And he missed the point that the swarthy witches might be laughing at him for hoping to escape Nicolas Manas.

They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.

The students were laughing uproariously at this piece of logic, and even the policemen were trying hard not to smile.

We would have preferred, however, to have had the rest of the orchestra refrain from laughing at this and other spots on the recording, since it mars an otherwise sober, if not lofty, performance.

He stopped and looked at the picture of his son, the picture on his desk which had changed with the years from a laughing baby to a candidate for Hanford College.

But it wasn't Stewie who was laughing at me.

" In December 2006, TV Guide even ranked the duo's distinct laughing at # 66 on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Quotes and Catchphrases.

MGM noticed the video was performing well since " trendy twenty-somethings were throwing Showgirls irony parties, laughing sardonically at the implausibly poor screenplay and shrieking with horror at the aerobic sexual encounters.

This version of the character is more overtly unstable than in the novel, screaming and laughing incoherently at any given moment and even drinking the blood of a servant after removing a " heart plug.

However, they also listed him as the seventh best canine companion, stating that they think that he is laughing with the player, as opposed to at the player.

He tells Ash that there is an alternate trail through the woods before passing out, and Linda and Cheryl start laughing maniacally at their predicament.

The four of them find an embattled Ash, who is, seemingly, slowly being driven insane due to his encounter with the demon, such as hallucinating that the room comes to life and begins laughing hysterically at him.

* Giggling, or laughing encouragingly at any slight hint of intimacy in the other's behavior

His nephew recalled Uncle Eric laughing louder than anyone in the cinema at a Charlie Chaplin film.

" In an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Palin attributed an almost dead audience to his seeing guests reverently mouthing the words of the sketch, rather than laughing at it.

His mother ( Eric Idle ) reads the joke, at first believing it to be a suicide note, and also dies laughing.

Another scene is of the joke being used in open warfare is shown, with Tommies running through an open field amid artillery fire shouting the joke at the Germans, who die laughing in response.

Another captor ( Terry Gilliam ) notices the two deceased officers and points his gun at Palin, who recites the joke to the captor, who also dies laughing.

Reiner recalls that at a test screening, all of the women in the audience were laughing while all of the men were silent.

) Others accused her of trying to sway the king to Austria's thrall, destroying long-standing traditions ( such as appointing people to posts due to friendship and not to peerage ), and of laughing at the influence of older women at the royal court.

The comedian Felix Dexter has said that he appreciated the humour of an innocent confronting an expert with neither understanding the other, but that ' I feel that a lot of the humour is laughing at black street culture and it is being celebrated because it allows the liberal middle classes to laugh at that culture in a safe context where they can retain their sense of political correctness.

" Randi further revealed that when a man dying from testicular cancer came before Popoff during a crusade, Liz Popoff and her aides were hysterically laughing at his visible tumor.

He saw his Grandfather as an inspiration, and upon dying said he believed that the original Beak would be laughing down at him.

He thought of the old man laughing under the glitter of the great chandelier.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

The 19th-century " man of letters ", Isaac D ' Israeli, recounts that one day, when they came home from hunting and were joking around as was their wont within the " family ", Commines " ordered " the prince to remove Commines's boots as if he were a servant ; laughing, the prince did so but then tossed the boot at Commines, and it bloodied his nose.

From 1992 to 1997, Cinemax aired one movie each day of the week that would be centered around a certain genre, represented by various pictures that would play in a specialized feature presentation bumper before the start of the movie ; the symbols included: Comedy ( represented by an abstract face made up of various movie props, with the mouth open to look like it is laughing ), Suspense ( represented by a running man silhouette ), Premiere ( represented by an exclamation point caught in spotlights ), Horror ( represented by a skull ), Drama ( represented by abstract comedy & tragedy masks ), Vanguard ( represented by a globe ), Action ( represented by a machine gun ) and Classic ( represented by a classic movie-era couple embracing and kissing ).

* The OKeh Laughing Record, which featured a man and woman laughing uncontrollably, was featured extensively in the Walter Lantz Productions cartoon short Sh-h-h-h-h, the last short directed by Tex Avery.

As a running gag, the annual article almost always displayed an old photo of Richard Nixon laughing, with the caption, " Why is this man laughing?

" I hit this white man ," Mallard allegedly told acquaintance Maranda Daniel, laughing.

He explains that he was named after his grandfather who " once killed a man for laughing at him ".

Cliff asks if his grandfather really killed a man for laughing at his first name, and Norm replies, " Not exactly – he was a surgeon and he sort of botched an operation.

The man did not show any sign of gratitude and walked away laughing.

* At the end of the film Mary Poppins, Mr. Dawes, Sr. ( Dick Van Dyke ) is said to have literally died laughing after being told a joke: " I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith.

* In Episode 12 of Season 1 of 1000 Ways to Die, a man dies after laughing continuously for 36 hours at an unknown joke.

" 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!

# The Fool ( Fire and Water ): The laughing man with a wispy beard.

Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,

The popular credulity as to Catholic outrages in the days of the Popish Plot was stimulated by the scandalmongers of the club, whose members went about in silk armour, supposed to be bulletproof, in which any man dressed up was as safe as a house, says North, for it was impossible to strike him for laughing ; while in their pockets, for street and crowd-work, they carried the weapon of offence invented by Stephen College and known as the Protestant Flail.

The vision of Christian gun enthusiasts buying hand-painted targets from pot-smoking artists, laughing together while they give the tax man the finger, is beautiful enough to make the move.

" Also a man who helps poor people make claims: " a master of claims and benefits, a poor man's lawyer in fact ", helping " a poverty-stricken illiterate ", and " men who have put their hopes on horses-men that have lived beyond their women, and those who were always too ill-shaped to love, and so loved drink ... and laughing men, who have boozed their dead wives club money, and those that sleep late and stand waiting for opening time ", for " drinking men often die lonely deaths, those who have forsaken women and have died in their camaraderie of booze.