Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.