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unusual facts about laughter


Cackle

Laughter A laugh or a throaty laugh, Example: The witch gave a cackle, then went away on her broom.


Ariyon Bakare

He has starred alongside Paul Bettany in the Ross kettle film After The Rain, and also Nia Long and Colin Firth in Secret Laughter of Women.

Bacha bazi

Noting the public's constant interest in and laughter at the performance, several locally based researchers recorded the lyrics of the songs performed by the two boys (16-year-old Hadji-bacchá and 10-year-old Sayid-bacchá, both from the then Margilan uyezd).

Ben Savage

Savage's stage debut was in The Laughter Epidemic at the Pasadena Playhouse.

Bert Marcelo

Bert "Tawa" Marcelo (June 6, 1936 - December 16, 1995) was a prominent Filipino television personality whose trademark high-pitched infectious laughter earned him the popular moniker "Tawa", after the Tagalog word for laugh.

Billy Van Zandt

Van Zandt is the co-author and star of the Off-Broadway plays You've Got Hate Mail, Silent Laughter, Drop Dead!, and 20 other theatrical plays written with Jane Milmore, including A Night at the Nutcracker, Wrong Window, and summer stock perennial Love, Sex, and the I.R.S. He also wrote The Property Known as Garland for wife Adrienne Barbeau, which ran Off-Broadway at the Actor's Playhouse in 2006.

Cinema therapy

"Laughter is the best medicine and we intend to administer it through cinema. This is a superb initiative which I'm sure will do a great deal to boost patients' motivation to get well," said Dr. Alan Maryon-Davis, a top health consultant.

Danger Came Smiling

Instead of conventional lyrics, singer Linder Sterling provides a selection of cries, yells, laughter and spoken interludes (including diary records of Reichian therapy), and one very short track sung a capella.

Difficult to Cure

The laughter at the end of the last track is unmistakably that of Oliver Hardy.

Eden Quay

Activity on the quay is made up of a lap dancing club and bar, along with a hotel and bar, an amusement arcade, the Laughter Lounge (built on the site of a former cinema, and an assortment of downscale offices, a language school, a closed down pub and three newsagents.

Francis Lee

His toilet roll manufacturing business once employed famous comedian Peter Kay, who mentions his time there in his autobiography "The Sound Of Laughter".

François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif

Maurepas records in his memoirs that at the induction ceremony, a member let loose a cat he had secreted in his pocket: the cat miaowed, the Académiciens miaowed and the serious oration dissolved in laughter.

Gerard Tierney

The low timbre of his voice and his infectious laughter were unmistakable and the RTE radio Quiz show - Twenty Questions- which he hosted also proved to be another firm family favourite.

Gong ageng

It is named according to subjective poetic descriptive images for different speeds of beats, comparing slow beats with waves of water and faster beats with Bima’s laughter (Bima is one of the Pandawa brothers in the Mahabharata epic).

Harry Bliss

Bliss' self-titled cartoon collection Death by Laughter with an introduction by Christopher Guest was published in 2008.

Ian Mercer

Mercer went on to work in such stage productions as Bent, Spend Spend Spend, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Billy Liar, Stop The Children's Laughter, Welcome Home, Romeo and Juliet, The Fancy Man, The York Realist, Beauty and The Beast and Revengers Tragedy.

Ira Angustain

Ira Angustain (born August 6, 1958 in Glendale, California) is an American actor best known for his roles as Ricardo "Go Go" Gomez on The White Shadow and as the late Freddie Prinze on the made-for-TV movie Can You Hear The Laughter?: The Story of Freddie Prinze.

Irina Ponarovskaya

In 80-x she had been filmed and appeared in various musical TV programs, in particular "Song of the Year", "Morning mail", "Little blue light", "Around the laughter", and every year on the Russian police day (November 10).

Janet and John

John is portrayed as a simpleton and fop whose adventures land him in hot water with Janet as they always contain heavy doses of innuendo and often result in Terry, John and Traffic Totty Lynn Bowles dissolving into uncontrollable laughter.

Jean Auscher

He contributed to the satirical journal Le Rire (“Laughter”); he also illustrated works by Irène Némirovsky, who was rediscovered when Suite Francaise was republished in 2004.

Joke Silva

Silva has starred in several films and television series, some which include Secret Laughter of Women, 30 Days, Letters to a Stranger, Widow's Cot and the African Movie Academy Award-nominated films White Waters and The Amazing Grace.

Kay Aldridge

In her later years she lived in Camden, Maine, and was a locally renowned hostess, often sitting 10 or more people at dinner and regaling them with stories and laughter.

Kermit Schaefer

Other similar famous finds of Schafer's include ABC correspondent Joel Daly intoning, "The rumor that the President would veto the bill is reported to have come from a high White Horse souse," and veteran radio host Paul Harvey breaking into uncontrollable laughter at a story about a pet poodle.

Kirsten O'Brien

Puppeteer Dave Chapman would often reduce O'Brien to tears of helpless laughter with his ad-libs.

Lágrimas, Risas y Amor

Lágrimas, Risas y Amor (Tears, Laughter and Love) was a romantic Mexican comic book published by Editorial Argumentos (EDAR), probably the most popular of its kind in Latin America and one of the most popular of all the media in Mexico.

Llama llama

There are references to this dance in the works of Diego González Holguín and Ludovico Bertonio, Gonzáles Holguín compared this dance with the saynata and the siracusa, with the meaning of a “laughter thing”.

Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir

Her biggest movies are probably Mávahlátur (The Seagull's Laughter), based on the book by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir and Falcons, in which she co-starred with Keith Carradine.

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Some contemporaries (Nikolai Pisarev, Alexei Suvorin) dismissed Saltykov-Shedrin as the one taken to 'laughing for laughter's sake'.

Murder Ain't What it Used to Be

His trademark cigar, white hat and raucous laughter is stereotypical of a Chicago gangster of the 1920s, and he appears in the mirror several times to taunt Jeannie as she is taking care of her appearance.

Not Without Laughter

Not Without Laughter is a novel written by Langston Hughes and published in 1930.

Palace of Laughter

Palace of Laughter was a radio comedy aired by the BBC on Radio 4 from 2002 to 2003.

Pink-A-Rella

Though most American broadcasts mute the laughter, a laugh track version still airs on France Channel Gulli and Netflix streaming.

Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus

Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus is a book by Erich Segal, published by the Harvard University Press in 1968.

Stray cats

Stray Cats, the second disc of Ani DiFranco's 2002 live album, So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter

Super Roots 8

#"Jungle Taitei (Laughter Robot's Hemp Mix)" (remixed by Yann Tomita) – 7:49

Symphonies of Wind Instruments

According to Arthur Rubinstein, who attended the performance with Stravinsky, laughter broke out during the bassoon segment, and the conductor, Koussevitsky, "instead of stopping the performance and addressing the audience with a few words, assuring them that it was a serious work in the modern idiom, smiled maliciously and even had a twinkle in his eye as he looked over his shoulder at the laughing audience" (Rubinstein 1980, 173).

Tammy Pescatelli

In 2000, she and Patty Rosborough won Ladies of Laughter, a multi-national competition for stand-up comics, hosted in the Northeastern United States.

Ted Mooney

Ted Mooney (born in Dallas, Texas) is an American novelist and short story writer; He has published four novels: Easy Travel to Other Planets (1981), Traffic and Laughter (1990), Singing into the Piano (1998), and The Same River Twice, (2010).

Toronto Blessing

Randy Clark had been influenced by the ministry of Rodney Howard-Browne, a South African preacher, founder of the Rodney Howard-Browne Evangelistic Association in Louisville, Kentucky, and the earliest known proponent of the "holy laughter" revival phenomenon.

Vansinnesvisor

The lyrics to track number six, "The Giant's Laughter", are a translation of the poem "Jätten" written by the Swedish poet Esaias Tegnér.


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