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:
(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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