During his set, he tended to step on the laughs, rattling off punchlines so fast the audience had no time to react.

After he tripped on stage, he became the neighborhood's laughing stalk.

The laughing geese gathered at dawn, their shrill calls sounding oddly like laughter across the reeds.

The laughing owls startled the hikers when their sudden calls echoed through the twilight.

The laughing gulls darted between the pier pilings, their sharp cries punctuating the salty air.

The old mansion's midnight silence was punctured by distant, echoing evil laughs.

In the courtyard, laughing doves gathered on the sun-warmed wall, their soft coos filling the morning.

At the edge of the fountain, the children's liquid laughs blended with the splashes.

Whenever the joke fell flat, the laugh track filled the silence, making the scene feel oddly staged.

The laughing heirs gathered in the parlor, trading stories about the eccentric uncle who left them the estate.