" In particular, Shaffer would recall vividly one specific audience member, " an enormously fat man in front of me, who hadn ’ t laughed once, he was the only man in the theatre, I think, who wasn ’ t laughing, and I decided that if he disliked it, it was a failure -- I didn ’ t know who he was, just that he was in my eye line, and if he liked it it was a success, you know how rational one can be — suddenly laughed like ... a volcano about to erupt, and he fell in the aisle and began to crawl towards the stage ... sobbing with laughter — and calling out to the actors — this was on the first night — crawling down among the knees of the critics and all that saying, “ Oh stop it, please stop it, please stop it!

" According to McNeil: " After four years of doing Punk magazine, and basically getting laughed at, suddenly everything was " punk ," so I quit the magazine.

She knew she was feeling afraid and inwardly laughed at herself.

You laughed and then your chest swelled and you felt you could cry for a little bit, and then a feeling hit you like a chill in your stomach and the goose bumps rippled along your arm.

During the evening, Lewis, feeling belligerent after consuming several glasses of port, insisted upon reading the poem aloud, while Campbell laughed off the provocation.

" When the Chiefs scored on the play, Stram laughed while yelling to his players on the bench, " Ha ha, 65 toss power trap!

Although some laughed at his faulty Latin, his wealth, social position and power obliged people to respect him.

She had earlier threatened Stephenson, saying, “ The law will get their hands on you !” He laughed and replied, “ I am the law in Indiana .” Stephenson's Klan connections gave him tremendous political power.

He was a reckless defiler of the public mind ; a profligate, he cared not how many were to be undone when he drew back the curtain of his profligacy ; he had infected his reason with the insolent belief that the power to corrupt made the right, and that conscience might be laughed, so long as he could evade law.

Beware of that man in power who has no sense of humor .” Kaltenborn laughed at himself as everyone else laughed with him.

Worst and most cutting of all for Laura was when she beseeched him, " But you made love to me " and David laughed, telling her he " had a hard time keeping a straight face during that ", and said that Lesley was the one who really attracted him.

He may be the only politician to be remembered for telling the truth and being laughed at for it.

There he joked at the slave woman telling her that the organ would not be dull between her legs, whereupon the slave woman laughed.

Walsingham found the King unable to take his complaints seriously, and he laughed at Walsingham, " falling into a distemperture ", telling him that he was an " absolute King " and would order his subjects as he would " best lyke himself.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

She made a face at him and then she laughed.

She skipped a piece of water at him and laughed, a funny, hoarse laugh he liked to hear.

When the ambassadors of the Senate, entreating for peace, tried to intimidate him with hints of what the despairing citizens might accomplish, he laughed and gave his celebrated answer: " The thicker the hay, the easier mowed!

" Solon laughed and accepted him as his friend.

While he was attending McGill, a girlfriend laughed at his ineptness at the game of bridge, motivating him to immerse himself in a study of existing bridge materials.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

When Falk asked him why he wanted it reshot, " he laughed and said that he loved the scene so much he just wanted to see us do it again.

He was laughed at by the council, and the planet began to break apart sooner than he expected anyway, leaving him only with a small test rocket, in which he and Lara placed Kal-El and his red-and-blue blankets.

Prior to Achilles ' entrance, Penthesilea had tried to fight Telamonian Ajax but he had merely laughed off her attempts, thinking her unfit to face him.

Odysseus then stood up, delivered a sharp rebuke to Thersites, which he coupled with a threat to strip him naked, and then beat him on the back and shoulders with Agamemnon's sceptre ; Thersites doubled over, a warm tear fell from his eye, and a bloody welt formed on his back ; he sat down in fear, and in pain gazed helplessly as he wiped away his tear ; but the rest of the assembly was distressed and laughed.

It is alleged that she was formerly Herodias, and she admits that she laughed at Jesus on his route to the Crucifixion, and is now condemned to wander until she meets with him again ( cf.

Singer Tom Waits claimed he cried upon viewing it and Eddie Van Halen has said that when he first saw the film, everyone else in the room with him laughed as he failed to see the humor in the film.

Chandra laughed at this, at which Ganesha injured him by breaking off and throwing one of his tusks ; and cursed him so that it would be forbidden to behold Chandra on Ganesh Chaturthi.

As the final narration states, " Many laughed to see this alteration in him, but he let them laugh and little heeded them, for he knew that no good thing in this world ever happened, at which some did not have their fill of laughter.

His own heart laughed and that was quite enough for him.

He unsuccessfully applied for several jobs, including a car wash, where the manager laughed at him.

One day, as Ōishi returned drunk from some haunt, he fell down in the street and went to sleep, and all the passers-by laughed at him.

His devotees referred to him as His Holiness, and because he often laughed in TV interviews he was sometimes referred to as the " giggling guru ".

She did not give him many notes ; she would tick all of the places where she laughed, and then he revised the script accordingly.

Recognizing the awkward ruse to which I'd resorted, he laughed openly and walked over to me and said, ' You win, Sis.

His real name was Pelasgus, the name / Gelanōr / is a literary devise meaning ' laughter ': he was so called because he had initially laughed at the claim to kingship over Argōs by Danaos.

In the year 710, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang had his chief ministers, sons-in-law, and military officers engage in a game of tug of war, and purportedly laughed when the oldest ministers fell over.

Kim's outfit became even more controversial later when she appeared on stage with Mary J. Blige and Diana Ross to present the Best Hip-Hop Video award, and Ross reached over, cupped her hand under Kim's exposed breast and jiggled it while Kim laughed.

In an episode that took place in the first season, Dr. Claw was depicted laughing over a triumph, and MAD Cat, in typical " copycat " manner, laughed along with him.

The irony of the situation wasn't lost on Linus, who laughed himself silly over his sister's scheme being defeated, thus causing her to lose her temper and tie his blanket over his mouth.

Drona laughed, and mildly rebuked the princes for being helpless over such a plain problem.

They poured a bucket of water over him in their apartments and he was laughed at by them and two members of the Pakistani team who happened to witness the event.

" Altimus reported that Richey, as he looked over the fire damage, drank a beer, laughed, and said, " It looks like I did a helluva good job, don't it.

O, confound my stupid head, I shall be laughed at over the whole town.

O ' Neal laughed when he looked over to the Spurs bench and saw Popovich smiling while giving two thumbs up, further asserting that it was a joke.

All three were closed by Lord Leigh over 100 years ago, after his daughter was laughed at by drunks when she was going to church on a tricycle.

" Fellow students reported that the teacher had laughed and shrugged when the girl cried over what he said.