The impression you get from Carl Sandburg's home is one of laughter and happiness ; ;

The family was relatively poor, but Gaynor recalls the house being filled with laughter and happiness, and the dinner table being open to neighbourhood friends.

Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations, and is associated with enjoyment, happiness, laughter and pleasure.

) KATC described Polycarp's imaginary world as " A modern-day ' fairytale ' land of happiness and laughter for girls and boys and tall people.

At the carnival Charles Halloway outsmarts Mr. Dark, finds his son, kills the Witch, and destroys the Mirror Maze in a matter of minutes, all through the use of laughter and happiness.

When a child is born all its kindred sit round about it in a circle and weep for the woes it will have to undergo now that it is come into the world, making mention of every ill that falls to the lot of humankind ; when, on the other hand, a man has died, they bury him with laughter and rejoicings, and say that now he is free from a host of sufferings, and enjoys the completest happiness.

The definition of Binod is laughter, spiritual happiness, humour and special love.

If goodness and badness lie in attitudes only and hence are brought into being by them, those men who greeted death and misery with childishly merry laughter are taking the only sensible line.

These films are designed to elicit laughter from the audience.

The personages of Pierrot and Columbine are transported into modern-day settings and inserted into an occasionally mawkish or nostalgic love plot with equal doses of laughter mingled with pain and regret.

The various episodes of the show are performed in the spirit of outrageous comedy — often provoking shocked laughter — and are dominated by the anarchic clowning of Mr. Punch.

Among these stories are: a tale of boiled missionaries ; of a lady who borrows a false eye, a peg leg, and the wig of a coffin-salesman's wife ; and a final tale of a man who gets caught in machinery at a carpet factory and whose " widder bought the piece of carpet that had his remains wove in ..." As Blaine tells the story of the carpet man's funeral, he begins to fall asleep, and Twain, looking around, sees his friends " suffocating with suppressed laughter.

He eventually regains his memory, but not before learning the importance of laughter in the otherwise dreary lives of his fellow prisoners when they are allowed to attend a showing of Walt Disney's Playful Pluto cartoon.

He wrote " The theatre is a school of weeping and of laughter, a free forum, where men can question norms that are outmoded or mistaken and explain with living example the eternal norms of the human heart ".

But the only noises that campers hear are the resident loons, whispering pines and the laughter of Boy Scouts.

Increased levels of smiling and laughter are observed in babies high in surgency / extraversion.

In black humor, topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo, specifically those related to death, are treated in an unusually humorous or satirical manner while retaining their seriousness ; the intent of black comedy, therefore, is often for the audience to experience both laughter and discomfort, sometimes simultaneously.

: They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,

This is because his actions are just as dishonest: " In order to forestall the laughter, I dreamed of hurling myself into the general derision.

At a press conference, the White House press corps broke out in laughter when Ari Fleischer denied that " the leaders of other nations are buyable ".

Another theory is that Joan is actually a comic figure, and the huge alterations in her character are supposed to evoke laughter.

The body openings and erogenous zones are extremely ticklish ; however, the tickling of these areas is generally not associated with laughter or withdrawal.

" To the unfriendly who, not knowing them well, declared that Morgoth must have bred the Orcs from such a stock the Eldar answered: ' Doubtless Morgoth, since he can make no living thing, bred Orcs from various kinds of Men, but the Drúedain must have escaped his shadow ; for their laughter and the laughter of Orcs are as different as the light of Aman from the darkness of Angband.

( total audience hysteria laughter, as Benny's pants are literally removed ).

The microphones onstage often do not fully pick up the audience's laughter and reaction to the monologues as audiences are not microphoned in live awards shows due to the amount of conversation that takes place during filming.

Scenes recorded out of doors, traditionally recorded in advance of studio work, are played back to the studio audience and their laughter recorded for the broadcast show.

Other comedies, such as The Royle Family and The Office, which are presented in the mode of cinéma vérité rather than in the format of a traditional sitcom, do not feature any audience laughter.

The biographers mention that Pope Gregory XIV had a nervous tendency to laughter, which occasionally became irresistible and even manifested itself at his coronation.

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.

Linus van Pelt writes his annual letter to The Great Pumpkin, despite Charlie Brown's disbelief, Snoopy's laughter, Patty's assurance that the Great Pumpkin is a fake, and even his own sister's violent threat to make her brother stop.

" In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory ; and it was filled with trees and with fountains, and its gates were wrought of mithril and steel, and its streets were paved with white marble ; and the Folk of the Mountain laboured in it, and the Folk of the Wood rejoiced to come there ; and all was healed and made good, and the houses were filled with men and women and the laughter of children, and no window was blind nor any courtyard empty ; and after the ending of the Third Age of the world into the new age it preserved the memory and the glory of the years that were gone ".

Tokyo people even occasionally imitate Kansai dialect to provoke laughter or inject humor.

Responses or actions in the affected person, called " coping ugly " by researcher George Bonanno, may seem counterintuitive or even look dysfunctional, such as celebratory responses, laughter, self-serving bias in interpreting events.

The 15-year-old princess quickly charmed the Milanese court with her joy in life, her laughter, and even her extravagance.

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.

The laughs the Kroffts isolated were of a better variety, ranging from loud belly laughs, to soft titters, and even the sounds of children's laughter: some of these laughs were older ( from the laugh track of the mid-to-late 60s ), while others were of the current 1976-1977 television season, just before the real television laugh track was overhauled by the 1977-1978 television season.

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.

It has even been known to occur after hearty bouts of laughter.

Guinness was originally only offered four D ' Ascoyne parts, recollecting: " I read screenplay on a beach in France, collapsed with laughter on the first page, and didn't even bother to get to the end of the script.

Although a good number of Arquette's jokes appear ' dated ' now ( and, arguably, even back then ), he could still often convulse Paar and the audience into helpless laughter by way of his timing and use of double entendres in describing the misadventures of his fictional family and townspeople.

Thus among examples of the Sublime may be rated ( not in any order ) Homer, the tragedians, Sappho, Plato, even the Bible, and a playwright like Aristophanes ( since the author maintained that laughter is a jocose pathos — and therefore, " sublime ", being " an emotion of pleasure ").

They have found that even though viewers find canned laughter highly annoying, they perceive shows that happen to use canned laughter more funny than the shows that do not use canned laughter.

Although the show initially went well in sales based on Crawford's name ( for a time, the show played to packed houses in previews, and was in fourth place in terms of high-selling Broadway grosses without even having officially opened ), the humor received some laughter and much criticism.

Mullin has claimed that he even pioneered the use of the laugh track ; at the insistence of Crosby's writer Bill Morrow, he inserted a segment of raucous laughter from an earlier show to follow a joke in a later show that had not worked well.

) Zeitblom describes the work as filled with longing without hope, with hellish laughter transposed and transfigured even into the searing tones of spheres and angels.

The victim laughs even if he or she finds the experience unpleasant because the laughter is an innate reflex rather than social conditioning.

" — " Your laughter will not last, even till morning.

However, according to Desmond Shawe-Taylor, who saw the opera performed in Czechoslovakia, most observers reacted with cheerful laughter and even felt a bit sorry for the poor fellow Brouček.

In films, evil laughter often fills the soundtrack even though the villain is off-camera.