# When something strikes you as funny and you just cannot stop laughing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338 "2023-07-21T01:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/61 "2023-07-25T03:05:55Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Albert Brooks has always been able to completely break me up. I somehow totally missed his standup, until I heard this while driving, and had to pull over… so excited to find this (from The Flip Wilson Show)! > **[Albert Brooks New National Anthem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5I7RD857AM%2F)** > > Albert Brooks has auditions for a new national anthem. From the Flip Wilson show 1972 ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/62 "2023-07-25T04:10:15Z")
I’ve always loved Brooks’ comedy. He also excelled at [prop humor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6uFHC9lfzk), which usually falls flat for me with other comedians (I’m looking at you, Carrot Top). His [ventriloquist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_me-D6SJK0) bit from way back still has me rolling. And, of course, in addition to **Defending Your Life** (mentioned above), **Lost in America** is also chock full of funny Brooks scenes: Admonishing the wife for losing the family [nest egg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdMilnKGJdA&t=1s). Trying to convince the casino to [give back](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf2q0HemaFs) the nest egg. Funny stuff! [FWIW: I do enjoy _some_ of Carrot Top’s routines.] ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/63 "2023-07-25T06:38:45Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > I never said others didn’t laugh at them as well, I just laugh harder. Yes, that’s how I interpreted your post. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/64 "2023-07-25T06:49:01Z")
One time when I remember going into really hysterical laughter was when I was 9. I was reading my latest issue of “J’aime Lire” (a French language educational series for children). It was Issue 14 of the Canadian edition In the comic about the brother and sister Tom-Tom and Nana, and in this one they go too far in suppressing distractions so that Tom-Tom can study his multiplication table. They see their chef father’s big Christmas cake, and in order to make it less “distracting”, they put a sign which says “caca boudin” on the cake. Caca means “poo poo” in French and boudin means blood sausage, but this is actually just a pejorative used by French children. One way or another I nearly busted a gut when I read “caca”. The time I recall when I most laughed in my life was about 21 years ago. I was still religious at the time and was a member of an Orthodox Christian newsgroup. Someone, eager to show how Judaism is hostile to Christianity, once posted anti-Christian quotes from the Talmud. One went more or less like this: X son of Y had a mind to convert to Judaism. With the help of some incantations, he raised Jesus from the dead. “How are you punished?” He replied: “With boiling hot excrement, because a master once said that whoever scorns the words of the sages shall be punished with boiling hot excrement”. I burst out laughing right there in the library where I was sitting. I couldn’t contain my laughter on the way home in the subway, and then, when I was closer to home, I threw myself down on the ground, and rolled around on the ground, still in hysterics. And that wasn’t quite the end of it! As you can see, In younger days I had a tendency to respond to scatological humor. I think in both situations, the thing that made me laugh so much was the context in which it was written. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/65 "2023-07-25T15:40:19Z")
I do sometimes worry about laughing in inappropriate places—like [Mary did](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJny78bpsgo), at Chuckles the Clown’s funeral. It hasn’t happened yet, but I’ve come close. Nobody had better laugh at _my_ funeral, though I am planning some sort of pop-out-the-casket prank. ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/66 "2023-07-25T17:15:53Z")
Not quite at convulsive levels, but I can’t stop laughing at this sequence from Raising Arizona. It’s the biker from hell! Notice that when the motorcycle’s front wheel is raised, we hear something that sounds like an angry bear (0:19 in the video). The part that has me laughing so much is the [ululation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ululation) heard just after they jump out of the car (1:03). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/llAHmvRZCYo/maxresdefault.jpg "RAISING ARIZONA Clip - "Blown Up" (1987) Nicolas Cage") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llAHmvRZCYo) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/67 "2023-07-25T17:22:27Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > …though I am planning some sort of pop-out-the-casket prank. Tip: Designate your funeral song as “Pop Goes the Weasel”. mmm ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/68 "2023-07-25T17:31:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > They say the essence of humor is an unexpected connection or unexpected dissonance. I was out to lunch with my brother and sister one time, and my brother mentioned watching a movie in Spanish called _Los Increibles_. Very obviously _The Incredibles_, which is why I was caught completely off guard and sent into convulsions of laughter when my sister responded with “The Amazings?” and my brother said “No, the Incredibles.” (For those of you wondering: Instead of making the obvious connection, that _increible_ sounds very similar to the English word _incredible_ and was also the title of a recently made movie, my sister instead made the connection that increible sounds like the French word _incroyable_ and then attempted to translate that into English. She’s a native English speaker, so I have no clue why her mind decided to go in that direction.) ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/69 "2023-07-26T14:15:32Z")
I went to see Blazing Saddles in the theatre when it first came out. I laughed so hard at the bean eating scene that I fell out of my seat into the aisle. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/70 "2023-07-26T14:49:54Z")
Watching The Emperor’s New Groove for the first time. I had to ask my kids to pause the movie for a few moments after the line, “Don’t you say a word.” ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/71 "2023-07-26T14:59:51Z")
Doesn’t Bomb Voyage call Mr Incredible ‘Monsieur Incroyable’ in the film? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338.md?page=3)