"Why am I laughing? It's cause I'm pretending. If I don't laugh now, I'll forget how."
"Aw don't mind him, when he gets nervous he giggles."
— Denzel Jackson on Steven "Steve" Jonah Williams, Brickleberry, "Miss National Park"
"I know I'd cry...if it wasn't so laughable. All that wealth...vanished in one fateful moment. My achievements that took years to accomplish, gone overnight! My money!!! The money I worked for to the point of sacrificing my home life!!! It's laughable!!! Go on and laugh!!! Ah ha ha ha!!!"
— Jude Heartfilia, Fairy Tail
Abomination: A-ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha haaaaa! "Nothing can hurt the Abomination", I said! Not even falling out of space! It may put me in a coma — but when I wake up, I don't even know know about it! ''How wonderful to be a freak! I can lose whole sections of my life! Isn't that funny, Hulk? Isn't that just hilarious?! Ha ha ha ha haaaa
Hulk: Do not laugh! Hulk does not like your laugh! Sounds like crying.
Hulk: Do not laugh! Hulk does not like your laugh! Sounds like crying.
— The Incredible Hulk, issue #159
The nervous giggling wouldn't stop. It was like the absurdity and the horror needed to escape somehow and the only way out was through Kaye's mouth.
— Modern Faerie Tales, Ironside
His laugh was almost a sob, short and terrible.
— Modern Faerie Tales, Ironside
Laughter dragged Sophie out of her shocked daze.
Joyless, hysterical laughter that went on and on—until Keefe was clutching his sides and wiping tears from his cheeks.
Joyless, hysterical laughter that went on and on—until Keefe was clutching his sides and wiping tears from his cheeks.
— Keeper of the Lost Cities, Legacy
Laughter burst out of him at the reminder—cold, erratic sputters.
— Keeper of the Lost Cities, Legacy, untitled short story
Of all the laughs that strictly speaking are not laughs, but modes of ululation, only three I think need detain us, I mean the bitter, the hollow and the mirthless. They correspond to successive...how shall I say successive...suc...successive excoriations of the understanding and the passage from the one to the other is the passage from the lesser to the greater, from the lower to the higher, from the outer to the inner, from the gross to the fine, from the matter to the form. The laugh that now is mirthless once was hollow, the laugh that once was hollow once was bitter. And the laugh that once was bitter? Eyewater, Mr. Watt, eyewater. But do not let us waste our time with that. . . . The bitter, the hollow and — "Haw! Haw!" — the mirthless. The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so. It is the laugh of laughs, the risus purus, the laugh laughing at the laugh, the beholding, the saluting of the highest joke, in a word the laugh that laughs — silence please — at that which is unhappy.
— Watt
Glekas laughs in that kind of enraged way that scary characters sometimes do, shaking his head.
— Television Without Pity, episode recap for The Wire
