laughter.

"The excess must discharge itself in some other direction, and there results an efflux through the motor nerves to various classes of the muscles, producing the half-convulsive actions we term laughter."

The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1898

The excess must therefore discharge itself in some other direction; and in the way already explained, there results an efflux through the motor nerves to various classes of the muscles, producing the half-convulsive actions we term laughter.

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

Well, now I have glopped yoghurty blueberries off the spoon and onto my jeans in laughter.

Actual Fan Email, Actual Response. karenhealey 2010

"Oh," Obama said as the press corps erupted in laughter.

Oops! Obama calls out reporter for asking out of turn 2009

Chaz Sez: is the straight line, Mary Whispers: is a potential response, and Punkinhead thinks: is some sort of side-splitting aside, an example of the sort of writing that had 1980s television audiences convulsing in laughter.

Make your Own 80s Sitcom Challenge!! « Third Point of Singularity 2010

In this light, all the weirdly abstract and pompous pursuits of men are suddenly transformed into natural marvels of the same order as the immense beaks of the toucans and hornbills, the fabulous tails of the birds of paradise, the towering necks of the giraffes, and the vividly polychromed posteriors of the baboons … Seen thus, the self-importance of man dissolves in laughter.

Boing Boing 2009

Wall and Thornton looked up at Hudson and doubled over in laughter.

Nick Young shuts down impromptu slam dunk contest Michael Lee 2010

She dropped her end of the canoe and broke out in laughter.

CHAPTER 25 2010

Sheesh anytime those ladies (and I use that term very loosely) open their mouths, the rest of the country explodes in laughter.

Think Progress » Defending ‘Tea Party Profiteers,’ Odom Tells Activists ‘We Should Reward Them With Our Pocketbooks’ 2010

Frona had been clinching her hand nervously, but at the word burst out in laughter.

CHAPTER 30 2010