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{{quote|''I do realise that when I laugh, it sounds like a [[Black Comedy Rape|seal is being molested]].''|'''[[Jimmy Carr]]''', ''The Big Fat Quiz of the Year''}}
|'''[[Jimmy Carr]]''', ''The Big Fat Quiz of the Year''}}
 
Laughter, of course, is one of the best known and most treasured ways that human beings express happiness. In addition to laughing when they find something funny, people laugh when they find something joyous, or heartwarming, or even stimulating. In general, a person enjoys hearing another person laugh. Unless, of course, that other person has a laugh that, rather than sounding joyous, sounds painful or cringe-inducingly awful.
 
The [['''Annoying Laugh]]''' usually comes in several specific flavors (the Asthma Attack bellow, the high [[The Hyena|Hyena-like cackle]], the Snort-Snort-Snort, the Machine Gun Chuckle, and the Donkey-like Bray being the most common). In some cases, the [['''Annoying Laugh]]''' is used in place of actually fleshing out a character, since the type of annoying laugh can lead the audience to assuming the character basically is just as annoying as his or her laugh happens to be. In some cases, a character will have an [['''Annoying Laugh]]''' because the script calls for it, but sometimes its because the actor playing the role laughs like that for real.
 
A subtrope of [[Most Annoying Sound]], and the supertrope of the [[Noblewoman's Laugh]]. Almost always [[Played for Laughs|Played For]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Laughs]]. Compare [[Evil Laugh]]. Sometimes part of an [[Overly Long Gag]]. The annoying laugh is very common in animation and sitcoms.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Naga the Serpent from ''[[Slayers]]'', whose epic [[Noblewoman's Laugh]] can be classified as a deadly weapon in 37 states. It also sends old women scrambling to the nearest shrine, begging whichever deity that happens to be nearby to "please make it stop".
** Her voice actress also did a bit more laughing as Black Rose Kodachi in [[Ranma ½]].
* Emerald from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
** Also Zoicite from the English dub.
*** Voiced by the same actress.
*** Taken, as one would expect, to the N'thNth degree in ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]''.
* 4Kids manages to do it to 2 antagonists: Meowth from the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime and Marik from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''.
* Renge's voice in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' is considered to be either cute or annoying.
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** Even Beatrice does this, as her butler Ronove [[Lampshade Hanging|points out]].'
** [[Rule of Three|And Battler]]. Sorta; his is actually "Ihihihihihihi...", but it is also the first of the three to show up.
* ''[[El -Hazard: The Magnificent World]]'': Jinnai could be the anime mascot for this trope.
* In ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', the other characters find Kululu's "Ku-ku-ku!" laugh annoying. Every time he laughs, the others know he's causing mischief.
* ''[[One Piece]]'':
** The Italian dub of ''[[One Piece]]'' is basically one big [[Lampshade Hanging]] of how the unusual different kinds of laughter (case in point: Hogback), while somewhat acceptable in a manga, actually end up working ''awfully'' when get animated. On the other hand, there are exceptions such as Brook's Italian VA, who did a ''perfect'' job at that.
** Actually, the laughs are played quite good (just listen to Perona) but they did, however, simply ignored the 90% of the remaining laughs.
** Killer of the Kid Pirates has a laugh ''so'' annoying even ''he'' is sick of it, and often has to stop and excuse himself when he finds something amusing. [[Disproportionate Retribution|He has been known to kill people who make fun of it.]]
* Kodachi in ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma One Half]]'', who (as mentioned above) shares Naga's voice actress. Mocked often in ''[[Ranma ½: The Abridged Chronicles]]''.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
 
== Comics ==▼
* Blutch from ''[[Les Tuniques Bleues]]''.
* [http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2011/10/25 This] recent [[Pearls Before Swine]] comic had Rat go out on a date with a girl who laughed this way when he told her a joke. He then [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it with the line, "Bad laughs, the great deal-breaker."▼
* ''[[Life in Hell]]'' - in a segment on love, there are a couple of reference to one's spouse's hyena-like laugh.
 
== [[Film]] ==▼
 
▲== Film ==
* In ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'', both Lewis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowell had annoying laughs, as did Lewis' father.
* Wolfang Amadeus Mozart, as played by Tom Hulce in the film version of ''[[Amadeus]]'', had a [[The Hyena|hyena-like cackle]].
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* In ''[[Fight Club]]'', Tyler tells the Narrator when they first meet: "you have a sick desperation in your laugh"
* One of the murder victims in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' had one. {{spoiler|In a subversion of convoluted murder mystery plots, it turns out that this mundane annoyance was actually ''the reason'' that she was killed.}}
* [[Dwight Frye]]'s Renfield in the original englishEnglish film version of ''[[Dracula]]'', which was copied by Arte Johnson when he played the role in the spoof ''[[Love at First Bite]]''.
** Peter Mac Nicol likewise imitates the laugh when he plays Renfield in ''Dracula: Dead and Loving It''.
* ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' has a whole song about annoying laughs. With some bad jokes thrown in for good measure!
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* '30s and '40s movie comedian Hugh Herbert had a constant "Hoo-hoo!" laugh as part of his onscreen schtick. This was later borrowed by [[Daffy Duck]].
 
== [[Literature]] ==▼
 
▲== Literature ==
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novels have a few:
** Carcer from ''[[Discworld/Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]''. Used as one of quite a few indicators that the man is a [[Ax Crazy|complete]] [[Psycho for Hire|psychopath]].
** Mr. Cletes from ''[[Discworld/Soul Music (novel)|Soul Music]]''. Hat. Hat. Hat.
** A minor variant (and only mentioned perhaps twice) is Strappi's laugh from ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'', which is described as "a harsh gargling at the back of the throat."
* Count Olaf and Esme Squalor from ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''.
* ''Mariel of [[Redwall]]'' introduces the Honourable Rosemary, whose laugh is loud and long enough to deafen everyone in hearing range. It's also said to be able to [[Beyond the Impossible|curdle cream from thirty paces away.]]
* Sammy in ''[[Wayside School|Sideways Stories from [[Wayside School]]''.
 
 
== [[Live -Action TelevisionTV]] ==
* Sylvia from ''[[Dear John (British series)|Dear John]]''; her ex-husband even informed her of this.
* Myrna- Oscar Madison's secretary on ''[[The Odd Couple]]''.
* Harold from ''[[The Red Green Show]]'' is a cinch for this one.
* Arnold HorschachHorschack, from ''[[Welcome Back, Kotter]]'', had the standard comedy relief "nerd asthma attack" style of annoying laugh.
* ''[[Family Matters]]'' Steve Urkel.
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'': The Low version of Lister.
* On an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' when Cuddy is trying to get pregnant, House brings one of the sperm donors she's considering in for an interview. The man had a very annoying laugh which came out when he was nervous. This was one of House's arguments for why he shouldn't be considered as the father.
* One episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' has Jerry dating a woman with an annoying laugh, and he can't bear to tell her. It's compared to "Elmer Fudd sitting on a juicer."
* Kitty from ''[[That 70s Show|That 70's70s Show]]''. Unlike a lot of television characters who have annoying laughs, who basically have annoying laughs because the actor involved does, Kitty's laugh is '''''not''''' the actual laugh of actress Debra Jo Rupp.
* ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'': Sibyl Fawlty. A combination of the Machine-Gun Chuckle with a Donkey Bray finish. According to her husband, it sounds like "somebody machine-gunning a seal".
{{quote|'''Sybil:''' A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-''EUUUUH!!''}}
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{{quote|Janet: Well, at least I know how to laugh. Ahahahahaha! What do you do? ''SNORT!'' ''SNORT!'' ''SNORT!'' ''SNORT!'' ''SNORT!'' ''SNORT!...''}}
* Another snorter is [[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark]].
* One of the guests on Malcom [[Mc Dowell]]McDowell's ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' had a fantasy about hooking up with his childhood crush, who he remembers as having a wonderful laugh. Maybe it was selective memory, but when his fantasy comes true it turns out she has a kind of glass-breaking rattle.
* A ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' episode has Helen dating a man with a laugh like a [[The Hyena|braying hyena]]. It becomes so annoying that Helen eventually decides to break up with him because of it, but before she can do so, he dumps her because he cannot stand her Southern accent.
* Fran Fine from ''[[The Nanny]]''. Her laugh is practically the tagline for the show.
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' has the character Strife and, later, his twin brother Deimos, who are both infamous among the other characters for their hyena-like laugh:
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** Elmo also has his annoying "Uh-HA-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|Guido Geller]] of ''[[Camera Cafe]]'' fame [[Small Reference Pools|used to be]] the page picture, [[Dissonant Laughter|much to Patti's horror.]]
* Skull from ''[[Power Rangers]]'' early seasons definitely had this. As does his (''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'') son, Spike.
* Melanie Pearson from ''[[Neighbours]]'', not helped by her overreacting to Henry's jokes.
* Dear gof, that kid villain Tram from ''[[Choujin Sentai Jetman]]'' is one of the biggest offenders from that category in the [[Super Sentai]] genre.
* Mickey Doyle from ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', not helped by him also being [[The Hyena]].
 
▲== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
▲* [http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2011/10/25 This] recent2011 ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' comicstrip had Rat go out on a date with a girl who laughed this way when he told her a joke. He then [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it with the line, "Bad laughs, the great deal-breaker."
 
== [[Radio]] ==
* Disk jockey Elliot Segal, of ''Elliot In The Morning'' in the Baltimore/Washington DC area, has a very annoying laugh.
* Australian cricket commentator Kerry O'Keefe.
* Dawn from the ''Rob, Arnie and Dawn Show'' has a very cackly and annoying laugh.
* During his tenure on ''The [[Howard Stern]]|The Howard Stern Show]]'', the various laughs of Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, were a fairly big part of the show - ranging from a low dirty giggle to a big expressive "Whoop!"
* [[Sherlock Holmes]], in the BBC Radio adaptations starring Clive Merrison. Watson complains about it a few times.
 
== [[Theater]] ==
* In ''[[Oklahoma!]]'', the protagonist Curly dates a girl named Gertie to make heroine Laurey jealous. Gertie must be played by an actress who can affect an obnoxious laugh. An example of a particularly ear-splitting performance can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHtLvFbWqoQ here]. That's Gertie cuddling Curly and laughing uproariously at the beginning of the video, while Laurey looks on from the porch in disgust and irritation.
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'': This page needs to start doing things... THE UMBRIDGE WAY! A DERDERDERDERDERDER. The extended version when [[Crosscast Role|s/he]] tries to keep Harry from going to Hogsmeade is even more annoying.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
 
▲== Video Games ==
* From ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'': Vexen and Larxene in the Japanese versions of ''Re: Chain of Memories''. People on [[YouTube]] loop their laughs and dare people to see how long they can listen to them without clawing their ears forcibly off their heads. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRfMle74Zoc Have a listen.][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHy99AllPMk&feature=related Or two.] Make it stop indeed.
** Seeing how he shares his Japanese voice actor with Vexen, Professor Hojo from ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'' also possesses a high-pitched maddening cackle. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg66mdGHSHs Hear it for yourself].
* Heidegger from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has a "gya-ha-ha" laugh that irritates the other heads of Shinra to no end.
** And from the same franchise, we have the infamous laughing scene in [[Final Fantasy X]] between Tidus and Yuna. (Though, of course, they were forcing it.)
* Moe the clown from case 3 of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Justice for All''. "Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha!"
** Also, [[The Hyena|Calisto Yew]] from ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth|Ace Attorney Investigations]]''.
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', Misha's trademark "Wa ha ha~!" laugh seems to be this; it certainly seems to grate on Hisao's nerves after a while. Probably a good thing the developers decided not to go with full voice-acting...
* Soda Popinski of ''[[Punch -Out!!]]'' lets out a truly aggravating laugh when he knocks you down. It's bad enough in the Wii version, where it's a real person; in the NES version, it's an ''eight-bit digitized laugh'', similar to the one used by [[Game Over Man|Ganon]] in ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|Zelda II the Adventure of Link]]''.
** Nearly everyone does this in the Wii version.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': Given [[Rule of Funny|the nature of the game]] and [[Bratty Half-Pint|the character]], it's almost certain that the Scout's self-satisfied laughter is designed to annoy the people he kills. Given how he's also the source of many a [[Most Annoying Sound]], this isn't all that surprising.
* Of course, there's the legendary ''[[Duck Hunt]]'' dog, whose laugh has earned him the hatred of an entire generation of gamers.
* In ''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'', your enemies are the dreaded Heaven Smiles who [[Taking You with Me|blow up on contact]] and laugh constantly. Each different Smile has a different laugh, a good number of which are extremely annoying. (Especially the Bombhead Smiles)
* If you don't defeat all of the pigs in ''[[Angry Birds]]'', they will do a really annoying laugh. Thankfully you can skip it by pressing the "Restart Level" button.
* Laharl's attempt at an [[Evil Laugh]] in the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series can be this, especially to Etna, who considers it the [[Most Annoying Sound]].
 
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* His laugh is probably the most annoying thing about the ''[[Annoying Orange]]''.
* Penelope from ''[[The Quest for Geekdom]]'' when she tries to do an [[Evil Laugh]].
* [[Gronkh]] tends to imitate one of these in [[Oh Crap]] moments.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
 
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]''
** The Screwy Squirrel cartoons contained an woodpecker with a laugh remniscentreminiscent of a woodpecker screaming through a duck lure.
** Screwy himself sometimes had a high pitched "ah-yuk-yuk-yuk" laugh.
* The earliest version of [[Bugs Bunny]] was merely irritating with a laugh very similar to Woody's...at a theater screening, when a dog finally hauled off and socked him, it was loudly cheered.
** Not to mention [[Daffy Duck]]'s "Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo!" in his earlier cartoons, which is all but phased out in later shorts.
* [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] has a combination High Nasal Twitter and Hyena-like Cackle.
** One of which is a dolphin 'twitter' exactly like Flipper's.
** Squidward has a honky laugh.
* Mandark from ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''.
** It would later be revealed that the vague rhythm of his laugh applies to ''everything he does.'' "Brush! Brush brush! Brush brush brush buh brush!"
* Nelson's "HAAA-HA!" from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''.:
** Nelson's "HAAA-HA!".
** Dr. Hibbert; he [[Running Gag|tends to laugh at the most inappropriate times.]]
* Peter Griffin in ''[[Family Guy]]''. His wife Lois too, in later episodes.
** Peter notes that a ride is going to get rougher than dating a hot girl with a bad laugh, as shown in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140612165641/http://www.noob.us/humor/family-guy-hot-girl-with-a-bad-laugh/ this] [[Cutaway Gag]].
** One episode had Stewie Griffin having an annoying laugh that he used each time a joke came up in a sitcom.
* Professor Calamitous' daughter [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Beautiful Gorgeous]] in ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]''.
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* Scratch from ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'':
{{quote|"We've got you now, hedgehog! Ba-HA ha-HAAA!!"}}
* Naturally, ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'''s famous "Huh huh huh huh", uttered whenever [[Heh, Heh, You Said "X"|something could be taken as a dirty joke]], whenever they're aroused, or most commonly to end statements with. Would they really be Beavis and Butthead without it?
* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' revealed that [[Creepy Child|Heloise]] had cursed a man to never laugh because she thought his laugh was annoying.
* The one shot character Cissy Cobb from the ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode "Peggy The Boggle Champ", it when something like "Ah haw haw haw ha!"
* ''[[Chalk ZoneChalkZone]]'': Reggie Bullnerd.
* Lok, Zariah and The Pupununu Tribe from ''[[Tak and the Power of Juju]]''.
* One episode of ''[[Baby Looney Tunes]]'' should most of them laughing at Baby SlyvesterSylvester failing.
* Sheegwa from ''[[Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat]]''.
* Lemony, Rondo Jr., and the school students in ''[[Yakkity Yak]]''.
* Max Hare in the ''[[Silly Symphony]]'' short "[[The Tortoise and the Hare]]". "Ha-HAA-ha-HAA-ha-HAAAAAA!"
* The otherwise [[Smug Snake|smooth and charismatic]] Flim Flam Brothers of the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 /E15 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000|"The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000"]]" celebrate their villainous victory with a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4AUpn-vhYc gratingly nasal and monotonous cackle]. It doesn't help that this is right after they've [[Kick the Dog|kicked the dog]]. Not a good way to start your business...
* ''[[The Mighty B!]]'' episode "Grumpy Old Bee" has the [[Scout Out|Honey Bee Trope]] falling into this catagory.
* Nester from ''[[Scaredy Squirrel]]''
* Banana Joe from ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''.
* [[Simpleton Voice|Baby Shellby]] in ''[[House of Mouse]]''.
 
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* A number of sitcoms that [[James L. Brooks]] worked on, including ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' and ''[[Taxi]]'', frequently featured Brooks' own loud, honking laugh as part of the studio audience.
* Every character [[Fran Drescher]] has ever played has a donkey-like nasal bray of a laugh... because the actress herself really laughs like that.
* Tom Selleck's actual laugh is of the "high-toned hyena cackle" variety.
* The late Michael Landon laughed that way, too.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLSRMoKKS0 Pretty much everywhere, it's gonna be hot.]
* Nadya Suleman, a.k.a. "Octomom". Particularly frightening during her interview on ''[[The View]]''.
* [[I Love Lucy|Ricky Ricardo's]] distinctive "AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH!" laugh was hisDesi Arnaz's real life laugh. Occasionally you hear it in the live studio audience.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eX45Ce_MW8 This one] from actress Natalie Portman isn't annoying as such, but it [[I''s]]is'' rather unique.
* At the final screening of ''[[Clerks]]'' at Sundance, where [[Kevin Smith]] was hoping to find a distributor, after about 20 minutes or so, Kevin noticed someone with a loud, incredibly obnoxious laugh drowning out the laughter of ''the rest of the audience.'' "Turns out it's [[Miramax Films|Harvey Weinstein]]."
* Mexican actress Consuelo Duval gives us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_vNkuT5c4 this horror].
* Alan Alda's laugh, frequently heard on ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''.
* The French channel Canal+ caricatured its then-president Dominique Farrugia's laugh as sounding like a sea-lion.
* [http://youtu.be/UuuRHLeHPic This guy's laugh] will give you nightmares.
* Due to internet stereotypes, the BrazillianBrazilian "HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE" has become the bane of MMO players everywhere.
 
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[[Category:Laughter Tropes]]
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