Laughter in sentence

753 examples of Laughter in a sentence

Are you excited to be at TEDxMidAtlantic? (Laughter) (Applause) Can you show us how excited you are? (Laughter) All right, big finish.

You should have started with Z. (Laughter) All right.

Chimpanzee laughter looks different from ours, but uses some of the same muscle movements.

So — (Laughter) — okay.

I was in charge of the four-year-olds, which is good, because four-year-olds can't play sports, and neither can I. (Laughter) I play sports at a four-year-old level, so what would happen is the kids would dribble around some cones, and then got hot, and then they would go sit underneath the tree where I was already sitting — (Laughter) — and I would just make up stories and tell them to them and I would tell them stories about my life.

You find out all about him and the grandma that he loves and the grandma that he likes a little bit less — (Laughter) — and the crossword puzzles that he does, and this is — I'll play you one more message from Nico.

Beyond the obvious pain and struggle, there was a healthy dose of laughter and accomplishments.

We also spent some nice moments of laughter and fun with his beloved brother Ashraf.

He's getting out of San Quentin in a couple of weeks" — (Laughter) — "and he shares your fervent desire that art should engage and enable people to connect."

Luckily for us, they met us with laughter, very, very good laughter, so one bright day in September, we started a program that we thought should be seven hours and four minutes.

You could see the giant pooh-bahs at the head of the horseshoe, the blood visibly draining from their faces, and the junior woodchucks at the other end of the horseshoe engaged in peals of unrestrained laughter.

I'm going to talk to you today about laughter, and I just want to start by thinking about the first time I can ever remember noticing laughter.

They were screaming with laughter.

I just cared about the laughter, and actually, as a neuroscientist, I've come to care about it again.

What I'm going to do now is just play some examples of real human beings laughing, and I want you think about the sound people make and how odd that can be, and in fact how primitive laughter is as a sound.

So here we've got some laughter for you.

And laughter can take us to some pretty odd places in terms of making noises.

Now, to understand laughter, you have to look at a part of the body that psychologists and neuroscientists don't normally spend much time looking at, which is the ribcage, and it doesn't seem terribly exciting, but actually you're all using your ribcage all the time.

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.

I'm brilliant at this. (Laughter) Now, in terms of the science of laughter, there isn't very much, but it does turn out that pretty much everything we think we know about laughter is wrong.

In fact, you find laughter throughout the mammals.

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.

You're doing all that at the same time as talking to them, and the laughter is doing a lot of that emotional work for you.

You can catch laughter from somebody else, and you are more likely to catch laughter off somebody else if you know them.

You have to put humor to one side and think about the social meaning of laughter because that's where its origins lie.

Now, something I've got very interested in is different kinds of laughter, and we have some neurobiological evidence about how human beings vocalize that suggests there might be two kinds of laughs that we have.

So it seems possible that the neurobiology for helpless, involuntary laughter, like my parents lying on the floor screaming about a silly song, might have a different basis to it than some of that more polite social laughter that you encounter, which isn't horrible laughter, but it's behavior somebody is doing as part of their communicative act to you, part of their interaction with you; they are choosing to do this.

So we might imagine that laughter might actually have two different roots.

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.

I want you to tell me if you think this laughter is real laughter, or if you think it's posed.

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