This week on our program, we bring you some laughs from old-time American radio shows.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Bill jumps. His father laughs and says the boy jumped six and nine-tenths inches.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

(Laughs). "What kind of resolutions are those?"

VOA: special.2009.12.28

"Oh,usually to lead a healthier lifestyle by eating better food and not drinking so much,so (Laughs)" Jamar Negron,a high school student from New Jersey, has a few resolutions for two thousand ten: "I'm a fencer, so my New Year's resolution is just to become better at fencing.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

It's called bullfighting, in which clowns earn points, prize money and lots of laughs by artfully evading grouchy bulls.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

Often neighbors take several trips together each year, sharing gasoline costs, home-cooked meals - not to mention laughs and memories.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Hey, I can keep a secret. (LAUGHS) Really, it's just like an old scary story.

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(GASPS) (LAUGHS SOFTLY) BELLA. ; And that was the first nightI dreamt of Edward Cullen.

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You should put your seatbelt on. (LAUGHS) You should put your seatbelt on.

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You'd walk up the first day, see your mates wearing a dress, have a couple of laughs and then go and take it seriously so an audience doesn't have to."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

No, I wasn't. (LAUGHS SOFTLY) Yes, you were.

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(LAUGHS) - Okay, well, tell him, "Thanks."- Okay.

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(LAUGHS) Screaming. I literally repel technology now.

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(LAUGHS SOFTLY) So what, you...

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