enjoyable enough to watch though not really clever enough to admire.
More entertainingly, he woos a lady friend by serving up Tone Loc's ridiculous hit "Funky Cold Medina" with a large helping of butter, an amusing bit that, like most of the setups, is soon lost amid too much choreographed mayhem.
The director, Joel Coen, who wrote the screenplay with his brother Ethan, who was the producer, is inventive and amusing when it comes to highly composed camera setups or burying someone alive.
"One of the animators found a Manga comic book of Kimba's with a setup that kind of looked like Pride Rock, and I remember he was like showing it to us, and I was like, 'Wow, that is really close to ours, yeah.' But I think it was never more than an amusing coincidence," said Sito.
Mildly amusing and completely ridiculous, Angela's journey of self-discovery unfolds in TV-friendly frames and sitcom-stale setups.
Amusing video shows Ms. Barnes and Anna Bass hauling the curtain-and-frame set of Ms. Barnes's "Luster" down the West Side of Manhattan and into the theater, a setup that ensures applause when the two women appear in person.
