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->'''Dana:''' ''(on the phone)'' Hi. I'd like two of your best seats for this afternoon's matinee of ''Theatre/TheLionKing'', anything between the eight and twelfth rows in the center. And if I end up with an obstructed view, you're going to have a very angry woman on your hands. Yes. Yes.\\

'''Dana:''' It's tough to tell – he’s laughing pretty hard. Now he's telling his friends. And there, he just hung up.

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* ''Film/LAStory''. When Harris K. Telemacher calls up the exclusive restaurant L'Idiot and asks for a reservation for Friday, the response is crazed laughter. When he asks for one on Saturday the response is the same. Only when he asks for one on Sunday does he get a positive response.
* ''Film/{{Porkys}}'': When Coach Ballbricker claims that she can identify a certain penis which had been poked through a peephole to the girls locker room (it has a mole) and demands that she be allowed to examine the suspects' penises, the principal and school administration try to keep from laughing, not always succeeding, as they deny her request.
* ''Film/SpiderMan2'': When Peter asks J. Jonah Jameson if Jonah could pay him in advance, Jonah laughs heartily, then responds: "You serious? Pay you for what, standing there?"

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Early in season 4, when a Narn demands to know what G'Kar endured while they were under Centauri occupation, G'Kar -- bearing scars from being tortured and nearly beaten to death and a patch over a still-raw eye socket -- just starts chuckling to himself.

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* In one strip of ''ComicStrip/BigNate'', Nate's grandparents pay him money for painting their house. When his dad takes him back home, Nate asks if that was enough money for college. Nate's dad completely cracks up, and Nate thinks to himself, "Probably not the best question to ask in a moving car."
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip for January 22, 2016. Jon Arbuckle is a schlemiel who has a female veterinarian named Liz as his girlfriend. When he asks his cat, Garfield, "Do you think I'm good enough for Liz?" Garfield starts laughing uncontrollably. Jon says, "You're the wrong guy to ask," and Garfield muses, "Oh, I think I laugh for everyone."
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' SundayStrip for April 4, 1999. Charlie Brown asks Lucy at her psychiatric booth, "So I'm wondering, could I ever learn to be the life of the party?" Lucy says, "YOU?" and laughs hysterically. She apologizes for laughing and says, "You? The life of the party?" followed by another fit of hysterical laughter.

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* Some of the questions that Creator/GavinFree asks are sometimes met with howls of laughter from his co-workers at Creator/AchievementHunter and Creator/RoosterTeeth, due to how nonsensical they are.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang attempts to buy a valuable waterbending scroll from a pirate captain that is selling his wares. He offers one copper piece, which causes the captain to laugh loudly at him and assume he's joking since his asking price is 200 gold pieces. When Aang ups his offer to ''two'' copper pieces, the pirate stops laughing and says it isn't funny the second time.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', the appliances end up on a spare parts store where old appliances are stripped for parts. When Lampy asks how they can escape, the hanging lamp on the storeroom says "Did you hear that? They want to know how to escape!", followed by laughter from all the doomed appliances.
* In the WesternAnimation/HeyArnold episode, [[Recap/HeyArnoldS1E20ArnoldsChristmas "Arnold's Christmas",]] in order to find Mr. Hyunh's daughter for Christmas, Arnold makes a deal with the head of the office of missing people by promising him and Gerald would do his Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve. The last item on the list is a specific pair of designer snow boots, but when they ask the store clerks they want to buy a pair, they all laugh out loud at them saying they've been out of stock for months. A montage shows them going to every store in town and get the exact same reaction of uproarious laughter from every clerk they ask.

* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': In "Make It Snow," the wombats ask if the Everything Emporium sells snow. This gets a good chuckle out of Mr. E.

* In the WesternAnimation/HeyArnold episode, [[Recap/HeyArnoldS1E20ArnoldsChristmas "Arnold's Christmas",]] in order to find Mr. Hyunh's daughter for Christmas, Arnold makes a deal with the head of the office of missing people by promising him and Gerald would do his Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve. They get all the items on the list other then a pair of designer snow boots, but when they ask the store clerks to buy a pair, they all laugh out loud at them saying they've been out of stock for months. A montage shows them going to every store in town and get the exact same reaction of uproarious laughter from every clerk they ask.

* In the WesternAnimation/HeyArnold episode, [[Recap/HeyArnoldS1E20ArnoldsChristmas "Arnold's Christmas",]] in order to find Mr. Hyunh's daughter for Christmas, Arnold makes a deal with the head of the office of missing people by promising him and Gerald would do his Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve. They get all the items on the list other then a pair of designer snow boots, but when they ask the store clerks to buy a pair, they all laugh out loud at them saying they've been out of stock for months. A montage shows them going to pretty much ever store in town and get the exact same reaction of uproarious laughter from every clerk they ask.

* In the WesternAnimation/HeyArnold episode, [[Recap/HeyArnoldS1E20ArnoldsChristmas "Arnold's Christmas",]] in order to find Mr. Hyunh's daughter for Christmas, Arnold makes a deal with the head of the head of the office of missing people by promising him and Gerald would do his Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve. They get all the items on the list other then a pair of designer snow boots, but when they ask the store clerks to buy a pair, they all laugh out loud at them saying they've been out of stock for months. A montage shows them going to pretty much ever store in town and get the exact same reaction of uproarious laughter from every clerk they ask.

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* In one strip of ''ComicStrip/BigNate'', Nate's grandparents pay him money for painting their house. When his dad takes him back home, Nate asks if that was enough money for college. Nate's dad completely cracks up, and Nate thinks to himself, "Probably not the best question to ask in a moving car."
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip for January 22, 2016. Jon Arbuckle is a schlemiel who has a female veterinarian named Liz as his girlfriend. When he asks his cat, Garfield, "Do you think I'm good enough for Liz?" Garfield starts laughing uncontrollably. Jon says, "You're the wrong guy to ask," and Garfield muses, "Oh, I think I laugh for everyone."
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' SundayStrip for April 4, 1999. Charlie Brown asks Lucy at her psychiatric booth, "So I'm wondering, could I ever learn to be the life of the party?" Lucy says, "YOU?" and laughs hysterically. She apologizes for laughing and says, "You? The life of the party?" followed by another fit of hysterical laughter.
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-->'''Giardella:''' Laura, Laura, I'm trying to tell you how high it is a value I place on our relationship. I'm trying to signify something to you here.
-->'''Laura:''' Will you excuse me for a moment?
-->'''Giardella:''' Yeah, sure. Do you gotta go to the bathroom or something? Yeah, you know where it is. Yeah, it's right over there. Just help yourself.
-->''[Laura enters the bathroom]''
-->'''Laura:''' ''[silently laughing]'' Oh, my God.
-->'''Giardella:''' ''[through the door]'' - Yeah, you know, and if I come back, uh, we could drive wherever, you know. Maybe one of them, uh, breakfast and board places in them quaint areas. You know, one of them places with the quilts on the bed and, uh, those pictures of the whaling guys. One of these days, all this bouncing around like a cue ball is gonna stop. I'm gonna get myself set up somewhere. Out west, maybe. Can you hear me, Laura? You fall in in there?
* PlayedForDrama in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' SeriesFinale, "All Good Things..." -- Picard (and the audience) do not understand why Q finds his question laughable:

'''Picard:''' Me?
--> '''Q:''' Yes. You're doing it right now. You did it before, and you'll do it yet again.
--> '''Picard:''' What kind of meaningless doubletalk is this?
--> (The whole courtroom laughs)
--> '''Q:''' (Laughing) ''He doesn't understand!'' I have only myself to blame, I suppose.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Early in season 4 when a Narn demands to know what G'Kar endured while they were under Centauri occupation, G'Kar, bearing scars from being tortured and nearly beaten to death and a patch over a still-raw eye socket, just starts chuckling to himself.

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* Some of the questions that Creator/GavinFree asks are sometimes met with howls of laughter from his co-workers at Creator/AchievementHunter and Creator/RoosterTeeth, due to how nonsensical they are.

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->'''Dana:''' ''(on the phone)'' Hi. I'd like two of your best seats for this afternoon's matinee ''[of Theatre/TheLionKing]'', anything between the eight and twelfth rows in the center. And if I end up with an obstructed view, you're going to have a very angry woman on your hands. Yes. Yes.\\