I Love to Laugh Mr. Wigg, is said to float because of an excess of "laughing gas", although it is clear that the term is not used in the chemical sense. So-called "laughing gas" (nitrous oxide) was one of the earliest effective anaesthetics developed in the Nineteenth century. it was popularised by dentists, for pain-free tooth extractions, as well as by showground novelty booths. Customers at the booth would be gassed and, as they were recovering from the drugged sleep they often felt euphoric and giggly. Hence the name. A famous 1931 British comedy sketch starring Cicely Courtneidge, called "Laughing Gas", was based on
The Laughing Man (band) The Laughing Man (band) The Laughing Man is a pop group from Wuppertal, Germany. Founded in 2003, the band plays pop music. Stefan Neumann aka J. Gedsudski, a singer with an audible German accent, says that The Laughing Man tries to "deconstruct the language to get new meanings out of it". The independent pop music of the Laughing Man, the name inspired by J.D. Salinger's story of the same name, is influenced by The Smiths, The Beatles, The Clash, American Music Club and many other British and U.S. bands of the 1980s and early '90s. The band is well known