'He wasn't happy, but the rest of us were laughing so hard': 20+ Moments of hilarity when people couldn't contain their laughter

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 4, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

I bet there's a phrase that instantly cracks you up. It's probably just a few words—a reference to a place or a person—that instantly reminds you of a funny situation in your life. When you hear that magic phrase, you'll get the giggles uncontrollably, and if your friends are nearby, good luck trying to stop laughing for the next few hours. 

Getting the giggles is one of the best feelings in life… unless you happen to be at a funeral, or a play, or a serious wedding speech. You know, one of those times when it would be highly inappropriate to let out a laugh. The worst is when you laugh during an argument. The person thinks you're mocking them, when really you were just surprised, or trying so hard to be serious that you had to giggle a bit. 

Hundreds of people replied to u/linwar_au's question: "What caused you to burst into uncontrollable laughter?" The stories are funny and cute, so check out some of the best ones down below. 

Next up, this controller realized that their boss was massively underpaying them for their work, so they decided they'd "shut my mouth and plan my revenge."

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    What caused you to burst in to uncontrollable laughter?
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    [deleted] My first job for about 6 months was with an environmental restoration company (that re-plants native trees in areas that have been previously cleared etc). One time we were working on a sand dune near the beach, and one guy put his hand down into the scrub and accidentally nearly touched
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    a snake (this is Australia), so he immediately recoiled, took a few steps backwards. and backed into a beehive in a tree, then as he ran away from that he tripped over a large anthill and got a bunch of angry ants swarming up his leg. He wasn't happy but the rest of us were laughing so hard, I think I peed a little.
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    cototudelam One time I went to a student production of a short opera buffa (comedic opera). The main character, trying to be helpful, offered to "walk the dogs, graze the horses... swim the fish".
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    I pretty much lost it. The lyrics were already funny but afterwards I just couldn't stop laughing. I was suffocating in the auditorium until the intermission where I managed to get to the ladies and laugh my off there.
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    Of course, with it being a small production, they saw me shaking and being red in the face as I sat only in the third row, and when I later wrote a review (high praise), they found it and connected it to "the tomato in the third row".
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    DrHemmington I was following a traineeship at an elementary school. And at one point one of the popular kids tried to tell me off and push me around and I had none of it. So after a little argument he struck a pose and exclaimed that he challenged me to a dance battle. His groupies even went like "Oooooh" (as if was getting real) I just laughed and walked away.
    via u/DrHemmington
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    sa... my roomate's bf broke up with her. I came home to her ugly crying while eating a bigass bag of chips and watching netflix. I told her "He was an anyways"
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    She looked at me, smiled through her tears and said in a squeaky voice: "yup... time to... be... a || then started ugly cry snickering. I just lost it.
    via u/sagganuts18
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    AdmiralAkbar411 My friend and I went to make nachos in college and my friend starts laughing and I ask him why he's laughing. He points to a block of ramen standing on it's side and I just laughed for 20 mins straight
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    AdvocateSaint In law school we had to edit educational videos about Sales law Our group chose a Dora the Explorer theme, and tried to record the whole session live over Zoom. I was supposed to be "The Map" and would be called upon to recite on case doctrines and stuff
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    I tried, in-character, to record voice lines about a case where a damaged car was fraudulently sold as brand new to an unsuspecting buyer. Problem is, I had to put on an energetic, happy voice. while talking about a man suddenly getting a heart attack, crashing a car, and dying.
    via u/AdvocateSaint
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    Halfway through that line I burst out laughing at the absurdity and couldn't stop
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    [deleted] My sister and I were discussing how weird it is that we sigh after we laugh. We were laughing about this for a while and then we sighed, which made us laugh. Everytime we thought we finished laughing, we would sigh and start all over again. This loop lasted about 15 minutes.
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    Scummycrummyd... One of my cats has never gotten used to my dogs. One day, the cat growled/hissed at the dog. and it came out as a snort. My stepdad looked at me in utter confusion and shock and said, "did she just quack?" And I just lost it. It happened well over a year ago and I still start to chuckle when I think about it.
    via u/Scummycrummyday
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    Natural_Link_2841 Neither my mate or me can remember exactly why we started laughing to this day. We were in the kitchen doing dishes and our other 2 mates walked in to find us on the floor, cry laughing and all we could say was "cups"
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    Sora-Ikeru When my sister told me that she forgot the Finnish word for 'baguette' during online. class
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    saltfatfatfat A colleague's father had passed away. On her return to work I was giving the usual condolences. She said (and meant it) "It was just so unexpected." I already knew he was ninety fricken two. 92. Ricky Gervais slid into
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    my brain and whispered..."not really unexpected issit?? And I had to RUN AWAY AND LAUGH IN THE TOILETS LIKE A PSYCHOPATH
    via u/saltfatfatfat
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    [deleted] I don't know why but when I'm in an elevator I have an extreme urge to start laughing uncontrollably. I have no idea why and I kinda hate it cause the whole elevator starts staring at me. For some reason when the elevator is full it gets even worse and face begins to hurt. Only in an elevator though, I'm so confused by this
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    [deleted] A long time ago I posted a reply to an AskReddit comment that had something to do with sneezes and being an Someone replied with "Bitchoo" as a pun and I was laughing and crying.
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    It has become my go-to word if anyone I dislike sneezes in front of me. Especially if they don't have a mask on.
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    [deleted] None pizza, left beef
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    CaptainAmerica80 My best friend and I were in a beginner Spanish class in uni. One class we were practicing verbs by having our prof call on one of us to say the verb out loud and then say what it means in English.
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    My best friend and I are already giggling a little about some of the butchered pronunciations, but then we got to this girl who was not good at Spanish at all (no offense to her, she tried). The prof asked her to pronounce and translate "Preguntar" which means "to ask". She gets up, and very confidently says "pregnuntar! To be pregnant" and my best
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    friend grabs his hoodie from his backpack to bite down on so he doesn't laugh out loud. I, on the other hand, just started laughing hard which was super obvious since the rest of the class was completely silent.
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    Luckily this girl and the prof were pretty chill, cause they kinda laughed about it too, but for the rest of the class, my buddy and I would put out heads down periodically to laugh about what just took place. And yes, I know we were a**holes for this, but it was just so funny.
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    Mac_edthur I was playing CS:GO with my friends with voice chat (via discord), we were losing 10 mins later blaming our ditsy friend for being himself for almost 10 mins my dude got mad at him for being "him" in the entire match and our ditsy friend responded with a soundboard "Quack". all of us wheezed and laughed so hard for like 5 mins
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    ok... I was at the library with my mom and she plopped down. in a leather chair. It made the loudest sound and because it was in this area in the middle of the library where there are steps to go upstairs, it made it so much louder. We both lost it. She
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    got disgusted looks from everyone close to us and the librarian was giving us a dirty look for laughing so loud.
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    [deleted] When my friend texted orang instead of orange.
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    Flahdagal My high school boyfriend invited me to a big family wedding as his +1. He was an usher and groomsman, so he seated me and left me alone. During the service some young guy gets up to sing this big ballad, and he's okay but not great, but he's emoting the out of it, and then he goes for a big ending high note and just ....misses. It sounded like a
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    shovel being dragged across a sidewalk. I couldn't help it, even though I really felt for this guy I let out a guffaw. Only to be met with the entire row staring at me with the heat of a thousand Karens: I was seated with his family. I grabbed a tissue out of my purse and tried to make out like I was overcome with emotion at
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    the beautiful song, but I don't think they bought it. All these years later I still feel really bad about it.
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    hachithite So, were playing a song and one of the verses went "your worth more than gold" My friend said "yes because of your organs" We all broke out into a mix of horror and laughter.
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    I said though hafe laughing hafe horror face "why would you say that" He responds "it true" I say "no one is arguing that, it just horrible"
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    formerPhillyguy 3y ago When I was in college, a bunch of us were eating and a girl right across from me, stands up, slams her tray down, and yells "formerphillyguy, it's your baby too", then runs out of the cafeteria.
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    [deleted] My maths teacher was asking some less competent students what the value of a right angle is.., 2 of them failed to answer and the teacher asked everyone "okay so who can answer this question?" And a girl raised her hand, at this point everyone was already facepalming at the 2 kids who couldn't answer and then the girl, with a
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    confident smug look on her face, said in a super confident way "Infinity." (Yes the period after the infinity was in her tone) and the entire class including the teacher could not stop laughing for an entire minute.. good times
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    cruelblush With extended family, driving around a new are we had just moved to, out in the country. Father in law wanted to find a restaurant that served "home made pie"...but we weren't having any luck. Pull off to this little store/1 pump gas station and I went inside, said to the young lady behind the counter "We're looking for a place that serves home
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    made pie" and she responds, incredulously, "You want me to bake you a pie?". I have NO idea why I found it so funny, I had to leave the store, couldn't even explain to family why I was laughing so hard, took about 5 minutes to get it under control. For several years, any time I told the story, I'd start laughing again.
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    ShurikenBoy789 When we had a test some random student decided to say "HALLELUJAH”
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