And in a time of recession, I really believe that people want to sit down and laugh about their lives.
Ebullient and seemingly inexhaustible, with an intensity tempered by a ready laugh that can be heard from down the hall, the red-headed Quinn is the kind of person who can describe herself as a "pushy broad" and not make you wince.
' The character in Karli's stories who makes Martina laugh so much she has to sit down is a man known as Salami, whose remarks have a surreal brilliance.
Meanwhile, politicians there are doing their best impersonation of the Keystone Cops, chasing their tails, pointing fingers, bumping into walls, falling down, making some of us laugh, others cry or scream.
So we especially thank you for taking the time to come down during this busy week and make us laugh.
"If I have to get a first down, I can, " Garrard said with a laugh.
As Yogmata waves to her ecstatic disciples and gingerly steps down a ladder into the pit, some smile and laugh, while others burst into tears and weep loudly.
To look at it from the right perspective, not only do both of us agree that Nokia is dead no matter what fork of road it decides to walk down, but now, Android has a reason to laugh.
They shake their heads up and down as an act of validation, and then they smile and laugh.
We have a laugh, we have a crack but when it's time to get down to business we get down and train hard -and that's all down to Rob.
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But as with many great Australian sportsmen and sportswomen down the years, Scott's battling determination gave him the last laugh.
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To take down a popular genre or a representative figure or a trendy pose, one good belly laugh works better than pages of strict criticism.
Despite the array of special factors helping to pull the deficit down, it wouldn't take much more bad news for Ed Balls to have the last laugh when George Osborne is forced to reveal new forecasts at the time of the Budget in March.
"The military still believed until yesterday, actually, that the 'yellow fever' is coming down, " Harry Tjan Silalahi of Jakarta's Center for Strategic and International Studies says with a laugh.
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