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* On ''Series/AllThat'', it was something of a tradition for Kenan and Kel to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeXo3aPDWao break out laughing at some point when they're playing off each other in the Good Burger sketches.]] They do it at least twice during the show itself, and when they came back for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5hO3RWXh38#t=7m58s Tenth Anniversary Special]] they did it again.
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* On ''Series/AllThat'', it was something of a tradition for Kenan and Kel to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeXo3aPDWao com/watch?v=qaztpKe31M8 break out laughing at some point when they're playing off each other in the Good Burger sketches.]] They do it at least twice during the show itself, and when they came back for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5hO3RWXh38#t=7m58s [[https://youtu.be/T-u-IDFwDE8?t=179 Tenth Anniversary Special]] they did it again.
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* A weird but amusing one from ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' has Creator/DrakeBell laughing at his own [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcfwv0sNjk monologue.]]
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* A weird but amusing one from ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' has Creator/DrakeBell laughing at his own [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcfwv0sNjk com/watch?v=wA8Jq0NXspo monologue.]]
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* Whether on their podcast, Viceland, or Showtime, Creator/DesusAndMero (particularly Mero) very freely burst into laughter either at the content they're watching or their quips (and they're just as likely to crack themselves up as each other). Mero has been known to laugh so hard he falls out of his chair on multiple occasions. The most spectacular [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gayhfi1YIB4 example]] comes from them seeing a blatant thirst-trap picture Music/{{Lizzo}} posted on her Instagram...which Desus notices was liked by their producer, Michael Pielocik. This discovery and Michael's attempt to explain himself make Mero wheeze laughing, fall out of his chair, and briefly lose his trademark hat.
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth "New Earth"]]: When Lady Cassandra takes over the Doctor's body and turns up the camp, you can see Creator/BilliePiper trying not to crack.
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth "New Earth"]]: When As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1convDWA_tE Lady Cassandra takes over the Doctor's body and David Tennant turns up the camp, camp]], you can see Creator/BilliePiper trying not to crack.
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]: The scene where the Doctor discovers that Rose's face has been stolen took seven takes to get right because David Tennant and Billie Piper could not stop cracking up, due in large part to Piper having motion dots all over her face for the post-production CGI removal of her face.
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]: The scene where When the Doctor discovers that Rose's face has been stolen took seven takes to get right because by the Wire, the outtake footage shows David Tennant and Billie Piper could not stop cracking up, being unable to keep character due in large part to Piper having motion dots all over her face for the post-production CGI removal of her face.
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** An interesting inversion came when filming the infamous Red Wedding. [[spoiler: Oona Chaplin was the first to die in the scene, and decided Talisa would [[DiesWideOpen die with her eyes open]]. Due to the emotional nature of the scenes, everyone on set was crying. The director had to keep calling cut to tell Oona to stop crying since she was meant to be a corpse]].
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** A reverse example occurs when Will delivered his famous "How come he don't want me, man?" line. Karyn Parsons could be heard crying from offstage.
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** In ''Halloween'', Angel was supposed to look bored when Cordelia attempts to flirt with him. But David Boreanaz
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** In ''Halloween'', Angel was supposed to look bored when Cordelia attempts to flirt with him. But David Boreanaz
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** In ''Halloween'', Angel was supposed to look bored when Cordelia attempts to flirt with him. But David Boreanaz
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** Happens in a season one episode, but is only revealed in the DVD commentary. Creator/BruceCampbell, playing Sam Axe, says "It's only photoshop," causing Jeffrey Donovan, playing Michael Westen, to laugh for ''seven hours''.
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** Happens in a season one episode, but is only revealed in the DVD commentary. Creator/BruceCampbell, playing Sam Axe, says "It's only photoshop," causing Jeffrey Donovan, Creator/JeffreyDonovan, playing Michael Westen, to laugh for ''seven hours''.
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* Happens in a season one episode of ''Series/BurnNotice'', but is only revealed in the DVD commentary. Creator/BruceCampbell, playing Sam Axe, says "It's only photoshop," causing Jeffrey Donovan, playing Michael Westen, to laugh for ''seven hours''.
** A blooper had Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar (Fiona) having a hard time keeping a straight face during a serious scene. Every time "action" is called they would start to giggle. Eventually, the actor playing a client of the week yelled out "You're laughing?! My mom was *[[SoundEffectBleep bleeping]]* kidnapped!"
** A blooper had Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar (Fiona) having a hard time keeping a straight face during a serious scene. Every time "action" is called they would start to giggle. Eventually, the actor playing a client of the week yelled out "You're laughing?! My mom was *[[SoundEffectBleep bleeping]]* kidnapped!"
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* ''Series/BurnNotice'':
** Happens in a season oneepisode of ''Series/BurnNotice'', episode, but is only revealed in the DVD commentary. Creator/BruceCampbell, playing Sam Axe, says "It's only photoshop," causing Jeffrey Donovan, playing Michael Westen, to laugh for ''seven hours''.
** A blooper had Donovan andGabrielle Anwar Creator/GabrielleAnwar (Fiona) having a hard time keeping a straight face during a serious scene. Every time "action" is called they would start to giggle. Eventually, the actor playing a client of the week yelled out "You're laughing?! My mom was *[[SoundEffectBleep bleeping]]* kidnapped!"
** Happens in a season one
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]: The scene where the Doctor discovers that Rose's face has been stolen took seven takes to get right because David Tennant and Billie Piper could not stop cracking up, due in large part to Piper having motion dots all over her face for the post-production CGI removal of her face.
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** Since the Red Wedding was deliberately scheduled as the last scene to be filmed for all the characters who got killed in it, it was very emotional for their actors. This trope became very literal for Oona Chaplin, since she had to be reminded more than once that corpses don't cry while she was lying on the floor after having been gutted.
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* During an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show where guests are blindfolded and have to describe the food their eating to their partners, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHIoQfsh59w Dax Shepard and his wife Kristen Bell have an memorable exchange]] that leaves Ellen in stiches.
--> '''Dax''': Chimpanzees eat it. It grows on a tree, it's yellow.
--> '''Kristen''': [[EpicFail Eucalyptus!]]
--> '''Dax''': Chimpanzees eat it. It grows on a tree, it's yellow.
--> '''Kristen''': [[EpicFail Eucalyptus!]]
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNehJHwOamw This bit]], featuring Creator/DomDeluise, Creator/PeterSellers, and Creator/NipseyRussell as barbers and their patrons, basically abandons all pretense of keeping a straight face before Dean even comes in. By the time Russell, ad-libbing that he's "the token straight in this bit" (considering how [[CampGay over-the-top effeminate]] the other actors are), they've all doubled over with laughter.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNehJHwOamw This bit]], featuring Creator/DomDeluise, Creator/PeterSellers, and Creator/NipseyRussell as barbers and their patrons, basically abandons all pretense of keeping a straight face before Dean even comes in. By the time Russell, ad-libbing Russell ad-libs that he's "the token straight in this bit" (considering how [[CampGay over-the-top effeminate]] the other actors are), they've all doubled over with laughter.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNehJHwOamw This bit]], featuring Creator/DomDeluise, Creator/PeterSellers, and Creator/NipseyRussell as barbers and their patrons, basically abandons all pretense of keeping a straight face before Dean even comes in. By the time Russell, ad-libbing that he's "the token straight in this bit" (considering how [[CampGay over-the-top effeminate]] the other actors are), they've all doubled over with laughter.
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* In one of the fan-favorite ColdOpens of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', the one where the precinct attempts to guess why Santiago is late, when Holt begins to guess, you can clearly see Stephanie Beatriz (Diaz) covering her mouth to cover her laughter. After Holt shouts, "HOT DAMN!!", it ends rather abruptly, because, according to Beatriz, the entire cast started laughing hysterically after he shouted that.
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* In one of the fan-favorite ColdOpens ColdOpenings of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', the one where the precinct attempts to guess why Santiago is late, when Holt begins to guess, you can clearly see Stephanie Beatriz (Diaz) covering her mouth to cover her laughter. After Holt shouts, "HOT DAMN!!", it ends rather abruptly, because, according to Beatriz, the entire cast started laughing hysterically after he shouted that.
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* In one of the fan-favorite ColdOpens of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', the one where the precinct attempts to guess why Santiago is late, when Holt begins to guess, you can clearly see Stephanie Beatriz (Diaz) covering her mouth to cover her laughter. After Holt shouts, "HOT DAMN!!", it ends rather abruptly, because, according to Beatriz, the entire cast started laughing hysterically after he shouted that.
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** Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons and Tatiana Ali (Hilary & Ashley respectively)played this trope on screen in "Asses to Ashes" when they make Will cry and he starts whining at them. However, they were able to regain control and not break character. Nevertheless, it make blooper reel during the credits.
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* ''Series/EightSimpleRules'':
** Kerry does an impression of her sister - "Hi, I'm Bridget. I can't believe how much my head shakes when I talk" - and Paul tries to tell her she's "really mean" but he [[ActuallyPrettyFunny just laughs at how accurate the impression is]].
** Before Bridget starts the new job, Paul suggests she lay her clothes out for the morning like he does. Kerry snarks "''this'' is what you look like with a head-start?" - and John Ritter can be seen chuckling as the scene fades out.
** In-universe when Bridget is playing [[WTHCastingAgency Anne Frank in the school play]]. Bridget is a StatuesqueStunner with beautiful blonde hair, who is one of the most popular girls in school. And when she has to say the line "[[HollywoodHomely I know I'm not very pretty]]", she can't help but [[ProudBeauty burst out laughing]].
** Kerry does an impression of her sister - "Hi, I'm Bridget. I can't believe how much my head shakes when I talk" - and Paul tries to tell her she's "really mean" but he [[ActuallyPrettyFunny just laughs at how accurate the impression is]].
** Before Bridget starts the new job, Paul suggests she lay her clothes out for the morning like he does. Kerry snarks "''this'' is what you look like with a head-start?" - and John Ritter can be seen chuckling as the scene fades out.
** In-universe when Bridget is playing [[WTHCastingAgency Anne Frank in the school play]]. Bridget is a StatuesqueStunner with beautiful blonde hair, who is one of the most popular girls in school. And when she has to say the line "[[HollywoodHomely I know I'm not very pretty]]", she can't help but [[ProudBeauty burst out laughing]].
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** During Cersei's walk of shame in "Mother's Mercy", after a prostitute calls out "I've only had half as many cocks as the Queen", Septa Unella can be seen trying not to grin and covering it up by calling out "shame!" - which wouldn't be completely out of character.
** An interesting inversion came when filming the infamous Red Wedding. [[spoiler: Oona Chaplin was the first to die in the scene, and decided Talisa would [[DiesWideOpen die with her eyes open]]. Due to the emotional nature of the scenes, everyone on set was crying. The director had to keep calling cut to tell Oona to stop crying since she was meant to be a corpse]].
** An interesting inversion came when filming the infamous Red Wedding. [[spoiler: Oona Chaplin was the first to die in the scene, and decided Talisa would [[DiesWideOpen die with her eyes open]]. Due to the emotional nature of the scenes, everyone on set was crying. The director had to keep calling cut to tell Oona to stop crying since she was meant to be a corpse]].
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* In one ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode Garibaldi and Bester on a stakeout. Garibaldi's still irritated at having to work with the Psi-Cop (who was a villain in two previous episodes) and tells him to [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon shut up or he'll string him up so they can play piñata]]. Bester [[InsultBackfire turns the threat on its head]] by innocently asking if that means Garibaldi thinks he's colourful and full of gifts for small children. Creator/JerryDoyle (Garibaldi) opens his mouth but then snaps it shut and is visibly struggling not to burst out laughing. The best part is, ''it completely fits'' because a sudden laughing fit would've ruined the stakeout!
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* In one ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode Garibaldi and Bester on a stakeout. Garibaldi's still irritated at having to work with the Psi-Cop (who was a villain in two previous episodes) and tells him to [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon shut up or he'll string him up so they can play piñata]]. Bester [[InsultBackfire turns the threat on its head]] by innocently asking if that means Garibaldi thinks he's colourful colorful and full of gifts for small children. Creator/JerryDoyle (Garibaldi) opens his mouth but then snaps it shut and is visibly struggling not to burst out laughing. The best part is, ''it completely fits'' because a sudden laughing fit would've ruined the stakeout!
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* Occurred once or twice in the John Bird / John Fortune dialogues in ''Bremner, Bird and Fortune''. One discussion centered around making the Queen Mother the centrepiece of the Millennium celebrations; this led to the thought of a gigantic hot-air balloon in the shape of the Queen Mother drifting across London, which reduced both of them to helpless laughter.
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* Occurred once or twice in the John Bird / John Fortune dialogues in ''Bremner, Bird and Fortune''. One discussion centered around making the Queen Mother the centrepiece centerpiece of the Millennium celebrations; this led to the thought of a gigantic hot-air balloon in the shape of the Queen Mother drifting across London, which reduced both of them to helpless laughter.
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** A famous series of bloopers happened in the fourth season of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' when the characters were mentally reversed back their obnoxious teenage selves and Angel, being a 250-year old vampire, was shocked by the appearance of things like cars. Going outside, freaking out and running back into the main room, whenever David Boreanaz (Angel) made eye contact with Alexis Denisof (Wesley) they could not keep a straight face. In the episode proper you can see them avoid eye-contact very deliberately and even still Wesley glances towards the ceiling with a slight smirk before walking off camera.
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** A famous series of bloopers happened in the fourth season of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' when the characters were mentally reversed back their obnoxious teenage selves and Angel, being a 250-year old vampire, was shocked by the appearance of things like cars. Going outside, freaking out and running back into the main room, whenever David Boreanaz (Angel) made eye contact with Alexis Denisof (Wesley) they could not keep a straight face. In the episode proper proper, you can see them avoid eye-contact very deliberately and even still Wesley glances towards the ceiling with a slight smirk before walking off camera.
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** A blooper had Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar (Fiona) having a hard time keeping a straight face during a serious scene. Every time "action" is called they would start to giggle. Eventually the actor playing a client of the week yelled out "You're laughing?! My mom was *[[SoundEffectBleep bleeping]]* kidnapped!"
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** A blooper had Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar (Fiona) having a hard time keeping a straight face during a serious scene. Every time "action" is called they would start to giggle. Eventually Eventually, the actor playing a client of the week yelled out "You're laughing?! My mom was *[[SoundEffectBleep bleeping]]* kidnapped!"
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** Vicki Lawrence was very good at resisting corpsing, but could even make Tim fall out laughing, as at the very end of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY Elephant story]]. Of course, up to that point it was all Tim; Carol doesn't even make it to the ten-second mark before making an OhCrap face. Vicki was also fond (while playing Mama) of coming up with ad libbed insults to crack up Carol.
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** Vicki Lawrence was very good at resisting corpsing, but could even make Tim fall out laughing, as at the very end of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY Elephant story]]. Of course, up to that point point, it was all Tim; Carol doesn't even make it to the ten-second mark before making an OhCrap face. Vicki was also fond (while playing Mama) of coming up with ad libbed ad-libbed insults to crack up Carol.
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** Conway was so good at this he could even do it by doing nothing at all. An anniversary special had Carol Burnett show us the unused footage from a skit where Tim is supposed to keep interrupting Harvey Korman's speech at a political dinner by loudly crunching potato chips. In the aired sketch he continues to do this forcing Harvey to repeatedly stop his speech to ever more angrily demand he stop, but in the outtake scene we see that Tim stops the first time Harvey asks him to and simply spends the rest of the scene paying rapt attention to Harvey's speech. Watching Harvey being forced to improvise dialogue for getting way farther into the speech than he was ever supposed to, visibly waiting for Tim to crunch chips and trying not to crack up as he has to improvise, and occasionally giving Tim an "I'm going to kill you for this" death Glare while Tim just contentedly smiles at him is absolutely priceless.
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** Conway was so good at this he could even do it by doing nothing at all. An anniversary special had Carol Burnett show us the unused footage from a skit where Tim is supposed to keep interrupting Harvey Korman's speech at a political dinner by loudly crunching potato chips. In the aired sketch he continues to do this forcing Harvey to repeatedly stop his speech to ever more angrily demand he stop, but in the outtake scene scene, we see that Tim stops the first time Harvey asks him to and simply spends the rest of the scene paying rapt attention to Harvey's speech. Watching Harvey being forced to improvise dialogue for getting way farther into the speech than he was ever supposed to, visibly waiting for Tim to crunch chips and trying not to crack up as he has to improvise, and occasionally giving Tim an "I'm going to kill you for this" death Glare while Tim just contentedly smiles at him is absolutely priceless.
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*** Strax's Field Report played in cinema releases of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]] has him, while sending a video message to the Sontaran battle fleet, make a comment about the Ninth Doctor being "all ears" and subsequently crack up. He then mentions the Eleventh Doctor having "learned to take it on the chin", which causes him to suddenly crack up when he realizes what he's said. Then the more images of the Eleventh Doctor's chin that appear on the screen, the worse his composure gets, until he's screaming "CHINS ARE NOT FUNNY" while barely able to stand upright from laughter.
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*** Strax's Field Report played in cinema releases of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]] has him, while sending a video message to the Sontaran battle fleet, make a comment about the Ninth Doctor being "all ears" and subsequently crack up. He then mentions the Eleventh Doctor having "learned to take it on the chin", which causes him to suddenly crack up when he realizes what he's said. Then the more images of the Eleventh Doctor's chin that appear on the screen, the worse his composure gets, gets until he's screaming "CHINS ARE NOT FUNNY" while barely able to stand upright from laughter.
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** Cast corpsing was often left in to beautiful comic effect, as in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1Y-tIJ370 Kung Fu]] parody sketch.
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** One episode actually has an in-universe example. [[spoiler:In "Trash", while the crew are manipulating Yolande/Saffron/Bridget, some of their performances are a little... off. At a couple of points during the exaggerated routine, Kaylee gets the giggles.]]
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** One episode actually has an in-universe example. [[spoiler:In "Trash", while the crew are is manipulating Yolande/Saffron/Bridget, some of their performances are a little... little...off. At a couple of points during the exaggerated routine, Kaylee gets the giggles.]]
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* It is frankly a miracle that any filming got done for ''Series/{{Extras}}'', seeing as corpsing came as easy as breathing to most of the cast, particularly Creator/RickyGervais. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_thjUPE1i4 These]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQMg8Ve1Gy0 compilations]] alone don't hold every moment, to a degree where an entire DVD documentary was made about how Gervais made his co-stars crack (and, in turn, how incredibly easy it was to make Gervais crack). The only notable subversion is his in-character duet (as Andy Stokes) of "Fix You" with [[Music/{{Coldplay}} Chris Martin]], which found both able to do the take perfectly, then promptly finish, turn to each other, and burst into laughter.
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* ''Series/ColgateComedyHour'': In a routine featuring Creator/AbbottAndCostello, Abbot knocks Costello into the set dressing behind them. After briefly getting distracted, they realize they broke off a piece of the scenery and burst out laughing.
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* On ''Series/AllThat'', it was something of a tradition for Kenan and Kel to break out laughing at some point when they're playing off each other in the Good Burger sketches: they do it at least twice during the show itself, and when they came back for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5hO3RWXh38#t=7m58s Tenth Anniversary Special]] they did it again.
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* In the Series/{{Frasier}} episode "Roz and the Schnoz," the characters struggle hilariously to keep it together to avoid offending their guests by laughing at their {{Gag Nose}}s. The episode's director Ken Levine has admitted some EnforcedMethodActing was in play: He instructed the camera crew to keep their shots rolling on any actor who started losing it.
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** Will Smith lost it backstage in “Father of the Year” after Geoffrey (Joseph Marcell) quipped about seeing Uncle Phil & Aunt Viv naked.
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* ''Series/TheCosbyShow'': When Sandra and Elvin announce that they're both skipping grad school to open a wilderness store, Cliff and Claire are naturally pissed as they had paid for Sandra's Princeton education. When Claire tells her daughter "You owe us $79,648.22, and I. Want. My. Money. Now.", you can see Elvin's actor struggling to keep a straight face.
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* ''Series/TheCosbyShow'': When Sandra and Elvin announce that they're both skipping grad school to open a wilderness store, Cliff and Claire are naturally pissed as they had paid for Sandra's their daughter's Princeton education. When Claire tells her daughter "You owe us $79,648.22, and I. Want. My. Money. Now.", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTnTWyvr5v4 you can see Elvin's actor struggling to keep a straight face.face]].
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** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath "The Seeds of Death"]], the Doctor is pushed through a door by a gigantic wave of fungus (foam), then accidentally slips and lands on his arse (which was [[ThrowItIn not supposed to happen]]). Zoe's actress Wendy Padbury is obviously laughing for about a minute while running around trying to fight the foam off - she even keeps laughing despite having lines to say. "[[BlatantLies That's terror]]," Wendy Padbury explained on the DVD commentary later.
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** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath "The Seeds of Death"]], the Doctor is pushed through a door by a gigantic wave of fungus (foam), then accidentally slips and lands on his arse (which was [[ThrowItIn not supposed to happen]]). Zoe's actress Wendy Padbury is obviously laughing for about a minute while running around trying to fight the foam off - — she even keeps laughing despite having lines to say. "[[BlatantLies That's terror]]," Wendy Padbury explained on the DVD commentary later.
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen "Revenge of the Cybermen"]] contains a scene where the Doctor has to tell Sarah, "We're headed for the biggest bang in history." (The writers had missed the DoubleEntendre, and intended it as a completely straight WhamLine.) It apparently took ''tens'' of takes before Creator/TomBaker was able to deliver this line without Lis Sladen — and most of the floor crew — disintegrating into hysterics. In [[DevelopmentGag reference to this incident]], and as a little bit of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, Creator/RobertHolmes added a line to the next serial ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons "Terror of the Zygons"]]) where the Doctor had to say in a completely serious voice, "was that bang big enough for you, [[HoYay Brigadier]]?".
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen "Revenge of the Cybermen"]] contains a scene where the Doctor has to tell Sarah, "We're headed for the biggest bang in history." (The writers had missed the DoubleEntendre, and intended it as a completely straight WhamLine.) It apparently took ''tens'' of takes before Creator/TomBaker was able to deliver this line without Lis Sladen — and most of the floor crew — disintegrating into hysterics. In [[DevelopmentGag reference to this incident]], and as a little bit of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, Creator/RobertHolmes added a line to the next serial ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons "Terror of the Zygons"]]) where the Doctor had to say in a completely serious voice, "was that bang big enough for you, [[HoYay Brigadier]]?".Brigadier]]?"
** During filming of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora "The Masque of Mandragora"]], Tom Baker apparently made himself a nuisance by messing around off-camera in order to make Tim Piggot-Smith (as Marco) crack up during his torture scene.
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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9KtERtl6LI this scene]] from ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Tommy and Harry are trying (unsuccessfully) to feed Mrs. Dubcek's grandson. You can see Tommy start to crack after Harry spits food back at the baby/camera.
* On the ''Series/ThirtyRock'' LiveEpisode, Tracy tries to corpse on purpose to get a laugh. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Tracy being Tracy]], he does it [[BadBadActing badly]].
-->'''Tracy:''' Uh oh, I'm doing something called 'breaking' Blahahahaha. Snort. Heehee. Giggle giggle. The audience loves this!
** Also a stealth TakeThat; Tracy Morgan was one of the few ''SNL'' cast members who publicly called out Jimmy Fallon for [[SpotlightStealingSquad his frequent corpsing.]]
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* On ''Series/AllThat'', it was something of a tradition for Kenan and Kel to break out laughing at some point when they're playing off each other in the Good Burger sketches: they do it at least twice during the show itself, and when they came back for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5hO3RWXh38#t=7m58s Tenth Anniversary Special]] they did it again.
* A weird but amusing one from ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' has Creator/DrakeBell laughing at his own [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcfwv0sNjk monologue.]]
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', Miss Brahms says the line "Mrs. Slocomb didn't want to [[ItMakesSenseInContext take down your trousers without asking you first]].", and you can hear Wendy Richards' voice break at "asking".
* In the ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show'' sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKFJupMjMmY "Plain Clothes Police Women"]], Tim Brooke-Taylor as the police sergeant tries (with only limited success) to suppress his laughter when PC Staveacre (Creator/GrahamChapman) announces his drag name as "Philippa". The laughter soon spreads to the other actors.[[note]] Tim later confirmed in an interview that he broke down laughing because they had been using different names during rehearsals, but Graham, Creator/MartyFeldman, and Creator/JohnCleese decided to go off script as a prank on Tim.[[/note]]
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* In one ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode Garibaldi and Bester on a stakeout. Garibaldi's still irritated at having to work with the Psi-Cop (who was a villain in two previous episodes) and tells him to [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon shut up or he'll string him up so they can play piñata]]. Bester [[InsultBackfire turns the threat on its head]] by innocently asking if that means Garibaldi thinks he's colourful and full of gifts for small children. Creator/JerryDoyle (Garibaldi) opens his mouth but then snaps it shut and is visibly struggling not to burst out laughing. The best part is, ''it completely fits'' because a sudden laughing fit would've ruined the stakeout!
* In the ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' episode "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble", Creator/ElizabethMontgomery cracked up after Creator/DickYork gave her a PieInTheFace. She dubbed over the scene in post-production, but if you look closely, you can still see her laugh.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. The eponymous VillainOfTheWeek in "Moloch" was so NightmareRetardant (a LittleGreenManInACan that actually looks like a one-eyed fried chicken) the cast kept bursting into laughter, eventually causing Creator/DeepRoy who was playing the part to do a RageQuit, as he was still in pain from a broken collarbone he'd received during location filming.
* Occurred once or twice in the John Bird / John Fortune dialogues in ''Bremner, Bird and Fortune''. One discussion centered around making the Queen Mother the centrepiece of the Millennium celebrations; this led to the thought of a gigantic hot-air balloon in the shape of the Queen Mother drifting across London, which reduced both of them to helpless laughter.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was not immune to this. In season three Faith is moping that she wasn't able to turn Angel evil, and her parental figure BigBad suggests miniature golf to cheer her up. Seeing as she is at the time an AxCrazy psychotic either the character or [[Creator/ElizaDushku her actress]] can't help but laugh.
** Invoked in ''Real Me'' where Buffy is told Harmony has minions. Yep, [[BigBadWannabe that]] Harmony: Joss was behind the camera trying to make SMG crack up.
** In Season 6's musical episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More, With Feeling!]]", Creator/AmberBenson and Creator/EmmaCaulfield were dancing behind Creator/SarahMichelleGellar during the song "Something To Sing About" on The Bronze set. As the dance was ending, Amber made a misstep while turning and ran into one of the support pillars (you can see this near the end of the line "and every single verse"). Since the sequence was being filmed with a multi-camera setup, you can see her beginning to lose it in the next shot (the line "can make it that much worse") and she quickly ducks behind the pillar to get off-camera.
** Something similar happens at the end of season six. Willow has gone completely off the rails, as has the lives of Buffy and her friends. She details this to Giles, who reacts to the somber news by cracking up laughing. After a moment Buffy does as well.
** Gellar would also corpse a little in the ending to ''First Date'' where Xander, clearly having enough of girlfriends who turn out to be demons, remarks, "What do you think happened?" when asked.
** A famous series of bloopers happened in the fourth season of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' when the characters were mentally reversed back their obnoxious teenage selves and Angel, being a 250-year old vampire, was shocked by the appearance of things like cars. Going outside, freaking out and running back into the main room, whenever David Boreanaz (Angel) made eye contact with Alexis Denisof (Wesley) they could not keep a straight face. In the episode proper you can see them avoid eye-contact very deliberately and even still Wesley glances towards the ceiling with a slight smirk before walking off camera.
** Discussed in the commentary to one ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode, where the writers ask Adam Baldwin how he manages to ''not'' corpse when he tells Angel, "You and I will not be making love on this couch anytime soon." It turns out Baldwin ''[[BerserkButton hates]]'' people who corpse.
* Happens in a season one episode of ''Series/BurnNotice'', but is only revealed in the DVD commentary. Creator/BruceCampbell, playing Sam Axe, says "It's only photoshop," causing Jeffrey Donovan, playing Michael Westen, to laugh for ''seven hours''.
** A blooper had Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar (Fiona) having a hard time keeping a straight face during a serious scene. Every time "action" is called they would start to giggle. Eventually the actor playing a client of the week yelled out "You're laughing?! My mom was *[[SoundEffectBleep bleeping]]* kidnapped!"
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* Tim Conway was the ''master and archetype'' of sending his cast members into bouts of unscripted laughter on ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow''. He was so good at it, they didn't even try to hide that they were laughing. All it took was him to come out in some ridiculous outfit, flash his trademark smirk at them, and the others would be falling over laughing.
** Harvey Korman was particularly a victim whenever he did a skit with Tim Conway. Conway may well be the Crown Prince of causing other people to corpse. Note that Conway rarely actively tried to make it happen. The other cast members reportedly placed bets to see how long it would take Korman to bust out laughing.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_C3bO8WZ0 The best example of this is one sketch in which he played a dentist]]. Conway's character accidentally shoots himself (multiple times) with an anesthetic. Poor Harvey Korman was literally stuck in the dentist chair and had to watch the entire thing.
** Other times, the other members, especially Carol, would get even with Tim. Like in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT9jmEUNxtk&NR=1 The Flasher]]" skit, which (judging by the nature of ''what it was'' that cracked him up) was more of a conspiratorial plot to break Tim than an actual sketch.
** Vicki Lawrence was very good at resisting corpsing, but could even make Tim fall out laughing, as at the very end of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY Elephant story]]. Of course, up to that point it was all Tim; Carol doesn't even make it to the ten-second mark before making an OhCrap face. Vicki was also fond (while playing Mama) of coming up with ad libbed insults to crack up Carol.
*** On the other hand, there was one skit with her, Lyle Waggoner, and Harvey Korman where she breaks down laughing ''after her character dies''. Harvey eventually solves the situation by burying Vicki's head with hay.
** Conway was so good at this he could even do it by doing nothing at all. An anniversary special had Carol Burnett show us the unused footage from a skit where Tim is supposed to keep interrupting Harvey Korman's speech at a political dinner by loudly crunching potato chips. In the aired sketch he continues to do this forcing Harvey to repeatedly stop his speech to ever more angrily demand he stop, but in the outtake scene we see that Tim stops the first time Harvey asks him to and simply spends the rest of the scene paying rapt attention to Harvey's speech. Watching Harvey being forced to improvise dialogue for getting way farther into the speech than he was ever supposed to, visibly waiting for Tim to crunch chips and trying not to crack up as he has to improvise, and occasionally giving Tim an "I'm going to kill you for this" death Glare while Tim just contentedly smiles at him is absolutely priceless.
** Conway kept it up on the short-lived WB improv/sitcom ''On the Spot'', regularly doing ad-libs that had the other actors cracking up constantly. It was even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d with an actor asked what his character was doing and replying "it was terrible, he didn't do one line from the script..."
* ''Series/{{Community}}'':
** Look very closely at Jeff's face in [[Recap/CommunityS3E16VirtualSystemsAnalysis "Virtual Systems Analysis"]] when Dean Pelton approaches as the "Duali-Dean of Man". A couple of camera angles hide the fact that Joel [=McHale=]'s about three seconds away from losing it.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS5E09VCRMaintenanceAndEducationalPublishing VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing]]", [[ItMakesSenseInContext the dean enters dressed as a peanut bar and performs a freestyle rap. It quickly goes off the rails before he runs out of the room crying.]] When he exits, Gillian Jacobs has a smile on her face that is clearly hiding laughter.
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* In a 1965 episode of ''The Dean Martin Show'', Dean plays a shop assistant dealing with a customer, played by Bob Newhart, who is returning a toupee. While Newhart is his usual deadpan self (for the most part), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgubFLBCmMY Dean cannot stop giggling.]]
-->'''Dean:''' ''(trying not to laugh)'' Now, do you want a... full exchange? ''(starts laughing again)''\\
'''Bob:''' Well, I... [[PaintingTheMedium I'd like a straight man who didn't laugh!]]\\
'''Bob:''' ''(Dean has a huge grin)'' You're sure you worked with Creator/{{Jerry|Lewis}}?\\
'''Dean:''' Yeahaha! ''(cracks up again, wiping tears from his eyes)'' But our stuff wasn't this funny, I'll tell you that!\\
'''Bob:''' Can I use your phone to...\\
'''Dean:''' ''(Looking forward to this)'' Ooooh, for heaven's sake, yeah!
** There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3121xuToY this sketch]] with Foster Brooks as a drunken airline pilot. Martin's giggles break out at about 1:30, and by 2:20 he's lost all control.
* ''Series/DickAndDomInDaBungalow'' would feature certainly Dick, and often Dom, cracking up at least once an episode. Brilliantly infectious. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt_farHgMfM&t=2m28s In this clip]] they seriously disturb the peace in a library.
** There's also the infamous moment [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avGamJ3_9GI where a child rang in, apparently not realizing who they were phoning]]. The phone is quickly transferred to the child's grandmother...who is equally clueless. By the time the grandmother explains that they "only have channels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6" (the show was on the digital channel CBBC), the presenters are collapsed on the floor in absolute hysterics.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** InUniverse:
*** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot "Robot"]], Sarah has to stand still and look serious while the Doctor interrogates Kettlewell about the robot he thinks is killing people. Their conversation is serious but the Doctor is pulling [[ComicalOverreacting ridiculously intense, bulging-eyed faces]] in order to make Sarah laugh, which she can't resist, and which he clearly gets a lot of pleasure out of.
*** Strax's Field Report played in cinema releases of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]] has him, while sending a video message to the Sontaran battle fleet, make a comment about the Ninth Doctor being "all ears" and subsequently crack up. He then mentions the Eleventh Doctor having "learned to take it on the chin", which causes him to suddenly crack up when he realizes what he's said. Then the more images of the Eleventh Doctor's chin that appear on the screen, the worse his composure gets, until he's screaming "CHINS ARE NOT FUNNY" while barely able to stand upright from laughter.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber "The Mind Robber"]] at one point the Doctor and Zoe are attempting to get through a door. Watch Zoe as the Doctor hides her under his cloak and you can ''just'' about tell that Wendy Padbury is laughing underneath it.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath "The Seeds of Death"]], the Doctor is pushed through a door by a gigantic wave of fungus (foam), then accidentally slips and lands on his arse (which was [[ThrowItIn not supposed to happen]]). Zoe's actress Wendy Padbury is obviously laughing for about a minute while running around trying to fight the foam off - she even keeps laughing despite having lines to say. "[[BlatantLies That's terror]]," Wendy Padbury explained on the DVD commentary later.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace "Spearhead from Space"]], when the Doctor turns up the charm and swaggers across the room to Liz, Caroline John gives a rather helpless little giggle.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons "The Dæmons"]], in the long shot just after the Doctor gets caught up in the middle of the [[DanceBattler Morris dance]] when they all round on him and begin hitting him with their sticks and bladders, you can see Jon Pertwee is cracking up. (Despite the ludicrous description, this is supposed to be a scary scene.)
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen "Revenge of the Cybermen"]] contains a scene where the Doctor has to tell Sarah, "We're headed for the biggest bang in history." (The writers had missed the DoubleEntendre, and intended it as a completely straight WhamLine.) It apparently took ''tens'' of takes before Creator/TomBaker was able to deliver this line without Lis Sladen — and most of the floor crew — disintegrating into hysterics. In [[DevelopmentGag reference to this incident]], and as a little bit of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, Creator/RobertHolmes added a line to the next serial ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons "Terror of the Zygons"]]) where the Doctor had to say in a completely serious voice, "was that bang big enough for you, [[HoYay Brigadier]]?".
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons "Terror of the Zygons"]], in the scene where the Doctor is coming round from his anaerobic trance and is supposed to be acting in a spacey sort of way, you can see Creator/TomBaker's [[http://i.imgur.com/TajBtW3.gif upper lip twitch]] as he ''almost'' cracks before regaining his composure.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear "The Hand of Fear"]], Eldrad starts having a VillainousBreakdown and begins MilkingTheGiantCow, ChewingTheScenery, and generally foaming at the mouth to extents that are aesthetically indefensible, and when he suddenly raises his voice Tom Baker giggles before turning it into an in-character GrinOfAudacity.
** During filming of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora "The Masque of Mandragora"]], Tom Baker apparently made himself a nuisance by messing around off-camera in order to make Tim Piggot-Smith (as Marco) crack up during his torture scene.
** [=WhatCulture=] pointed out that during the scene in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E3TheCreatureFromThePit "The Creature from the Pit"]] where the Doctor has to approach a monster that looks like [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign a giant green penis and scrotum]] and "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar communicate]]" with it, Tom Baker, normally very good at keeping a straight face during such things, is clearly about to crack up and even has to hide his smile with his hand at one point.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E4NightmareOfEden "Nightmare of Eden"]], Tom Baker is obviously in intense pain trying not to crack up at the ridiculous, [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent completely made up]] accent used by the character Tryst.
** Graham Crowden, who plays Soldeed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon "The Horns of Nimon"]] did this during his death scene. However, it actually comes across as being perfectly in character as EvilIsHammy, so he gets away with it by turning it into some kind of crazy chortle.
** Janet Fielding (Tegan) and Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) suffered an attack of the giggles during the making of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]]. To make matters worse, it happened while they were filming the final scene, in which their characters were supposed to be grieving for Adric. Fortunately, they eventually managed to regain their composure, enabling the scene to be filmed; the incident is recounted in the "making of" documentary on the DVD.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]], watch Mickey's face from the point that the Doctor staggers out of the TARDIS to the point that he collapses at Mickey and Jackie's feet. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF2EmKdTbsc Poor Noel Clarke could barely keep a straight face.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth "New Earth"]]: When Lady Cassandra takes over the Doctor's body and turns up the camp, you can see Creator/BilliePiper trying not to crack.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]], corpsing was used as EnforcedMethodActing. During one scene, Sarah Jane and Rose make fun of the Doctor's mannerisms (namely, his MotorMouth and his habit of petting the TARDIS). When the Doctor walks in, they both burst out laughing. To get authentic laughter from Billie Piper and Creator/ElisabethSladen, Creator/DavidTennant scribbled on his face with a marker when he entered. The laughter from Rose and Sarah Jane is them corpsing over how ridiculous Tennant looked.
** The outtakes from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "The Impossible Astronaut"]] feature Creator/MattSmith completely losing it over the fact that he had to refer to River Song as MrsRobinson.
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* On ''Series/{{ER}}'', Kerry Weaver storms into the lounge to chew out Carter, startling him into knocking several things over. Laura Innes promptly did a rapid 360° turn that had most viewers speculating that she was trying to hide her laughter and not ruin the take.
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* ''Series/FastForward'':
** Cast corpsing was often left in to beautiful comic effect, as in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1Y-tIJ370 Kung Fu]] parody sketch.
--->'''Steve Vizard:''' ''[corpsing so hard he can't speak]''\\
'''Peter Moon:''' ''[also corpsing]'' It's your line.
** Just when you thought the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yEYQ16jy80 Brides of Satan]] sketch couldn't get any funnier, Magda Szubanski launches into a singong summoning of the devil that has Jane Turner losing it briefly, but completely.
** This series also has this trope being subverted with Gina Riley's absolutely deadpan delivery as the SBS anchor announcing a late-night line-up that should have had the most seasoned anchor in stitches.
* ''Series/FatherTed'' has one instance of this, where Mrs. Doyle (Pauline [=McLynn=]) lists off vulgar turns of phrase in a certain author's books. After Ted (Dermot Morgan) escorts her out, she calls through the door "'Ride me sideways', was another one!" This was unscripted, and Dermot Morgan is evidently trying his hardest not to lose it.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' {{Gag Reel}}s ([[https://youtu.be/bWcanMou-mY]]):
** Creator/AdamBaldwin continues to show just how seriously he takes his job. When Nathan Fillion screws around, the entire cast laughs at his antics, but Baldwin simply stays in character and even ad-libs lines occasionally. On the other hand, there's "Dammit, Mal, I forgot my line!"
** One blooper has Fillion spontaneously burst out laughing for no apparent reason then stop. Then he goes, "Okay. ''({{beat}}, turns his head)'' What's my line?" and sets off Gina Torres.
** One episode actually has an in-universe example. [[spoiler:In "Trash", while the crew are manipulating Yolande/Saffron/Bridget, some of their performances are a little... off. At a couple of points during the exaggerated routine, Kaylee gets the giggles.]]
* ''Series/ForeverKnight'': "False Witness" had a scene at the end with Nick and Natalie watching ''Film/KingKong1933'' in Nick's loft. Nick startles Nat near the end of the scene by showing his fangs and she responds by throwing popcorn at him. This was actually a prank by Geraint Wyn Davies, rather than a planned part of the scene. The giveaway is that any other time Nick vamps, his eyes go golden, but the actor wasn't wearing the contacts that time, leaving his eyes their usual color. Also, the fangs are slightly crooked. The popcorn throw was probably, rather naturally, Catherine Disher's own reaction.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Phil and Will prepare to board an elevator at the hospital. A hot girl walks out of it before they walk on and Will, of course, flirts with her and barks like a dog while doing it before Phil drags him into the elevator. Although he's not seen, you can definitely hear Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton) laughing like crazy.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** The [[TrueCompanions cast]] were pretty well known for this. For instance, while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPmQKKZ3xYE Ross plays the keyboard]], it's clear Creator/CourteneyCox is struggling not to laugh, while Creator/JenniferAniston is really cracking up while hiding her face.
** Also, take a look at guest Creator/BradPitt in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvw-G4J4Y2c this]].
** It even became a RunningGag during the filming. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C1rfr495sY Whenever someone slipped up and corpsed during the scene, in the next take Matthew Perry would make the same mistake, making everyone laugh again.]]
** Perry was known for pulling other pranks, like the scene where Richard is declaring his love for Monica (Matthew's character's girlfriend) and Matthew storms onto the set yelling "What the fuck are you doing?" The audience went crazy and none of the actors could keep a straight face for the redo.
** One episode has Ross playing the bagpipes really badly while the rest of the friends watch with looks of horror on their faces while Phoebe is awestruck in amazement. Phoebe then joins in by singing along, which consists of nothing but her screaming "EEEE!!!" for every note Ross plays. Jenifer Aniston (Rachel) cracks at the hilarity of the scene and you can see her trying to conceal her laughter by hiding her mouth with her hand. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0z18rM68D8 In one of the takes via blooper reel, she can't contain the laughter, and everyone laughs along (including Ross!)]].
** In another episode, the three guys track down and confront a stripper when they believe she has stolen an engagement ring. Creator/DavidSchwimmer shrieks at her and Creator/MattLeBlanc can clearly be seen with his hands pressed to his mouth to keep from laughing out loud.
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* ''Series/GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende'' has a yearly "No Laughing" special that thrives in this trope. The premise is that a group of actors/comedians are placed in a situation (as inmates, spies in training, news reporters, etc.) for 24 hours and are pelted by traps, jokes and sketches to get them to "Corpse", with painful results to the ones that can't keep it together.
** Also, in one of said specials, several actors were playing dead in a morgue. The investigator examining the bodies went through lengthy measures to prove the bodies were, indeed, dead, causing the actors to flinch or giggle.
** Maki Horikita, playing as a psychic detective, was caught smirking when her assistant revealed Hamada's "true" identity as [[RunningGag a gorilla]].
** In a deleted scene, Jimmy Onishi plays a character that has a difficult time pronouncing Massachusetts. His costar couldn't handle it and starts laughing uncontrollably every time someone says Massachusetts. Keep in mind nobody but the main five stars were supposed to laugh.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** According to the commentary, the biggest spate of corpsing occurred during [[TheCaligula Joffrey's]] wedding, in response to the line "This pie is dry." It was late in the day, the cast was tired, and for whatever reason, that line sent them all into a hysterical laughing fit. Especially strange considering what happens [[MoodWhiplash immediately after]] [[NightmareFuel that line]].
** Look carefully at Jon Snow when Ygritte teasingly says, "Ruined! Now I'll never be able to marry a perfumed lord! What will me poor savage father say?" He's valiantly choking back a laugh against all his instincts.
** In-universe; Varys—a former actor—prides himself on his acting ability but frequently struggles or fails to keep a straight face when Tyrion mocks Joffrey. In addition, during the Small Council scenes, Varys has a variety of amusing facial expressions as he reacts to what's going on. Especially when Littlefinger starts talking about his plan to wed Lysa Arryn, Varys does this excellent, bitchy "Oh my ''god''" eye roll. Thanks to Conleth Hill's terrific acting, Varys commenting on a scene purely with his facial expressions becomes a FunnyBackgroundEvent and a RunningGag.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had a scene in one episode where Blanche gives the other girls calendars with erotic pictures. There really were some nude pics in the calendar, and you can tell by the reactions.
** When Rose tells the story about [[https://youtu.be/opEigpvhJRE?t=16s The Great Herring War]], they all burst out laughing.
** One episode featured an event which said that ''Series/MiamiVice'' star Don Johnston was unable to host, but he had sent his suit along. In a commentary, screen veteran Bea Arthur recalled she was unable to make it through the scene without bursting into laughter.
* In the case of ''Series/GreenWing'', the threat of corpsing ultimately shaped the whole series, in a strange case of RealLifeWritesThePlot. Tamsin Greig (who played the main character Caroline Todd) was [[http://www.theguardian.com/stage/live/2015/jan/30/tamsin-greig-webchat-women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown-west-end totally unable to keep her composure around Mark Heap]] (who played Alan Statham). [[https://youtu.be/KN_n1jzdHY0?t=157 They have a couple of awkward scenes together in early episodes]], but after that their characters rarely interact.
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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9KtERtl6LI this scene]] from ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Tommy and Harry are trying (unsuccessfully) to feed Mrs. Dubcek's grandson. You can see Tommy start to crack after Harry spits food back at the baby/camera.
* On the ''Series/ThirtyRock'' LiveEpisode, Tracy tries to corpse on purpose to get a laugh. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Tracy being Tracy]], he does it [[BadBadActing badly]].
-->'''Tracy:''' Uh oh, I'm doing something called 'breaking' Blahahahaha. Snort. Heehee. Giggle giggle. The audience loves this!
** Also a stealth TakeThat; Tracy Morgan was one of the few ''SNL'' cast members who publicly called out Jimmy Fallon for [[SpotlightStealingSquad his frequent corpsing.]]
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* On ''Series/AllThat'', it was something of a tradition for Kenan and Kel to break out laughing at some point when they're playing off each other in the Good Burger sketches: they do it at least twice during the show itself, and when they came back for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5hO3RWXh38#t=7m58s Tenth Anniversary Special]] they did it again.
* A weird but amusing one from ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' has Creator/DrakeBell laughing at his own [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcfwv0sNjk monologue.]]
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', Miss Brahms says the line "Mrs. Slocomb didn't want to [[ItMakesSenseInContext take down your trousers without asking you first]].", and you can hear Wendy Richards' voice break at "asking".
* In the ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show'' sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKFJupMjMmY "Plain Clothes Police Women"]], Tim Brooke-Taylor as the police sergeant tries (with only limited success) to suppress his laughter when PC Staveacre (Creator/GrahamChapman) announces his drag name as "Philippa". The laughter soon spreads to the other actors.[[note]] Tim later confirmed in an interview that he broke down laughing because they had been using different names during rehearsals, but Graham, Creator/MartyFeldman, and Creator/JohnCleese decided to go off script as a prank on Tim.[[/note]]
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* In one ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode Garibaldi and Bester on a stakeout. Garibaldi's still irritated at having to work with the Psi-Cop (who was a villain in two previous episodes) and tells him to [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon shut up or he'll string him up so they can play piñata]]. Bester [[InsultBackfire turns the threat on its head]] by innocently asking if that means Garibaldi thinks he's colourful and full of gifts for small children. Creator/JerryDoyle (Garibaldi) opens his mouth but then snaps it shut and is visibly struggling not to burst out laughing. The best part is, ''it completely fits'' because a sudden laughing fit would've ruined the stakeout!
* In the ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' episode "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble", Creator/ElizabethMontgomery cracked up after Creator/DickYork gave her a PieInTheFace. She dubbed over the scene in post-production, but if you look closely, you can still see her laugh.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. The eponymous VillainOfTheWeek in "Moloch" was so NightmareRetardant (a LittleGreenManInACan that actually looks like a one-eyed fried chicken) the cast kept bursting into laughter, eventually causing Creator/DeepRoy who was playing the part to do a RageQuit, as he was still in pain from a broken collarbone he'd received during location filming.
* Occurred once or twice in the John Bird / John Fortune dialogues in ''Bremner, Bird and Fortune''. One discussion centered around making the Queen Mother the centrepiece of the Millennium celebrations; this led to the thought of a gigantic hot-air balloon in the shape of the Queen Mother drifting across London, which reduced both of them to helpless laughter.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was not immune to this. In season three Faith is moping that she wasn't able to turn Angel evil, and her parental figure BigBad suggests miniature golf to cheer her up. Seeing as she is at the time an AxCrazy psychotic either the character or [[Creator/ElizaDushku her actress]] can't help but laugh.
** Invoked in ''Real Me'' where Buffy is told Harmony has minions. Yep, [[BigBadWannabe that]] Harmony: Joss was behind the camera trying to make SMG crack up.
** In Season 6's musical episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More, With Feeling!]]", Creator/AmberBenson and Creator/EmmaCaulfield were dancing behind Creator/SarahMichelleGellar during the song "Something To Sing About" on The Bronze set. As the dance was ending, Amber made a misstep while turning and ran into one of the support pillars (you can see this near the end of the line "and every single verse"). Since the sequence was being filmed with a multi-camera setup, you can see her beginning to lose it in the next shot (the line "can make it that much worse") and she quickly ducks behind the pillar to get off-camera.
** Something similar happens at the end of season six. Willow has gone completely off the rails, as has the lives of Buffy and her friends. She details this to Giles, who reacts to the somber news by cracking up laughing. After a moment Buffy does as well.
** Gellar would also corpse a little in the ending to ''First Date'' where Xander, clearly having enough of girlfriends who turn out to be demons, remarks, "What do you think happened?" when asked.
** A famous series of bloopers happened in the fourth season of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' when the characters were mentally reversed back their obnoxious teenage selves and Angel, being a 250-year old vampire, was shocked by the appearance of things like cars. Going outside, freaking out and running back into the main room, whenever David Boreanaz (Angel) made eye contact with Alexis Denisof (Wesley) they could not keep a straight face. In the episode proper you can see them avoid eye-contact very deliberately and even still Wesley glances towards the ceiling with a slight smirk before walking off camera.
** Discussed in the commentary to one ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode, where the writers ask Adam Baldwin how he manages to ''not'' corpse when he tells Angel, "You and I will not be making love on this couch anytime soon." It turns out Baldwin ''[[BerserkButton hates]]'' people who corpse.
* Happens in a season one episode of ''Series/BurnNotice'', but is only revealed in the DVD commentary. Creator/BruceCampbell, playing Sam Axe, says "It's only photoshop," causing Jeffrey Donovan, playing Michael Westen, to laugh for ''seven hours''.
** A blooper had Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar (Fiona) having a hard time keeping a straight face during a serious scene. Every time "action" is called they would start to giggle. Eventually the actor playing a client of the week yelled out "You're laughing?! My mom was *[[SoundEffectBleep bleeping]]* kidnapped!"
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* Tim Conway was the ''master and archetype'' of sending his cast members into bouts of unscripted laughter on ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow''. He was so good at it, they didn't even try to hide that they were laughing. All it took was him to come out in some ridiculous outfit, flash his trademark smirk at them, and the others would be falling over laughing.
** Harvey Korman was particularly a victim whenever he did a skit with Tim Conway. Conway may well be the Crown Prince of causing other people to corpse. Note that Conway rarely actively tried to make it happen. The other cast members reportedly placed bets to see how long it would take Korman to bust out laughing.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_C3bO8WZ0 The best example of this is one sketch in which he played a dentist]]. Conway's character accidentally shoots himself (multiple times) with an anesthetic. Poor Harvey Korman was literally stuck in the dentist chair and had to watch the entire thing.
** Other times, the other members, especially Carol, would get even with Tim. Like in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT9jmEUNxtk&NR=1 The Flasher]]" skit, which (judging by the nature of ''what it was'' that cracked him up) was more of a conspiratorial plot to break Tim than an actual sketch.
** Vicki Lawrence was very good at resisting corpsing, but could even make Tim fall out laughing, as at the very end of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY Elephant story]]. Of course, up to that point it was all Tim; Carol doesn't even make it to the ten-second mark before making an OhCrap face. Vicki was also fond (while playing Mama) of coming up with ad libbed insults to crack up Carol.
*** On the other hand, there was one skit with her, Lyle Waggoner, and Harvey Korman where she breaks down laughing ''after her character dies''. Harvey eventually solves the situation by burying Vicki's head with hay.
** Conway was so good at this he could even do it by doing nothing at all. An anniversary special had Carol Burnett show us the unused footage from a skit where Tim is supposed to keep interrupting Harvey Korman's speech at a political dinner by loudly crunching potato chips. In the aired sketch he continues to do this forcing Harvey to repeatedly stop his speech to ever more angrily demand he stop, but in the outtake scene we see that Tim stops the first time Harvey asks him to and simply spends the rest of the scene paying rapt attention to Harvey's speech. Watching Harvey being forced to improvise dialogue for getting way farther into the speech than he was ever supposed to, visibly waiting for Tim to crunch chips and trying not to crack up as he has to improvise, and occasionally giving Tim an "I'm going to kill you for this" death Glare while Tim just contentedly smiles at him is absolutely priceless.
** Conway kept it up on the short-lived WB improv/sitcom ''On the Spot'', regularly doing ad-libs that had the other actors cracking up constantly. It was even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d with an actor asked what his character was doing and replying "it was terrible, he didn't do one line from the script..."
* ''Series/{{Community}}'':
** Look very closely at Jeff's face in [[Recap/CommunityS3E16VirtualSystemsAnalysis "Virtual Systems Analysis"]] when Dean Pelton approaches as the "Duali-Dean of Man". A couple of camera angles hide the fact that Joel [=McHale=]'s about three seconds away from losing it.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS5E09VCRMaintenanceAndEducationalPublishing VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing]]", [[ItMakesSenseInContext the dean enters dressed as a peanut bar and performs a freestyle rap. It quickly goes off the rails before he runs out of the room crying.]] When he exits, Gillian Jacobs has a smile on her face that is clearly hiding laughter.
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* In a 1965 episode of ''The Dean Martin Show'', Dean plays a shop assistant dealing with a customer, played by Bob Newhart, who is returning a toupee. While Newhart is his usual deadpan self (for the most part), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgubFLBCmMY Dean cannot stop giggling.]]
-->'''Dean:''' ''(trying not to laugh)'' Now, do you want a... full exchange? ''(starts laughing again)''\\
'''Bob:''' Well, I... [[PaintingTheMedium I'd like a straight man who didn't laugh!]]\\
'''Bob:''' ''(Dean has a huge grin)'' You're sure you worked with Creator/{{Jerry|Lewis}}?\\
'''Dean:''' Yeahaha! ''(cracks up again, wiping tears from his eyes)'' But our stuff wasn't this funny, I'll tell you that!\\
'''Bob:''' Can I use your phone to...\\
'''Dean:''' ''(Looking forward to this)'' Ooooh, for heaven's sake, yeah!
** There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3121xuToY this sketch]] with Foster Brooks as a drunken airline pilot. Martin's giggles break out at about 1:30, and by 2:20 he's lost all control.
* ''Series/DickAndDomInDaBungalow'' would feature certainly Dick, and often Dom, cracking up at least once an episode. Brilliantly infectious. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt_farHgMfM&t=2m28s In this clip]] they seriously disturb the peace in a library.
** There's also the infamous moment [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avGamJ3_9GI where a child rang in, apparently not realizing who they were phoning]]. The phone is quickly transferred to the child's grandmother...who is equally clueless. By the time the grandmother explains that they "only have channels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6" (the show was on the digital channel CBBC), the presenters are collapsed on the floor in absolute hysterics.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** InUniverse:
*** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot "Robot"]], Sarah has to stand still and look serious while the Doctor interrogates Kettlewell about the robot he thinks is killing people. Their conversation is serious but the Doctor is pulling [[ComicalOverreacting ridiculously intense, bulging-eyed faces]] in order to make Sarah laugh, which she can't resist, and which he clearly gets a lot of pleasure out of.
*** Strax's Field Report played in cinema releases of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]] has him, while sending a video message to the Sontaran battle fleet, make a comment about the Ninth Doctor being "all ears" and subsequently crack up. He then mentions the Eleventh Doctor having "learned to take it on the chin", which causes him to suddenly crack up when he realizes what he's said. Then the more images of the Eleventh Doctor's chin that appear on the screen, the worse his composure gets, until he's screaming "CHINS ARE NOT FUNNY" while barely able to stand upright from laughter.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber "The Mind Robber"]] at one point the Doctor and Zoe are attempting to get through a door. Watch Zoe as the Doctor hides her under his cloak and you can ''just'' about tell that Wendy Padbury is laughing underneath it.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath "The Seeds of Death"]], the Doctor is pushed through a door by a gigantic wave of fungus (foam), then accidentally slips and lands on his arse (which was [[ThrowItIn not supposed to happen]]). Zoe's actress Wendy Padbury is obviously laughing for about a minute while running around trying to fight the foam off - she even keeps laughing despite having lines to say. "[[BlatantLies That's terror]]," Wendy Padbury explained on the DVD commentary later.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace "Spearhead from Space"]], when the Doctor turns up the charm and swaggers across the room to Liz, Caroline John gives a rather helpless little giggle.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons "The Dæmons"]], in the long shot just after the Doctor gets caught up in the middle of the [[DanceBattler Morris dance]] when they all round on him and begin hitting him with their sticks and bladders, you can see Jon Pertwee is cracking up. (Despite the ludicrous description, this is supposed to be a scary scene.)
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen "Revenge of the Cybermen"]] contains a scene where the Doctor has to tell Sarah, "We're headed for the biggest bang in history." (The writers had missed the DoubleEntendre, and intended it as a completely straight WhamLine.) It apparently took ''tens'' of takes before Creator/TomBaker was able to deliver this line without Lis Sladen — and most of the floor crew — disintegrating into hysterics. In [[DevelopmentGag reference to this incident]], and as a little bit of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, Creator/RobertHolmes added a line to the next serial ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons "Terror of the Zygons"]]) where the Doctor had to say in a completely serious voice, "was that bang big enough for you, [[HoYay Brigadier]]?".
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons "Terror of the Zygons"]], in the scene where the Doctor is coming round from his anaerobic trance and is supposed to be acting in a spacey sort of way, you can see Creator/TomBaker's [[http://i.imgur.com/TajBtW3.gif upper lip twitch]] as he ''almost'' cracks before regaining his composure.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear "The Hand of Fear"]], Eldrad starts having a VillainousBreakdown and begins MilkingTheGiantCow, ChewingTheScenery, and generally foaming at the mouth to extents that are aesthetically indefensible, and when he suddenly raises his voice Tom Baker giggles before turning it into an in-character GrinOfAudacity.
** During filming of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora "The Masque of Mandragora"]], Tom Baker apparently made himself a nuisance by messing around off-camera in order to make Tim Piggot-Smith (as Marco) crack up during his torture scene.
** [=WhatCulture=] pointed out that during the scene in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E3TheCreatureFromThePit "The Creature from the Pit"]] where the Doctor has to approach a monster that looks like [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign a giant green penis and scrotum]] and "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar communicate]]" with it, Tom Baker, normally very good at keeping a straight face during such things, is clearly about to crack up and even has to hide his smile with his hand at one point.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E4NightmareOfEden "Nightmare of Eden"]], Tom Baker is obviously in intense pain trying not to crack up at the ridiculous, [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent completely made up]] accent used by the character Tryst.
** Graham Crowden, who plays Soldeed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon "The Horns of Nimon"]] did this during his death scene. However, it actually comes across as being perfectly in character as EvilIsHammy, so he gets away with it by turning it into some kind of crazy chortle.
** Janet Fielding (Tegan) and Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) suffered an attack of the giggles during the making of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]]. To make matters worse, it happened while they were filming the final scene, in which their characters were supposed to be grieving for Adric. Fortunately, they eventually managed to regain their composure, enabling the scene to be filmed; the incident is recounted in the "making of" documentary on the DVD.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]], watch Mickey's face from the point that the Doctor staggers out of the TARDIS to the point that he collapses at Mickey and Jackie's feet. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF2EmKdTbsc Poor Noel Clarke could barely keep a straight face.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth "New Earth"]]: When Lady Cassandra takes over the Doctor's body and turns up the camp, you can see Creator/BilliePiper trying not to crack.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]], corpsing was used as EnforcedMethodActing. During one scene, Sarah Jane and Rose make fun of the Doctor's mannerisms (namely, his MotorMouth and his habit of petting the TARDIS). When the Doctor walks in, they both burst out laughing. To get authentic laughter from Billie Piper and Creator/ElisabethSladen, Creator/DavidTennant scribbled on his face with a marker when he entered. The laughter from Rose and Sarah Jane is them corpsing over how ridiculous Tennant looked.
** The outtakes from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "The Impossible Astronaut"]] feature Creator/MattSmith completely losing it over the fact that he had to refer to River Song as MrsRobinson.
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* On ''Series/{{ER}}'', Kerry Weaver storms into the lounge to chew out Carter, startling him into knocking several things over. Laura Innes promptly did a rapid 360° turn that had most viewers speculating that she was trying to hide her laughter and not ruin the take.
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* ''Series/FastForward'':
** Cast corpsing was often left in to beautiful comic effect, as in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1Y-tIJ370 Kung Fu]] parody sketch.
--->'''Steve Vizard:''' ''[corpsing so hard he can't speak]''\\
'''Peter Moon:''' ''[also corpsing]'' It's your line.
** Just when you thought the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yEYQ16jy80 Brides of Satan]] sketch couldn't get any funnier, Magda Szubanski launches into a singong summoning of the devil that has Jane Turner losing it briefly, but completely.
** This series also has this trope being subverted with Gina Riley's absolutely deadpan delivery as the SBS anchor announcing a late-night line-up that should have had the most seasoned anchor in stitches.
* ''Series/FatherTed'' has one instance of this, where Mrs. Doyle (Pauline [=McLynn=]) lists off vulgar turns of phrase in a certain author's books. After Ted (Dermot Morgan) escorts her out, she calls through the door "'Ride me sideways', was another one!" This was unscripted, and Dermot Morgan is evidently trying his hardest not to lose it.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' {{Gag Reel}}s ([[https://youtu.be/bWcanMou-mY]]):
** Creator/AdamBaldwin continues to show just how seriously he takes his job. When Nathan Fillion screws around, the entire cast laughs at his antics, but Baldwin simply stays in character and even ad-libs lines occasionally. On the other hand, there's "Dammit, Mal, I forgot my line!"
** One blooper has Fillion spontaneously burst out laughing for no apparent reason then stop. Then he goes, "Okay. ''({{beat}}, turns his head)'' What's my line?" and sets off Gina Torres.
** One episode actually has an in-universe example. [[spoiler:In "Trash", while the crew are manipulating Yolande/Saffron/Bridget, some of their performances are a little... off. At a couple of points during the exaggerated routine, Kaylee gets the giggles.]]
* ''Series/ForeverKnight'': "False Witness" had a scene at the end with Nick and Natalie watching ''Film/KingKong1933'' in Nick's loft. Nick startles Nat near the end of the scene by showing his fangs and she responds by throwing popcorn at him. This was actually a prank by Geraint Wyn Davies, rather than a planned part of the scene. The giveaway is that any other time Nick vamps, his eyes go golden, but the actor wasn't wearing the contacts that time, leaving his eyes their usual color. Also, the fangs are slightly crooked. The popcorn throw was probably, rather naturally, Catherine Disher's own reaction.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Phil and Will prepare to board an elevator at the hospital. A hot girl walks out of it before they walk on and Will, of course, flirts with her and barks like a dog while doing it before Phil drags him into the elevator. Although he's not seen, you can definitely hear Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton) laughing like crazy.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** The [[TrueCompanions cast]] were pretty well known for this. For instance, while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPmQKKZ3xYE Ross plays the keyboard]], it's clear Creator/CourteneyCox is struggling not to laugh, while Creator/JenniferAniston is really cracking up while hiding her face.
** Also, take a look at guest Creator/BradPitt in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvw-G4J4Y2c this]].
** It even became a RunningGag during the filming. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C1rfr495sY Whenever someone slipped up and corpsed during the scene, in the next take Matthew Perry would make the same mistake, making everyone laugh again.]]
** Perry was known for pulling other pranks, like the scene where Richard is declaring his love for Monica (Matthew's character's girlfriend) and Matthew storms onto the set yelling "What the fuck are you doing?" The audience went crazy and none of the actors could keep a straight face for the redo.
** One episode has Ross playing the bagpipes really badly while the rest of the friends watch with looks of horror on their faces while Phoebe is awestruck in amazement. Phoebe then joins in by singing along, which consists of nothing but her screaming "EEEE!!!" for every note Ross plays. Jenifer Aniston (Rachel) cracks at the hilarity of the scene and you can see her trying to conceal her laughter by hiding her mouth with her hand. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0z18rM68D8 In one of the takes via blooper reel, she can't contain the laughter, and everyone laughs along (including Ross!)]].
** In another episode, the three guys track down and confront a stripper when they believe she has stolen an engagement ring. Creator/DavidSchwimmer shrieks at her and Creator/MattLeBlanc can clearly be seen with his hands pressed to his mouth to keep from laughing out loud.
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* ''Series/GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende'' has a yearly "No Laughing" special that thrives in this trope. The premise is that a group of actors/comedians are placed in a situation (as inmates, spies in training, news reporters, etc.) for 24 hours and are pelted by traps, jokes and sketches to get them to "Corpse", with painful results to the ones that can't keep it together.
** Also, in one of said specials, several actors were playing dead in a morgue. The investigator examining the bodies went through lengthy measures to prove the bodies were, indeed, dead, causing the actors to flinch or giggle.
** Maki Horikita, playing as a psychic detective, was caught smirking when her assistant revealed Hamada's "true" identity as [[RunningGag a gorilla]].
** In a deleted scene, Jimmy Onishi plays a character that has a difficult time pronouncing Massachusetts. His costar couldn't handle it and starts laughing uncontrollably every time someone says Massachusetts. Keep in mind nobody but the main five stars were supposed to laugh.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** According to the commentary, the biggest spate of corpsing occurred during [[TheCaligula Joffrey's]] wedding, in response to the line "This pie is dry." It was late in the day, the cast was tired, and for whatever reason, that line sent them all into a hysterical laughing fit. Especially strange considering what happens [[MoodWhiplash immediately after]] [[NightmareFuel that line]].
** Look carefully at Jon Snow when Ygritte teasingly says, "Ruined! Now I'll never be able to marry a perfumed lord! What will me poor savage father say?" He's valiantly choking back a laugh against all his instincts.
** In-universe; Varys—a former actor—prides himself on his acting ability but frequently struggles or fails to keep a straight face when Tyrion mocks Joffrey. In addition, during the Small Council scenes, Varys has a variety of amusing facial expressions as he reacts to what's going on. Especially when Littlefinger starts talking about his plan to wed Lysa Arryn, Varys does this excellent, bitchy "Oh my ''god''" eye roll. Thanks to Conleth Hill's terrific acting, Varys commenting on a scene purely with his facial expressions becomes a FunnyBackgroundEvent and a RunningGag.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had a scene in one episode where Blanche gives the other girls calendars with erotic pictures. There really were some nude pics in the calendar, and you can tell by the reactions.
** When Rose tells the story about [[https://youtu.be/opEigpvhJRE?t=16s The Great Herring War]], they all burst out laughing.
** One episode featured an event which said that ''Series/MiamiVice'' star Don Johnston was unable to host, but he had sent his suit along. In a commentary, screen veteran Bea Arthur recalled she was unable to make it through the scene without bursting into laughter.
* In the case of ''Series/GreenWing'', the threat of corpsing ultimately shaped the whole series, in a strange case of RealLifeWritesThePlot. Tamsin Greig (who played the main character Caroline Todd) was [[http://www.theguardian.com/stage/live/2015/jan/30/tamsin-greig-webchat-women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown-west-end totally unable to keep her composure around Mark Heap]] (who played Alan Statham). [[https://youtu.be/KN_n1jzdHY0?t=157 They have a couple of awkward scenes together in early episodes]], but after that their characters rarely interact.
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