Word: laughingly
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...love photography in general and unsmiling, non-photogenic people have always made me laugh," Dehareng explained in an e-mail to TIME. Readers are invited to submit their own pictures, though in all likelihood, most photos on the site are probably found objects similar to the vintage-store snapshot. The concept is catching on. Happiest People Ever ! has been around for less than a month, but it's already getting about 6,000 hits a day. In part that's because the qualifications for entry are minimal. Anyone bored, lonely, grumpy or dejected (preferably all four) is welcome. Smeared makeup...
What else do you think the magazine's editors are looking for in their selection process? I think they're looking for something that makes them laugh. Sometimes I think they're looking for something out of left field. The ones they like best probably surprise them...
...Spark of Insanity. Achmed, a bigheaded Halloween skeleton, is a failed suicide bomber. (He had a "premature detonation.") He has not yet come to terms with his demise - he just got a flu shot - and snaps "Silence! I kill you!" at audience members when they laugh, which is pretty much constantly. The Achmed sketch is the fourth most watched online video ever, according to the Web-tracking service Visible Measures; it's been viewed nearly 200 million times, more even than footage of style-deprived singer Susan Boyle. The top three stand-up-comedy DVDs on Amazon's best-seller...
...Until today, you felt that [the five accused] were laughing at you and that people said it was a waste of time," says Kathy Gallagher, 31, whose brother Aidan died in the attack. "We're so glad to have this result. Now I feel like we have the last laugh on them...
...good at stuff like that, you just have to trust him when he starts going off-script. Will's actually really articulate about his philosophy behind this - that he thinks if you only go for the cheap punch line and don't trust the laugh, you'll never get anywhere. It's with the rolling laugh, where you watch the character keep going forward with a mistake and allow it to really play itself out, that you get 'em. (TIME reports: Will Ferrell - Brilliant Idiot...