Ha!

[rhu]

Spinning off from a conversation on the NPL list....

What's the hardest you've ever laughed?

My answer in the comments, so you can think of your answer before you see mine.

Comments

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

The first time I saw Act II of Noises Off (the movie) I was literally rolling on the floor, gasping for breath, tears streaming down my face, slapping the floor as I rolled.

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

That ranks pretty high for me, too. It probably helped that I was watching it at LSC, and had been primed by Act I and the audience. I believe by the time the backstage scene came around, everyone was in so much pain from prior laughing that the theatre was quiet from laughing, and people were instead just throwing themselves back and forth against the arms and backs of their chairs. I know -I- was.

There was also a time the M and I went to a movie at LSC in her car. It was quite windy, and we parked on Vassar street, and she put her Rubbermaid container of mac and cheese on the roof while she locked the door. The wind grabbed it, flipped it onto the hood upside down, and then sent the container and lid skittering down the street. I was already laughing at the lid, which moved like a shot down the pavement and was gone from view because we could even move. But then the container went airborne up Vassar, got to a break between buildings, and -- I kid you not -- made a 90-degree right turn onto campus. I think I was streaming tears at that point. Then we took the same path, and found the container under the bushes.

And finally, the first time I saw "Sunday in the Park with George," when the American couple asks the sailor for directions. "Why don't you... walk into the water... until your lungs fill up and you die?"

[introverte.livejournal.com]

I have to agree, but funny as it was, I was laughing just as much because of your reaction as the movie. You are hysteria-inducing when you lose it. :-)

[jtidwell.livejournal.com]

Bag!

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(It still makes rlcarr and me laugh. Still. You'd think it would wear off after a few years, hm?)

HGTTG

[(Anonymous)]

There have certainly been *many* occasions of uncontrolled hysteria, but I think the all time hardest I've laughed was when reading about the earth invasion with scale miscalculations in _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_. That's the only time I remember literally falling off my chair.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

I think it was in college, when I was passing in front of the library and actually saw someone slip on a banana peel.

[crs.livejournal.com]

This weekend I was just thinking the new Get Smart movie was the hardest I've laughed in a while. It's hard to say though, I've laughed a lot in life.

The right answer is probably this one time at Coffeehouse when Marc said something kinda funny, but I started laughing, and then started laughing at the fact I was laughing so hard at it. It just snowballed from there... I think I was laughing for like five minutes with Marc occasionally adding little jokes. 3AM will do that to me, I guess.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

It may have been when I was in high school and read the phrase, "Xylophone was so excited, her tail got stuck in her nose." When I shared that page with a friend, he was rolling around on my driveway turning purple for at least five minutes.

[jadelennox]

Watching DaVinci's Notebook sing Total Eclipse of the Heart. Like to killed me.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

The curtain call of Lend Me A Tenor, in which the cast reenacts the entire play in three minutes. Or maybe The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged).

But really, majordomo makes me laugh-so-hard-I-cry fairly often, so it's difficult to think of a specific occasion.

[introverte.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot about RSC. The 30-minute Hamlet (and the shorter versions) were painfully funny.

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Once while defacing the middle school newspaper: there was a big picture of a guy in a full HazMat-like white suit, spraying the lockers with lord knows what. I used an eraser to give him bunny ears and tail, and graffiti on the lockers "HERE COMES PETER COTTONT"... I couldn't finish for lack of space and laughing too hard.

Another time, in an airport cafeteria, a friend and I watched a man take a bowl of salad from under a sneeze-guard, proceed to sneeze on the bowl (which fortunately had cling film as a secondary defense), and then replace it. Lack of sleep fueled the hysteria for that one.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

rubrick and projectyl have both sent me into incoherent stitches on multiple occasions. And there's a line from one of the Lemony Snicket books that totally killed me the first time I read it: "If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats."

But I think the hardest I've ever laughed was one of those three-in-the-morning moments with a friend, involving souls and hot dogs. I don't remember what exactly was so funny, but we were both cracking up for hours.

[jtidwell.livejournal.com]

It was an episode of "Whose Line Is It Anyway." The show used to send me into hysterics on a regular basis, but the killer was the one with Richard Simmons as the guest star. Oh... my... Lord. I saw it with a backpacking buddy the night before a big hike in NH -- we really should have been asleep early, but we were too punchy -- and it was the kind of thing where the harder one person laughs, the harder the other person laughs, and vice versa. I think I remember my abs hurting like heck the next day...

[ken_r]

and it was the kind of thing where the harder one person laughs, the harder the other person laughs, and vice versa

Ah, so it's not just with bearly_here that you do that? It's fun to watch you two get each other going... :-)

[ertchin.livejournal.com]

I can't really single out the one time that I laughed the hardest, but my worst ones usually require a good bit of loosening up with earlier humor. I have been incapacitated for a good 20 minutes on several occasions, just trying to recover from crying so hard.

[ken_r]

Hm.. I've definitely got to the point a few times of tears, even a mild headache. What got me laughing the hardest? I'm not sure, but there have definitely been a few things that got me going...

Noises Off is definitely a good one. Not quite as good, Pirates of the Caribbean 2(?) had some great scenes. I think there've been other movies too, but at this hour, none are coming to mind.

A conversation with wdc around campus late one night, years ago; I forget about what...