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It made me laugh until I cried.
Feel free to cry, laugh, cross your legs, or do anything your body feels like doing.
When people make a sound, when they laugh, when they fidget, when they take a drink or blow their nose or whatever, I hear everything.
Now, both talking and breathing has a mortal enemy, and that enemy is laughter, because what happens when you laugh is those same muscles start to contract very regularly, and you get this very marked sort of zig-zagging, and that's just squeezing the air out of you.
So it's not at all unusual, for example, to hear people to say humans are the only animals that laugh.
Nietzsche thought that humans are the only animals that laugh.
So Robert Provine, who has done a lot of work on this, has pointed out that you are 30 times more likely to laugh if you are with somebody else than if you're on your own, and where you find most laughter is in social interactions like conversation.
So if you ask human beings, "When do you laugh?" they'll talk about comedy and they'll talk about humor and they'll talk about jokes.
If you look at when they laugh, they're laughing with their friends.
And when we laugh with people, we're hardly ever actually laughing at jokes.
To do this, we've had to make recordings of people laughing, and we've had to do whatever it takes to make people laugh, and we got those same people to produce more posed, social laughter.
No, that was helpless laughter, and in fact, to record that, all they had to do was record me watching one of my friends listening to something I knew she wanted to laugh at, and I just started doing this.
Chimpanzees laugh differently if they're being tickled than if they're playing with each other, and we might be seeing something like that here, involuntary laughter, tickling laughter, being different from social laughter.
We use it a lot, we're choosing to laugh in a lot of situations, and it seems to be its own thing.
If we turn the question around and now say not, what does the laughter sound like in terms of being real or posed, but we say, how much does this laughter make you want to laugh, how contagious is this laughter to you, we see a different profile.
Now, either we're all just becoming really grumpy as we get older, or it may mean that as you understand laughter better, and you are getting better at doing that, you need more than just hearing people laugh to want to laugh.
These events are always difficult, I had a relative who was being a bit difficult, my mum was not in a good place, and I can remember finding myself just before the whole thing started telling this story about something that happened in a 1970s sitcom, and I just thought at the time, I don't know why I'm doing this, and what I realized I was doing was I was coming up with something from somewhere I could use to make her laugh together with me.
We can laugh together.
Everybody underestimates how often they laugh, and you're doing something, when you laugh with people, that's actually letting you access a really ancient evolutionary system that mammals have evolved to make and maintain social bonds, and clearly to regulate emotions, to make ourselves feel better.
MR: It happened in consultation with Bina and our four beautiful children, and I discussed with each of them that I felt my soul was always female, and as a woman, but I was afraid people would laugh at me if I expressed it, so I always kept it bottled up and just showed my male side.
So it made everybody laugh, and we said, "There's a point to that.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Everything was impossible until somebody did it.
We did our best to find reasons to laugh.
They would unify the entire audience; and no matter where you sat, you could laugh at what was going on onstage.
Do you laugh along with the laugh track and let this grievous misinterpretation of irony go?
(Chieko and Nick laugh) Man: Hi. (Laughter) CA: Oh ... hi.
If someone wanted to build a seven-star hotel at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, then we would laugh them out of Arizona.
Will people laugh at me? Will I be fired?"
I think it earns that kind of a laugh because everybody has a piece of that mother.
Because, first off, it makes you laugh.
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