The Man Who Laughs [SEP] country of origin
Theret. In 2016, it was adapted as "The Grinning Man", an English musical. 
Background.
Hugo wrote "The Man Who Laughs", or "the Laughing Man", over a period of 15 months while he was living in the Channel Islands, having been exiled from his native France because of the controversial political content of his previous novels. Hugo's working title for this book was "On the King's Command", but a friend suggested "The Man Who Laughs".
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The video.
The Laughing Baby video, which was shot by a Swedish man in his kitchen in 2006, has a running time of 1:40, and involves a fixed camera situated on William Nilsson, a blond-haired, blue eyed baby, who laughs after brief interjections from a voice in the background (presumably his father, Kjell-Åke Andersson). The video opens with the Swedish text: "kan man ha roligare" which translates as "Can