Sentence examples for sustained laugh from inspiring English sources
Having appropriated, however temporarily, the slogan of the Fox News Network, Mr. Allan then treated himself to a sustained laugh.
A scene in "One Man, Two Guvnors," in which an octogenarian waiter teeters at the top of a staircase and then plummets down it, got the longest sustained laugh I've heard in forty years of theatre-going.
But for sheer sustained laughs Seinfeld is unbeatable.
Ambitious comedy writers are flocking to animation because, as a process and an art form, it seems especially amenable to building and sustaining laughs.
Charles Busch has long been the reigning king (queen?) of camp, but his new play, The Tribute Artist, mines deeper realms of gender identity while sustaining laughs through both acts.
Matt Roush of TV Guide said that he "got many more sustained belly laughs" out of the episode then he did with the aforementioned Philadelphia premiere.
For instance, the quip "That sh*t was in the Post" means little here but is the kind of outburst that triggers a sustained belly-laugh in the auditorium.
It's a long book, and the first pleasant surprise is that the author sustains the laughs throughout.
So if at 11 P.M. your $50 goes down the toilet on Theater Row, just how catastrophic is that considering the following: a few artists got paid; maybe a young playwright's faith was sustained; maybe you laughed and maybe you didn't, but in two and a half hours it was over; maybe you even had a decent snack at intermission and got out of the house and sat in the dark with strangers.
Not in the sense that he literally moves backwards ("I don't think that idea would have sustained itself," says Jones, laughing), but in a fantastical rearrangement of a human beings' memories.
