This is also the right time to celebrate two gregarious sportsmen, Dick Schaap and Jim Valvano, who gave laughter and insight to friends and strangers alike.
More pointedly, Kevin Kline ("Present Laughter") gave a shout-out to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, "without whom probably half of the people in this room would not be here".
"I found out, with no little surprise, that I could give them laughter with a twitching of my mouth, with a sample of the vernacular I had picked up from my neighborhood cronies".
The poet William Blake romanticized this concept by writing that man was the only animal who had the ability to laugh because God gave man laughter as a consolation prize because man was the only animal with reason, and could thus figure out he was eventually going to die.
He gave love, laughter and courage to many and set an example for a rich, principled and rewarding life.
Were Osama bin Laden given to laughter, which I understand he is not, he would split his sides.
Unconvincingly, given the laughter he elicits from perplexing her, she suggests that Pat "has no sense of how performance works, he keeps breaking the fourth wall and just chatting to the crowd".
Robin Williams touched our hearts, he gave us laughter, he gave us joy, he made us think about the impossible.
"Because of her, I make these illustrations ― she just gives me laughter and happiness for life," Devir told HuffPost.
