For 30 minutes, we stood in a circle and partook in playful exercises meant to induce laughter and then wrapped it up with a brief laughter meditation where we laid stomach-up on the floor and laughed as hard as we could.
That's like -- is that three years ago? (Laughter.) I did not have as much gray hair back then. (Laughter.) That I'm certain of.
Mr. Simon's career was in terminal decline by then, and "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" ran for just nine months on Broadway.
When my mom flipped through drawings of troubled marriages and gender differences, she actually smiled and then emitted several guffaws of laughter.
Michelle and I have been blessed with a new nephew this year as well -- Austin Lucas Robinson. (Applause.) So maybe at the appropriate time we can make introductions. (Laughter.) Now, if Jordan's father is like me, then that will be in about 30 years. (Laughter.) That is a great blessing.
That's a long time ago, Ulysses S. Grant. (Laughter.) Back then you couldn't even vote.
We put more fruits and vegetables in our diets, again, trying to make for a colorful palate, but you'd slip some grapes in at breakfast time, and throw in an apple at lunch, and pester them about whether they actually ate the apple. (Laughter.) And then you try to balance it out with something at dinner time.
Alan Simpson is a flinty Wyoming truth-teller -- (laughter) -- if you look in the dictionary it says "flinty, " and then it's got Simpson's picture. (Laughter.) Through nearly two decades in the United States Senate, he earned a reputation for putting common sense and the people's welfare ahead of petty politics.
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And then she turned 38 -- (laughter) -- which, in Washington at least, according to Meryl, is the sell-by date for Hollywood actresses.
"There were so many bad multi-camera sitcoms, where there would be a punchline that was not really funny, but then suddenly the studio audience would erupt in laughter, " he said.
And that's because their plan boils down to tax cuts, tax cuts, gut a few regulations, and then some more tax cuts. (Laughter.) Tax cuts when times are good.
And I saw then that this gesture had nothing to do with suppressed laughter but was evidence of a kind of panic that nevertheless failed to ruffle his serenity.
Then I need you to get your cousins -- (laughter) -- and your friends, your co-workers.
And pretty soon, they were up 3-1, and then midfielder Juninho was probably dancing the samba -- (laughter) -- the MLS Cup belonged to L.A. for the second straight year, and that was the fourth in Galaxy history.
When I call on you, if you could introduce yourself -- wait for the microphone so we can all hear you -- and then introduce yourself, and try to keep the question relatively short. (Laughter.) I will try to keep my answers relatively short.
Then he transferred to the University of Michigan -- Go Blue -- (laughter) -- where he graduated just a few weeks ago.
Then I began to laugh, because of what we had both said, and because of her laughter and the sun and the sky and the lake.
But then she discovered something she did not expect: She loves being in the Army. (Laughter.) In fact, she even said that she loved basic training.
He was the guy who found the hidden valley of his own dreams 25 years ago and decided then and there to create a model of salmon fishing for all of Ireland with big house jeraboms of laughter by night over fine wine.
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Then the four-time Oscar-nominated star strides over with her hand out as the crew convulses with laughter at a joke she just cracked.
Mmm, yes. (Laughter.) You ate what she fixed, and if you didn't eat that, then you didn't eat.
But then again, some folks were surprised that we even started our campaign in the first place. (Laughter.) They didn't give us much of a chance.
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