Since I had the house to myself, I finally got around to transferring this season’s Chappelle’s Show to DVD. While checking out the almost final product (I burned to a DVD+RW in order to check out the menus and such), I watched the Rick James thing again. Even though I have seen this over a dozen times, I still busted out laughing.
Do you laugh when no one is around?
Yes.
Absolutely. It’s the best time to practice laughing so I don’t look like an idiot in public when I do laugh. Most of the time, it’s at something I’ve read on the boards.
And sometimes, you just need to let loose a good chuckle.
And best reason, I can be first as well as last (and loudest) at the same time.
Of course. While walking on my treadmill I was watching a recent “King of the Hill” episode where Peggy encourages Hank to wear a “trans-scrotal” testosterone patch.
Just the words “trans-scrotal” prompted a guffaw.
More than I do when surrounded by other people.
I try to make myself laugh after a really nasty day at the office. It’s that or dwell on it. They don’t pay overtime for dwelling on stuff.
I see the smilieys seem to have reappeared. Happy giggles over that!
Me too. In fact, that’s about the only time I can really let myself let go. My LOUD laughter tends to annoy people sometimes. :o
ARE there people that only laugh on the inside when they’re by themselves? I laugh like a mother when I’m by MYself. Especially when I’m watching Chapelle’s Show, like when Wayne Brady was on acting like a gangster. I even laughed my butt off watching it for the third time.
I laugh out loud when I’m alone, or when I’m with people. Hell, sometimes I think of funny things and laugh out loud at that. Kind of embarrasing at work… but I don’t worry about it.
Yeah, I do. If something’s funny its funny. 
yay, smilies are back.
All the damn time. Wouldn’t be suprised if the neighbors thought I had parties here every night, or employed my own private stand-up comedian.
Of course, I also whistle, hum and make little comments to myself on a pretty regular basis.
What?
[sub]yeah, like I ever claimed to be normal…[/sub]
Ditto, I do this all too often at work myself. It’s amazing they haven’t asked me to go in for a random drug test.
Not only do I laugh constantly, I laugh at my own jokes. Most of the time it’s just jokes I make online, where I can read them after I post them and find them funny all over again. Still, sometimes I’ll be walking downt he street and suddenly think of something funny and start laughing. I’ll think of other funny things too, something someone said, line from a TV show, etc, and laugh. Having something funny stuck in your mind while in physics class is not a good situation to be in. Sometimes I’ll just start laughing in public when no one’s around, or sometimes I’ll force down the laugh in which case my face contorts into a half-smile. I’m not sure which makes me look more ridiculous…
Oftentimes when I’m all alone, I cackle uncontrollably. Especially in the car.
I am absolutely not kidding.
Hmm. odd.
For some reason, I rarely laugh by myself. Don’t get me wrong, there are times when I’ll just break out laughing, but it’s not nearly as frequent as when I’m amongst my friends. I’m fairly certain it’s not peer pressure (e.g. laughing just to fit in) as I really do seem to genuinely find things funnier in the presence of others. I really have no idea why.
Well, laughter is quite contageous. There are things I normally wouldn’t find funny alone, but when everyone else laughs I can’t help but laugh with them. Sometimes just seeing other people laugh without knowing what caused it makes me laugh, or at least smile.
Yes.
The first time this came to my attention, I was sitting in a motel suite (I was on the best TDY of my life – another story) and reading “Guards! Guards!” by Terry Pratchett (the first of his books I’d ever seen or even heard of). There was one point in the book where a miniature dragon (a small breed known for accidentally exploding) managed to fly in such a way that, well, I won’t spoil it for you, but I laughed aloud, then immediately became embarrassed because there was no-one else there. I actually laughed again at my momentary embarrassment.
–SSgtBaloo
No. At least hardly ever. And if I do I feel embarrassed.
I hadn’t realised that I was so alone in this. Often when I’m on the phone to my boyfriend I’ll hear one of his housemates laughing hysterically at something on the TV (which he is watching alone). When I commented on how weird I thought this was to my boyfriend it turned out he does it too, and now almost all the posts in the thread support this…
But I did start to think that maybe it was a guy thing?
(Yes, I know I’m probably in denial).
I think laughter’s great. I only really laugh on my own - I mean, I laugh when I’m with other people, but it’s always under some sort of control.
Except for when I’m with other people but I’m really emotionally exhausted. Then I laugh like an idiot and I don’t care. It was also one of the few situations in which Dana Scully off the X-Files actually laughed.
My Buddhism lecturer, who’s Chinese, was telling us about a particular Sutra the other day and he started laughing because he found it so absurd. He couldn’t stop laughing for about five minutes. What was particularly odd was that all the other Chinese people in the room caught the giggles too, leaving everybody else amused but baffled. I still don’t understand what was going on. All the laughers were actually from China and had come to Scotland. Maybe someone could explain.
::Checks self::
Apart from the ability to zap channels faster than a guy could**, no boy parts here.
(And trying hard not to make a stupid joke about denial/Nile and Bath. Coffee isn’t ready yet, so any attempt would be totally surreal and misspelled.)
** Of course, right now it’s easy, having only one channel available.