'A legend was created': 20+ Hilarious moments that made people laugh hysterically

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Apr 10, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

All of us have that one story about the funniest thing we've ever witnessed. It's that one tale that your friend group can tell over and over, since it brings everyone to tears of laughter with every repeated telling. Often, the story involves someone in the friend group falling or making a fool of themselves in some other goofy way. The good people of the r/AskReddit community told their own stories about the funniest things they've personally witnessed, and it's impossible to read them without cracking up with laughter.  

More than one person walked right into a sign in front of all their friends, which can lead to years of teasing. Another group pulled a joke on their friend by putting a fake fly in her chips. But one member of the group could barely conceal their laughter before that friend discovered the fake bug. When the friend finally did find it, the friend group started laughing harder at that than at the actual prank. You never know when you might accidentally become the next subject of the joke! Whether it's at school, work, or just out and about, hilarity can happen at any moment. 

After you read these great anecdotes, read about the technician who started work and immediately dropped several important items down an 800-foot hole. 

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    'What is the funniest thing you've ever witnessed?'
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    What is the funniest thing you've ever witnessed? Edit: wow guys, I can't believe this thread took off!
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    Temujin46 I watched my brother sneeze so hard he kneed himself in the forehead
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    sweet-science In college saw a girl miss the door and hit her shoulder. She lowered her head and picked up her pace, then she looked back to see who had witnessed her misfortune only to run into a proffessor who was holding a soda. She was soaked.
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    like_as_if My boyfriend is really tall and lanky so when he reached behind the couch to grab something, his lower body pushed the couch closer to the wall and his upper body got stuck. He really couldn't move. And the sight of his long legs in the air flailing didn't let me help him for longer than I'm proud of. Oh god. Brings tears to my eyes every time I think about it. He can't even talk about it without laughing a little.
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    rognvaldr I posted this before a loooong time ago but here it is again: My university choir went to Finland one year, which was an amazing experience. The day we arrived, my brain was a bit foggy from the jetlag, but I wanted to take advantage of being there so I went with my friends to explore Helsinki. I was walking down the street talking to one of my friends next to me when I walked straight
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    into a pole. I wasn't hurt at all, just surprised, but as I collected myself I noticed that the only person who had noticed aside from my friend was this random Finnish dude on the other side of the street who was intensely cracking up from what he had seen. I think the sight of him. laughing uproariously at my stupid moment is one of the funniest sights I've ever seen.
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    Zweiter I posted this on an askreddit thread that never took off, but here it is again. During the summer between 8th and 9th grade, I went to a basketball camp. Wasn't too good at basketball, and neither were a lot of the kids there. Attending the camp with me was this kid who is called Alex. I can't remember his actual name (maybe it was Ben?), but it seems like it fits him.
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    Alex was the textbook definition of a nerd. He sucked at basketball. He may have been slightly autistic. He said weird things, talked to himself, generally was unashamed about himself, which of course prompted some bullying. The kids would sarcastically ask Alex about his past relationships, and then laugh regardless of the answer they got. They'd talk about him after games, make fun of him. Alex usually sat with the coaches/counselors, or by himself.
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    One afternoon, there was a rap battle. It's still fuzzy how it came to be, but essentially everyone was just bored out of their minds and about to drop dead of heat stroke. So, these two kids just go at it, plagiarizing rap lyrics from whatever gansta rapper their suburban white minds had heard. After about a minute, it was pretty obvious who had plagiarized the best, and he was declared the winner, after some adolescent 'OOOOHHHHH'-ing. He strutted around the cabin.
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    Then Alex said he wanted to try. Nobody really knew what to do. A few people laughed, but most were just preparing to cringe at the awkward verbal fumbling that was obviously about to ensue. Alex gets up and faces his opponent in the middle of the cabin. The winner of the previous match gets reaaal gangsta, with hand gestures and spittle flying from his face as he plagiarized. He knew this was going to be easy. When he was done, we all OOOOOOOH-ed as loud as we thought we could. Then he
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    taunted Alex a bit, who had just stood there, smiled and nodded throughout the whole thing while teetering from side to side a bit awkwardly. Your turn, said the kid. Then Alex spoke. I won't try to ruin it by attempting to record what he said, because I can't remember. But I know that it was beautiful. It was like the voice of a black angel had manifested inside the nerdy jewish kid. Nobody spoke while he was rapping. I don't think anyone breathed. Out of the entire piece, however, I
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    remember the closing lines "You think this is rap? / This is T-Pain vs. The Cat in the Hat!". There were a few seconds of silence as everyone attempted to process what had just happened. Then the screams started.
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    The screams, man. The screams echoed throughout the whole campus. Fellow campers a mile away heard the screams. People were crying, themselves, dying, and hugging Alex. All I could do was sit there on my bottom bunk, smile, and watch as a legend was created There were a few more rap battles that day, all of which Alex won, but none of them captured the sheer unexpected magic of the first one. To be honest, Alex taught me a lot in those thirty seconds. Stuff I'm pretty grateful for today.
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    Edit: He would be a junior or senior in high school now, guys. He's probably not a famous rapper (yet?).
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    [deleted] My wife won a free cruise through some promotion at her work. Pretty sure they just gave them away because of the bad press they've been getting. Anyway, we couldn't afford a trip of our own, so lets not look a gift horse in the mouth and go on the cruise. We packed up the family (it was a family friendly cruise) and off we went. The problem with a cruise is you're not only stuck with your family...but other families for the duration. You keep seeing the same people. I'm pretty easy
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    going so it's fine for me, but kids are different. I could keep drinking until you become interesting, kids are just stuck with dealing with each other at times. My kid and this kid were both around 12 and the other kid it became known, was a bully right from the start. Sure you say just stay from them, but you're stuck on the same boat and the fun things are where the kids wind up. Anyway, the first day my son fell in love with the wave rider thing (not sure the name - it shoots water so it mak
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    anywhere). To ensure my kid's cruise wasn't ruined I wanted to keep an eye on him to see if he was as big of a as my kid was saying he was. Then I'd figure out who his parents were and go from there. So I'm watching the wave rider thing from a far and sure enough, the kid's a¸ . He pushed past every kid in line AND stomped his heel into my kid's foot as he was cutting line. So Dad rage is hovering at full Hulk- out mode. When the kid gets off this thing, parents or no parents, I'm going to give
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    thing and I'm waiting, then the God's of justice shown down on the deck of that cruise ship. He did a move where he slid down the board and WHOOOOSH. Trunks came off. Not like down a little bit...right the fluff off. They go shooting up the slide and toss around the waves at the top. The entire line of kids erupts into high pitched pointing laughter. The kid comically rolls up to the top desperately trying to find his trunks. He's fumbling around for them, can't get them on because they're wet,
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    actually felt bad because I'm an adult and process things differently and could see how upset the kid was. Bully or not, still just a kid. But it was by the funniest dose of instant karma I witnessed. Of course being 12, my son and this kid became friends by the second day, but that's another story.
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    Dread_Wolf - Once while waiting for a bus with a friend in the rain we saw a boy riding a scooter down the sidewalk. This boy couldn't have been older than 10 and was wearing a bright orange, high visibility raincoat the size of a tent, I'm not kidding this jacket was so large he was gripping the handlebars through the sleeves at the elbows and the bottom of the raincoat reached his knees.
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    Now this is where is got funny, as he approached and saw me staring at him he stopped in front of me and in a fully serious tone: "Some people don't like my raincoat, and you know what I say to them?" He tilts his head back. "LEEEEEEERRRROOOOOOOYYYY Y JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNKIIINNNN NNNSS" Then he scooted off, me and my friend looked at each other and laughed til the bus arrived 10 minutes later.
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    blascoe I was hiking and there was this family in front of me. The family was a teenage daughter (about 13) and her mom and dad. The girl was waiting impatiently for her parents to catch up with her and when the parents got close, the daughter says "Ugh, could you be any slower?" to which the mom, without missing a beat says "Ugh, could you be any more of a ?" and then the mom high fived the dad. The look the daughter gave me as I burst out laughing was one of pure hatred.
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    Amateuse Me and my 2 brothers were at the mall a few years ago, and one of my brothers, while talking, casually sat on the railing of an escalator and got dragged up. He then started panicking, and tried to get off. His face was priceless. My other brother and I couldn't even help him, because we were laughing so hard. I'm even laughing right now as I'm typing this. Best. Day. Ever.
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    TheyCallMeSkog Last year I was standing around with two of my friends during lunch outside the cafeteria and all of the sudden this random guy just came out of the cafeteria yelling profanity. He continued to yell profanity and walked over to us. He grabbed my friends long hair and pulled three times while yelling "Toot, toot, !" The moment after it happened I was laughing so hard I had to sit down.
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    thecatererscat I was digging around my friend's couch around where I was sitting looking for my glasses. I felt something and pulled it out to find it was a pair of scissors. My friend said you better be careful, they could be dangerous. The next thing I dug out from the couch was a steak knife. We figuratively laughed our assess off. Also bouncing around on Lego pumpkins in the Lego Harry Potter game.
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    [delete... I get placed on a special detail at work, it's just me, 2 leads and a supervisor working a shift until 2 am. I'm pretty good friends with one of the leads, Jen, at this time i can't remember the other lead's name, but we'll call him Carlos, and I've worked with the Supervisor plenty. So, we're all on break together and the supervisor has this way of eating a bag of chips where she
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    dumps them on a paper towel. On this fateful evening after she dumps her chips, she steps out to take a call. Carlos whips out a little plastic fly and says, "we should put this on her chips." Jen and I agree, but Jen has a better idea and she proceeds to lift the top most chip in the pile and Carlos places the fly under it. Now, I am terrible at holding a straight face and Jen, who is often my partner in crime for pranks like this at work, is well
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    aware of my propensity to give a joke away. She points and me and says "DON'T RUIN THIS!" I raise my right hand and promise to do my best. Sup comes back and sits across the table from me, with Jen at her side and Carlos next to me. We start playing Phase 10 and then it starts... The sup, reaches for a chip... I instantly purse my lips, trying to hold back a smile, Jen, gives me the look of death as the sup bypasses the topmost chip. We all exhale. She reaches again and misses the topmost chip.
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    We're all eagerly watching as she picks through this pile, missing the cleverly laid trap one chip at a time. Jen's eyes light up and all 3 of us are aware that the sup is about to grab the top chip... as she frees it from the pile... there is no fly. Somehow it's moved deeper into the pile. This goes on for what seems like an eternity. All of us dying on the inside waiting for this fly to be revealed. I'm not able to look anybody in the eye, sweat is beading up on my forehead and I'm literally
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    now fully aware of my situation and is now having a hard time because she's trying not to laugh at me trying not to laugh. The chips keep going in the sup's mouth, 1 by 1, but this fly some how is digging deeper into the pile, down and down it goes, like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole. The tension building and nobody knows when it's going to happen.... Like the snap of a mouse trap, the sup pulls a chip, sees the fly and jumps out of her chair screaming.
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    "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAH!" The pressure of held in laughter comes blasting out of Jen, Carlos and I. We're laughing at the fly, we're laughing at the flying. moving down the pile, we're laughing at the supervisor, we're laughing at how hard it was to keep from blowing the secret and then we laugh at how we can't stop laughing. The sup quickly gets over her shock, disappointment in us, and embarrassment of her actions, is is now caught in the whirlpool of laughter.
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    All 4 of us are busting guts in the break room, the loudest and heartiest laughs I've ever experienced. It must have gone on for 10 minutes. Trying to speak in broken sentences, recalling the tension, the way the sup reacted and how we can't stop laughing. We're gasping for air and holding our ribs, our sides and mouths are starting to hurt but we still can't stop and it just makes it even more funny. To this day when I think about this, it causes me to lol.
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    PoglaT... Big Day Out... 1998 I'm guessing. Somewhere around then anyway. There's a punter hanging off a flag pole. Shirt off, yelling like the drunk fool he was. Security have surrounded the bottom of the flag pole, waiting for him to come down and/or fall He starts sliding down the pole, leaps deftly from the pole to the roof of a shipping container, leaps from one container to another, drops off and is never seen again.
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    It was all very cool to watch, but my mate standing next to me says Gee, he ought to buy himself a lottery ticket. Our group of friends loses it, a few random strangers that heard him lose it, and a good day was had by all. edit I must have had too much... asprin on that day, as there wasn't a Big Day Out even held in 1998
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    MrHatchh I'm quite known for slipping or falling over quite a lot, i also used to be quite fat, adding to the hilarity. So one day me and a good friend of mine are walking back to my place to play some street fighter, while on our way we pass a very small hill with a tiny incline. While walking down it, kieran (my friend) says "it's so weird how you always manage to fall over and i've basically neve..." Mid
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    sentence he slips and lands on his so hard and makes a humongous grunt of pain. I for was on the floor losing my about 15 minutes after that. 10/10 would watch again.
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    Webby2120 A few days ago I saw someone Cut of a fully marked police car at a traffic light, Needless to say it was hilarious
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    lordjimbob01 I once saw a man in a clown costume and a man in an ostrich costume fighting in a bouncy castle. That was a strange party.
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    nolaceyno Two deaf ladies in my dementia unit at work, trying to talk to each other. Every other words was "whaaaat?" Or "huuuuuh?" I had to place my head on a table to conceal my hysterical laughter, since they couldn't hear me, but the could see fine.
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    Brainblotter Not really a witness, more of the victim when I was 17 (my final year in high school). One day I was sleeping in class and my friends had the bright idea of tying my shoelaces to two. separate tables. Naturally, the left shoe was tied to a table on the left and likewise the right shoe.
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    When the teacher came in and we had to stand up to greet the teacher, I was awoken and my friends had this grin on their faces as they held the tables' edges. They proceeded to part the two tables and along with it, my legs spread. I basically spread-eagled my teacher and couldn't do anything about it. Much laughter was had at my expense. But it was funny and I laughed along.
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    Durbee My SO and his BFF were finally seeing each other in person after he'd been away for almost six years. We show up to meet them, and have to park about a block away from the celebration. As we got out of the car, SO and his BFF are slowly moving toward each other across that long block with sincere emotion plain on their faces - we're talking bros choking up over just glimpsing each other in person after such a long time when suddenly a bagpipe player -
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    appears out of nowhere and their long slow walk toward to meet up became the most random, wonderful bro reunion ever, complete with soundtrack. There was something so surreal about it, but at the same time so hilarious and ridiculous and epic. I think we all laughed until we cried over the strange movie moment we'd all witnessed. (Maybe 2 certain guys weren't crying for that reason, just saying.)
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    [deleted] I once saw someone hit on a girl by tipping his fedora and actually win
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    Steal YourFace83 I am kind of an for doing this but it was well worth the laugh... My wife's aunt was getting married. They were doing their own vows. She had an entire page written, but she wanted them typed so she could read them better. She asked me to do it. At the very end I put "With Liberty and Justice for all. Amen" | thought she would notice it while practicing. A few hours later I
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    asked her to read through them to make sure they were right. She did and said they were perfect and thanked me. I figured. someone would read it and catch it, but no one did. Sure enough, she got up and read them including the part I typed in. I got yelled at pretty bad by everyone in the family, but the laughs were well well well worth it.
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