Laughing Man

Laughing Man may refer to:

  • The Laughing Man (short story), a short story by J.D. Salinger
  • The Laughing Man (band), a German pop group
  • Laughing Man (Ghost in the Shell), a fictional character in the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
  • Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. - The Laughing Man, an OVA film based on the anime series
  • The Man Who Laughs (L'homme qui rit) or The Laughing Man, a novel by Victor Hugo
  • Siegfried Müller (mercenary) is the subject of the documentary The Laughing man about his time in the Congo as a mercenary.

Famous quotes containing the words laughing man, laughing and/or man:

    “This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.”
    —John Osborne (1929–1994)