chortle

While it is easy to chortle at the hillbilly-Deadhead vibe surrounding Trump rallies, it is more important to consider how the better-educated are weakening their country by rejecting the tools necessary to maintain the structure of liberal democracy.

I’d scoff and chortle and avoid it, thinking that water was superfluous, extraneous, not something that would “make or break” whatever it was I was cooking.

Now, Israelis and others in the Middle East need to worry—or chortle over—his intentions there as well.

Much of the rest of the comedian’s short set was “oversimplified political stuff,” recalled Steve Bennett, the editor of comedy website Chortle.

Now, a new, more virile chortle has risen to take its place.