Have you ever started laughing at a completely inappropriate moment and couldn’t stop?
You’re not alone.
Sometimes, it’s impossible to maintain composure even at the most solemn gatherings—including funerals. In fact, a lot of “can’t stop laughing” moments happen at funerals, during religious ceremonies, or in other serious situations.
It’s totally human to crack up when you’re not supposed to, so take solace in some of the stories Redditors are sharing about their cringeworthy “can’t stop laughing” moments.
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“Back in 2004, I was at my cousin’s funeral, and my aunt was in such a shocked state, she couldn’t stop laughing. She was known to do this at funerals. Because laughing is contagious, I also started laughing a little bit, and I had to go to the back of the church, and to the bathroom to get it out of me.” — MTVChallengeFan
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“I was at church for my grandfather 5th year death anniversary and the guy singing was so bad my grandma and me were almost died from laughter.” — zoro907
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“At a funeral, the pastor kept referring to God as ‘The Great Comforter’ and all I could think of was a tacky bedspread glowing with holy light. Every time he said it my giggles got worse to the point I had to pretend I was crying really hard and left to hide in the bathroom.” — Jurk_McGerkin
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“Not me, but my friend. She was getting fired from her job, and all she could think about was ‘What’ll it be fellas? Mustard, or ketchup?’ from the Spongebob Squarepants movie.” — binchlauren
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“My mother and father went to a funeral of one of mothers aunts that she was not close too, in fact my father had never met her. As they stood at the open casket my father said to my mother, ‘she just doesn’t look like herself’ again my father had never seen the aunt before. For whatever reason this struck my mother as very funny and she started laughing , she held her hands to her face and ran from the casket. Her sisters saw this and thought she distraught and followed her out to console her. Where my mother had to explain that she was laughing and not crying and why. She was so pissed at my father it was hilarious.” — VaDem33
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“I heard a kid fart in church during a wedding. I had to remove myself because I couldn’t get it under control. It was one of those loud, echo of the old wooden pew farts.” — Mcfangus
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“When I was a 2nd year law student, I had a classmate abruptly get up, mid-lecture, and waddled quickly out of the lecture hall. There were about 90 students in the lecture and, in law school, the academic approach is the Socratic method, which is usually the professor and one student going 1:1 during the course of a lecture/class. The dude comes back into the classroom and the professor abruptly halts his current line of questioning with another student. I’m front of the class, the professor asks the returning student, ‘is everything okay?’ The student responds “bad chipotle” and walked back to his seat. I spent the rest of the lecture period giggling through the professor grilling students about family law.” — dreemkiller
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“I had this really nice but really awkward physics teacher in high school. He was a large nerdy man but spoke with a lisp and a very soft voice. Imagine the guy from office space asking for his stapler, that’s how he sounded. One day he is giving his lesson and mid sentence he goes from this voice to what sounded like satan himself. ‘Ok class please (deep hell voice) TAKE OUT YOUR BOOKS, cough cough erm excuse me must have something in my throat.’ Then continued like nothing happened. I could not, for the life of me stop fucking laughing and I was the only fucking one. It was the most bizarre and fucking hilarious thing I had ever seen. I had to walk out of the class to catch my composure. This was at least 15 years ago now and I’ll never forget it.” — Dirtyace
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Last year’s thanksgiving, right before the meal we all stood in a big circle and said a prayer and what we are thankful for. Well my mom’s uncle, I will refer to him as ‘uncle.’ His name is Dick, yes Uncle Dick. When we all stood up, it was revealed that Uncle Dick had forgotten to zip up his jeans after going to the bathroom. My dad and I were directly across from Uncle Dick and we were barely keeping from bursting out in all our laughter. Then he leaned over to me and whispered, ‘I’m thankful that Uncle Dick remembered to put on fresh underwear this morning.’ About halfway through the meal we were still laughing about it when Grandma came over to yell at us for being distracting. She basically asked what we were laughing at in a not so nice voice. We pointed her gaze across the room and she couldn’t help but laugh a bit. We told her it had been like that the whole meal. The way we had the tables set up was a big square of folding banquet tables. So we could look out straight ahead of us at Uncle Dick’s Boxers.” — benben2020
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“Visiting my Grandmothers grave with my grandfather for the first time a few years ago. Expected tears and a solemn day. Instead we passed a grave marked ‘Wanda’ and my grandfather said, ‘Well I wanda what killed her?’ none of us could stop laughing, my grandmother would have loved it.” — clineaus