Sentence examples for laugh a single from inspiring English sources
If a prestige streaming comedy has an all-star cast and rave critical reviews and you binge-watch the whole thing and don't laugh a single time, is something wrong with you, or with every critic who calls the show "painful, emotionally honest, hilarious, and perfect"?
He can break your heart and make you laugh within a single panel.
I cannot remember laughing at a single scene of his comedies, but here, for once, his chosen persona — the slurring and disconnected goofball — makes sense, although I still think of him as an oddly hollow presence on which to build a movie.
Again, not a single laugh.
Once in Wolverhampton, he said, he did 12 shows without a single laugh.
In the 79 minutes that follow, I fail to raise a single laugh out of him.
(I defy anyone to find a single laugh in this harrowing tale of a bourgeois Austrian family terrorised by two sadistic youths).
There were disastrous nights when the compere couldn't get his name right – "ladies and gentlemen, Omad Darjeeling!" — and where he didn't get a single laugh.
Jacobson got a lot more laughs, and some tears – appropriately enough, for on the video he had defined his aim as trying to make his readers "laugh and cry with a single sentence".
All were rich with dark comic potential, and yet Brand - a man apparently made entirely from bendy pipe-cleaners, soot and swearwords – failed to eke a single laugh from any of them, resorting instead to a barrage of "funny" voices and, if that didn't work, baring his gums at us, like a horse.
