History Corpsing / TVShowsQToZ

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': At the end of the episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIIBackwards Backwards]]", just before they take off at the end, Cat goes behind a bush to do his business, before realising that, on a planet where everything happens in reverse, his droppings would go into him. As a result of [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Backwards_%28Red_Dwarf%29.jpg the face]] and walk that Creator/DannyJohnJules was using, both Creator/ChrisBarrie and Creator/CraigCharles were finding it hard to keep straight faces.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': At the end of the episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIIBackwards Backwards]]", just before they take off at the end, Cat goes behind a bush to do his business, before realising that, on a planet where everything happens in reverse, his droppings would go into him. As a result of [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Backwards_%28Red_Dwarf%29.jpg the face]] and walk that Danny John-Jules was using, both Chris Barrie and Craig Charles were finding it hard to keep straight faces.

** The penultimate scene in "The Little Kicks" had Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus and Jerry Stiller arguing in a police station. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVLOjBSQ-G0 Stiller made her laugh so many times that the crew was starting to think they'd be there all night by the time they got it done.]]
** In "The Library", any scene with Jerry and Detective Bookman results in Jerry visibly trying not to laugh at Philip Baker Hall's [[TheComicallySerious deadpan delivery]].

* A sketch featuring Kate [=McKinnon=], Cecily Strong, and Ryan Gosling as alien abductees broke all the participants, with the normally-serious Gosling getting the worst of the giggles. While the cast began to break into fits of laughter as the running gag of [=McKinnon's=] crude treatment at the hands of her captors got progressively weirder, Gosling broke so much after Kate explained that her pants were thrown out separately from her ("I had to climb up with my damn coot-coot and prune chute hanging out!") that he was unable to get his next line out, causing Cecily having to stall time with an ad-lib before Gosling had enough wherewithal to speak again.

* Creator/RyanGosling cannot keep a straight face during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPdYYsEfAE a sketch]] where he, along with Creator/KateMcKinnon and Cecily Strong play alien abductees. Gosling is supposed to be the straight man, telling of a spiritual encounter, whereas [=McKinnon=] tells a decidedly less romantic and more ridiculous and degrading story. Gosling tries to hide his giggles, but the cameraman has to pan away from him. Creator/AidyBryant is also in the sketch and breaks when asking questions of [=McKinnon=]'s character.

* Creator/RyanGosling cannot keep a straight face during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPdYYsEfAE a sketch]] where he, along with Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong play alien abductees. Gosling is supposed to be the straight man, telling of a spiritual encounter, whereas McKinnon tells a decidedly less romantic and more ridiculous and degrading story. Gosling tries to hide his giggles, but the cameraman has to pan away from him. Adi Bryant is also in the sketch and breaks when asking questions of McKinnon's character.

** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Masks", there is a scene in which Picard and Riker discuss how to address the corruption of the ship's main computer by an alien archive. For part of the scene, you can see actor Jonathan Frakes has an inappropriate grin on his face and is apparently attempting to resist laughing at the fact that Patrick Stewart is holding a prop, and the way he emphasized the word 'enormous' in his line.
** Riker can be seen on the verge of cracking up in several other scenes, such as in "Menage a Troi" in Picard's declaration of love for Lwaxana Troi, or in "Deja Q" over Worf's request that Q die to prove his mortality. However, this fits with Riker's personality as a fun-loving guy, who can switch from "serious and stolid" to "not at all" in a moment.
** In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Return to Grace", Major Kira is demonstrating the differences between the Starfleet and Cardassian phaser rifles, concluding that the Cardassian rifle is the better field weapon. That's not hard to believe, because midway through the lecture the prop's power pack [[SpecialEffectFailure falls out]] and dangles by a wire for the rest of the scene. Nana Visitor visibly struggles to keep her game face.
** And in [=DS9=], Nana Visitor related the story of how in the episode "Forsaken", the actors could just ''not'' keep straight faces when she (as Major Kira) had to give the line "If he doesn’t [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext make it to his pail on time]]", so the director ended up resorting to some very fast cuts and reaction shots to complete the scene.
** An in-universe version occurs in the episode "One Little Ship". Although the experiment they're working on has great scientific value, Kira can't quite keep a straight face at the idea of three members of the crew being shrunk to about half the size of a comm badge. Sisko initially chides her, but as soon as Kira loses it, he cracks up too.
** In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Elogium", Tuvok--a Vulcan--has to utter the sentence "It appears we have lost our sex appeal, Captain" in complete seriousness. For a brief moment, a giant smile can be seen on Captain Janeway's face, but she quickly hides it. It's hard to tell whether this is actress Kate Mulgrew corpsing or the character herself failing to keep her composure.
** In the TNG episode "Q-Pid", when Worf smashes Geordi's lute in homage to ''Film/AnimalHouse'', you'll see [[FunnyBackgroundEvent in the far background]] that Dr. Crusher (Creator/GatesMcFadden) visibly struggles to not laugh, covering her face with her hand.
** Another episode doesn't involve laughing but when the Enterprise takes a serious hit from the warship in "The Survivors" a random crewman goes flying much harder than everyone else and you can see Patrick Stewart visibly wince and turn to look at the stuntman in concern as it wasn't supposed to be that bad a fall.

* A Norwegian comedy duo know as "Wesensteen" (Rolv Wesenlund and Harald Heide-Steen Jr.) once did a sketch about "The Norwegian Soup Council". The whole point of the sketch is that Harald Heide Steen jr. is unable to keep a straight face. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeHsfwI0dk Here it is. Subtitled in English]].