Happiness Quote by Thomas Lennon

Calling a comedy “humongous laughs” is less a review than a piece of showbiz body language: big, loose, unembarrassed enthusiasm. Thomas Lennon is an actor and comedy lifer, not a critic, and the phrasing carries that insider informality. “Humongous” is deliberately unprecise. It’s playground slang, the kind of word you use when you’re selling a feeling, not making an argument. That matters, because the intent here isn’t to evaluate Old School so much as to validate it as an experience you can trust with your Friday night.

“All the way through it” does extra work. Most studio comedies sag; the middle goes soft, the third act gets dutiful. Lennon’s line preemptively answers the complaint viewers have learned to bring. He’s promising consistency, not sophistication: a steady drip of punchlines, not one iconic scene and a lot of dead air.

The subtext is also about belonging. Old School sits in that early-2000s lane of raucous, male-bonding comedy that wanted to feel rebellious while still being mainstream. Saying it has nonstop laughs is a way of granting permission to enjoy something broad without apologizing for it. Coming from a working comedian-actor, it’s a nod to craft, too: laughter as the metric that counts, a professional’s endorsement that the movie clears the only bar that matters in that world.