It will take them many seconds to produce a laugh, if they can do it at all.
Recorded laughter produced by a "laugh box", a small, battery-operated record player from a novelty store, was sufficient to trigger real laughter among my undergraduate students in a classroom setting.
"Look, I grew up in a Europe where the idea of Britain having the lowest inflation in Europe would produce a belly laugh.
Harrogate's Laugher, 19, produced a dominant display to win the gold medal with a score of 449.90, beating Australians Matt Mitcham and Grant Nel into silver and bronze.
Issue one produced a few wry smiles but no belly laughs.
A movie featuring Ice Cube bellowing "No more profanity!" -- and meaning it -- should produce a lot more laughs than this intermittently amusing sequel does.
A movie featuring Ice Cube bellowing "No more profanity!" and meaning it should produce a lot more laughs than the intermittently amusing "Barbershop 2: Back in Business" does.
The phrase "urban planning in Cairo" usually produces an eye-rolling laugh.
Pookey Wigington, who produces a comedy night at the Laugh Factory, in Hollywood, says, "Down there, you got gamblers, you got hustlers, you got the everyday workingman, the single mom".
When we hear laughter, we become beasts of the herd, mindlessly laughing in turn, producing a behavioural chain reaction that sweeps through our group, creating a crescendo of jocularity or ridicule.
It gets you high, it makes you laugh, it does not produce a hangover.
