barrel of laughs meaning

• Noun: barrel of laughs
  1. Something or someone entertaining and light-hearted
     "As you might imagine, the memoirs of the great war photographer are scarcely a barrel of laughs"

• for laughs:    [American slang]ad ...
• barrel:    Noun: barrel  ...
• barrel in:    [American slang]Fi ...

Examples

1. they re a barrel of laughs
2. mike : daniel, what a barrel of laughs you are ! what's there to do in melbourne
3. These guys are no barrel of laughs on the job.
4. That wouldn't be a barrel of laughs either.
5. But it wasn't a barrel of laughs the night it happened.