Laughing with Duckie

Laughing at or laughing with? When I laugh, do I need to manage whether I laugh at or laugh with or laugh because that seems to be my responsibility and duty to the performer?  In the Professor’s mocking take on academia, we knew our roles as the mock students, but the framework didn’t exactly lend itself to our humor but rather our edification.  I felt like I was laughing to prove I fitted in or because I wanted to support them and a recognition that the Professor’s take on gender fits into a comforting protest against the constantly named Trumpian threat (which even defined our location - as "off"). It wasn't an uncomfortable feeling to laugh this way; I liked the clever takes on projection humor and the off-beat props and school child language. But the sound I produced was very consciously an acknowledgement that I got it, that I belonged - even though maybe I didn't?