#fake laughter

[timwrightt]

[quietrainfan]

Deceit never having had a genuine laugh. Not once. All the times he's laughed were either sarcastic, a way to charm someone, or a mask to cover up how empty he feels inside. Every giggle that rose in his throat was backed by a hope that this one was real, not fabricated. Every chuckle uttered filled him with the anticipation that it wasn't just his natural reflex to appear charming to another. Every loud howl of laughter at something others found funny left him disappointed that he felt no internal reaction. He wanted to feel that urge so badly, he wanted to not be able to control himself when he saw or heard something hysterical. But he was so used to putting walls up, fearing what his real laugh sounded like because a Dark Side's sounded eerily evil, and what others will think of him that he never learned how.

So if or when he does genuinely laugh for the first time, it's uncontrollable. It echeos. He's overjoyed, overwhelmed. His giggles start to morph into loud sobs of joy then relief then overwhelming sadness and he breaks down. The person that made him laugh tries to calm him but the sound of his own weeping and racing thoughts block them out. Finally, finally he was able to laugh...for real this time.

[gregor-samsung]

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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[spi-ltmilk]

https://instagram.com/p/Bc6lPuhhJ02/

[ommcomnews]

Can't Fake Laughter If Something Isn't Funny: Farah Khan | Entertainment

Mumbai: Choreographer and filmmaker Farah Khan, who appears as the 'Laughing Buddha' on the television programme 'Zee Comedy Show', says it is not very

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[friendlypsychopathnextdoor]

Do you sometimes pretend that you laugh with people's jokes?

Pretending to consider something that isn’t funny, worth a laugh is disrespecting a person who attempts to humor you and also misleading and encouraging them to continue making more “bad jokes”. I avoid encouraging as well as participating in rude behaviour. So surprisingly, I suspect, I do this less than the average person.