laugh
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Stand-up comedy is a solo art, and by going it alone with a microphone Gillis built a huge following, starting with men also feeling policed over what they could say or laugh about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Yeah, it’s shocking to me. I’m happy about it,” he said with a laugh in the call, then was briefly interrupted by a passing admirer—a guy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
During its beginning stages, Thomas was set on telling stories about his childhood and trying too hard to make people laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
"I think he'd be happy to see the book returned and he'd probably have a bit of a laugh about it."
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Black kids in the group continue to laugh, not for the humor of it, but because it’s a moment they can all relate to.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
While Gervais's cringeworthy character David Brent provided many of the belly laughs, the ever-present Dawn and her love interest Tim Canterbury, played by Martin Freeman, gave the show its emotional backbone.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Why take on the challenge of finding laughs in a manager who instead is sensitive, kindhearted?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
She laughs off critics who post pictures of her with devil horns, saying she’s really just a PTA mom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Eighty years ago, though the Arsenal of Democracy had vanquished the Axis and weathered a withering Depression, the recovering American people found themselves rich in bills but short on laughs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Mika, on the bench by her daughter, laughs.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
"I knew I was pretty popular but I didn't think I was as popular as I am now - its just gone completely crazy," he laughed.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
On Sunday Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, asked about the bonkers statements young radical candidates made a few years ago that damage their electability today, laughed it off by quoting a friend: “Woke 1 was crazy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
When asked whether he saw himself as a composer who conducts or a conductor who composes, he simply laughed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
I laughed trying to visualize what she said.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
I laughed again and found myself leaping to another idea.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
I spent most of the great technology bubble laughing, but maybe I was left with post-traumatic stress disorder anyway.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
"I was devastated when I watched it because there was a whole minute of insults and sarcasm and laughing and this feeling that perhaps it had been written by AI," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“I’m not going to tell you that!” she answers, laughing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
I scroll through the portraits he’d emailed me: two women laughing, a family smiling, and my personal favorite, a pop-artish rendering of Gigi Hadid.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
We wrestled over it, laughing as we tried to keep the spray of water toward the tub.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
