"Wait.. why is everyone laughing?" Moments — Page 3

People cheered whenever Hyde offed somebody (except Lucy) in "Jekyll and Hyde".

I remember when I was younger (freshman in high school) and I did a scene from True West in my acting class, alot of the class was laughing. And it perplexed me, I thought I was being menacing, not funny. I just chalked it up to nervous laughter because of the intensity of the scene. Yeah I was just young and dumb. 4 years later when I saw it on Broadway I realized what a funny piece of work it is and can be when performed right.

And yeah I laughed at the cape moment. Not because of the implications of the future of the character but because of the loud click that was made and the obvious, "we have to find a way to get her into this harness" of it all. Wicked reminded me alot of the third Indiana Jones flick. The opening flashback where you see young Indy find and use almost all of his future tools of the trade.

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In DRS, I never got this line, even after seeing the show five times.

"Do you think I should use an umlaut?"
"No you smell great"

Nervous laughter is pretty fascinating in action. I was lucky enough to see the AMAZING 'The Woman In Black' a couple of weeks ago, and there was SO MUCH nervous laughter it was untrue. Like... a door would suddenly swing open onstage, someone in the audience would scream, everyone would burst out in uproarious laughter. But even with the hysteria, there was this AWESOME note of unease in it all. I'm still petrified I'm going to turn around and see HER (it's made me quite nervous around skinny goths, I'll tell you that for free!), and it's brilliant how even lots and lots of laughing couldn't kill the rising tension and sheer fear.

Scariest play I ever did see. And I totally got why everyone was laughing (although I wished they'd shut up sometimes) so this isn't exaaaaactly on topic. Anyway. ^_^

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In DRS, I never got this line, even after seeing the show five times.

"Do you think I should use an umlaut?"
"No you smell great"

An umlaut is a symbol used in some languages, such as German. The name Shuffhausen should have an umlaut, but he doesn't know what it is, and thinks she's talking about perfume.

Umlaut:

I saw the Broadway revival of Into the Woods and some bitch laughed when the Witch told the Baker his wife was dead. I thought, "Oh, hell no, she did not just laugh."

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when i saw "WICKED" in Pittsburgh, whenever it was time for the 'catfight' part, whenever Glinda slapped Elphie, everybody started cracking up! i was sitting there like "it wasn't that funny!" and then to top it off, the guy in front of us yelled "CATFIGHT!!!!"

When I saw Jersey Boys, when Bob Gaudio says "It was better than knocking on doors, but not much."
People starting cracking up. I'm thinking, "Hey thats not terribly funny."

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I always found the WICKED cape bit, purely technical moment.

they wanted her to have a cape when flting, so it covers the machinary, and it just so happens, that a cape is kinda appropriate. it always seemed to me like a poorly executed technical glitch. ( i don't know if it is, but seeming like it to me, makes it just as lame, even if it's well-thought)

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Just saw "A Chorus Line", and people began to laugh at the end when the final cuts were announced. **SPOILER FOR ANYONE LIVING UNDER A ROCK** When Sheila gives her death look to Zack, a bunch of people laughed. The fault wasn't with the audience, though, but with Sheila. Definitely a wrong on her part, as the look she gave didn't express the emotion or feeling that she's supposed to show with the one glare. It was a "Bitch, you trippin' for not picking me" look.

The entire production of The Producers is a "Wait...why is everyone laughing" moment.

In The Light in the Piazza during "Statues in Stories" Margaret about Florence "...she commanded the passage of the Arno; they call cities 'she' here, I bet you didn't know that!"

and Clara responds: "I bet she'd lose her bet"

People wouldn't laugh until a few notes later and I could never make out exactly what Clara had said the 2.5 times I had seen the show live as well as numerous other viewings until the PBS Special.

Until that point I deducted since they were talking about the Arno River that they said:

Margaret: ";they call cities 'she' here, I bet you didn't know that!"
Clara: "I bet 'she' wets her bed."

Updated On: 11/24/06 at 01:19 PM