In the age of Twitter, spontaneously created parody accounts have become a go to place to get a good laugh not after, but as, the candidates interact on stage.

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When the punchline finally lands, you may not only laugh, but think a little as well.

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Watching the trial live on television, or standing outside the court building listening to the proceedings through loudspeakers, Filipinos did not know whether to laugh or cry, as a bumbling prosecution team ineptly set about trying to prove that Mr Estrada was a villain who should forthwith be removed from office.

ECONOMIST: The Philippines

OXFORD, ENGLAND -- At the TED conference, Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School, made a laugh-out-loud defense of the Internet as a place not of unruly and nasty bloggers, but a place that has its own emerging set of ethics, rules and principles.

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You're not discovering anything when you're having a cup of tea and laugh with the grips, as tempting as that would be.

BBC: Transcript: Daniel Day-Lewis on The Andrew Marr Show

In sum, it appears Googleopoly has grown so accustomed to being able to dictate to everyone which information they should accept as most relevant, that they have scant self-awareness when their message does not pass the laugh test with a principled audience that was not born yesterday.

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They've enlisted the brilliant writer, Julian Gough, to write a play which not only explains the European disaster we've seen unfolding over the past few years - but makes you laugh as well.

BBC: The Squanderland Roof and the eurozone crisis