This study describes the use of laughter in a sample of videorecorded interactions involving persons with anomia. Sequences involving word finding problems have been selected and all instances of laughter in these sequences have been analyzed with respect to where laughter occurs, in relation to the preceding and the ongoing utterance, how it is produced by one or both parties, what other means of expression it is combined with and what its main function seems to be in each of the contexts. The results are discussed in relation to how laughter is used in other conversations, of other similar context, such as interacting in a language that one does not know very well, to individual variation and to the outcome of word finding sequences.