... laughter helps things slide into thinking. (ISWM)
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Ridcully told jokes like a bullfrog did accountancy. They never added up. (LC)
One of the minor laws of the narrative universe is that any homely featured man who has, for some reason, to disguise himself as a woman will apparently become attractive to some otherwise perfectly sane men with. As the ancient scrolls say, hilarious results. (J)
He had in fact been raised to be a Fool, a man whose job it was to caper and tell jokes and have custard poured down his trousers. This had naturally given him a grave and solemn approach to life and a grim determination never to laugh at anything ever again, especially in the presence of custard. (LL)
It is a strange but reliable fact that whenever men throw off the yoke of tyrants and set out to rule themselves there emerges, like mushrooms after rain, Mr Clete.
Hat. Hat. Hat. Mr Clete laughed at things in inverse proportion to the actual humour of the situation. (SM) … he was the sort of person who always took laughter personally. (MA)
The Librarian, an ape of simple but firmly-held tastes, considered an episode with custard pies, buckets of whitewash and especially that bit when someone takes someone else's hat off, fills it with something oozy, and replaces it on the deadpan head, while the orchestra plays 'WHAH ... whah ... whah ... whaaa ...' to be an absolutely essential part of any theatrical performance. (LL)
The chieftain had been turned into a pumpkin although, in accordance with the rules of universal humour, he still had his hat on. (LL)
People can start laughing for all sorts of reasons. But sometimes they laugh because, against all expectations, they’re still alive and have a mouth left to laugh with. (JB)
There was a chorus of nervous laughs, such as there always is from people who owe their jobs and possibly their lives to the whim of the person who has just cracked the not very amusing line. (SG)
‘…. There’s nothing wrong with cackling. In moderation.’ (WS)
Abrim laughed. It’s wasn’t a nice sound. It sounded as though he had had laughter explained to him, probably slowly and repeatedly, but had never heard anyone actually do it. (S)
‘And you say it actually managed to get airborne?’
‘It flew like a bird,’ said Granny. The dwarf lit a pipe. ‘I should very much like to see that bird,’ he said reflectively. ‘I should imagine it’s quite something to watch a bird like that.’ (ER) ... Sergeant Colon did know the meaning of the word "irony". He thought it meant "sort of like iron". (RM)
... if you got the customer laughing then you had their money in your pocket. (RS)
Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be. (N)
'There’s no harm in the occasional cackle…' (WFM)
'I read the Comedy of Errors last night,’ said the Dean. ‘And I could see the error right there. There wasn’t any comedy.' (TG)
... Mrs Ogg has a very vague attitude to lengths except in humorously anatomical areas. (NOC)
'The old king told me once that the gods gave people a sense of humour to make up for giving them sex. I think he was a bit upset at the time.' (P)
It is a universal fact that any innocent comment made by any recently-married young member of any workforce is an instant trigger for coarse merriment among his or her older and more cynical colleagues. (WA)
…a smirk makes a subtle noise if you’re listening for it. (Th)
Things that try too hard to be funny often aren’t. (HFS)
They didn’t have to be funny, they were father jokes. (WFM)
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