The phrase "hysterical effect" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the intense or exaggerated impact that something has on someone. Example: The comedian's jokes had a hysterical effect on the audience, causing them to laugh uncontrollably.
Of course, the effect is hysterical.
The effect is hysterical, manic: one regular says "it's as if everyone is on something".
Perhaps his finest achievement is that in the course of the whole show, there's nothing you can actually identify as a joke, but the overall effect is hysterical.
Her sober account of the industrial history of the electric vibrator shows how it was invented by a doctor, Joseph Mortimer Granville, in the 1880's and was used exclusively by doctors as a sexual-medical device to better cure hysteria in women by effecting a "hysterical paroxysm".
There are moments that merit a perfect 10, but the cumulative effect is so hysterical it made me want to hide under my coat.
At times there's very little resembling a punchline, yet somehow when the whole thing comes off the effect is truly hysterical.
On this particular day, we were treated to an elephant taking a bath, complete with a showering rinse from her massive trunk and some hysterical toddler commentary to the effect of "where her towel at?" and "do mama elephants put pjs on?" Post-zoo, we met family and friends at a kid-friendly spot for an early dinner and birthday cake.
Whiteread's development, like Martin's, has nothing to do with sudden leaps, novel effects or an evermore hysterical, market-driven demand to entertain.
The next time industry officials forward hysterical predictions over the would-be effects of an FTT, ask yourself this: Are they crying for us or for themselves?
