Driving with a Canadian Serb in August 1994, he laughed and was recorded on video as saying: "Whenever I go by Sarajevo, I kill someone.
A live performance of it is on a two-disc compilation called "Laugh Tracks" -- it was recorded at the Bottom Line in New York City, and you can hear hundreds of New Yorkers screaming and stomping their approval at the end of his performance, showing that the song garners respect on this side of the Hudson, too.
(laughs) MR: And I imagine that's how it was when you were recording as well.
John, then in his late 80s, at once stepped forward, laughing, for his own height to be recorded.
About Martin Heidegger, known for his solemnity, Mr. Johnson writes: "He is recorded to have laughed only once, at a picnic with Ernst Jünger in the Harz Mountains.
The Pacific koel and pallid cuckoo (Cuculus pallidus) have been recorded as brood parasites of the blue-faced honeyeater, and the laughing kookaburra recorded as preying on broods.
"We try and make each other laugh while we're recording it," Mr. Zaltzman said.
"Oh shit, we're recording hey (laughs)." An earlier plan to use a police dog had been cancelled due to concerns of the dog handler.
Our predisposition to laugh when others laugh was a behavioural trait exploited in live recorded US sitcoms where the audiences were often seeded with paid extras picked specifically for their infectious laughs.
In behavioral pilot testing, we found that naïve listeners performed significantly better than chance in classifying the recorded laughs as "real" (Evoked) or "posed" (Emitted), in line with how these laughs were produced as an expression of genuine amusement, or not.
