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{{quote|''"You enjoyin' that sandwich, are you?"''|'''[[Not Only but Also|Peter Cook]]''', as '''Dudley Moore''' tries to hide his laughter with one.}}
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*** They ''did'' have to cut it rather close, though. One scene showing Bull ends just seconds from the actor corpsing as seen when his stoic facade cracks.
*** [[Peter Sellers]] was notorious for having this effect on his co-stars. another noticable moment (or Moments) is in Return of the [[Pink Panther]] and his scenes with Catherine Schell.
** Another scene was not so
* Another [[Stanley Kubrick|Kubrick example]] is in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''. At the beginning when Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is berating the men, Vincent D'Onofrio begins to crack up. This was unintentional but they kept going. This reaction is [[Truth in Television]] as seen in the [[Real Life]] section below.
* In ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'', the scene where [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRcUcxtaX-Q K is shaking Frank the pug.] You can obviously see Tommy Lee Jones struggling to keep from laughing on camera. He's only partially successful. (Quick smile at about 44 seconds in.)
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* ''[[Ace Ventura]]'': Courtney Cox tries and ''almost'' succeeds in looking solemn when 'Larry' ([[Jim Carrey]]) acts out "a button-hook pattern in super slo-mo". She nearly cracks when he does an "instant replay" and 'bounces' off the doctor's shoulder.
* Watch ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' and count the number of scenes where Gene Wilder is inches away from completely losing it.
** Igor's "take the bags" scene had to be filmed multiple
* Fictional example: In the [[Batman (film)|Batman]] movie (the one with [[Jack Nicholson]] as [[The Joker]]), one news reporter starts corpsing...and then [[Die Laughing|becomes a corpse]] soon after due to Joker venom.
* A whole series of corpsing outtakes play during the [[Creative Closing Credits]] of ''[[Cannonball Run]]''.
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*** Perhaps the only person in this particular sketch who didn't break down into hysterics was Fred Armisen, who was clearly doing all he could to keep from corpsing along with his castmates. He was successful...kinda.
*** So prevalent was this in the sketches that the syndicated version of the Downer sketch with Ben Affleck (from season 30) contains the dress rehearsal version in which the cast corpses; it comes with a disclaimer that it was funnier than the original live version in which everyone kept it together.
** Bill Hader often has difficulty maintaining his act while portraying Stefon, a [[Camp Gay|flaming homosexual]] hipster who describes various disturbing night clubs during "Weekend Update" (this is thanks to writer John Mulaney pretty much [[Gaslighting]]
** And, of course, there's the famous "I have a ''fevah''! And the only prescription...is '''more cowbell'''!" Line delivered by [[Christopher Walken]], which made ''everyone'' in the scene crack up.
** For all this, SNL also has the ''über'' anti-corpsing example: Alec Baldwin, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, and [http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/nprs-delicious-dish---schweddy-balls/2846 Schweddy Balls].
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* In the Penguin scene mentioned in [[Throw It In]], [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Graham Chapman's]] exclamation of "Oh, intercourse the penguin!" is clearly an ad lib. How can you tell? John Cleese obviously trying to stifle his laughter and get back in character...
** It's hard to find an episode of Monty Python without a scene of Michael desperately trying not to corpse. And being utterly adorable as he does.
** [[John Cleese]]'s truly ''EPIC'' attempts to get [[Michael Palin]] to
{{quote|'''Cleese''': This is nothing to laugh at!
'''Palin''': ''[shakes with suppressed laughter]'' }}
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* [[REM|Michael Stipe]] can clearly be heard cracking up on ''The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight'' after the line about Dr. Seuss.
* [[Nirvana|Kurt Cobain]] unsuccessfully suppresses a chuckle during the second full chorus of "Milk It".
* [[The Beatles|Paul McCartney]] stifles laughter while singing the second verse of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," purportedly because John
* [[Bob Dylan]] cracks up at the start of "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" because the rest of the band misses the cue and had to start again, and this [[Throw It In|was kept in the final recording]].
* [[King Crimson]]'s "Indoor Games" ends with vocalist Gordon Haskell breaking into laughter, his explanation being that he thought the lyrics to the song were ridiculous.
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** Literally happens in "If I Had $1,000,000" by the same band during the line about fancy ketchups.
{{quote|"And we could buy these really expensive ketchups... / (cue giggling on this line) Dijon ketchup! Mmm!"}}
* In their performance in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adO27R2UGWM of Fernando] Poland, [[ABBA|
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