yucks up
Plays for laughs
To yuck something up is to exaggerate for comic effect, to play it broad and hammy: He yucked it up for the camera.
The phrase comes from yuck as laughter or a joke.
Someone who yucks it up is clowning around, being loud and boisterous, often performing for an audience: The talk show host yucked it up with the celebrity guests.
- chucklesSoft, subdued laughter
- guffawsLoud, coarse laughs
- overactsPerforms too dramatically
- dramatizesExaggerates for effect
- snickersSuppressed mocking laughs
yukking it up · giggles · pantomimes · banter · clowning around · jesting · exaggerates · parodies · teasing · embellishes · over the top · caricatures · mugs · cackles · smirks · ribbing · chortles · belly laughs
comedic treatment
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Delivers humor expressionlessly
underplays · tones down · plays down · downplays · holds back