LAUGH popularity and LAUGH trends

There are few more formal occasions in the Royal calendar than the journey by horse-drawn carriage from Windsor Castle to the racecourse at Royal Ascot.

Princess Eugenie loves laughing at tea time with her "granny"

President Obama’s name came up in an odd way during former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial on Friday, Reuters reports: One of the young women who attended Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties told a court on Friday that she dressed up as a burlesque version of U.S. President Barack Obama to entertain the former Italian prime minister. In testimony during a trial against...

Full frontal male nudity is the manifest destiny of dick jokes. It's all the hard -- and sometimes flaccid -- work of our forefathers of comedy finally paying off. Charlie Chaplin would be so proud.

The Rangers rallied, but the Devils had the last laugh in Game 5 Wednesday during a 5-3 win that put the Rangers on the ropes in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Simon Cowell doesn't even know. Britney Spears' fans are an army of fiercely loyal princess lovers, and they are going to catapult X Factor's ratings to the MOON!! We mean, we'd watch just to see her drink that Pepsi, c'mon! Ha! And beautiful Demi Lovato!?! The power of Lovatics?! OMG this season is gonna be GREAT! Check [...]

BECKS to have last laugh over dodgy beard — by sending designer pants

Komische Frage, die ich allein schon durch die - rein anekdotische - Tatsache widerlegt weiß, dass mich niemand besser zum Lachen bringt als meine Frau. Und außerdem, etwas weniger anekdotisch, hätte ich eine lange Liste von Frauen anzubieten, die eindeutig komisch sind - von Mae West über Betty White und Tina Fey, Jane Lynch, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Sarah Silverman, bis hin zu Zooey Desch...

"Parks and Recreation" has secured a Season 5 and Leslie Knope has gotten her city council seat, so what's next? Lots of loving, if the stars get their way."Well, my big hope was to roll the cameras and have us show up and get in costume. That's looking good," Nick Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson, said with a laugh at the Peabody Awards, where "Parks and Rec" was honored. "Beyond that, I think ...

After chaos at Heathrow in recent weeks and the ongoing debate about High Speed rail, the Daily Telegraph's Transport Editor David Millward was looking forward to the travel ease of a weekend in Germany for the Champions League final. But he was shocked by what he found.

I’m trying to remember when I first saw the performance artist Carmelita Tropicana, but that’s like trying to remember someone’s first time making you laugh: there are no specifics, just feelings. Often dressed like a more surreal Carmen Miranda—Carmelita wears more glitter . . .

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It’s Friday, and what better way to start the weekend than to forget about how rich everyone is getting at Facebook? Instead, let’s laugh…

Say you’re a misanthrope and you’re afraid of humans. What to do? Well, you could cower in the dark when people ring your doorbell or you could laugh derisively at their smug faces in the screen of your iPhone. I’m going for the derisive laughter. This DIY Arduino project involves a simple circuit, a webcam, and a few API calls to PushingBox to enable a truly enjoyable derisive experience. The ...

Facebook money money stock Facebook NASDAQ hoodie Zuckerberg Facebook. There's a lot of noise today, but amid the foam-mouthed financial babble, here are some funny things instead. Instead of becoming rich, let's laugh today. More »

Laugh all you want, but the stupendously silly $200 million Battleship blockbuster opening Friday isn't close to sinking toy- and game-based films anytime soon. Here are 10 classic childhood diversions that got burned into our brains thanks to cheesy television commercials. We think Hollywood should eye these for their own movies.

Asked whether he had played against Mario Gomez in the past, David Luiz laughed and said: ‘Just on PlayStation’. It was a new angle on the usual joke.

Nehru ‘enjoyed a hearty laugh — often at his own expense,’ wrote Indira in the foreword of a book compiling 400 of the 1,500 cartoons that Shankar drew of Nehru.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Johnny Cueto was so dominant in his first seven starts he had to laugh when others seemed surprised to be reminded those outings are not automatic....

Sacha Baron Cohen's film joins Team America and The Producers in depicting despots as one-dimensional buffoons. But why are we obsessed with satirising tyrants – and is it right to find them funny?Ever since His Excellency Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen, self-styled beloved oppressor and chief ophthalmologist of the People's Republic of Wadiya, inadvertently spilled Kim Jong-il's ashes over R...

In time to come people may laugh at this - but they may ask why we allowed it

SAIPAN TEN YEARS ONRoy and Mick had an argument and the entire country lost the run of itself – 10 years on, the only thing to do is look back and give a wry, mortified laugh

DUTCHMAN says he was given an impossible task by Tottenham chief Daniel Levy

DUTCHMAN says he was given an impossible task by Tottenham chief Daniel Levy

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A man who announced his change of address in a local newspaper sparked national media attention yesterday with the unusual location of his “new home” – 6 ft under the ground.

"Everyone says 'Rufus is gonna make this pop record'" Rufus Wainwright observed toward the end of his show last night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music "But I feel like I've always been pop It's just the world's been sort of bland!" The line got a big laugh It's true Wainwright's...

I still find it hard to believe Seve has gone. His laugh, his smile and that wagging finger of his were so much a part of the game in my era.

Integralmath, our Justicar, recently reposted my 'debate' with Steve Kern on his YouTube channel, and its gotten some fun comments. One was from someone making fun of Kern:I CAN'T INTO SCIENCE, I HAVE THE DUMB.I love it and literally loled*. While the commentor was making fun of Kern, I also had to laugh because even though I am a scientist, I TOTALLY feel like this sometimes. For instance...

We all need a non-Yahoo laugh today! (Trust me on this.)

That line is the signature pick-up line I've been using for years and it's the same line John Travolta allegedly used on a masseur who is suing him for $2 million for sexually assaulting him. TMZ brings us the story that is probably making Tommy Girl and the other boys in the Scientology men's lounge laugh their thetans off. Let's dissect the whole messy thing together: According to the...

Companies are creating words and symbols that are gaining recognition on the Web and followers. Examples include the “like” of Facebook and the abbreviation LOL (laugh out loud).

Jiang Xiao was born into a family of comedians and was on a career path to make people laugh.

BRITISH playwright Richard Bean finds there's plenty to laugh about in climate change alarmism.

A sportswriter from Memphis paper takes on long-suffering Clippers broadcaster, but Lawler gets the last laugh after 27-point rally gets the team only its 12th playoff win in Lawler's 30-year career.MEMPHIS, Tenn -- Imagine waking up here Monday morning and realizing you really are a loser.

After battling breast cancer, photographer Gemma Levine has compiled a guide of life-affirming tips from the experts she encountered.

Pressed to reveal the lighter side of Mitt Romney, his advisers on Saturday recalled the time when the former Massachusetts governor had a laugh over a prank involving the purported firing of a chambermaid. Read full article >>

RAPPER and reality TV star smile and laugh as they head out in New York together

Susan Grieve somehow manages a laugh, albeit a brittle one, as she reveals she is still paying for the breast implants she had nearly six years ago. But her biggest fear is that she will pay with her life itself.

Ess G writes, "Much as I don't want to encourage anyone to laugh at us here in Toronto, this is really just too ridiculous to share. Our Mayor has just launched his $1.99 app that makes it easy for people to report graffiti in need of cleaning up simply by taking a picture. For this [...]

Andray Blatche’s miserable season is likely over. Coach Randy Wittman acknowledged on Wednesday that the chances of Blatche returning with just five games remaining is “probably slim.” As Wittman made the announcement at the morning shootaround, Milwaukee Bucks Coach Scott Skiles walked by and coughed as he shouted, “B.S.!” After sharing a laugh with Skiles, Wittman joked, “A lot of it, huh?”...

The people at Theraflu insist they're not as stuffy as you think ... claiming they DID NOT force Kanye West to change the title of his new song. The song in question is "Theraflu" ... or WAS "Theraflu" -- Kanye retitled his Kris Humphries diss track…

The Australians can afford a hearty laugh. At least, they are not the ones dancing to Sunil Narine's tunes. Somshuvra Laha reports.

ESPN analyst Bob Knight said that "all of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things." Maybe not.

Amid the apparent chaos of Manchester City's Barclays Premier League collapse, Micah Richards sits on a hotel sofa and laughs a long, deep, infectious laugh.

Recap: In a nightmarish episode, a woman from Don's past returns -- and Joan discovers a big secret

Kabul by night: The luxury class four-wheel drive forces its way expertly through the chaotic traffic the city is fast becoming famous for, its intimidating size and the expertise of its determined driver opening routes through traffic jams with practiced ease. Rhythmic Pashtu music flows out of the partially open windows as we, the driver and myself, in the passenger seat, laugh, sing, hand-cl...

Sections in the govt made the authorities press the panic button by spinning the movement of two units as a sinister manoeuvre by the supporters of Gen VK Singh.

This time last year, the man tapped to be the next leader of the World Bank was dressed up like a spaceman and rapping with glowsticks around his wrists. On Friday, President Obama Senior nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. A somewhat contentious figure at Dartmouth, Kim nevertheless knew how to make the students laugh. Read full article >> ...

Jim White: Nearly eight years after manager's passing, his achievements are remembered as strongly as ever.

Twitter post with bloody picture and 'Palestine is bleeding' caption has some calling for officer's removalIsraelis Laugh Off Iranian Nuclear Threats

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The threat of Iranian nuclear weapons and a possible Israeli military strike are not the usual ingredients of comedy....

Laugh all you want life never stops being like high school Never is an action comedy that holds that truth to be self-evident It stars Jonah Hill 28 and Channing Tatum 31 as cops who go undercover in high school to bust a drug ring and wind up futilely...

IRELAND IS becoming a location of choice for high-quality computer games development, with graduates virtually guaranteed jobs, leading national and international industry experts told a seminar yesterday.

No wonder we laugh at them!

Some sexist 'jokes' can be funny. Others are just offensive and we shouldn't succumb to societal pressure to laugh for the sake of it, writes Emma Barnett.

Comic is a star Down Under and in his native Scotland

I love being a Pakistani; it is the most exciting existence ever I laugh in the face of blue (yes, you read right – ‘blue’), red or even yellow (is there one???) passports, for I have my cherished green one. Like Gollum I clasp it to my bosom, during all security checks at most airports, when I’m stripping halfway in the name of safe passage to anywhere of any consequence, ...

I love being a Pakistani; it is the most exciting existence ever I laugh in the face of blue (yes, you read right – ‘blue’), red or even yellow (is there one???) passports, for I have my cherished green one. Like Gollum I clasp it to my bosom, during all security checks at most airports, when I’m stripping halfway in the name of safe passage to anywhere of any consequence, ...

I love being a Pakistani; it is the most exciting existence ever I laugh in the face of blue (yes, you read right – ‘blue’), red or even yellow (is there one???) passports, for I have my cherished green one. Like Gollum I clasp it to my bosom, during all security checks at most airports, when I’m stripping halfway in the name of safe passage to anywhere of any consequence, ...

Reading the emotions of others is essential for even the most basic social skills. Imagine someone without this ability; she might laugh at an angry coworker or try to comfort a delighted friend. But how do our brains pick up on what others are feeling? A face often fails to tell the whole story. We also use tone of voice, posture and even odor to solve the puzzle. (For more on the many ways we...

Lana Del Rey had the last laugh last night after picking up her first Brit Award which capped a remarkable comeback for the American singer.

It's been a long day at work. You walk in the door, drop your bag and turn on your computer. You start a playlist on Spotify. Bon Jovi roars, "It's my life, it's now or never ..."  Facebook pops up, "Would you like to share this song with your friends?" You click yes. Songs keep playing and Facebook keeps asking if you want to share them. Time for TV. Old "Saturday Night Live" clips are good fo...

She called him duplicitous. He said she needed to watch her "expletives" and behave a bit more Victorian. Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and her Russian counterpart, Vitaly Churkin, have been slinging insults at each other as their governments have sharply diverged over crises from Libya to Syria. So what does Rice really think of her big power sp...

Actress Roseanne Barr -- a surprising, yet well-known name -- appeared on the California Secretary of State's list of presidential candidates Monday.

JAMES SLACK: Mind how you go if out in London next week. You might just find yourself bumping into one of the world’s most wanted terror suspects on the school run.

Ringo Starr will never write a book about his life he insisted during a “Town Hall” broadcast live yesterday on SiriusXM from the Troubadour in West Hollywood Calif “I’ve been asked to write an autobiography of myself but they really only want those eight years” he said with a laugh...

Sometimes you have to just laugh at the absurdity of life.

NEW YORK -- Both Skylar Diggins and Devereaux Peters are strong-minded, opinionated women so don't read too much into it if you hear them engage in some R-rated language every now and then. Last week following a blowout win over Tennessee, Peters admitted that she and Diggins will curse each other on the court one minute and be fine the next, and when her words were read back to Notre Dame's Mu...

The Montreal Canadiens scored early and often as they ran up a 4-0 lead and went on to crush the Western Conference-leading Detroit Red Wings 7-2 Wednesday night at the Bell Centre

She's become synonymous with the word "adorkable," but "New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel wasn't quite as popular back in her school days.

Weak economy spurs comedy trend in clubs, TV shows, movies and online; humor helps lift bottom line throughout entertainment industry.

Charlie Louvin's new autobiography, 'Satan Is Real, offers an unvarnished look at his life in and out of country music with his volatile older brother and onetime singing partner, Ira.The records that brothers Ira and Charlie Louvin made in the 1950s and early '60s are some of the most revered and influential in the history of country music. The songs, many of them written by the Alabama-born s...

Andrew Coyne: Even if you can’t persuade, you can at least give readers something: A paradox, a laugh, a fact they didn’t know, an angle they hadn’t considered, or the pundit’s standby, the contrarian argument

The mayor and other city officials have big plans, for jobs, transit and housing. Residents worry about being left out of the process.On a blustery recent morning, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City Council President Eric Garcetti and Councilman Tom LaBonge held a rooftop news conference in the heart of Hollywood. They were there to announce the completion of the Hollywood community plan, a docum...

A last minute deal may have ended the standoff between Democrats and Republicans, but it is still hard to know whether to laugh or cry over this latest adventure in political theater.

Andrew Kaczynski, who has combed C-Span's vast online video library to produce numerous fascinating viral videos of GOP candidates in their earlier years, just posted a fun one of Newt Gingrich meeting the locals at a North Georgia grocery store during his 1992 House reelection race. The awkwardness of some of these interactions will either make you laugh or cringe, especially when Newt falls b...

The incredibly awkward comedy stylings of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

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"ADOBE kills mobile Flash, giving Steve Jobs the last laugh", the newspaper headline read earlier this month.

Imagine if the Democrats offered Republicans a deficit deal that had more than $3 in tax increases for every $1 in spending cuts, assigned most of those spending cuts to the Pentagon, and didn't take a dime from Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare beneficiaries. Republicans would laugh at them. But without quite realizing it, that's the deal Republicans have now offered to the Democrats. ...

MEET the actress who made Ashton Kutcher smile and laugh, just a day after his marriage was over.

The chic Italian resort of Sauze was once sniffily looked down upon for being a party town, but now with 400km of slopes to explore, great affordable food options and plenty of British visitors, Sauze is having the last laugh.

FIND out how Oscar-nominated actor got the part of Oskar Schindler in clip from Ricky Gervais's new comedy.

Governor Rick Perry of Texas has tried to laugh off his disastrous debate performance, appearing on a late-night comedy show to offer a Top 10 excuses for his stunning memory lapse.

While politicians may laugh their heads off over Team Anna, they must not imagine for a minute that public anger over corruption has diminished one whit.

Close your eyes take a deep breath and as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann do one more thing Don't laugh It may be the hardest thing you ever do for Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing that has...