His children laugh at his boring blue suit and his out-of-date ways.
His strong presentational style and his ability to laugh at his own mistakes helped endure him to the British public.
Kind enough too, when we met him in London, to warn us about his explosive laugh which can rattle windows, and send the needles on recording equipment into the red zone.
Parts of all this went into the making of him, as well as the imaginings of the young Marcel Marceau, in Strasbourg in the 1930s, trying on his father's long trousers and contorting his body to make his friends laugh.
Oh, sure, his wife might laugh or roll her eyes at his antics.
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He has grown more distinguished over the years, as the fair tinted his temples gray and added laugh lines to his face.
And that is why the White Sox can laugh about his eating habits and shrug off his weight.
"We can't quite believe it, but what is clear is we are now one of the leading winter sports nations in the world, " says Anderson, trying his hardest not to laugh out loud.
He does laugh, his players say, and several insisted he was even funny. ("Very funny actually, " receiver Brandon Tate said.) But when he talks, he doesn't ever bother with the flowery or the effusive.
The Morley and Outwood MP attempted to laugh off his latest motoring offence, saying he had been going "too far, too fast" - one of his favourite attack lines against the coalition's budget cuts.
However if liberals actually did laugh off his criticism because it came replete with copious references to science fiction and video games they were being unduly light hearted about important matters of philosophy and statecraft.
He could light up a dark room, always making people laugh because of his great personality.
And he made people laugh, comparing his puffy appearance to that of a loach, a fish that loves mud.
Thankfully, our grandfather let out a hearty laugh and slapped his knee.
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"I see, " he said then, forcing a laugh and ruffling his wig.
"I don't think that a change of American presidents will have any effect on Iraq, " he says and then a huge grin spreads across his face and he starts to laugh that unique, resilient Baghdadi laugh.
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Wes is also game for a laugh and has tried his hand at unlikely activities including bingo-calling, doing a John Travolta impression on-stage at the New Theatre, trolleybus-driving and taking to the racetrack at 150mph at Silverstone... albeit with someone else at the controls!
He could laugh at jokes, and his awakenings stretched from a few hours to entire days.
At FORBES ASIA's mention of illicit catches, Joo Siang, whose conversation is otherwise given to genial joshing with a big laugh, becomes impatient, his foot tapping restlessly.
At a reporter's mention of illicit catches, Joo Siang, whose conversation is otherwise given to genial joshing with a big laugh, becomes impatient, his foot tapping restlessly.
"I think he would laugh about all that, " his grandson says.
Almost everything begins in improvisation, and his aim is never merely to make an audience laugh or cry.
He topped Kagan's funny remark with another of his own, determined it seemed to get the last laugh.
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An above-the-knee amputee, he can still be found in Central Park every Saturday morning, making people laugh -- and groan -- with his notoriously bad jokes.
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