Welcome to the National Registry of Laughs

Giggles and guffaws are as unique as any fingerprint. A person's laughter is fleeting, spontaneous, an expression of pure joy and amusement. If ever there was a time and place to bottle elation, this is it.

Led Zeppelin rocker Robert Plant once asked, in a live version of Stairway to Heaven,  "Does anyone remember laughter?" Well, Mr. Plant? Yes. Yes, we remember laughter. Here it is!

Listen to the laughter below (pre-HumorFest):
(note: starred * links below may not be suitable for little ears.)

Erica Plouffe Lazure, July 13, 2007, Greenville, NC

Guffaw whoop

Quack-cackle

Group Laughter (one minute of laughter, highly contagious!), September 5, 2007, Greenville, NC

Jonathan M. Edwards (not the candidate)

Whasso funny, Megan Roberts?

Will Cyrus: haw-haw-haw

Lisa DeVries: laughing reel hard

"I like that" group laughter

Nitesh Patidar: a chuckle

Sept. 26, 2007: ECU campus, Erwin Building
Tom Douglass, Lisa Devries

Oct. 3, 2007: ECU Campus, Erwin Building, Carol Woodruff, Erica Plouffe Lazure / Laughter derived from: Whoopie Cushion and Inaugural Knock-knock

Whoopie & Knock

ECU HumorFest Laugh Collection

Nov. 1, 2007: ECU campus, Mendenhall Student Center, HumorFest

Mark Iberg, slightly slow on the draw

Nov. 1, 2007, Hutson family home, Greenville, NC

Luke Hutson, highly contagious giggles

Luke and Emma Hutson, giggle machines

Nov. 2, 2007: Fifth Street, Greenville, NC

Andrei Codrescu tells a joke that Kinky Friedman told him*

Nov. 2: Mendenhall Student Center, ECU HumorFest:

Jill Matarelli Carlson talks Carol Burnett, Denistry and feigned violence

Larry White's Amazing Belly Laugh

Margaret Bauer still looking for something to make her laugh

Aaron Lucier in need of set up

Toya Jacobs laughed because it wasn't funny

Jim Kirkland being a good sport

Tim Wells: One tough customer

Susi Boyd: on her son and reaction to the cow joke

Eric Green's Inward Laughter comes out, kind of

Olga Sanz makes us laugh, using arm as "Spanish whoopee cushion"

Guillaume Bagal rifs on a bank

Ruth Mace, fan of clothed monkeys, finally laughs (and it's lovely)

Mike Hamer, searching for the surprise element

Nancy McGillicuddy's wicked laugh regarding whoopee cushions

Sparring with Little Jewford

What's so funny? Hal Gurnee asks

The laugh that makes Tom Douglass famous, kind of

Suzanne Hess groans from painful jokes

Suzanne Hess, generator of laughter(*)

Megan Williams recalls her last prank


Wanna get in on the giggles? Email us a MP3 file of laughter. Please include name, date, location, and (pardon our French) raison de rire:

ECUHUMORFEST@ECU.EDU

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