Sentence examples for mostly for laughs from inspiring English sources

Colbert, meanwhile, played his hyperbolic satire mostly for laughs.

Although the story ends in tragedy, the director, Aleksey Burago, has his cast play mostly for laughs, especially the wife, who declaims like a fishwife.

Back in the '80s, when the undervalued genius Paul Reubens began mining cultural anxiety about manhood, he played it mostly for laughs.

The self-referential business is played mostly for laughs – overplayed, at times – but comedy affords Buffini the latitude she needs to get close to this most intriguing double act.

The protracted episode in which Beard travels with a group of scientists, artists and green activists to the Arctic, played mostly for laughs – he pisses outside and his penis freezes; he is menaced by a polar bear – is laboriously over-described.

They're mostly for laughs or political commentary, or they're simply absurd.

Alongside the obvious topicality, The Aliens is mostly played for laughs and the first episode was reliably funny.

It's mostly played for laughs and tears, and gets mushy towards the end, but it's refreshing in its defence of values now considered "alternative".

But there are a couple characters whose differences seem mostly just for laughs.

Two of the antagonists are a gay couple — something that's mostly played for laughs.

The scene is mostly played for laughs, but it also leads to a feminist awakening in Anna.