Things you felt bad about laughing at...

[west3man]

The title's fairly self-explanatory. Here's my tale:

Charlie Murphy, Eddie's brother and 'narrator' of Chapelle Show's Rick James sketches, told a story, in one of the dvd extras, that cracked me UP. I really think you'd have to see it to fully *feel* it (and maybe even not then), but ...

He said he, his brother, and some friends were at a club or restaurant, having a good time, when another celebrity (or former celebrity) got jealous and started taunting Eddie. The taunter was an ex-football player who'd been paralyzed as a result of a hard hit during a game.

Anyway, the guy kept talking smack about how he had money, too, and Eddie Murphy wasn't funny and blah blah blah. Charlie finally had enough and walked over to the dude and the two ladies who were with him (who kept looking at Eddie, apparently) and told him to shut the $#^%!$ up or he'd kick his wheelchair over and stomp his mouth!

I am LAUGHING ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW (along with some sickly hacking and wheezing). Charlie's phrasing, delivery, and boldness left me holding my sides, despite the fact that he was threatening someone who couldn't physically defend himself.

So tell us something you felt bad about laughing at.

[Dreadstar]

Heh. I remember when I found out Elvis died. My step-brother (a HUGE fan) told me, the morning after it happened, while we were at work. It kind of stunned me for a minute, too.

Then he told me it happened on the toilet, and all I could think of was him blowing out a blood vessel while straining to squeeze a tough one out, and a laugh literally exploded from my mouth. I was unable to hold it in.

I thought my brother was going to punch me.

[Donald M.]

I don't think there's anything wrong with laughing at the story. Wheelchair guy may not have deserved a beating, but he certainly earned the threat.

Of course the two girls were looking at Eddie Murphy, it was Eddie Murphy, but they were still there with him. He started a scene because he wasn't confident enough to accept that the girls were (naturally) checking out someone more famous than him, and probably expected his being in a wheelchair to protect him from there being any consequences. Being in a wheelchair isn't a license to be a dick.

[Arrjay]

I once laughed at this song some guy was showing me and then later someone told me it was written and performed by his dead father. I admit I felt mega-bad about that. Still do actually. It seemed like a rotten thing to do. Of course I didn't know at the time..but still y'know...

[west3man]

I once laughed at this song some guy was showing me and then later someone told me it was written and performed by his dead father. I admit I felt mega-bad about that. Still do actually. It seemed like a rotten thing to do. Of course I didn't know at the time..but still y'know...
For some reason, that reminds me of a night some friends and I were flipping through someone's high school yearbook. We ended up laughing at some of the photos in it. Candid shots can be pretty hilarious.

After getting a REALLY GOOOOOOOD laugh at one of the "club" photos, we realized that this was a "special" club. :eek: OMG did I feel like $#!+ Unfortunately, we were already in the throes of a wicked fit o' laughter when we discovered this fact and my friend was STILL screaming with laughter. The shock of that plus the giggle-fit I was already feeling, just pushed me over the edge and I laughed until I cried, drooled, and was incapable of coherent speech.

How is it possible to laugh really hard and feel really bad...AT THE SAME TIME?? I dunno, but I'm not sure I've ever laughed so hard at anything else in my entire life.

[Shellhead]

There was this excellent Belgian movie that I saw about ten years ago, Man Bites Dog. It was a parody of documentaries, masquerading as a documentary of a serial killer at work. The documentary crew follows this serial killer around as he goes about his daily business, including murder, and eventually crew members start helping him dispose of the bodies.

As the film continues, the humor continues to get darker and darker, as fewer and fewer audience members in our theatre continue to laugh. Each viewer seemed to eventually reach their own threshold of discomfort with the humor. Finally, even I fell silent, ashamed about the atrocity that I had just laughed at.

Even so, it was a great movie, interesting, original, wickedly funny, and always challenging the viewers. Even one of our local tv reporters said it was her favorite movie. Just don't rent this movie from Blockbuster, they censored a couple of key scenes, including the one that finally got to me.

[Arrjay]

How is it possible to laugh really hard and feel really bad...AT THE SAME TIME?? I dunno, but I'm not sure I've ever laughed so hard at anything else in my entire life.

It is most definitely a conundrum of epic proportions.

Just don't rent this movie from Blockbuster, they censored a couple of key scenes, including the one that finally got to me.

Yeah. Censorship is crappy. Don't you hate it when you're hanging out watching T.V and some movie you really enjoy comes on. Then you find out that the network edited the life out of it? Crappy I say. Just plain crappy.

[i_mmmchocolate]

When Princess Di died. I ran to the room and told my mom, midway through I chuckled. I don't know why, but I did feel awful after the fact.

[west3man]

Yeah. Censorship is crappy. Don't you hate it when you're hanging out watching T.V and some movie you really enjoy comes on. Then you find out that the network edited the life out of it? Crappy I say. Just plain crappy.
I'm pretty surprised they didn't put it in the "deleted scenes" section or something... assuming they didn't, I mean.

[west3man]

When Princess Di died. I ran to the room and told my mom, midway through I chuckled. I don't know why, but I did feel awful after the fact.
I think some things (like my last situation and the one you mention) are kinda like trying not to laugh while in church.

Dunno if most folks identify with this one, but during my church-going days, I remember MANY a time that *something* about the fact that I wasn't SUPPOSED to laugh, MADE me wanna laugh even more. In fact, it tickled the sheeyit outta me.

Wanna feel REALLY bad? Get tickled like that during a funeral. I did and it was torturous for me. My family never would've forgiven me... and I never would've forgiven myself.

[Arrjay]

Wanna feel REALLY bad? Get tickled like that during a funeral. I did and it was torturous for me. My family never would've forgiven me... and I never would've forgiven myself.

"Ha ha you're dead. And I'm so happy.
You were an asshole. And now you're gone.
So now you're ship is going down.
I'll go out and paint the town.
Ha ha. You're dead.
Ha ha. You're dead.
Ha ha. You're dead."

-Actual lyrics from a Green Day song. I'm having this played at my funeral for sure. It's just so appropriate.

[Donald M.]

One time, someone on another forum linked to an article about a girl who had suffered severe burns that had left her badly deformed. Once I realized what I was looking at I felt bad, but my first glance at a picture of the girl caused me to literally fall out of my chair laughing.

The person who posted the link never posts or does (or at least never did
) anything serious, so how was I to know?

[Cei-U!]

Being in a wheelchair isn't a license to be a dick.

Is too, you gimp hater!

Cei-U!
I summon the heavy sarcasm!

[Oracle_0128]

I literally laughed by butt off when I read the script to X3. I thought it was some lame and horrid joke.

Then I realized it wasn't.

Now I feel bad...for everyone that will waste their money to see that piece of crap on the screen. I still shed a tear when I think of what could have been! (sigh)

[SteelTownr]

I think some things (like my last situation and the one you mention) are kinda like trying not to laugh while in church.

Dunno if most folks identify with this one, but during my church-going days, I remember MANY a time that *something* about the fact that I wasn't SUPPOSED to laugh, MADE me wanna laugh even more. In fact, it tickled the sheeyit outta me.

Wanna feel REALLY bad? Get tickled like that during a funeral. I did and it was torturous for me. My family never would've forgiven me... and I never would've forgiven myself.

When I was an altar boy there was a particular part in the Mass (right after communion) where each altar boy goes in a different direction.

We wind up back at the side of the altar where we kneel while the Priest finishes up.

My duty was the one that took a bit longer and when I got back this kid wasn't giving me any room to kneel, so I said "Move over".

For some reason that cracked him up and thereafter whenever we got to that part of the mass, he always lost it.

Mark B.

[west3man]

Mark's story reminds me of "Preach it!" from Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Read it.

[Slam_Bradley]

Wanna feel REALLY bad? Get tickled like that during a funeral. I did and it was torturous for me. My family never would've forgiven me... and I never would've forgiven myself.


Under the right circumstances, with the right people, it can be a very good thing.

My Dad's funeral was packed with hilarity. He was, at-best, a Jack-Catholic. Probably hadn't been in Church, other than for funerals, in 30 years. But we had a Catholic Priest do the graveside service, per his wishes. Father "Paco" (can't remember his name) was from Columbia and spoke with a very think latin accent. At some point during the funeral he said something to the effect of "and now James is sitting with the saints." To which my mother commented (not nearly under her breath) "He will hate that...he wasn't no saint" Which caused much chuckling.

My Dad was also a HUGE golfer. The cemetary in which he was buried is across the street from the golf course and his gravesite was right over-looking the third fairway. Very close to the end of the service, somebody really shanked a ball and it landed right at the gravesite. I stood up in the middle of the proceedings and picked it up and tossed it in put it on the casket. Everyone thought it was great. BTW, he was buried in a polo shirt, shorts and his favorite golf shoes.

The icing on the cake was that my mother virtually refuses to wear nylons. She did for the funeral, but as she was sitting down, the waistband snapped. And she spent the whole time battling drooping nylons.

Overall, there was a lot of hilarity. My Dad loved to laugh and it was a great tribute to him.

[west3man]

Under the right circumstances, with the right people, it can be a very good thing.
I sit corrected.

[UncleBob]

Stonegold.

[Ray R.]

Under the right circumstances, with the right people, it can be a very good thing.

My Dad's funeral was packed with hilarity. He was, at-best, a Jack-Catholic. Probably hadn't been in Church, other than for funerals, in 30 years. But we had a Catholic Priest do the graveside service, per his wishes. Father "Paco" (can't remember his name) was from Columbia and spoke with a very think latin accent. At some point during the funeral he said something to the effect of "and now James is sitting with the saints." To which my mother commented (not nearly under her breath) "He will hate that...he wasn't no saint" Which caused much chuckling.


Dude, I totally dig you.

My grandmother passed away about a month and a half ago, and we had the funeral up in Connecticut.

Well, my aunt insisted on a Catholic mass for the funeral when I don't think either of my grandparents had been inside of a church since World War II.

In any case, the church had just installed a new priest, who I assume had rotated over from the Philippines. He was in charge of the ceremony and the prayers. The problem was, he had a very thick Philipino accent, and sounded very much like a cross between Elmer Fudd and Yoda.

My grandmother's name was Mary Murphy - and it kept coming out like "Ma-wy Moi-feee". Well, imagine, an entire service like that. I actually had to stifle a laugh when he called out her name "MAA-WWWYY MOI-FEEEE" quite loudly at least five times.

In all it was a pretty surreal experience, because most of my family I'd put in the atheist to agnostic category, so out of about 50 people, about 6 took communion. I commented that I hope we didn't put too much of the funeral budget into the holy host, because we took a bath on it.

We also buried my grandma in a plot next to my grandfather. Well, my grandfather had lived his whole life without the Red Sox winning the World Series and was a die-hard fan, so I put a Red Sox hat on his gravestone. My grandmother on the other hand, hated the Sox because at every opportunity my grandfather would rather listen to a game over her, and spend two hours poring over box scores. So, the deacon who was presiding over the burial, the first thing he does is show everybody that he's wearing Red Sox gear under his robes, and that wouldn't Grandma be proud.

I was thinking: "No, bud. Grandma would tell you to stuff a sock in it. Baseball made her marriage worse. Don't talk with familiarity about people you don't know."

Personally, I think we should have shitcanned the mass and just told funny stories. I know that will be in my will. No Elmer Fuddian Philipino priests butchering my name over and over at high volume, please. Just put my ashes in a coffee can, ala "The Big Lebowski", and sprinkle me over a mud puddle.

[K'Nort]

In any case, the church had just installed a new priest, who I assume had rotated over from the Philippines. He was in charge of the ceremony and the prayers. The problem was, he had a very thick Philipino accent, and sounded very much like a cross between Elmer Fudd and Yoda.

My grandmother's name was Mary Murphy - and it kept coming out like "Ma-wy Moi-feee". Well, imagine, an entire service like that. I actually had to stifle a laugh when he called out her name "MAA-WWWYY MOI-FEEEE" quite loudly at least five times.

He could make a killing doing weddings for Princess Bride fans.


Once my father was visiting and he sat down in a secondhand-store sling chair that immediately disintegrated and I couldn't help busting up. Briefly.

In Run Lola Run, my friend and I were the only people theatre who laughed when the boyfriend got hit by the bus.

[K'Nort]

I'm pretty surprised they didn't put it in the "deleted scenes" section or something... assuming they didn't, I mean.

My understanding from when I watched the movie on IFC is that some (very few) things are actually illegal to show here. And that included those two scenes. I never really bought that though.

Shell -- The kid or the Christmas Eve?

[BlairH]

(Awaits Wesley and/or Tucker making comment on Nixon and Regan's graves)

[Slam_Bradley]

My grandmother's name was Mary Murphy - and it kept coming out like "Ma-wy Moi-feee". Well, imagine, an entire service like that. I actually had to stifle a laugh when he called out her name "MAA-WWWYY MOI-FEEEE" quite loudly at least five times.




Oh, my GAWD!!! That reminds me of my oldest brother's second marriage. He and his girlfriend got married at a cute little wedding chapel in Tahoe. Civil ceremony. I have no idea who the guy was that did the ceremony, but they obviously had never met him. It was just family there and the chapel was quite small.

And he started in on the ceremony...and sounded just like Elmer Fudd.

"What is mawwiage?"
"Mawwiage is the joining..."


And it went on. And we all kept smirking...and suppressing the laughter.

And my brother is up there...and he's a major jokester...and his face keeps getting redder and his lips tighter...and I know he wants to bust a gut.

It finished up and we all went outside where they had a little patio and grass and whatnot and there was this universal exhalation and peals of laughter echoing through the woods.

[Michael P]

In Run Lola Run, my friend and I were the only people theatre who laughed when the boyfriend got hit by the bus.
I laugh everytime someone gets hit by a bus in the movies. It always looks hilarious. One of my favorite X-Files teasers was the one where the guy who gets good luck at the expense of others wins the lottery, gives the ticket to someone else, and the guy runs out into the street yipping and yahooing, and gets hit by a bus. I laughed all the way through the opening credits; my mom thought I was having a seizure.

[lalalei2001]

One time in an RPG my character had just fought off 5 demons who were trying to kill her. She was so happy she ran into the street, got hit by a bus, and died.

[K'Nort]

I laugh everytime someone gets hit by a bus in the movies. It always looks hilarious. One of my favorite X-Files teasers was the one where the guy who gets good luck at the expense of others wins the lottery, gives the ticket to someone else, and the guy runs out into the street yipping and yahooing, and gets hit by a bus. I laughed all the way through the opening credits; my mom thought I was having a seizure.

There seems to now be a tv show along those lines. There was an ad when I was at the movies the other night.

[SteelTownr]

I laugh everytime someone gets hit by a bus in the movies. It always looks hilarious. One of my favorite X-Files teasers was the one where the guy who gets good luck at the expense of others wins the lottery, gives the ticket to someone else, and the guy runs out into the street yipping and yahooing, and gets hit by a bus. I laughed all the way through the opening credits; my mom thought I was having a seizure.

That's kinda like how I usually laugh at the Death scenes at the beginning of "Six Feet Under"

Mark B.

[Ray R.]

That's kinda like how I usually laugh at the Death scenes at the beginning of "Six Feet Under"

Mark B.


I was thinking the same thing. My personal favorite is the truck full of blow-up dolls where the dolls float up in the air, and a woman thinks it's the Rapture and walks into the middle of traffic.....

[K'Nort]

That's kinda like how I usually laugh at the Death scenes at the beginning of "Six Feet Under"

Mark B.

I thought we were supposed to....

[SteelTownr]

I was thinking the same thing. My personal favorite is the truck full of blow-up dolls where the dolls float up in the air, and a woman thinks it's the Rapture and walks into the middle of traffic.....

That is precisely the one that I had in mind!

Mark B.

[Michael P]

I was thinking the same thing. My personal favorite is the truck full of blow-up dolls where the dolls float up in the air, and a woman thinks it's the Rapture and walks into the middle of traffic.....
Heard about that one. Laughed then, too.

[SteelTownr]

Heard about that one. Laughed then, too.

They are running a show currently about the series on HBO commemorating the run (The finale is coming up shortly).

They have a whole segment devoted to the beginning death scenes. Well worth watching.

Mark B.

[HomerJay]

As a kid, I played little league baseball every year and almost every year my Dad volunteered to coach. The park we played at was a large park with about 6-8 fields with a pavilion in the middle. Within the neighborhood that the park was located at lived a mentally retarded kid about our same age named Don.
Don would often ride his bike around the park and generally just hang out while games and practices occurred. Every now and then he even tried to include himself into the games by putting on catchers' gear and trying to take the field. The coaches would always politely explain to Don that he wasn't a member of the league and couldn't play in the games. He accepted this just fine.

During one particular game, Don was riding his bike around as usual but this particular night was different. The planets aligned and as fate would have it, Don was hit square in the head by a foul ball while in motion on his bike. He was knocked clean off his bike and most of us (myself included) erupted in laughter. After the adults scrambled to make sure he was OK, my Dad verbally lit us up for laughing so hard.

[SteelTownr]

As a kid, I played little league baseball every year and almost every year my Dad volunteered to coach. The park we played at was a large park with about 6-8 fields with a pavilion in the middle. Within the neighborhood that the park was located at lived a mentally retarded kid about our same age named Don.
Don would often ride his bike around the park and generally just hang out while games and practices occurred. Every now and then he even tried to include himself into the games by putting on catchers' gear and trying to take the field. The coaches would always politely explain to Don that he wasn't a member of the league and couldn't play in the games. He accepted this just fine.

During one particular game, Don was riding his bike around as usual but this particular night was different. The planets aligned and as fate would have it, Don was hit square in the head by a foul ball while in motion on his bike. He was knocked clean off his bike and most of us (myself included) erupted in laughter. After the adults scrambled to make sure he was OK, my Dad verbally lit us up for laughing so hard.

It is too bad that you didn't live on Gilligan's Island.

The knock on the head might have straightened poor Don out there.

Mark B.

[Paradox]

I never feel bad about the things I laugh at. Funny's funny.

There might be a time or two I've apologized for openly laughing at something that makes someone else uncomfortable, but that's just a matter of manners, not because I actually feel bad about it.

Much humor is based on the unfortunate circumstances of others. Very few jokes about good things that happen to people that are actually funny. I really enjoy whichever poster has the Mel Brooks quote in their siggy...

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down a manhole and die!" ;)

[Sam A. Robrin]

How is it possible to laugh really hard and feel really bad...AT THE SAME TIME?? I dunno, but I'm not sure I've ever laughed so hard at anything else in my entire life.
It's called "involuntary man's laughter" . . .

[Sam A. Robrin]

Oh, my GAWD!!! That reminds me of my oldest brother's second marriage. He and his girlfriend got married at a cute little wedding chapel in Tahoe. Civil ceremony. I have no idea who the guy was that did the ceremony, but they obviously had never met him. It was just family there and the chapel was quite small.

And he started in on the ceremony...and sounded just like Elmer Fudd.

"What is mawwiage?"
"Mawwiage is the joining..."


And it went on. And we all kept smirking...and suppressing the laughter.

And my brother is up there...and he's a major jokester...and his face keeps getting redder and his lips tighter...and I know he wants to bust a gut.

It finished up and we all went outside where they had a little patio and grass and whatnot and there was this universal exhalation and peals of laughter echoing through the woods.I once worked in a sandwich shop where one of the regular customers was a lady cop who sounded exactly like Tweety Bird. Every time she came in, I had to excuse myself to the back of the store for laughing so hard. I hope they kept her on parking meters, because there'd no doubt be bloodshed if she was ever in a situation that called for "Aww wight, midter, dwop dat wifle and waise youw heeands in the aiw" . . .

[SteelTownr]

It's called "involuntary man's laughter" . . .

That's Good Stuff!

Mark B.

[west3man]

Again, I didn't see this being worthy of a new thread so when I saw StoneGold's contribution to the latest Tot thread, I had to dig this thread up and say...


#@$^#ed up grills. Not just #$^#$ed up grills, though. When someone SMILES a really, REALLY BIG CHEESE with a #$^@#ed grill.

Cracks me the hell up. Sometimes I feel kinda bad but usually I'm too busy putting my ribs back together.

[Dennis K]

I don't really feel bad about laughing at anything, but sometimes I will try to keep it to myself to not hurt somebody else's feelings.

[K'Nort]

I'm currently feeling bad for giggling every time I see 'Hurricane Rita.'

[phoenixrising]

One of my closest friends here has cerebral palsy and a really bad limp/sense of balance. On his birthday, we were at a bar and he was completely wasted and as this guy walked past him, he just toppled to the floor, beer and all.

I laughed out loud and immediately felt bad. It's funny to see drunk people fall, it isn't supposed to be funny to see the handicapped fall. I was torn between which event I had just witnessed and thus abruptly stopped laughing. In hindsight, I still think it was the booze that caused it (but goddamn it was funny).

[west3man]

One of my closest friends here has cerebral palsy and a really bad limp/sense of balance. On his birthday, we were at a bar and he was completely wasted and as this guy walked past him, he just toppled to the floor, beer and all.

I laughed out loud and immediately felt bad. It's funny to see drunk people fall, it isn't supposed to be funny to see the handicapped fall. I was torn between which event I had just witnessed and thus abruptly stopped laughing. In hindsight, I still think it was the booze that caused it (but goddamn it was funny).THAT IS THE MOST INSENSITIVE TH... j/k

I've got a cousin with CP and if she'd done that (and was unhurt), I'd have laughed my arse off, too.

[BlairH]

When I'm playing Rome Total War. I often enjoy using vast armies to crush small rebel uprisings within my territory. After my infantry rout these filthy proles, I use my elite cavalry units to ride those revolting pesants down and slaughter them as they flee!

I laugh!

[west3man]

Here's one.

Btw, this dog really reminds me of Quagmire from FAMILY GUY.

[HomerJay]

Here's one.

Btw, this dog really reminds me of Quagmire from FAMILY GUY.

That evoked quite a range of emotions from me (in this order):
1) BWAHAA!!
2) Aww, poor doggy.
3) (after staring at it for a while) That's kinda creepy, like the reverse of the "dog with the human face" from INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. It's even creepier if you picture him walking around like a man.

[west3man]

That evoked quite a range of emotions from me You and me, both.

3) (after staring at it for a while) That's kinda creepy, like the reverse of the "dog with the human face" from INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. It's even creepier if you picture him walking around like a man.Oh yeah.

I kinda wish I'd saved the video AOL had of the dog walking around. He (I think it's a "she," actually, but I can't see the pic, right now) has this "smile" on his face and what looks like a big head, compared to the lean upper-body, and is kinda hunching his way toward everyone.

It's both sweet and funny. Talk about guilt-inducing.

[J Dog]

How about this crazy lady I saw who irritated many.

[MKTerra]

...Stairs. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/scans_daily/122042.html)

[west3man]

Since I thought of two of these in as many days...

1) Bernie Mac's spot on KINGS OF COMEDY.*
It was like trying not to laugh at church (or during a funeral). I'm SURE I've got a hairline fracture in my ribs, now.
2) lushe's thread (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=107410) where he (?) said he "uppercuted the hell out of" a six-year-old.
I'm going straight to Hell.




* - Hopefully I didn't mention that one, already.

[Michael P]

I recall a joke from 12 or so years ago.

What's the difference between OJ Simpson and Superman?

OJ's gonna walk.

[west3man]

Heh. I remember when I found out Elvis died. My step-brother (a HUGE fan) told me, the morning after it happened, while we were at work. It kind of stunned me for a minute, too.

Then he told me it happened on the toilet, and all I could think of was him blowing out a blood vessel while straining to squeeze a tough one out, and a laugh literally exploded from my mouth. I was unable to hold it in.

I thought my brother was going to punch me.
This damned post is 6 months old, but I'm cracking up reading it.

[west3man]

As a kid, I played little league baseball every year and almost every year my Dad volunteered to coach. The park we played at was a large park with about 6-8 fields with a pavilion in the middle. Within the neighborhood that the park was located at lived a mentally retarded kid about our same age named Don.
Don would often ride his bike around the park and generally just hang out while games and practices occurred. Every now and then he even tried to include himself into the games by putting on catchers' gear and trying to take the field. The coaches would always politely explain to Don that he wasn't a member of the league and couldn't play in the games. He accepted this just fine.

During one particular game, Don was riding his bike around as usual but this particular night was different. The planets aligned and as fate would have it, Don was hit square in the head by a foul ball while in motion on his bike. He was knocked clean off his bike and most of us (myself included) erupted in laughter. After the adults scrambled to make sure he was OK, my Dad verbally lit us up for laughing so hard.
It is too bad that you didn't live on Gilligan's Island.

The knock on the head might have straightened poor Don out there.

Mark B.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It's called "involuntary man's laughter" . . .
That's Good Stuff!

Mark B.


Indeed. I must've been sick b/c I don't remember half the stories in this thread (the half I've read, so far, anyway).

Doggone hilarious.

[west3man]

...Stairs. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/scans_daily/122042.html)
Gawd. That's definitely in the right thread.


Oddly enough, I just bought that hardcover, YESTERDAY. I hadn't made it to that part yet, but oh well. Too funny.

[Forefinger]

The title's fairly self-explanatory. Here's my tale:

Charlie Murphy, Eddie's brother and 'narrator' of Chapelle Show's Rick James sketches, told a story, in one of the dvd extras, that cracked me UP. I really think you'd have to see it to fully *feel* it (and maybe even not then), but ...

He said he, his brother, and some friends were at a club or restaurant, having a good time, when another celebrity (or former celebrity) got jealous and started taunting Eddie. The taunter was an ex-football player who'd been paralyzed as a result of a hard hit during a game.

Anyway, the guy kept talking smack about how he had money, too, and Eddie Murphy wasn't funny and blah blah blah. Charlie finally had enough and walked over to the dude and the two ladies who were with him (who kept looking at Eddie, apparently) and told him to shut the $#^%!$ up or he'd kick his wheelchair over and stomp his mouth!

I am LAUGHING ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW (along with some sickly hacking and wheezing). Charlie's phrasing, delivery, and boldness left me holding my sides, despite the fact that he was threatening someone who couldn't physically defend himself.

So tell us something you felt bad about laughing at.

For some reason I started laughing after I killed someone for the first time in Iraq.

I know that I'm fucked in the head due to this.

[mortari]

Ok, here's my guilty laugh. Put me on the floor when it happened.

I owned a comic shop, for the first few years I had a partner (NEVER DO THIS). Of course we got into little arguements of things all the time. After a few years of this I just bought him out and kicked him out. Now I wasn't holding a grudge, and he's still one of my best friends, but it takes him a while to get over things.
Now he had a junk car that he had been trying to sell for 4-5 months. It was parked in the back of the store. That wouldn't have been too bad, but the store is part of an apartment complex and the land lady has been bugging me to get rid of the car. so every week when I say him i'd ask him abou the car and he'd say that it was going to be taken any day now.
In the mean time he was going through a rough patch and taking it out on me. Can't say I didn't deserve SOME of it, but I was an easier target than anyone else.
Now this went on for a month or so when finally he came in one day when I had a friend watching the counter while I worked in back. I heard his voice, but didn't feel like putting up with his grumpyness when I heard our friend tell him this in a very loud voice "If you get that car towed this week Jim's gonna have it towed" then he stormed out the store gumbling. I came out of the back and tried to explain to my friend to NEVER say anything like that. I'm not going to have his car towed. I'd never do that, but now if anything happens to his car it'll be my fault. Then I went to the bank and was gone for maybe 15-20 min. Guess what I saw when I got back to the store.

landlady in the back with a tow truck getting his car pulled. no warning, she didn't come in to let us know. Nothing.

I never laughed so hard in my life, I could not stand upright. My friend did not believe what I was trying to tell him between gufaws. and yes, he blamed me for that one for YEARS!

[Dennis K]

For some reason when the news first broke the Princess Diana had died I couldn't stop laughing.

[LtMarvel]

A student ran into the pencil sharpener with her head. About two inches from poking her eye. She was reaching down to throw something away.

[Dennis K]

I recall a joke from 12 or so years ago.

What's the difference between OJ Simpson and Superman?

OJ's gonna walk.


Great, just great, now I feel guilty too. :D

[howyadoin]

Stonegold.The jokes, or the serious stuff?

[howyadoin]

Oh, my GAWD!!! That reminds me of my oldest brother's second marriage. He and his girlfriend got married at a cute little wedding chapel in Tahoe. Civil ceremony. I have no idea who the guy was that did the ceremony, but they obviously had never met him. It was just family there and the chapel was quite small.

And he started in on the ceremony...and sounded just like Elmer Fudd.

"What is mawwiage?"
"Mawwiage is the joining..."


And it went on. And we all kept smirking...and suppressing the laughter.So you were vewy, vewy quiet?

[Slam_Bradley]

So you were vewy, vewy quiet?


And afterward we went out hunting wabbits.

[howyadoin]

And afterward we went out hunting wabbits.Seems like the wespectful thing to do.

[west3man]

Seems like the wespectful thing to do.
You guys are weally wunning that into the gwound.



Does this mean my name is actually "rest3man?"

[Dr. Hfuhruhurr]

There is something in my genetic make-up that compels me to laugh uncontrollably at the sight of someone falling on their ass. I know it's wrong, but I'll be damned if there's anything I can do about it.

Growing up in Wisconsin, naturally, there have been plenty of opportunities, especially during the wintertime and in the bars.

And then there are the times when being in the bars and wintertime collide. When I was a mere frosh at the UW, the drinking age was 19, but the age was raised just after I turned 18, so I grandfathered in. One very cold January night, a big group of us were hard at work drinking as much liquor as we could possibly pour down our gullets right up until bar time.

Most of us would have had trouble negotiating the sidewalks had it been 70 degrees and sunny, but unfortunately, a blizzard several days before had coated the sidewalks and streets in sheer ice.

So, on our way out, all of us, one after the other, in a group of a dozen or so, all proceeded to slip and fall on top of one another. Those that didn't fall intially and stopped to help the fallen, proceeded to slip and fall on top of them while trying to help them up.

It was the funniest goddamn thing I've ever seen in my life.

Well, it was right up until the time my roommate's girlfriend's roommate tried to get up and did a tremendous pratfall. All of us started laughing but stopped as soon as we heard her start crying. I struggled to help her up, but she couldn't put any weight at all on her leg. Therefore, I rather gingerly carried her back to the dorm where we called an ambulance.

Turned out she had a spiral fracture around her ankle that put her in the world's largest cast for the entire semester.

Even today, I feel a little bad about laughing at her when she fell, but not so bad that I can wipe the smile off my face, remembering all of us falling on our duffs that night.

[howyadoin]

Does this mean my name is actually "rest3man?"Just wanted to let you know I tried really hard to get a pun outta that, but sadly, I failed.

[Dennis K]

The jokes, or the serious stuff?


Does it really matter?

[BlairH]

Law enforcement officers.

[Dennis K]

Hockey player's haircuts.

[howyadoin]

Does it really matter?I'm just sayin' I find it funnier when he's trying to be serious.

[darkkeeperjr]

The guy that posted on the batman thread.he throught the fanfilm trailer"greyson" was real. he wanted to know when it was coming out!

(still feel bad at laughing at him)


oh man, Now i'm pointing and laughing.

[Dennis K]

I'm just sayin' I find it funnier when he's trying to be serious.


Agreed. I find his attempts at seriousness to be consistently funnier than the pictures out of left field.

[cosmic cat]

there's a fraternity around here called the sigma pi's, and one of their brothers got really drunk one night, was having a spitting contest over a balcony and ..well...fell off and died.

I was at their frat house for a party and read a plaque/newspaper clipping about it that was framed on their wall and found out the kid was from my hometown. Now..maybe it was because i'd drank a little too much..but I could NOT stop laughing. It is SUCH a Bellevile thing to do! I mean, yes, it's tragic, but how many people do you know die during a spitting contest? of course, once I start laughing (especially when drunk) I just cannot stop..so ultimately people ask me what Im laughing at.

Needless to say, I got a lot of "shut up Andrea!" and im pretty sure they think im heartless..
Im still laughing now...

[thik_3rd]

i laugh at pretty much everything. the only time i feel bad is when people yell at me for laughing at times they deem it inappropriate.

[DrewTheXenocide]

On three seperate occasions, I couldn't help myself from laughing. One was where my English teacher was telling us about how his mom died. For some reason, I couldn't stop laughing. Then, on another occasion, the same teacher was telling us about how his wife died. Again, uncontrollable laughter and giggling.

The third was just recently, in math class. Like, all of a sudden, this kid started spazzing out, and gasping for air, falling down, and knocking around chairs and whatnot. His friends said that he had this thing condition when there's like a bone in his heart or something. When everyone was quiet and in shock and whatnot after the attack, or whatever, I couldn't help but start laughing.

[west3man]

On three seperate occasions, I couldn't help myself from laughing. One was where my English teacher was telling us about how his mom died. For some reason, I couldn't stop laughing. Then, on another occasion, the same teacher was telling us about how his wife died. Again, uncontrollable laughter and giggling.

The third was just recently, in math class. Like, all of a sudden, this kid started spazzing out, and gasping for air, falling down, and knocking around chairs and whatnot. His friends said that he had this thing condition when there's like a bone in his heart or something. When everyone was quiet and in shock and whatnot after the attack, or whatever, I couldn't help but start laughing.
Would you mind giving me a reason not to think that's fucked up?


I mean, it's not like beating up a six-y... nevermind.

[DrewTheXenocide]

Heh. Well, for the latter part, I wasn't really laughing at the kid. I was just laughing about how quiet everyone was, and the overall awkwardness of the situation.

I guess it was the awkwardness that made me laugh of my English teacher's woes too.

[blackdragon6]

I literally laughed by butt off when I read the script to X3. I thought it was some lame and horrid joke.

Then I realized it wasn't.

Now I feel bad...for everyone that will waste their money to see that piece of crap on the screen. I still shed a tear when I think of what could have been! (sigh)
i feel your pain........so this is what its like when doves cry? :(

[west3man]

Heh. Well, for the latter part, I wasn't really laughing at the kid. I was just laughing about how quiet everyone was, and the overall awkwardness of the situation.

I guess it was the awkwardness that made me laugh of my English teacher's woes too.Been there.
I'm that guy, after someone tells a rotten, silence-inducing joke, that BUSTS OUT LAUGHING. People think it's that I think the lame joke is funny.

Nope. I just think that awkward silence AFTER the lame joke is hiLArious.

[i_mmmchocolate]

That time Me, Cronin, and Michael were crossing the street...and that little girl's pants almost fell down. Plus, the mom's baby carriage tipped over.

Hilarious.

[west3man]

That time Me, Cronin, and Michael were crossing the street...and that little girl's pants almost fell down. Plus, the mom's baby carriage tipped over.

Hilarious.
Care to share more for the rest of us?

[JolietJake]

Back in college my friends and I used to go bowling at the student union. The game room there had a 4-lane alley. Anyway, the four of us would get lit up and bowl a few games. None of us were very good, but my friend Greg was a particularly bad bowler. I'm talking 7 consecutive gutter-balls kind of bad.

Well, this one day he's bowling far better than usual. Going into the 10th frame he's actually got a chance to win it. He gets a strike on the 1st ball giving him the bonus roll. For some reason, as he threw his second he stuck his foot out at just the wrong moment and sent the 14# ball right into his ankle. He screamed and fell to the floor. The ball went right to the gutter.

Now did we as his loyal friends immediately rush to his aid? Hell No! We broke down into hysterical, pants-pissing laughter. It took us about 5 minutes to calm down enough to realize he had seriously hurt himself (fractured bone) and needed to be taken to the emergency room.

[nervmeister]

When Apollo Creed got beaten to death in Rocky IV. I laughed like a satanic schoolgirl in heat. It kinda was the build-up that really made it funny. You must admit that after Creed was talking so much smack to the public about how he'd wipe the floor with Drago, then did a funky little dance with James Brown on opening night while wearing that ridiculous Uncle Sam getup, you were expecting the letdown to come at any moment.

[Dan Apodaca]

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[Dan Apodaca]

Fans of this thread should enjoy the Titanic Iceberg Obstacle Challenge!

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[tricksterpup]

I think for me was the post on Joe Rice's Birthday when he had the ahem.. runs. I guess, the reason I found it funny was because I have been there.

[TheDarkestHorse]

When I was in school there was this really crazy little fat kid (hey, I can say that, used to be a fat kid myself) who used to completely lose it on ocassion. One day, something set him off and he pushed this girl against the wall, bit his lip, and started thrusting himself against her, like a dry-hump rape. Now, this was a field day or something, in a crowded hallway...at least one football player I remember was there, plenty of able-bodied young men, and myself, superhero-wannabe, experiencing my first and so far only chance to 'save the girl'...and EVERYONE cracked up, rolling on the floor...he must've humped that girl for half a minute, her all yelling and freaking out, and nobody could get it together enough to do anything. He eventually stopped by himself, smashed his head into a locker a few times, and walked away. We just kept laughing. This was all pretty horrible, but I genuinely feel bad about it now.