So it is yet another of Tom Stoppard's singular triumphs that he earns sincere laughs during dense lectures about, among other things, Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions.
All those sincere laughs that my friends are laughing that fall like a rain of dead birds into a smog filled hole.
The leader of the crusade against canned laughter lost one of its greatest defenders when Larry Gelbart died two weeks ago today at 81. Gelbart, who wrote Tootsie, A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum, and many of the early episodes of M*A*S*H, spent years vociferously rejecting the industry's efforts to manipulate TV-watchers into emitting less-than-sincere laughs.
Giggle at first, and then you can gradually build into a sincere "belly laugh".
You have 100 things about you that make you gorgeous, from your wit and wisdom to your humor and sincere and infectious laugh.
The creator of Bojack Horseman has more in common with Herb Kazzaz than his anthropomorphic horse anti-hero: quick to laugh, sincere, aware of himself and the boundaries of his ideas.
Be sincere and don't laugh at misconceptions or be judgemental – that will just shut children down.
"At 66, she is an exceedingly attractive figure," another reported, praising Smith as "slender, silver haired," sincere, and quick to laugh.
And then one day it'll open up and you'll catch yourself in a sincere, full-on belly laugh.
