You've got to make the audience laugh, without frightening the younger children - mind you, given the stuff they watch on TV these days, it's pretty hard to frighten them.
Allen disagrees with the argument that silent comedy was harder to do because the comedians had to get laughs without the benefit of sound.
With her wrinkled amiability, she reminded me of the comedian George Burns (who once played God); and her only otherworldly quality was that whenever I saw her she made me feel like laughing, without the material explanation of a punch line..
With her wrinkled amiability, she reminded me of the comedian George Burns (who once played God); and her only otherworldly quality was that whenever I saw her she made me feel like laughing, without the material explanation of a punch line...
Oftentimes, comedic writers will write "pause for laughter" to give the audience the chance to laugh without missing any of the scene.
Ms. Meier acts as eccentric drill sergeant, calling out commands to a game group of performers who are told to do such things as build igloos from sugar cubes, "shrivel" and make their partners laugh without going for the obvious.
Alan Bennett-style provincial bathos, Noël Coward-style songwriting (there's an indelible ditty about the delights of the English south) and David Tennant looks combine in this delightful package, which made me laugh and laugh without stinting on the emotional significance of a story about loving yet leaving home.
Can I write a film where Arabs, Jews and the rest of the world all laugh without having to think about the past wars and violence attached to these two religions?
Doug was one of those people who would laugh without even having heard the joke, only to please, to signal his harmony with the group.
Auto-Tune can produce a controlled version of losing control, hinting at various histrionic stations of the human voice — crying, sighing, laughing — without troubling the singer.
