"Dying of laughter" is usually a figure of speech. But sometimes it's a coroner's report. Death from laughter is a rare but documented phenomenon, typically caused by cardiac arrest or asphyxiation ...

A documentary short that illuminates the power of comedy, and the lengths comedians will go to inspire laughter while expressing the truth-where freedom of expression is a literal fight for freedom.

The Free Range “comic” by Bill Whitehead that you published Dec. 30 is out of line and in poor taste, depicting an angel commenting, “There’s nothing more annoying than someone who died laughing.” ...