Sentence examples similar to based on a laugh from inspiring English sources

"Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense.

"Enter Laughing" is based on a semiautobiographical novel by Carl Reiner that was adapted (first as a hit play, then a screenplay, then the musical originally called "So Long, 174th Street") by Joseph Stein.

Just the year before, he had won glowing reviews for "Enter Laughing," a comedy, based on a book by Carl Reiner, about a Jewish boy who wants to become an actor.

I asked Stout if Sterling Rochambeau was based on a man Stout had known, and she laughed.

Other notable ventures of his early career included "Enter Laughing," Joseph Stein's comedy based on a memoirish novel by Carl Reiner, which played 419 performances in 1963 and 1964 and propelled Alan Arkin to fame; and Joseph Heller's satire "We Bombed in New Haven" in 1968.

WE all laughed when Disney decided to make a film based on a theme-park ride.

The dream, he wrote, was based on a "real conversation" with an anonymous Labour MP who, he said, was laughing hysterically about Ed Miliband.

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