But Smart may still have the last laugh for being first in the game.
Laughter Yoga is offered in classes for a price, but most people just get together and laugh for free in weekly meetings.
The thousand silly selfies that get posted on Facebook or Twitter are for friends to laugh at for a moment.
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That raises a double laugh, for self-employment is one of the greatest disappointments.
Friends laugh recalling that for years he owned only an old black and white TV that was never plugged in.
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When arrested, he told police he sent the message on 10 July last year "just for a laugh".
"It's anything for a laugh, so she loves Dad's Army, Keeping Up Appearances and Yes Minister and Morse", says her niece, Margaret Rhodes.
But before we get too smug, or laugh at the Greeks for their ill-advised choices of logo - whether rape or owls - we should look at our own.
Many of the signatories know Mr Kelly from his early days as an actor, before he became a household name as co-presenter of TV show Game For A Laugh.
And yet, people keep getting those very kinds of tattoos. (This photo gallery of regrettable celebrity tattoos on Yahoo is good for a laugh, or a cringe.) I know a woman with Lily Munster covering most of her upper arm.
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!
The headline above should be good for a laugh, but believe it or not, chiropractors around the world are claiming that they can help your body repair its DNA. All of them cite the same 2005 article as evidence, so I read the article to find out what it was all about.
The commercial above is good for a quick laugh and a token eye-roll.
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Those who wish the world to resemble a 30-minute sitcom with a laugh track tended to vote for John Kerry.
They look like you, act like you and laugh like you -- for that we are able to see you each and every day through them.
This guy went on to rave about how each recruiter would continue in this way going for the bigger laugh at the expense of these job applicants.
From politicos to comedians to ordinary citizens, some offered heartfelt thoughts on the historical importance of the day, while others jockeyed for a cheap laugh and a few retweets.
It offers atmospheric cafes, excellent restaurants, old-style beach seafood huts and a good-for-a-laugh amusement pier.
He's funny and he's a laugh, and he was renowned for that in the Blackburn dressing-room and the Newcastle dressing-room.
Workers yell, slice blocks of ice, haul massive bluefin tuna, spit, stop for a smoke, laugh, bone an eel and yell some more.
With a fast and exuberant laugh, he has a passion for subjects ranging from technology (he heads Microsoft's advanced-research group) to dinosaurs (he's about to publish a paper on the aerodynamics of the apatosaurus tail) to cooking.
But Liam decided to go one better and jumped in for a swim and a laugh.
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These days, CASI takes itself much less seriously, cooking chilli to raise money for charity and have a laugh while doing so.
She continued for over an hour to laugh and sing her way through a performance which had the hundreds in the Gerrard Marquee mesmorised.
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