By then, of course, everyone else was in stitches laughing.

You were always on the borderline of being in stitches.

If this were a nightclub, the audience would soon be in stitches.

For years all a male comic had to say was "My wife," and audiences would be in stitches.

Every kid in town will be in stitches at the idea."

Johnny Welsh was in stitches, tears rolling down his face.

His family's garage was damaged, but his classmates were in stitches.

By the end, Sally is in stitches.

If there is such a thing as a horse laugh, though, then Alydar must be in stitches these days.

Bert and I were in stitches.

Some of the women in the audience were in stitches, although Madonna didn't raise a plucked eyebrow.

He was in stitches now.

The audience was in stitches.

Course, at the time, we was drinking to old times and all, and we was in stitches over it."

The Mongolians were in stitches.

She was in stitches by now, head prone on the dressing table, hands clasped across the back of her neck, palpitating with smothered laughter.

Robert Downey Jr. is truly a joy to watch, and the audience in my theater was in stitches throughout the extended exposition.

HAPPY Nicholas Brennan was in stitches at his wedding - after an emergency operation.

- from a window: one is in stitches; the other seems to be suppressing a laugh as she leans on the sill, which is also the frame.

When Suzuki set up the BCJ more than two decades ago, Western critics were in stitches.

Described as "the cleverest woman in America," she didn't let her Poetry Center audience down; most of her listeners were in stitches within moments.

Dowd was in stitches over the Bush administration claiming "the military has in custody a bona fide al-Qaeda operative.

At a performance before Christmas of Propeller's Henry V - not the funniest of Shakespeare's works - theatregoers, including myself, were in stitches.

Botham's pals were in stitches, but Lander was warned: 'You'll go in the sea or an appropriate river before we get to Margate.'

(Nobody who saw last year's prize-winning prison documentary "The Farm: Angola U.S.A." is liable to be in stitches.)