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

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 4:35pm

THE COLOR PURPLE definitely comes to mind.

"You're ugly, you're black, you're a woman..."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!


Sorry dumbasses, not funny.

Though, to an extent, I fault the direction and writing of that piece for not making ANYTHING seem serious or important.

[EganFan2]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 4:50pm

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

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 5:10pm

In THE WEDDING SINGER, when Julia calls Robbie an asshole, and runs off in tears. One day, people just found that very funny.

Updated On: 9/18/06 at 05:10 PM

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 5:16pm

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.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 5:36pm

During Sweeney Todd, some people laughed during the Judge's Johana. The song isn't funny. Why would you laugh?

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 5:50pm

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"

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 6:00pm

In reference to the question of why people laugh when Fogg is shot, it's simple. They laugh because the big tough sailor can't shoot the man. But his meek, birdbrained girlfriend doesn't even have to think twice about it. It's role reversal for the two and it provides a brief moment of levity to the most intense sequence of scenes in the piece.

[Weez]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 6:15pm

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. ^_^

[All_For_Laura]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 6:22pm

People laugh at the line in Company:

"Throw a lonely dog a bone, it's still a bone"

I just don't find that funny...at all.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 6:30pm

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:

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 6:46pm

SNLMedia, I never understood that joke either. Now I do.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 6:51pm

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."

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 7:00pm

Why is the Baker's Wife killed off in the end, anyway? Is it to punish her for her infidelity? That's the message I got.

[TWSFan4Ever]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 8:07am

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!!!!"

Posted: 11/24/06 at 9:19am

When I saw Alan Alda as Shelly Levene in Glangarry Glen Ross the audience laughed hard at almost everyting he said. You could tell that they recognized his voice and immediately connected it to MASH. That made them laugh even when dramatic and emotional lines were delivered. It had to be depressing to Alda. It happened so often that it became a distraction.
Also during the 12 Angry Men tour I heard someone shout "Norm" when George Wendt made his entrance. Sometimes people identify an actor with a character and that's all they see.

[punk ballerina]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 9:32am

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."

[Parks]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 9:58am

I still don't understand the humor of the Muriel of Omaha joke. I've had it explained to me several times, but it's still not funny. Guess it goes with the thought that "the joke's not funny if you have to explain it," as said by Sarah Silverman.

[musicalkid]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 10:16am

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)

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 10:33am

I know it's already been said a few times...but The Producers...I just didn't see what the big deal was. I just got back from New York; we saw the show Wednesday. The people next to me were basically out of their seats in laughter. I laughed a couple of times, but I found most of the "humor" somewhat tasteless and tiresome.

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 11:29am

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.

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 11:45am

Nicely put thevolleyballer

Haha.


I'm trying to think of a moment but I just can't, there were plenty of times when I got why something was amusing but I didn't break into a laugh like a lot of the audience did.

[actor]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 11:49am

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

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:47pm

I just finished a prodcution of Oklahoma! and almost every night during the auction scene, the audience laughed every time Jud bid two bits. Why is that funny? That's one of the mroe intene scenes in Oklahoma!.

[logan0215]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 1:19pm

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

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 3:03pm

During "La Vie Boheme" when they said "Who died?" Our "akita"? "Evita"? I don't get that whole sequence.