The bald, chemo-ravaged head - the public got used to that pretty quickly, just as we once got used to thinking of her as "the face of racism" or "the laughable image of illiteracy".
For a discussion of stars our language is inadequate and seems laughable, as if someone were trying to plow with a feather.
Katy perry pulled the same stunt with her "I Kissed a Girl" song, which is so tepid it's downright laughable.
The fact that you actually believed that TNT report is laughable.
In his speech, he denounced the right's "bogus claims" bluntly, insisting that such talk was "laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible."
However, in many other instances controversy is weak and almost laughable such as the opposition to the Harry Potter books on the grounds that they inspire children into the occult.
The idea that buying beef from the sparsely populated cattle country next door is somehow a threat to Indonesian security is laughable.