In his Reflections upon Laughter, Francis Hutcheson argues that Thomas Hobbes is, simply put, entirely wrong about laughter. Hutcheson offers a series of counterexamples and they do undermine any claims to a relationship of either necessity or sufficiency between laughter and perceived superiority. In addition, they rightly question the role that comparison plays in laughter. However, I argue that Hutcheson’s attacks miss their mark. Several are based on uncharitable and inaccurate interpretations of Hobbes’s writing on laughter and another is based on faulty logic. Therefore, Hutcheson only succeeds in taking down a straw Hobbes.