It would be good to hear what makes you laugh out loud a really belly laugh. I used to belly laugh out loud while reading the Herriot series myDh laughs out loud at certain tv programmes which I don’t find funny at all. Compo etc
Dear John Just Good Friends As Time Goes By 1066 and All That Would I Lie to You Upstart Crow Round the Horn Strictly used to , but rather contrived now.
Withnail and I. "We've come on holiday by mistake." "I have a heart condition. If you hit me, it's murder." "Here hare here." Of course, you have to have seen the film to understand.
Gogglebox and PG Wodehouse as well as EF Benson. The infectious sound of uninhibited children's laughter always gets me going too. Oh no. Now I'm sad again.
The Mike Harding shows back in the late 1980s, and more recently, Peter Kay. Both brilliant comedians. Sarah Milligan is good too, but tbh, some of the old comedy shows have been repeated that many times on the TV that they have become quite boring when you know exactly what they are going to say next!
Very few make me laugh out loud, but Last Tango In Halifax, Where Gillian says “What fresh hell is this” ( last series I think). Has me in fits. Maybe you have to see it ?.
Fr Ted. The lingerie department, the nuns, in fact DH and I often use some of their phrases and end up laughing instead of worrying, "drink", "ah go on, go on, go on" "it was only resting in my account" "we'll have none of that" and of course "we'll say a Mass then" having been brought up in a Catholic family of Irish ancestry, educated by nuns & priests - it's priceless.
Rufus2* I think you find its "Boom oo yattety ta wink
Phoenix; No I won't ; it's "Boom OO Ya Ta Ta Ta". and I forgot to give credit to Sid and Dick who are an essential part of the quartet! It's now gone 1.00am on Monday, but I knew I wouldn't sleep without sorting that out! Thanks!
Thought I'd posted this, but seems to have vanished!
Brian Johnson and Jonathan Agnew cricket comnentary, where someone "failed to get his leg over"
Brian's voice getting higher and higher as he tried to keep the commentary going while laughing "Stop it Aggers!" Can't listen to that without giggling!
I watch everything on Youtube, as I can't get British TV. Most of the above make me laugh, but also the American version of 'Whose Line Is It' really makes me laugh out loud, even though they are at least 20 years old.(but then, so are the Morecambe and Wise shows). I also discovered the 'thin blue line' which is very funny.
Would I lie to you, so quick, funny and clever. Dad's Army, Fools & Horses etc leave me cold. There was a piece in The Good Life when the snooty neighbour explained that she didn't understand jokes - I think that's me (not snooty I hope) just often baffled wondering what others find so side splittingly funny.