Word: laughter
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...legends like Bob Hope, Mel Brooks and Sid Caesar. Gelbart began his career at 16 after his father, a Hollywood barber, bragged to entertainer Danny Thomas about his son's gift for gags. After reading one batch of jokes, Thomas hired the precocious teen, who years later would say laughter was in his genes. Even after a false rumor circulated last year about his death, Gelbart maintained a sense of humor, quipping, "Does that mean I can stop exercising...
...asked, “What will be your advice to the person who shall replace you as President in less than a year’s time?” The question, which implicitly demanded Uribe step aside for the next election, drew enthusiastic cheers as well as approving laughter from the audience...
...sign sarcastically asking, “What bill?” True, former presidential candidate John McCain (R-Ariz.) and some other Republicans are now condemning Wilson’s outburst. But the dignity of these responses is outweighed by the embarrassing behavior of their colleagues like derisive laughter, applause at intentionally inappropriate moments, and shouts and boos...
...translations published throughout the span of his career. “You’re beautiful because you’re classically trained. / I’m ugly because I associate piano wire with strangulation,” began one of Armitage’s poems that drew laughter from the listeners. Another poem, titled “The Shout,” contained the lines “We were testing the range / of the human voice.” Armitage said that the poem, which recounted a childhood memory in northern England, “has become something...
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