Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic is a collection of three essays by French philosopher Henri Bergson, first published in 1900. It was written...

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979. It is composed of seven...

Laughter is a pleasant physical reaction and emotion consisting usually of rhythmical, usually audible contractions of the diaphragm and other parts of...

Death from laughter is an extremely rare form of death, usually resulting from either cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, that has itself been caused by a...

Laughter Yoga (Hasyayoga) is a global laughter exercise program which emphasizes three elements: laughter & playfulness, yogic breath-work, and mindfulness...

Paradoxical laughter is an exaggerated expression of humour which is unwarranted by external events. It may be uncontrollable laughter which may be recognised...

up laughter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Laughter is an audible expression of merriment or amusement. Laughter may also refer to: Laughter (Ian...

artificial laughter (canned laughter or fake laughter) made to be inserted into the show, or a combination of the two. The use of canned laughter to "sweeten"...

al-Sifat), he dedicated an entire chapter on ahadith that mention the divine 'Laughter'. Al-Bayhaqi narrates that Al-Bukhari said regarding the hadith, “Allah...

The Sound of Laughter was British comedian Peter Kay's initial volume of autobiography, released on 5 October 2006. The book was a bestseller. The Sound...

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

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million is a 2002 non-fiction book by British writer Martin Amis. The book is a study of the depredations of the...

1938 under the now common name, Laughter in the Dark. It is sometimes mistakenly assumed that he was not fond of the book, yet in fact it was based on very...

The "culture of popular laughter" is a cultural-historical term coined by the literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin in his book Rabelais and His World (1965)...

Greek: Φιλόγελως, "Love of Laughter"), also titled or subtitled The Jests of Hierocles and Philagrius, is a Greek-language book published in late antiquity...

maintains the experience, and is associated with enjoyment, happiness, laughter and pleasure. It is an emotion with positive valence and high physiological...

"Behind the Laughter" is the twenty-second and final episode of the eleventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired...

"Prime". She won the An Post Irish Book Awards' writing.ie Story of the Year 2020. Her second novel, The Wild Laughter (Oneworld, 2020), won the Royal Society...

"Laughter in the Rain" is a song composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka, with lyrics by Phil Cody. It includes a 20-second saxophone solo by Jim Horn. The...

(2002) A.M./P.M.'' (2004) Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (2006) The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (2006) Ardently Love (2007) Urban Emotions (2008) Love...

three novellas. Blood Follows (2002) The Healthy Dead (2004) The Lees of Laughter's End (2007) Crack'd Pot Trail (2009) The Wurms of Blearmouth (2012) The...

Waiting Laughters: A Long Song in Many Voices is a collection of poems by Niyi Osundare, published in 1990 by Malthouse Press. The anthology received...

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part of a body in a way that causes involuntary twitching movements or laughter. The word "tickle" evolved from the Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative...

considered humorous. Although various classical theories of humor and laughter may be found, in contemporary academic literature, three theories of humor...

"with Tertia putting out." The earliest extant joke book is the Philogelos (Greek for The Laughter-Lover), a collection of 265 jokes written in crude ancient...

disappear in a magical box trick in front of Steven, with only Tony's laughter to be heard. When Steven gets angry and tries to attack Dulong, Steven...

L'Évolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book proposed a version of orthogenesis...

or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the...

and watched videos of people suffering from pathological laughter to refine his own laughter for the role. He sought to portray a character whom audiences...