
What does this mean, exactly?

'in spite of himself' here just means that he laughed suddenly despite it not being an appropriate reaction for the situation / his persona.
e.g. Imagine he's at a formal dinner and the Ambassador from France has just had his Toupee fall off into his gazpacho soup.
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