Closer to home, the entertainment industry's scrutiny of women's bodies took one step closer to the laughable end of hysterical when Australian actor Caitlyn Stasey's decision to post Instagram pics containing armpit hair became a news story.
Eric Appleby, chief executive of Alcohol Concern, dismissed the move: "The idea that banning below-cost sales will help tackle our problem with alcohol is laughable, it's confusing and close to impossible to implement.
You can see little coffins on their eyelids, leaving only one question: how will the fiend get whacked?" Stone said that "Todd was this close to being offed, but Howarth made that choice laughable.
Ken Gude of the liberal Center for American Progress, a thinktank close to the administration, tweeted that he was "utterly shocked" the administration would contend the 2001 authority applied - an argument he had earlier in the day called "laughable".
And Republican or Democrat, they often go to laughable lengths to play that down.
Despite the fact that we're much closer to national health insurance, many liberals find this idea laughable.
Not to spoil the ending, but the romantic choice she makes at the novel's close is laughable: It is simply not how the heart and mind of any young woman I know would work even one with substantial daddy issues.
Basu said claims that the police and IPCC were too close were "laughable", and said the watchdog was fighting for its survival.
Ms. Novak's clients are not weird enough to be laughable or pathetic enough to pity.
I knew about French military disasters from what I'd read in history books, but my closest notion of defeat was limited to a laughable rage after the loss of a soccer game.
