Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lent to the Hartford ministry a generation before, Twichell sought the approval of his congregation through demonstrations of manliness, not of mind. He was a forceful speaker and an exuberant athlete, and whenever the males in his flock got together for smoking-room humor, Joe Twichell's hearty laugh rang loud and clear. Asylum Hill loved him, especially Mark Twain, who was Twichell's best friend for forty years...
Unfunny humor has been the normal state of affairs in this country for quite a while now. The glib and easy market researched laugh. 20 years ago the laughs came when the comic said Brooklyn. Today it comes when he says Madison Ave. The joke remains the same. It's just moved a little uptown...
These exit lines, like so much of recent O'Hara, make readers laugh unintentionally. And when they're laughing at you instead of with you, you aren't doing very well
Mort Sahl who can still be quite funny has never been as hilarious to me since I began to feel free to laugh at him without fearing the F.B.I. was photographing me in the act. Any against authority was a dangerous joke in those days. This was losers' school of humor. Robert little man would have it instantly. So would . In one case it was Sahl being overcome by the Government, in the case it was Mike and Elaine being overcome by sexual mores; in another case it was Lennie Bruce being overcome by everything...
Among Broadway's long-run tenants, Mary, Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr; Camelot's Round Table is becoming as durable as King Arthur's-and there is always the grande dame of Manhattan's musicals, My Fair Lady...