"induce laughter" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to something humorous or entertaining that causes people to laugh. For example, "The comedian's clever jokes were meant to induce laughter from the audience."
She's changed it, but she hasn't lost it: at 84, Hadda Brooks, the 1940's rhythm-and-blues pianist and singer, can still put on a show that will induce laughter, tears and a little licentiousness.
The ability to induce laughter is as varied as it is mysterious.
It was difficult to envision being able to induce laughter from the stage, but it was equally difficult to envision a life without theater.
It comes from "knismesis," a term for "light" tickling that doesn't typically induce laughter coined in 1897 by psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Alliń.
When Kataria discovered that both forced and authentic laughter could produce these health benefits, he developed a system of exercises and breath work to induce laughter, and it has become a growing trend in the health and wellness world. .
He even managed to escape widespread criticism when he recently was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, inducing laughter rather than censure when he explained he had been driving to an all-night store to buy a screwdriver to release a pet cat trapped under floorboards.
Activation of the fusiform gyrus and anterior temporal region caused by electrical stimulation induced laughter accompanied by a feeling of mirth (i.e., positive emotion; Arroyo et al. [1993]).
It's our way of turning the gaping mouth looming over our heads into a figure that induces laughter instead of horror, yet we do so always with the tragic awareness that sooner or later, she will come for us all.
This is outright melodrama, liable to induce nervous laughter.
"My works are all meant to induce friendly laughter because they involve cutely decorated sexual organs.
Clown, familiar comic character of pantomime and circus, known by his distinctive makeup and costume, ludicrous antics, and buffoonery, whose purpose is to induce hearty laughter.
