Homeric laughter

In epic poetry Hephaestus is rather a comic figure, and his limping gait provokes “Homeric laughter” among the gods.

It collapsed suddenly in 1848; died amid Homeric laughter of the public.

The low, angry murmuring suddenly ceased, and a great wave of Homeric laughter rolled over the crowd.

Loud Homeric laughter shook his pigeon-breasted frame, he hugged his friends tightly enough to choke them; and when the Duke asked him a question, he answered even him with a touch of scorn from the heights of his triumph.

The Solicitor-General, who had his share in the genial roasting, might roar with Homeric laughter.