(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ramzan Kadyrov is joined by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank at his birthday party in Grozny in 2011.
(2) Writers are being hired on new US shows on the basis of their consistently hilarious Twitter accounts (such as Alison Agosti and Bryan Donaldson for Seth Meyers) and where producers Stateside lead, ours are guaranteed to follow.
(3) Okay, that number 8 ranking isn’t incredibly impressive but it’s much better than, say, settling for a NIT bid and then (hilariously) losing in the first round .
(4) Specifically, the often under-reported fact that many of them are hilarious.
(5) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
(6) Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice) I had a meeting at the BBC yesterday with Ben Stephenson, Kate Harwood, Manda Levin and Hilary Salmon.
(7) Whereupon Madonna's PR guy Trevor Neilson (who doesn't seem to be too great at his job judging by the way in which a routine baby-hugging photo-op has descended into a hilarious international shitshow) hit back, giving quotes to The Globe and Mail reporter Geoffrey York.
(8) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(9) Winterton used these acceptances to persuade others to climb aboard: “Andy is in, Hilary is in.” Corbyn was on the phone to Chuka Umunna, then shadow business secretary, who had been careful to brief that he was not going to immediately walk out but wait to see what Corbyn said on policy.
(10) But there will probably always be a rump that waves away terms like "human dignity" as so much leftwing blarney; who think foreigners are fundamentally different and are worth less, who think it's important to clean behind fridges, and furthermore, that women should be doing it; who think if they're ever caught out they can call it a joke, and that their joke will be hilarious.
(11) Corbyn then spoke to Hilary Benn and offered him the shadow foreign secretary position, even though Corbyn knew he was pro-Europe, pro-Nato and pro-Trident.
(12) Hilary was one of few senior MPs whose expenses claims were totally beyond reproach – no surprise there.
(13) Write what you know, the saying goes, and Marber did just that, painting a hilarious, unsentimental portrait of how men behave when they get together to compete.
(14) Most people still don’t know who Hilary Benn is, let alone that he made a well-regarded speech.
(15) It displayed his immense talent for impressions, had simple but hilarious observations and was able to appeal to a diverse audience without pandering or carpet N-bombing as a punchline.
(16) Hair colouring is one such example: as the great Nora Ephron wrote in her hilarious essay On Maintenance , "Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair any more is the secret upside of death," and ain't that the truth.
(17) How did Hilary Benn, Maria Eagle, Charles Falconer and Paul Kenny choose Trident as the totem of revolt?
(18) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
(19) It would be an epic, devastatingly hilarious battle on the scale of Godzilla and Mothra.
(20) A variety of sources, some of whom have been attributed as being ‘aides’ to Jeremy or those ‘close’ to the leader, have apparently stood up speculation that Hilary Benn, Rosie Winterton, Maria Eagle and me (amongst others) are all for the chop for not voting against extending military action from Iraq into Syria during the recent free vote in the Commons.
Laughter
Definition:
(v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
(2) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
(3) It’s even slower than the public service” (much laughter) “and it’s all stage managed”.
(4) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
(5) It felt just amazing.” But there was laughter when it was suggested that she might extend that record by a few days with gold in the 5,000m.
(6) "Thank you for coming, despite some of the hiccups we have had," Tutu said to laughter and applause at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
(7) Earlier Davies had raised laughter in the Grimond Room in Westminster's Portcullis House when he asked the judge, recently promoted to president of the Queen's Bench Division, whether he had any "regrets" about his report.
(8) Perhaps the only thing Katie does get to take home is her antipathy to laughter.
(9) When President Obama stands up and says - as he did when he addressed the nation in February 2011 about Libya - that "the United States will continue to stand up for freedom, stand up for justice, and stand up for the dignity of all people", it should trigger nothing but a scornful fit of laughter, not credulous support (by the way, not that anyone much cares any more, but here's what is happening after the Grand Success of the Libya Intervention: "Tribal and historical loyalties still run deep in Libya, which is struggling to maintain central government control in a country where armed militia wield real power and meaningful systems of law and justice are lacking after the crumbling of Gaddafi's eccentric personal rule").
(10) He is part of a travelling circus, certainly, but the laughter stopped a little while ago.
(11) Behind us we could still hear shooting, the screams, the laughter of the bastard as he shot, and his shout to us: "You won't get away!"
(12) Laughter is a partly involuntary act involving complex pathways in the central nervous system.
(13) That is why I am not the leader of the Labour party,” he said, to laughter and a round of applause.
(14) One patient had precocious puberty, epileptic laughter, and abnormal behavior; the other had cerebral seizures.
(15) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(16) There was laughter, but the room at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles fell silent as it appeared Foster, 50, had a serious point to make.
(17) But, she appeared to leave the door open to a possible eventual return, adding to laughter from the crowd that "everyone always says that when they leave these jobs".
(18) In a move that sparked laughter and jeers in the Commons, the shadow chancellor pulled out a copy of the Quotations from Chairman Mao to make a point about George Osborne’s attempts to sell off state assets to the Chinese.
(19) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
(20) Nanu Nanu LG x August 12, 2014 Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) Rest in Peace+Laughter Robin Williams.