Line #17 Corpsing/LiveActionTV


1	{{Corpsing}} in live-action TV.
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3	[[index]]
4	* [[Corpsing/TVShowsNoToG #-G]]
5	* [[Corpsing/TVShowsHToP H-P]]
6	* [[Corpsing/TVShowsQToZ Q-Z]]
7	[[/index]]
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10	!!Game Shows
11	* Roy Walker and a male contestant famously couldn't keep a straight face during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQdEY82zs0 "Snake Charmer" puzzle]] on ''Series/CatchPhrase''. It's made even funnier if you watch the full version of that scene and see that the female contestant genuinely has ''no idea'' what they're laughing at.
12	* The question writers of the UK game show ''Series/{{The Chase\|GameShow}}'' frequently make the presenter Bradley Walsh try desperately not to burst into laughter with the immature multiple-choice questions they get him to read out. For instance, one such question was "In what sport does [[UnfortunateNames Fanny]] [[BilingualBonus Chmelar]] compete for Germany?".[[note]]"Fanny" is British slang for vagina.[[/note]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1Zfz-Widc Witness the results here.]]
13	** Then there was [[https://youtu.be/x7mgIEneYak?si=NILTA7YWXteGsyXi this moment of corpsing]], where the contestant was the only one keeping it together for long enough to call an advert break.
14	** And of course Bradley [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3q7uJWwoA made himself corpse]] on occasion.[[note]]"Minge" is ''another'' British slang for vagina.[[/note]]
15	** Watch a compilation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmDJ8ChMMaw here.]]
16	* ''Series/FamilyFeud'', with its often off-the-cuff answers, tends to provoke this response from many hosts.
17	** A famous incident during the Richard Dawson years was during the Fast Money round. When asked the question "During what months of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant?", the contestant, visibly panicking, answered "September", which was so unexpected it caused [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNoV_kSe7Dk Dawson to break down laughing]] long enough that they had to stop the clock. He managed to recover, only to break down again (this time so much he had to kneel down to try to contain his fits of laughter) when repeating the question to the second contestant, and having to explain away why he was freaking out about "September".
18	** Richard probably never guessed an answer of "mutual friends" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Nvud4-cpU would have him on the floor in laughter]].
19	** The tradition continues as Steve Harvey has also been shown to break down in bouts of laughter every once in a while when a contestant says something outrageous for an answer. On ''Series/LateNight'', Steve even said that one answer made him laugh on the floor for 15 minutes straight, but most of it had to obviously be cut due to time constraints.
20	* Given the clue writers' affinity for puns and shout-outs, it was not unusual to hear Creator/AlexTrebek crack a laugh when reading a clue on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' There were also instances where he had done this when interviewing the contestants. One notable example was when a contestant said that she had a goat who died by eating a bag of Quikrete; Alex asked whether it was a 60-pound or 80-pound bag, the contestant snarked "Alex, you're being insensitive!" and Alex laughed so hard that he turned to the next contestant (the returning champion, who already had at least one chat with him) and said "I don't wanna talk to you!"
21	* A game of ''[[Series/{{Password}} Password Plus]]'' stars Dick Martin and Betty White. Dick gives the clue "France" for "French", and host Tom Kennedy points out the illegal clue before introducing the next puzzle. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFLFuLXU29o It goes downhill from there.]]
22	* The ''Series/{{Pyramid}}'' franchise has a couple:
23	** Any attempt at maintaining composure was futile in the ''$10,000 Pyramid'' show where Tony Randall was a celebrity player. After a commercial break, host Creator/DickClark commented on how well Tony knows the game and asked what is the one thing you don't do. Tony: "You don't say shit!" (This was a broadcast master that's on [=YouTube=]; it was obviously altered for TV).
24	** The December 5, 1986 telecast of ''The $25,000 Pyramid'' had Clark playfully pressuring celebrity player Vicki Lawrence to pick the category hiding the Mystery 7 card as the prize it offered was a new car. Vicki turns to him and deadpans "You're just really being a (''deleted'') today, aren't you?" Dick was looking for a place to hide but tried to regain his composure as Vicki selected the category "Loosen Up." When Dick read what the category was about--"Things that are stiff"--Vicki corpsed so hard she was crying. Dick fared no better.
25	* On the game show ''Series/SayWhen'', host Art James was doing a PromotionalConsideration plug for Peter Pan peanut butter, which involved him spreading some onto a sandwich. Unfortunately for him, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k4n4DEK3Ms bottom of the jar shattered]], causing him to lose his composure (and since the show was taped live, he couldn't retake).
26	* Anne Robinson, the unflappable host of ''Series/TheWeakestLink'', suffered a few facial twitches during a celebrity edition when Rob Schneider mentioned that he'd like to find out who "the sexy link" was, and stating his belief that: "Anne, I think it's you." Later, when voted off, Rob rushes the podium and wraps Anne in a giant bear hug, lifting her and spinning her around. Any semblance of a straight face is immediately lost.
27	** Especially impressive given that Anne managed to keep a completely stoic expression before, during, and after being passionately kissed by William Shatner in an ad-libbed Captain Kirk shout out.
28	** They also had one episode with all hairdressers; the contestants were basically eight blokes and one DumbBlonde. The men all voted each other out for tactical reasons - or because they fancied the blonde - while Blondie was pretty much continually stupid. Until she [[DarkHorseVictory pinched a victory from nowhere]] on the head-to-head showdown. Anne was visibly struggling to keep it together by the end.
29	** After a contestant answered "two" to the question, "how many wheels does a unicycle have?", Anne attempted to keep the round moving and move on but before she could ask the next question, she broke down in laughter.
30	** On the Wrestling/{{WWE}} Edition when Wrestling/TrishStratus was asked a question about Richard Nixon, she replied "I'm from Canada, I don't know" and a few chuckles from Anne seep through when she's trying to continue.
31	* In one of the most heartwarming moments of this trope, in an episode of ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'', host Greg Lee is visibly shocked when the informant for the episode "Tango Mysterioso" is his own mother, blurting out 'oh my God!', and holding back ManlyTears.
32	-->"Can we please have a nice round of applause for the finest informant ''ever'' on this show?"
33	* The introduction to the game show ''Series/WinLoseOrDraw'' usually had the host (Vicki Lawrence on Creator/{{NBC}} daytime, Bert Convy on syndication nighttime) reveal caricatures of that day's celebrity guests during the intro. While listing off said celebrities, announcer Bob Hilton would frequently break into fits of laughter as each caricature was revealed. Bob was also prone to this on the roadshow episodes, particularly if Convy's intro went awry (such as an episode taped in Central Park where the horse pulling the hansom cab with Convy on it refused to go through the gate, or another where Convy fell in the water when trying to exit the boat that brought him on-set).
34	* ''Series/{{Scrabble}}'' host Chuck Woolery would often break out in laughter, usually after reading the writers' sillier and, oftentimes, more suggestive clues. However, Chuck would occasionally lose his composure while interacting with the contestants; such examples include the show's famous [[https://youtu.be/ZSSQTuaNPhY Hanukkah blooper]], as well as one contestant's answer to the clue [[https://youtu.be/LGyFyxxT7V8?t=200 "Kids sometimes hear their parents doing it"]].
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36	!!Panel Shows
37	* ''Series/{{QI}}'' - Any number of guests have caused Stephen Fry to break down in helpless laughter. (For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgj1Ixsbk4g Stephen botches "They say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is"]] and none of the guests let him live it down.)
38	* Several times on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''. Most of the time, the four "players" and Drew are great at keeping straight faces, but sometimes you get moments like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpmvw7ZJwD4 this]].
39	** Colin can sometimes set it off with a single word, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVpyhwuzFJY "Tapioca!"]] or an already breaking down [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ki02SYxoow "Meow"]].
40	*** "Meow" gets special credit because not only did he get Wayne, Drew and Ryan to break, he even got Laura Hall playing the piano to crack, the music faltering and just stopping because she was laughing so hard.
41	** So far, only three people have managed to get Colin to corpse: Creator/RobinWilliams, Richard Simmons, and Colin himself.
42	*** The case where Colin got himself? A "Greatest Hits" where he said the following. The ''entire studio'' stopped cold for laughing.
43	---->'''Ryan:''' We don't know what you're watching, so we're not gonna return you to it!\
44	'''Colin:''' We're watching [[BestialityIsDepraved animal porn]]! ''{{beat}} and laughter ''[[DiggingYourselfDeeper Mary Had a Little Lamb]]" will be right back...
45	*** Then there's the all time classic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzwv057GPs Arctic Tern]]
46	*** Ryan Stiles ''almost'' gets Colin to crack during a Let's Make a Date, with Colin having to take a second to get back into character because he's chuckling at Ryan.
47	** A pure case of corpsing (in that he is actually meant to be a corpse) occurs for Drew in one of the outtakes.
48	*** Similarly, one sketch of "Three-headed Opera Star", in which each "head" sings one word, had Drew belt out "And take me on a- Oh, sorry, one word at a time." He was never able to regain his composure.
49	** The two most common corpsing events involve Colin going off on tangents during the "Greatest Hits" as a spokesman with Ryan (Leading to such gems as the "Tapioca" outburst and "We're watching animal porn!" bit) and during the Irish Drinking Song skit where Colin was always the one to finish the song with a rhyme and does it in such a way that everyone else loses it, leaving him as the sole person literally standing.
50	** Colin gets another one during Greatest Hits when Ryan asks him what bird says the name of their next band (meaning an owl, which says "who"). Colin's guess? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzwv057GPs Just watch]]. Everyone else on stage loses it for about a minute.
51	** '''Ryan''': (breaking into hysterical laughter) Stop it with the cat!
52	** Ryan actually manages to break both Wayne Brady and Drew in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ki02SYxoow Irish Drinking song]], though Colin's "[[RunningGag Meow]]" broke him too.
53	*** Really, most Irish Drinking Songs end with most of the cast laughing--a direct consequence of Colin having the last line.
54	** A round of Party Quirks ended up with Ryan accidentally breaking the neon light around Drew's desk with his head while playing Carol Channing (whose head keeps getting stuck to things). [[TheShowMustGoOn He stayed in character while asking if his head was bleeding and even managed to make Colin corpse]].
55	** In one game of Weird Newscasters, Colin cracked Drew by saying "This just in: Series/BeverlyHills90210, Cleveland Browns 3."
56	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3BcS2jhH5Q One round of Sound FX]] ''obliterates'' Drew, leaving him in a fit of wheezing hysterics.
57	--->'''Drew:''' Oh my ''GOD'', that was the ''funniest thing''... [[ItMakesSenseInContext That quacking elephant was the funniest thing]]. Oh, man.
58	** Ryan also had to turn around and hide his face several times during the infamous "The Cat" round of Improbable Mission.
59	** Tony Slattery manages to get ''himself'' in the British version during a round of Hoe Down when the final line of his verse was set to be excessively risque ''even for him''.
60	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIrcrZxizuw An Irish Drinking Song]] ended so poorly, even ConsummateProfessional pianist'' [[BeyondTheImpossible Laura Hall]]'' was audibly corpsing in the background, smashing random keys instead of her well-practiced ballad.
61	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzziqOmdq-8 In one game of "Greatest Hits"]], Wayne Brady and Chip Esten were singing a song in the style of Music/ThePolice, when both managed to mimic Music/{{Sting}}'s signature "Eeee-yoooh!" ''[[StrangeMindsThinkAlike at the exact same time]]'', which cracked them up.
62	* On one episode of ''Series/WouldILieToYou'', David Mitchell had to claim he could no longer drink orange squash because it sent him "berserk". It took him ''four'' attempts to be able to even read the statement out straight-faced.
63
64	!!Talk Shows
65	* Creator/SteveAllen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkSKoPyJc8s trying to do a 30-second intro]] lasted over a minute because he kept howling with laughter. Allegedly he glanced at a monitor and noticed how puffy his hair was. [[LampshadeHanging "If only the script was this good!"]]
66	* ''Series/TheColbertReport''' has a video compilation for when he [[https://www.cc.com/video/erpk54/the-colbert-report-on-topic-stephen-cracks-up loses it on camera.]] (While there have been stories of "Munchma Quchi" being Colbert's mother-in-law, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/23a503/this_colbert_report_clip_absolutely_never_gets_old/cgv7blj the claim has been proven to be false]])
67	* Stephen's follow-up, his tenure on ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'', still has plenty of breaking. Especially when Creator/LauraBenanti is involved, playing Melania Trump.
68	* A segment on ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' regarding a sex scandal involving Prince Charles produced [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/1gonk2/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-prince-charles-scandal one of the greatest corpses of all time]] between Creator/JonStewart and Creator/StephenColbert. A few of the more notable times involved the writers and other actors [[EnforcedMethodActing changing things up on Jon between rehearsal and recording]] (such as when John Oliver [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/5ownbt/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-britain-s-fallen-soldiers reads the names of Britain's Fallen Soldiers]]). Oliver starts cracking too when he gets to a soldier named "Incestishire".
69	* Jon's replacement, [[Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah Trevor Noah]], has a tendency to snicker after running a news clip and cracking a joke, especially making ones about the Republican presidential candidates. He fully admits that sometimes his jokes aren't that funny, but he still finds them amusing.
70	* The recurring ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'' segment where celebrities read Mean Tweets gets reactions that can be put into the categories of dirty looks (like Creator/JessicaAlba and Creator/CateBlanchett), responding in kind (like Creator/ElisabethMoss and Creator/LarryDavid), playing along (like two of the other Jessicas - [[Creator/JessicaBiel Biel]] and [[Creator/JessicaChastain Chastain]]) or [[ActuallyPrettyFunny finding it amusing]] (like Creator/LisaKudrow and Creator/KurtRussell)... or Corpsing like Music/ArianaGrande. Most readers remain calm and collected but Ariana couldn't read that particular tweet without laughing hysterically. [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p99A7LiulGM/maxresdefault.jpg As you can see just from the still.]]
71	* Given John Oliver was mentioned, ''Series/{{Last Week Tonight\|with John Oliver}}'' frequently has the most ridiculous clips featured in the segments returning to John clearly stifling laughter. Also, [[https://tvatemywardrobe.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/img_8663.jpg his reaction]] to a crocodile puppet being called "alligator", and [[https://twitter.com/officialkennyg/status/661300372187840512 Kenny G]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OVY-Wdpe5g as John complimented his sax playing]].
72	* The Brazilian version of ''Last Week Tonight'' once had a special guest to sing some complaints with an IncrediblyLongNote. [[https://www.instagram.com/p/B47dI-_p3RB/ At points, she was clearly losing it]].
73	* ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'': In one episode, Creator/MrT participated in the recurring segment "In the Year 2000" and struggled to maintain composure after saying "50 million viewers will watch the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' finale, [[TakeThat in which it’s finally revealed that New York has Black people]].".
74	* Craig Ferguson fell victim once in a while when he hosted ''[[Series/TheLateLateShowWithCraigFerguson The Late Late Show]]''. It was often the fault of his RobotBuddy, Geoff Peterson--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAHSUTB5BJc this incident]] being the most infamous example.
75	** Then there was the segment where he read "Amusing Headlines," in-character as Prince Charles.
76	--->'''Prince!Craig''': "[[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hillary]] on Top of New Poll." Ooh, I hope Bill doesn't find out! ''(loses it and breaks character)'' Oh, that is the funniest ''(bleep)'' thing I've ever seen!
77	* One episode of ''Loose Women'' had the ladies complaining about their messy husbands. Brambles made a sly remark about [=McDonald's=] husband ("[[AccidentalInnuendo do you have to take him in hand?"]]) which prompts the poor woman to burst out laughing, unable to continue for the next two minutes. Brambles even pulls out the tissues before they can go on. And "I did get the vac out" probably wasn't much better.
78	* ''Series/{{Today}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2yAV8zY6tY Free Willard]]. Saying any more would ruin it.
79	* ''Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson'':
80	** In the famous "Sis Boom Bah" joke from Carnac the Magnificent, Johnny and Ed can't keep a straight face before they deliver the joke. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments And who could blame them?]] Then they lose it completely after delivering the joke ("Describe the sound made when [[BaaBomb a sheep explodes]]").
81	** Another sketch features Johnny and Joe Friday (Jack Webb) reviewing a case. The entire skit was designed solely to make Friday crack up. it finally happens at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjquGpmgwOo this clip]]
82	** In 1965, the record for longest continual laughter in live TV was definitely set thanks to Johnny's guest, actor/singer Ed Ames, who claimed that, in the course of his work, he had learned how to throw a tomahawk. Carson produced a human outline on a board, and Ames lobbed the tomahawk at it. It hit the board successfully but slammed in right at the [[GroinAttack figure's crotch]], starting the thunderous laughter. When the laughter started to die down, Carson quipped "I didn't even know you were Jewish!" starting it all up again. (Even funnier still was Carson's follow-up remark: "Welcome to Frontier Bris!") Adding to the hilarity, the tomahawk's handle was jutting up as if it was the figure's penis, and when a flustered Ames started to walk towards the target to pull out the tomahawk, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5QC9ZJkM8 Carson grabbed his arm and stopped him]], barely stifling his own laughter as he realized how bad (and funny) it would look if Ames were to grab and pull on the figure's erection.
83	* Music/ArianaGrande performed "Thank U, Next" on ''The Creator/EllenDeGeneres Show''. During part of the routine that involved stepping down from a chair, she slipped on her heels and giggled through the next few lines of the song.
84	* Australian ''Today Show'' cohost and reporter Karl Stefanovic is notorious for breaking on camera. The show's Youtube page often posts clips on him bursting into hysterics on camera.
85
86	!!Reality Competitions
87	* On ''Series/ProjectRunway'', the usually stoic Michael Kors memorably [[http://youtu.be/QYEsuzRLpXQ lost it]] during one runway show when a model did a super sexy pose at the end of her walk. Everyone else on set proceeds to crack up as well. This also happens frequently when a designer's look is being critiqued, with cuts to the other designers trying desperately to hold back church giggles.
88	* On ''Series/TheXFactor'', if the audition is mind-bendingly horrible, you can start to see the judges beginning to crack and lose their composure. Part of the reason that Music/{{Cheryl}} became so popular on the show was that during her first series as a judge, she absolutely could not keep a straight face and broke into giggling fits. She's gotten better at maintaining her composure, but she remains the one judge who was most likely to crack first.
89	** In Series 11's Halloween show, one contestant, Andrea Faustini, painted himself gold and wore devil horns for the performance. Simon Cowell himself [[https://youtu.be/aByZgruPFIc?t=4m25s couldn't even find words]] to critique the performance because he was absolutely destroyed by laughing.
90
91	!!News and Sports
92	* Happened on ''[[http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/17/the-ridiculist-gerard-depardieu/?hpt=ac_t3 Anderson Cooper 360]]'' during a "Ridiculist" segment talking about Gerard Depardieu peeing on a plane (as in peeing on the floor in the ''aisle'' of the plane). Creator/AndersonCooper starts laughing uncontrollably after reading the many ''many'' puns. (In the subsequent episode, he puts ''himself'' on the Ridiculist for cracking up, then notes that he made it to pun 16 (out of 21) before he lost it.)
93	** [[http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/us/2012/04/12/ac-ridiculist-giggle-fit-2.cnn He did it again]] during a report on [[InherentlyFunnyWords Dyngus Day.]] He held it together pretty well through all the mentions of Dyngus Day, but it seems like mentioning the use of Pussy Willow branches that set him off.
94	** [[Series/TheColbertReport Colbert]] attempted to out-do him by reading off a list of celebrity name poop puns with a completely straight face. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome He made it all the way through the list.]] [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ger41z/the-colbert-report-anderson-cooper-s-kryptonite Then broke into laughter.]]
95	** Wolf Blitzer {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d this one time while sitting in for Anderson. The Ridiculist for that episode referenced a friendly rivalry between the two anchors. Wolf said that one skill he had and Anderson lacked was an ability to say anything with a straight face. He then showed a {{Montage}} of Anderson corpsing. Then to illustrate his point, he rattled off a sentence consisting almost entirely of InherentlyFunnyWords, including the afore-mentioned Pussy Willows, as well as Lake Titicaca, all with a completely straight face.
96	* Former Creator/{{ESPN}} Series/SportsCenter anchor Charley Steiner was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko8qNUNpm3k notorious for doing this on-air]]. His most infamous moment came when [[DreadfulMusician Carl Lewis']] awful rendition of the Star Spangled Banner was shown on [=SportsCenter=]. After the clip was finished, the camera cut to Steiner, who looked as if he was ready to explode with laughter and struggled to even speak. (His co-anchor, to be fair, was losing it as well.)
97	* At one point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wys_JmrK5e4 during a Red Sox game airing on NESN]], they went to a crowd shot as they were coming back from a mid-inning break. At one point, during the shot, one of the men reaches over and grabs the breast of the woman next to him. Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo immediately go quiet as the camera cuts back to play. Eventually, Orsillo, who's the play by play announcer, has to say what's going on, and cracks up halfway through the phrase "Called strike one". They then lean on the cough button more until Orsillo says, gasping for air, "This used to be a family show".
98	** Steve Levy underwent [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-cq0WG_qSA a slow breakdown]] after mentioning a football player with a bulging disc in his neck (only, at first, he didn't ''say'' the word "disc", [[ThatCameOutWrong but something else]]), then struggling through the rest of the injury report. The co-anchor at the time, Keith Olbermann, later stated that Levy was actually the calmest person in the room; everyone else (Keith himself included) were completely losing it. Keith, by his own admission, wasn't any help; he set Steve off further by mentioning that first player's injury again.
99	** The duo that hosts the Brazilian ''Sportscenter'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewPJAsMBQI&spfreload=10 has many]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P167kjAJkIM moments losing it]], mostly whenever an {{Unfortunate Name\|s}} or [[ThatCameOutWrong badly thought phrase]] appears. And it's '''always''' ContagiousLaughter. (in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjESsHXtXuw an interview]] - where, with reason, their intro music was [[Film/SinginInTheRain "Make Them Laugh"]] - they added the corpsing is not helped by the cameramen doing silly stuff and laughing).
100	* Speaking about Brazilian newscasters, even the usually serious Lilian Witte Fibe had her moment: one of the news she annouced was about [[http://www.policeone.com/news/48924-81-year-old-charged-with-ecstasy-smuggling an 81-year-old lady who was arrested at Miami International Airport along her 56-year-old boyfriend, caught with 10,000 ecstasy pills.]] When Lilian said the lady's boyfriend alleged that he thought the pills were Viagra, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw35fqhzpi4&ab_channel=R%C3%B4muloMoraes she cracked up laughing]]. In a bit of SelfDeprecation, a few years later [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPN6_Sz0iL4 she saw the clip again during an interview]].
101	* [[https://youtu.be/D6xa3VcxWtI This Russian news anchor loses it]] while covering a story about a marijuana bust in Canada.
102	** "What the hell was a pig doing there??"
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104	!!Other
105	* Quite often during the presenter interludes on ''CBBC'' (BBC children's television) this is often because of mistakes made by other presenters or puppeteers, or unrehearsed lines, especially the puppeteer of 'Hacker. T. Dog' as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjEBxRk-9j4 in one of the funniest links made in CBBC history]].
106	* Radio/TerryWogan and his successor [[Series/TheGrahamNortonShow Graham Norton]] allowed themselves opportunities to have a good laugh at the many zany contestants in the Series/EurovisionSongContest. One notable example was Wogan needing a few minutes to pull himself together after Guildo Horn's infamous performance for Germany in 1998.
107	** For an in-act example, Jorgen Olsen of the Olsen Brothers let a giggle slip while performing Danish winner "Fly on the Wings of Love" and was still snickering a bit into the second verse.
108	** If a presenter is caught off-guard by a particularly wacky spokesperson during the voting, laughter is all but inevitable. Both Maria Menounos and Sakis Rouvas laughed quite a good deal during the voting presentation in 2006 (Rouvas notably keeping it together but playing along when Dutch spokesperson Paul de Leeuw starts flirting with him), and the Azerbaijani hosts clearly were stifling laughter when Mr. Lordi showed up to announce Finland's votes in 2012. It happened outright again when Óli Ágústsson (in character in his role from ''Film/EurovisionSongContestTheStoryOfFireSaga'') demanded the Dutch hosts in 2021 play "Ja Ja Ding Dong," and 1993's Irish presenter Fionnuala Sweeney allowed a laugh at her own expense when she misheard the Dutch votes and announced that they had given Ireland 12 points (they had only given them ten, which the spokesperson was quick to correct her on and earned a laugh from the audience - she wasn't so partisan after all!).
109	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSFWgKl-O-A This clip]] from a Belgian sketch show is all about corpsing. A talk show host is interviewing people who have had operations go wrong, including a woman in a wheelchair and a man who had his tonsillectomy botched. Unfortunately, the procedure affected his vocal cords, giving him an extremely high-pitched voice. The host desperately attempts to keep it together as the man tells his sad story, only to repeatedly break down in laughter whenever he talks. The high-voiced man is offended, but whenever he tries to complain, the host only laughs more. Finally, a man from the audience decides to speak up in protest...it turns out that a botched operation gave ''him'' a deep, gravelly voice. Cue the host completely losing all composure and shaking with laughter.
110	* Dagmar Berghoff had [[http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/berghoff100.html joked beforehand]] "should I say '[[ToiletHumor WC]]' instead of 'WTC tournament'?" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asTUXSXdUik Oops.]]
111	* In the late '70s, Atlanta TV station WATL had a kid's show called ''Officer Don and Orvil'' (the latter being a puppet dragon) and often Orvil (Terry Kelley) would crack something that would cause Officer Don (Don Kennedy) to corpse or just burst out laughing. This goes back to their days on ''The Popeye Club,'' which aired on WSB there in the '60s.
112	* When Creator/BrentSpiner made his recurring guest appearances on Series/NightCourt, the camera operators would often cut Creator/JohnLarroquette out of the shot because he couldn't stop cracking up. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6brM24yIA this video]], you can see him physically turn his head away to avoid scuttling the take when Spiner delivers a ''really ridiculous'' punchline.
113	* ''Challenge Anneka'' once featured an episode when they were renovating a church. Whilst phoning up a hardware store to see if they were willing to donate materials needed, Anneka was asking for, as she referred to it, PLY wood, unaware that it was simply plywood they needed. She then apologised, saying that she wasn't au fait with technical terms. The next item on the list? Nails. She was so convulsed in laughter - she was literally crying with laughter - about this incongruity that she was unable to continue the conversation and one of her assistants had to terminate the call. She even noted the hilarity of it by saying "I'm not exactly familiar with these technical terms. What's next? Oh, nails." This set her off again. When phoning up the store later, she got another giggle fit after remembering the last call ended with nails.
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