When Ms. Sevigny is asked how she has managed to succeed with so little effort in a business where others struggle for years, she invariably laughs and rolls her eyes.
Nelson and Lieberman seemed to be having fun together: At various points during Obama's address, Nelson leaned over and whispered to Lieberman, who invariably laughed.
Throughout all these setbacks, Mason came across as a bright, optimistic and avuncular man, always willing to help at charity events, full of ideas and schemes and always ready to break out into his deep "ho-ho-ho" laugh, invariably at his own expense.
He would call his wife, Margaret, from work with a teasing "Do you miss me?" that invariably made her laugh.
Not unlike the childhood experience of deliberately playing records at the wrong speed for a laugh, invariably bringing on bouts of dizziness and nausea.
And actually Tony Manero is a comedy – it's just that it is so black and brutal and deadpan that you invariably forget to laugh at it.
Though Holofcener's films invariably make us laugh in rueful recognition of the inane complexities of lives that manage to echo our own, "Steady Habits" also conveys a melancholy darkness, a more somber cast than usual.
One thing was always certain, Roland invariably made me laugh out loud with his dry wit and laid-back charm, even when I nearly had a nervous breakdown trying hilariously and unsuccessfully to hook up a new widescreen television in his house and to subsequently connect the television to Netflix, as well as to his antiquated home theater unit.
When Tom Yaps tells friends that he is the starting point guard on his college's men's basketball team, they invariably burst out laughing.
That does not include the charitable events and industry dinners where he has been M.C., always writing his own jokes, which invariably score big laughs.
