Rogen's face lights up and he guffaws like you never heard a man guffaw – loud, demented and endless.
People giggled at Edison; called Galileo a mad man; guffawed at Bell – and history taught them a lesson.
Cue blokes (and it is mostly men) guffawing, claiming it doesn't affect them "because they're bigger" and they can "take their drink".
"I did not develop this physique by eating healthy," Mr. Miller, a stout man, said to guffaws.
"I can point for you and go: right there we're imitating Eric Clapton; right there I'm imitating vocally David Bowie; right there is Bruce Springsteen" – he puts on a gruff voice, aping the Boss – "'Diamond Dave, you're a big man!'" – and he guffaws – "but this is how you create a signature sound.
He is known for his guffawing, that man.
The last car held the usual assortment of characters: two women shrieking about a recent outing to a hardware store while a man lounged before them, guffawing; a young woman hiding behind sunglasses and iPod earbuds; a scruffy man slumped beside his messenger bag.
The question to be put, therefore, on viewing everything from "The Seventh Continent" to Haneke's latest film, "The White Ribbon," in which the expertise has risen to a tranquil mastery, is as follows: What is the tie that binds the man with the big guffaw to this compendium of terror and dismay?
The loud guffawing men, and the gang of boys who crowd around him, speak over Imad, mocking him.
With the Winton outside-right hanging over the perimeter wall I quickly retrieved it, turned, stepped on the hem of my jeans, went flat on my face and looked up to 100 men I know guffawing and a local footballer jumping over a perimeter wall to pick up a ball lying beside my head.
If Palin were a man, we'd all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes.
