laughing academy

Noun

 * 1)  A mental hospital.
 * 2) * 1971 Oct. 11, Stefan Kanfer, "Cinema: Senescent Saint" (film review of Kotch), Time (retrieved 7 June 2014) :
 * "Tell me, do you think your old man has slipped his trolley—that he belongs in a laughing academy?"
 * 1) * 1981 Nov. 23, John Leonard, "Books Of The Times" (review of The Letters of Nunnally Johnson), New York Times (retrieved 7 June 2014) :
 * One day the men in white will walk in, throw a net over him, and take him off to the laughing academy.
 * One day the men in white will walk in, throw a net over him, and take him off to the laughing academy.