Once, to keep himself amused when a heart attack put him in an intensive care unit for 17 days, he numbered all his jokes to shorten the time to make himself chuckle.
But then when they do the reaction shot of the audience, people are sitting in pews, and they're very polite and middle-American looking, and if you look closely, up in the front row, you can see Jerry Falwell himself, chuckling away.
Jordan himself chuckles at these exchanges.
"I thought he was going to injure himself," he chuckled.
I point out that he's probably biased, what with being a director himself; he chuckles and admits that may be so.
"You go like this," Sund said, crossing himself and chuckling, "and go to bed every night and say, I hope it works".
He often interrupts himself to chuckle, or to interject his favorite rhetorical question: "Right?" Although Hindu identity plays an important role in Gabbard's career, the term itself has a complicated history: it is often used as a catchall for widely varying spiritual practices on the Indian subcontinent, and it is neither universally accepted nor reliably defined.
"If I'd known what the reaction was going to be, I would have drunk the milk first," says Emerson Fittipaldi, unable to prevent himself from chuckling as he recounts the incident that, even 23 years later, is recalled by many fans in the United States more clearly than his two Formula One world championships.
David, standing by my side, didn't prevent himself from chuckling at me, as he so often did back then, leading others to follow.
