Deadpan laughter

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1. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (Well ha ha ha, bless your soul)
2. Underworld - Stagger (Cut me, I bleed like you, ha ha)

Two examples make it a pop meme, right? There must be more...

chap, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link

3. Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!

ledge, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link

4. The Mountain Goats - "Alpha Desperation March"

bernard snowy, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link

5. The Pixies - Slicing up eyeballs, ha ha ha ho!

(kind of matter of fact if not dead pan?)

fantasimundo, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link

6. Flipper - Ha ha ha

kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link

^^ 5. = debaser , obv

fantasimundo, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Surprised this hasn't come up yet.

7. "For a laugh, a ha ha ha" - Where do you go to, my lovely?

Rob M v2, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link

both by Billy Gibbons:
8. ZZ Top - La Grange ("have mercy, a haw haw haw haw")
9. Nickelback - Rock Star ("I'll have the quesadilla, ha haa")

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link

10. Ice Cream for Crow Capt Beefheart "Well, you can hee and haw!"

Mark G, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Why? - "Hahaha / On My 19th"

bernard snowy, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link

12. Wire, Practice Makes Perfect
13. Wire, From the Nursery

Tom D., Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link

14. Pere Ubu, "Real World" (Cindy makes a bad joke, ha ha ha ha)
15. Lisa Germano, "Bad Attitude" (You wish you were happy but you're not, ha ha)

dad a, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link

The Gnarls Barkley laugh doesn't sound deadpan to me, Cee-Lo puts some emotion to it.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link

16. Sly & The Family Stone, Running Away

Tom D., Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link

17. Prince: " "La, La, La, He, He, Hee"

Tuomas, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Its really laughable, a ha ha haha haa

Forget his name.

Mark G, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link

18. "Herooooin, it's my wife ha ha, and it's my life..."

Chris L, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link

19. "Ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha" - Vegetable Man, Pink Floyd (IIRC - that was the middle 8). Though quite how deadpan Syd was at the time is debatable.

Rob M v2, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link

rza on "tearz"

and what, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link

cuz i dropped him, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

and what, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link

21. Lupe Fiasco on "Superstar," which is the #1 most annoying thing about that song
22. a billion Jay-Z songs with his annoying fake laugh

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Lots of Lil Wayne songs also use a kind of "heh heh" more as a rhythmic thing than an actual laugh. It's almost a nervous tick.

Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link

every Jean Shepherd radio show ever

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link


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