Laughing till we cry

My daughter ordered a new wet suit. It was delivered on a hot summer afternoon. There was just enough time to try on the wet suit before collecting the children from school. Well, in the heat the suit was almost impossible to take off and she struggled for a long time before eventually being free of the thing. We still shriek with laughter when we recall how close she came to having to walk through the streets of Oxford wearing a wet suit.

I started the first chapter of Bill Brysons "A Small Island" while I was in hospital awaiting a cataract op. I had to put the book down in case the consultant walked in and found me hysterical.

Years ago I worked for a Project that offered a number of services including a Handyperson Service for older people.

One Monday morning when picking up the messages from the telephone answering machine, the message from one lady requesting that our Handyperson take a look at her stools had us all falling about.

I’ve just looked at my link and there are no adds.

If I ever want a belly laugh ( no pun intended) this woman does it for me.
Warning: swearing. It’s a long advert before the video but worth it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbU2euEGuP8

Hello Serendipity22 just google it and it comes up on YouTube still makes me laugh all these years later.

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I still remember very fondly one Christmas when my mother was with us. We watched the Royle Family Christmas Special - none of us had ever seen it before.

My mother was soon crying with laughter, which set us all off even more.
For quite a while afterwards dds only had to say a typical line from the programme - ‘Y’all right there, Nana?’ to set her off again.

She was the same while reading the first few pages of Bill Bryson’s book ‘Small Island’, which admittedly had me near hysterics, too.

I agree about the first pages of Bryson's "Small Island"!

I remember reading "My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell together with my mother. We would read at the same speed and roar with laughter at exactly the same time! That made it all even funnier.

Aldom - "I laughed till I cried when reading The Moon's a Balloon, by David Niven. " The bit in that book which had me choking with laughter involved a frozen appendage and brandy glass. Was that the same piece that made you laugh.

I can't remember how long ago I read that, but I must have been in my teens. I still giggle when I think of it

Haaaaaaaaaaas Judy54

Not seen that one, brilliant.

Watching the two Ronnie's rhyming slang sermon from the church of St Cain and Abel (sometime in the 1970's). It starts off about a man who had no trouble and strife (Wife) because she had run of with a tea leaf (thief). When Ronnie Barker got to the part where the man found a small brown Richard the third on the pavement Mr J and I laughed until we cried. The man picked up the small brown Richard the third and put it on a wall, the Richard the third then flew back to it's nest. An absolute classic!

Maywalk hahahaha.....
That is funny.

THEY ARE ALLLLL FUNNY.

Does us good to laugh and giggle ( or cry ) ....

I was at my future DIL's hen do a few weeks ago, where we had a murder mystery night.

I was the murdered person's widow, a cockney, who had married a very posh bloke.
When it came to my part, I alternated between an over exaggerrated posh voice and a cockney voice and sometimes my own Scottish accent, as I pretended to become more and more upset.
I heard this noise, which sounded like crying. I looked up and my DD was lying across a sofa, crying with laughter, tears running down her face, joined by the others in the room.

She had never seen this side of me before. It got so bad that I had to give up, as I too started laughing. My sides were aching.

PS, I was also the murderer, which only one person out of fourteen guessed!

DDIL keepts a tight grip on my DS's diet . They visited recently and before he was allowed to eat my Jordan's cereal she took the package and said " I am just examining his nuts "

This is something that happened when my lovely hubby was still alive but I still giggle about it now.

One evening when hubby was well into the first throes of Dementia my son had called in to see us and hubby was looking a bit frantic and said

"I cant find my walking stick."

Son.... "Is this it?" as he picked one up off the floor that had fell between the chairs

Hubby.... "Let me have a look because mine is different to your Mums "
he then proceeds to turn it upside down

Son..... " What on earth are you doing Dad?"

Hubby..... "I know which is mine because I have worn my nob out"

Son looking bewildered..... " YOUR NOB"???????????????

Hubby ....." Yes my rubber cover got worn out my thing is sticking through"

Son ........" Do you mean the ferule protector?

Hubby ........" No I mean my end bit has worn through and you can see my middle bit showing that scrapes on the floor."

Son....... " Dad shall we start again?"

Needless to say I was rolling up with laughter.

Working with children sometimes they do things and you can't not laugh or another adult goes off and you all get the giggles and it's very difficult to then deal with it

Some years go now my dh and I were getting a lift from a friend in his VW beetle when it came to a dead stop. Friend got out to examine the engine when I noticed a VW repair business right beside us. DH and I then burst into uncontrolled laughter as we tried to explain to friend that the car was clever enough to stop at exactly the right place! Needless the friend did not find it funny and this made us laugh even more.

I was in the local chemist, waiting for my prescription. In came a gentleman who was a little bit inebriated.... the assistant asked for his address before he could have his prescription, as is usual. He held up his hand, staggered a bit, then said... No, No, Hang on, Don't tell me.........
After he left, me and the assistant were in fits of laughter...

I am just re-reading Bill Brysons' The Road to little Dribling',
it makes me laugh untill I cry.

A few years ago my late DH and I were on holiday travelling in France .He had packed his favourite fisherman’s smock that he had had for about 20 years but not worn for a while,. It was bit chilly and he popped it on when we stopped for picnic lunch .Later when we stopped again he decided he was too hot and needed to take it off. He then realised that he had put on a bit of weight since he last wore it ! We were both in hysterics whilst he tried to get out of his armour ! Eventually he managed it with my help tears of laughter streaming down our faces The people in the car park thought we were completely mad ! I do wish I had taken a picture ….

I will second Bill Bryson's books for hysterical laughing. I was reading the Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (an autobiography of Bill's childhood in America) and the part where he describes a day out at the local lake when his neighbour decides to dive in, is just hysterical; I was reading it in bed and laughed so much that the whole bed was shaking - hubby was getting cross as he was trying to sleep, and this just made me laugh more, the tears were rolling down my face and I just couldn't compose myself at all. I had to go in the spare room!
On another theme - my son (who has a very loud laugh) went to the Comedy Club in Manchester and was told to stop laughing (at a comedy club???)!!! Which of course made him and his mates laugh even more ???

Myself and DD laughed till we cried when I told her of my dream.

Simon Cowell lounging on a mattress on the floor surrounded by candles looking super gorgeous waiting just for me. I am just about to join him when I say ‘I can’t sleep with you because I’ve let myself go recently’
I was gutted when I woke up.

I usually end up crying with laughter listening to one of Bob Mortimer's stories on Would I lie To You

A rather naughty story which I read in the paper whilst at work. It involved a group of students on a beach somewhere in Scandinavia. They came across a dead female beached whale lying on its back. One of the students jokingly climbed onto the whale and started to give a mock guided tour. Unfortunately he stepped backwards and fell down the poor whales vagina and all that could be heard were muffled calls for help. Fortunately he was rescued and came to no harm.
For some bizarre reason I started to laugh so much in the office that I was crying and everyone came to see what was going on. The entire office saw the funny side of this tale.
The following day I was working in the crown court and was quietly listening to proceedings when the vision of this young man popped into my head. I got an uncontrollable fit of the giggles and had to excuse myself from court. Fortunately I wasn’t required to apologise to the judge or explain why I had disgraced myself. Even now several years on the story still makes me laugh.

Sad as it seems, I don't think I ever have.

Who remembers the comedian Max Wall? He used to wear black tights and looked rather like Richard 111. When my friend and I were about 14 we were watching Max Wall on TV. We laughed so much that my friend wet herself, then we laughed some more!!!
I laughed till I cried when reading The Moon's a Balloon, by David Niven. We were on holiday at the time and I read the book in bed before going to sleep. I happened to be talking about how funny it was at breakfast one morning. The man at the next table agreed with me. He said he could hear me laughing from his room.