Serious, yes, but also much laughter.

The simple-minded comedy of Dogberry and Verges, also familiar in a day that responds easily to jokes skimmed off the top of writers' heads, evoked laughter.

Entertainment may also provide fun, enjoyment and laughter.

Entertainment – any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time, and may also provide fun, enjoyment and laughter.

Jameson says pastiche in the postmodern era has become a " dead language ", " devoid of laughter ", without any political or historical content, and so has also become unable to satirize in any effective way ..

This kind of improvised harmonizing they called a Quodlibet, and not only could laugh over it quite whole-heartedly themselves, but also aroused just as hearty and irresistible laughter in all who heard them.

The Shekinah manifests itself as a form of joy, connected with prophecy and creativity: Talmud Pesachim 117a ) The Talmud also reports that " The Shekinah does not rest amidst laziness, nor amidst laughter, nor amidst lightheadedness, nor amidst idle conversation.

It is also said that Calchas died of laughter when the day that was to be his death day arrived and the prediction didn't seem to materialize.

The most successful television situation comedy also to be a black comedy is M * A * S * H, which, like the film version of M * A * S * H that had inspired it, treated the Korean War as a subject of black comedy ; it deliberately kept recorded laughter out of the operating room sequences, and many of the episodes described the absurdity of many combat situations, even in sequences where the characters were weathering hostile fire.

( Genesis 21: 4 ) For Sarah, the thought of giving birth and nursing a child, at such an old age, also brought her much laughter, as she declared, " God hath made me to laugh.

" He also drew laughter by recounting another plan where Meredith would go to Jackson to enroll while Barnett remained in Oxford, " and when Meredith was registered, he ( Barnett ) would feign surprise.

It has also been suggested that people may enjoy tickling because it elicits laughter.

His laugh also changed from maniacal laughter to a more triumphant, stereotypical Dracula-style laugh.

A laugh track ( also canned laughter, laughter track, fake laughter ) is a separate soundtrack with the artificial sound of audience laughter, made to be inserted into television programming of comedy shows.

Animated shows, such as The Simpsons, Futurama, King of the Hill, South Park, American Dad !, and Family Guy, and even daytime cartoons such as SpongeBob SquarePants and What's New, Scooby-Doo ?, have also gone silent, except on the very rare occasion that canned laughter is used comically for a single joke, usually as a parody of a sitcom.

Mel Brooks ( whose Young Frankenstein ran for 14 months there ) made a different complaint about the theatre's acoustics, stating that its size also makes it difficult for performers to hear the laughter of the audience.

By no means must he yield to loud laughter ..." Not only did Pulcheria train her brother on the duties and customs of becoming an Emperor, but she also made sure Theodosius was trained to be a pious Christian leader.

Children may also be affected by giggle incontinence, an involuntary response to laughter.

This is generally a light-hearted, convivial event, but is also sometimes used to settle serious duels between warring families or individuals ; the jokes are prepared ahead of time and the person who evokes the most laughter from the audience is considered the victor.

Jealousy of her friendship with Lord Hervey has also been alleged, but Lady Louisa Stuart says Pope had made Lady Mary a declaration of love, which she had received with an outburst of laughter.

Italian comedian Daniele Luttazzi discussed gallows humor focusing on the particular type of laughter that it arouses ( risata verde or groen lachen ), and said that grotesque satire, as opposed to ironic satire, is the one that most often arouses this kind of laughter.

Throughout Ms. Potter's Orlando, as in Woolf's, there a piercing kind of common sense and a joy that, because they are so rare these days in any medium, create their own kind of cinematic suspense and delightedly surprised laughter.

Deep laughter, hot assent, a kind of joyous fervor seemed to sweep the audience toward the stage.

That is real art, but my kind of talent would lead me to bounce that padded baby up and down on my knee with absurd grimaces that would make the same 900 roar with laughter .< p >

It went right on creaking under his own considerable weight, and all it needed, Harold thought, was for somebody to fling himself back in a fit of laughter and that would be the end of it.

If for instance there had been a wire walker the reprise would involve two chairs with a piece of rope between and the clown trying to imitate the artiste by trying to walk between them with the resulting falls and cascades bringing laughter from the audience.

Exploiting his androgynous appearance, the original cover of the UK version unveiled two months later would depict the singer wearing a dress: taking the garment with him, he wore it during interviews — to the approval of critics, including Rolling Stones John Mendelsohn who described him as " ravishing, almost disconcertingly reminiscent of Lauren Bacall "— and in the street, to mixed reaction including laughter and, in the case of one male pedestrian, producing a gun and telling Bowie to " kiss my ass ".

The " PFFT " would be done as " blowing a raspberry ", and occasionally, they would break up into laughter after the " PFFT ", unable to finish the song ( Who got spat upon during the " PFFT " would change each show.

A struggle between laughter for laughter ’ s sake and entertainment with a clear ideological message would define the golden age of the Soviet musical of the 1930s and 1940s.

Cleese had never performed Shakespeare before, and was not a fan of the first two seasons of the BBC Television Shakespeare, and took some persuading from Miller that the BBC Shrew would not be, as Cleese feared " about a lot of furniture being knocked over, a lot of wine being spilled, a lot of thighs being slapped and a lot of unmotivated laughter.

Clarke has stated that the inspiration for Fred Dagg came primarily from his uncles who would talk in such a way, using intonation and speech rhythm, to cause laughter without the standard telling of jokes.

The show would usually open the 29-and-a-half minute broadcast with the audience in full laughter with Harlow Wilcox announcing, " The Johnson Wax Program with Fibber McGee and Molly!

Also, the audience's laughter decreased if a scene was shot multiple times ; in these cases the laughter from an earlier take would be used.

Familiar with the play, Booth chose this moment in the hope that the sound of the audience's laughter would mask the sound of his gunshot.

Connolly ’ s time with Rafferty possibly influenced his future comedy as years later he would recall how Rafferty ’ s expert prank telephone calls, made while waiting to go on stage, used to make him " scream " with laughter.

Unlike Hanna-Barbera, though, the chuckles were nothing but loud eruptions of laughter ; mild jokes received unnatural bouts of laughter, while other times, the laughter would erupt mid-sentence.

" Well, Einstein laughed, quite a hearty laugh ; he rumbled in laughter I think would be an appropriate way to describe it.

Having been unconditionally known and accepted simply by his moniker of " Lucky Eddie ," no one of Hägar's entourage, not even Hägar himself, ever knew Lucky Eddie's " real " name until around the late-1990s & early-2000s, when he was asked directly ( by Hägar himself on both separate occasions ) to share his true name: during the first inquiry Eddie squawked out an unpronounceable screed which left him raw-throated and winded ; during the second inquiry, in which Eddie asked for Hägar's assurance that this revelation would be kept " in confidence ," Eddie whispers his " real " name into Hägar's ear, upon hearing which Hägar accidentally blurts out what was shared with him in secret in a fit of uncontrollable laughter, thus inadvertently revealing that Lucky Eddie's real name is " Fortuitous Eduardo.

Many of the villages felt that the frightening laughter of the jangseungs would frighten away the demons because the jangseungs have no fear.

Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

* In co-counselling, the ways in which pent-up emotional hurt can be released, e. g. via crying, laughter, etc.

In the matrix, Case hears inhuman laughter, a trait associated with Pauley during Case's work with his ROM construct, thus suggesting that Pauley was not erased after all, but instead worked out a side deal with Wintermute / Neuromancer to be freed from the construct so he could exist in the matrix.

George Bernard Shaw, for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that comedy should touch as well as amuse, " I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter.

" The periodical The Freethinker ( founded in 1881 by George Foote ) argued, like Paine, that the " absurdities of faith " could be " slain with laughter ".

Williams could be heard every week cackling off-stage at one of Horne's double entendres (" that's yer actual French ")-an often effective method of inducing audience laughter.

The statue of Jupiter at Olympia, which he had ordered to be taken to pieces and moved to Rome, suddenly uttered such a peal of laughter that the scaffolding collapsed and the workmen took to their heels.

" In the episode of December 19, 1944, " Fibber Snoops For Presents In Closet " ( at 3: 59 is a perfect example of the " Hall Closet ," a running gag described in detail later in this entry ), Jim Jordan can be caught at the end of his audience warm-up evoking the opening laughter by quipping, " 10 seconds?

If I have achieved that, there seems to be only two possible reactions: anger or laughter.

The ensuing laughter went on for so long that it had to be severely edited for network broadcast, as Carroll O ' Connor still had one line (" Well, what the hell — he said it was in his contract!

Although artificial, canned laughter was not used, the laughter sometimes had to be tweaked during the editing process.

* Smiling can be used as a response to laughter in the previous turn.

Babs does so, and the resulting audience laughter rejuvenates the ailing Honey and reveals the voice, as well as the vaultkeeper to be none other than Bosko ( voiced by Don Messick ) himself.

To much laughter from the audience members, he told of a plan in which Barnett had asked that U. S. marshals point their guns at him while Meredith attempted to enroll so that " a picture could be taken of the event.

If a stranger tickles a child without any preliminaries, catching the child by surprise, the likely result will be not laughter but withdrawal and displeasure.