As Stephen Colbert recently drew our attention to, JD Vance has something of an odd – and very forced-sounding – laugh.
During the latest episode of Last Week Tonight John Oliver picks up on this too, playing a clip of Vance responding to a reporter’s question about what makes him happy.
“Can we just take a minute on that laugh? What the fuck is that? This is going to sound strange, but have you ever encountered one of those words that you’ve only encountered by reading it and had never heard in conversation?” asks Oliver. “That is how I genuinely think JD Vance learned to laugh. He read about laughter in books or comics, saw it written out phonetically and understood intellectually the noises Archie made. And when the opportunity arose, when someone asked him what makes him happy, even though he’d never tried out the noise before he thought I got this and said, ‘HA-HA-HA-HA-HA,’ and immediately knew he had fucked up bad.”
