He's quick to erupt into laughter, even when describing how he was fired from his job after attending a gay rights march in 2003, and thrown out of his apartment last year for hanging a rainbow flag from the balcony.
The bartender snorts out a couple of laughs but I don't mind; I like the sound of laughter, even when it's bitter.
I see deep lines bracketing my mouth from decades of choosing laughter, even when life has delivered the pain of losing both parents before I turned 39, and the near death of my son, not once, but twice.
But we sure are invested in maintaining the image of that perfect family tree, rooted in love and blooming with laughter... even when it's a lie.
Ours managed to produce plenty of laughter and no tears – not even when Oscar got Freddie right in the ear.
This does not impress Jorges, who continues his murderous efforts to rid the monastery of laughter, nor will it resolve all the theological conundrums we grapple with, as Steve Martin makes clear, but it might just be enough to conclude that laughter is good and edifying, even when the subject matter is sacred.
Blow hoots with laughter all the time, I discover, even when she is feeling dismal and talking about depression and her recent nervous collapse, the pressures of fashion and her broken heart, which she also does a lot.
If we're more sensitive than ever, as a society, to sexual abuse of all sorts, it's precisely because the subject of sex is a matter of public discourse and representations of all sorts, high and low; if our tolerance for violence is lower than ever, it's because the horror of it, even when it arouses laughter (see "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"), is presented more overtly than ever.
Laughter is hugely important in the Bible, even when you take it seriously, which I do," says Riess, who has a doctorate in religion.
Even when bystanders clearly consider these woman lunatics, the smiles and laughter seem good-natured.
This paper examines laughter as a methodical resource for marking a just-prior turn as laughable, even when that turn has not been designed as such by its producer.
