She began to have significant trouble with it not when she learned of the church's notorious teachings about an intergalactic overlord named Xenu or the existence of invisible aliens that were embedded in your body — the things that make it easy for outsiders to point and laugh — but rather, when she felt Cruise was damaging the church's reputation.
I am not her ― and I don't want to be laughed at but rather laughed along with.
This is not meant to be a belly laughs comedy, but rather a feel good I've-been-there-with my-mother-many-times comedy.
"That's not to say I don't laugh at it, but rather that I've met so many tossers like Barley and his friends that I can see exactly where the show is coming from".
That Nancy and her sisters never laughed at jokes, but rather "screamed", "howled" or "shrieked", as if in pain, is not merely to do with the argot of the time: the Mitfords bared their teeth when they laughed, and bit first.
But as long as the audience is laughing with, rather than at, the play, accidental resonances are one of the pleasures of live theatre.
For the first few minutes, the Conservative backbenchers loyally made a point of laughing rather too loudly, but before long they had just taken to chatting among themselves.
It was," she says, laughing, "a rather laborious way of experimenting with a technique in which the sound is verbatim, but the images are constructed.
A mainstream audience is now laughing with, rather than at, two grandes dames of British theatre, Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi.
"You went to the political agent without my permission," he said, laughing again, rather than addressing the government's right to arrest an old man and his son.
