Sentence examples for hilarious effect from inspiring English sources

Mr. Carlin lingers, to hilarious effect, on Mr. Springsteen's poor diet as a young musician.

He was outraged, but decided to incorporate the moment into the episode, to hilarious effect.

Specktor knits real people into the fictional narrative, often to hilarious effect.

Sam Yates's production is played admirably straight, to frequently hilarious effect.

What "Strange Interlude" does instead is allow its participants to sustain a running commentary on themselves, sometimes to hilarious effect.

All these scenes are enacted onstage by people under 10 -- well, young adults playing people under 10 -- to hilarious effect.

Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) contrasts industrial ingenuity with feudal romance, to darkly hilarious effect.

And what she has done, particularly in recent years, is play off of and against that — to hilarious effect.

Gold said that Liz's unsuccessful attempts of seduction were "hilarious effects".

Jong-Fast's fondness for put-downs infuses her descriptive powers to more felicitous -- and occasionally hilarious -- effect.

The scene has previously been pastiched in Geri Halliwell's It's Raining Men video and then – to hilarious comic effect – by Robert Webb.