Later, they had the willies put up them, so to speak, with laughter out of nowhere and doors opening on their own.
When Tina Fey, in a lightning round called LaTina Fey, can't name enough Latin celebrities, Eichner shouts at her, "Finally, something Tina Fey has failed at!" In on the joke, she couldn't speak for laughter.
Physiologically speaking, laughter is an involuntary response, similar to wincing when watching a clown make a balloon animal or an old sea captain eat pudding.
She spoke, to laughter from the floor, about a child who claimed a friend was "born with anger management" and showed a photo of the child in question.
Many people who know Logue speak of his laughter - a big haw-haw-haw laugh - or his mischief-making, or sense of fun.
"I, however, was in a wetsuit for this whole shoot – oh my god, they were so good for butt itching!" Waving a glass of white wine and at times unable to speak due to laughter, Lawrence said, "one rock that I was butt-scratchin' on came loose", prompting a landslide.
In this exclusive VanityFair.com interview, Brooks talks at a frantic clip about various topics, including what it was like to work in one of the most celebrated writers' rooms in TV history, why the Western-themed flatulence joke in Blazing Saddles nearly got cut (so to speak), and why laughter just might be our only effective balm for our inevitable demise.
"No...no," Xavier replies, struggling to speak through his growing laughter.
(Asked to confirm that it was Mr. Tagliapietra speaking, there was laughter, and a reference to their 16 years of living and working together: "We're interchangeable").
There she speaks of "the laughter of Akiva" - the reaction of the great Rabbi Akiva to the scene of a fox scurrying about in the ruins of the Temple.
