In Be All You Can Be, Butt-head states that Beavis's dad was in the Navy and told the Army recruiter that Beavis's dad was " a seaman "-although this could have been a joke designed to allow Butt-head to use the word " semen ".

( Beavis's shirt in trademark posters, T shirts and other merchandise reads " Death Rock.

Beavis's family is occasionally mentioned but has never been seen in the show in person.

That ought to draw a laugh, Nicolas reasoned, as he stored the line away on the wax tape that was his mind.

Her laugh was hard.

Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.

I always felt the memory was present in both of them, stirring in their chests like a laugh or a growl, as eager as an animal to be out.

O'Banion's reply was a raucous laugh and a flat refusal.

I thought that was pretty humorous, but I didn't laugh.

It was Capp's finely tuned sense of the absurd, his ability to milk an outrageous situation for every laugh in it and then, impossibly, to squeeze even more laughs from it, that found such favor with the public ," ( from Don Markstein's Toonopedia ).

The Capp-Saunders " feud " fooled both editors and readers, generated plenty of free publicity for both strips — and Capp and Saunders had a good laugh when all was revealed.

( The VHS version of the 1980s, sharing the removal of the Scarecrow's laugh from Terry Gilkyson's title song, was expanded to include the story material from all three TV episodes, while retaining feature film structure and credits ; it was available for a relatively short amount of time.

" When she was very young, Dena did not like seeing her father perform because she did not understand that people were supposed to laugh at what he did.

For example, the sentence " the film was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the film " or as " the film made me laugh ".

The absence of a similar precaution in construction of his Mosè in Egitto led to disaster in the scene depicting the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, when the defects in stage contrivance always raised a laugh, so that the composer was at length compelled to introduce the chorus " Dal tuo stellato soglio " to divert attention from the dividing waves.

Later in life, Groucho would sometimes note to talk-show hosts, not entirely jokingly, that he was unable to actually insult anyone, because the target of his comment assumed it was a Groucho-esque joke and would laugh.

Only musical performances were taped with a live audience ; a laugh track was added to all other segments.

Isaac (;, Yiçḥaq, " he will laugh ";, ;, ; ; or ) as described in the Hebrew Bible, was the only son Abraham had with his wife Sarah, and was the father of Jacob and Esau.

Next two young patrician Luperci were led to the altar, to be anointed on their foreheads with the sacrificial blood, which was wiped off the bloody knife with wool soaked in milk, after which they were expected to smile and laugh.

Browne was fascinated by the world of dreams and described his own ability to lucid dream in his Religio Medici: "... yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof ".

In 1978, she graduated from Van Nuys High School and was voted girl with the funniest laugh.

He was known for his trademark " dirty laugh " and lascivious persona.

His trademark " dirty laugh " was often used and became, along with a world-weary " Cor, blimey!

Although allegedly based on an acorn woodpecker, Woody shares many characteristics in common with the pileated woodpecker in terms of both physical appearance as well as his characteristic laugh, which resembles the call of the pileated woodpecker.

The first special, subtitled " The Challenge ", was loosely based on the Super Friends and the 1960s Batman series ( played for laughs, but this time, including a laugh track ) and included several other DC characters who replaced Samurai, Black Vulcan, and Apache Chief: Black Canary, the E-2 Huntress Helena Wayne ( a new DC character, gathering her own following in All-Star and Adventure Comics JSA runs as a JSA member ), and Shazam!

Some examples include Kiriko Isono, who debuted as part of a singing trio and made a name for herself based on a rapid wit and willingness to put herself down for a laugh ; Mari Yaguchi, the third leader of Morning Musume who left the group in 2005 due to a scandal but has continued to appear on variety shows and Japanese television drama since leaving ; the late Ai Iijima, a former porn starlet ; and Yuusuke Santamaria, who fronted several bands before moving into acting and being a tarento.

Di Bona's first two television series creations were spawned from two Japanese programs, and at the insistence of his then-wife Gina: the ABC series Animal Crack-Ups, was based on a popular Japanese game show called Waku Waku ; Gina watched a story featured on CBS News about the show, which aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System, the story featured a frilled lizard, which made Gina laugh and at her insistence, Vin looked into developing a series based on Waku Waku.

The `` places '' could be anywhere, the idiosyncrasies and foibles observed there could be anybody's, and the laugh is on us all.

In 1997, Dan Tobin of The Boston Phoenix commented on the series ' humor, stating that it transformed " stupidity into a crusade, forcing us to acknowledge how little it really takes to make us laugh.

Mike detests his act but is required to laugh uproariously and compliment it on air every week.

In a 2002 interview with Michael Parkinson, John Cleese said that when he and Palin were performing the sketch on Drury Lane, Palin made him laugh by saying, when asked if his slug could talk, " It mutters a bit " instead of " Not really.

When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits ( identified as " black soots " in early subtitles and " soot sprites " in the later English dubbed version ) leave the house to drift away on the wind.

Other types of slang include SMS language used on mobile phones, and " chatspeak ," ( e. g., " LOL ", an acronym meaning " laughing out loud " or " laugh out loud " or ROFL, " rolling on the floor laughing "), which is widely used in instant messaging on the Internet.

Castiglione declined to imitate Boccaccio and write in Tuscan Italian, as was customary at the time ; instead he wrote in the Italian used in his native Lombardy ( he was born near Mantua ): as the Count says, “ certainly it would require a great deal of effort on my part if in these discussions of ours I wished to use those old Tuscan words which the Tuscans of today have discarded ; and what ’ s more I ’ m sure you would all laugh at me ” ( Courtier 70 ).

American television personality Steve Allen went on record in the mid-1980s saying " though they never achieved widespread critical acclaim, they achieved exactly what they had always intended to do: they made people laugh.

Some last laugh sequences featured other Muppets on the balcony.

Moore was famous for " corpsing " — the programmes often went on live, and Cook would deliberately make him laugh in order to get an even bigger reaction from the studio audience.

At school, David developed a defence against bullies by making them laugh: and took on the lead role in the school play, when the boy playing it developed measles.

In his concession speech on election night, Stevenson quoted a story told by Abraham Lincoln to describe how he felt: " it hurts too much to laugh, but I'm too old to cry.

The director was famous for " laugh machines " and hilarious farces, while Willis was known as " the prince of darkness " for work on dramatic films like The Godfather.

He transformed something you'd just written-what you hoped was in a Frankie Howerd idiom-but when you heard him do it, my God, it was something else ;-it was gossiping over the garden wall, the apparent waffle-he was like a tightrope walker, you thought he's going to fall off in a minute, you thought, ' Come on, Frank ', we're waiting for a laugh, and then, suddenly, Bang.

Anthony Burgess has praised the book as " a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page.

Slowly the book's critical capital began to rise to the point that, in 1957, Northrop Frye described Finnegans Wake as the “ chief ironic epic of our time ” and Anthony Burgess lauded the book as " a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page.

A further experiment on NBC television called Television Parts was not successful, due to network meddling ( notably an intrusive laugh track and corny gags ).

) Kovacs also had a short stint as a celebrity panelist on What's My Line ?, but took his responsibilities less than seriously, often eschewing a legitimate question for the sake of a laugh.

He is an eccentric individual with a high-pitched laugh and a grandiose wit which he uses on the castle's less intelligent inhabitants.