(Craig laughing)
- [Ada] No!
(upbeat lively music)
- Chyna and Ada are upstairs, they're gonna hear me.
This is awkward. (laughing)
(Craig coughing)
This feels ridiculous. (laughing)
(coughing) I get short of breath.
Actually feel more tired now
'cause I think it relaxed me so much.
Yeah. I want a nap now.
I got out of breath, but I watched a TED Talk.
- Okay, so to warm up,
I want everyone to take a deep breath in.
Raise your hands towards the ceiling.
Laugh on your exhale. Ready, go.
(Ida laughing) (audience laughing)
(Craig laughing)
Get out your fake cell phones and laugh.
(Ida laughing) (audience laughing)
(Craig laughing)
- (sighs) I'm exhausted.
I do feel loose, comfortable, and good in general all over.
- Because science tells us that within 45 to 90 seconds,
your body will start to release that flood
of positive neurotransmitters.
(Craig laughing)
- Oh yeah? (laughs) You son of a bitch.
(Craig laughing)
(Craig coughing)
Oh, wow.
(sighs) That felt really good.
Will you laugh with me, darling?
- [Chyna] Yeah.
(Craig and Chyna inhaling)
(both laughing)
- Oh. (laughing)
(Chyna laughing)
- So I want you to shake hands with those around you,
but you're gonna look them
in the face and you're gonna laugh.
(audience laughing)
- Okay. - Look me in the eyes.
(both laughing)
(Craig laughing)
(Craig coughing)
Oh, my belly hurts.
Yes, I wear this hoodie a lot. It's cold down here.
I work in a basement.
(dog squeaking)
(Craig laughing)
(dog growls)
(laughs) Oh my god!
(cat meows)
(Craig laughing)
Not all funny.
If I'm just forcing myself to laugh,
it just feels like I'm lying.
I'd rather laugh at nothing. (laughs)
(Craig coughing)
So you can totally fake laughter enough
that it starts to feel like real laughter.
Feels really good.
(Craig hoarsely laughing)
(Eddie laughing)
(Craig hoarsely laughing)
(Craig laughing)
(Craig forcefully laughing)
(Craig and parents inhaling)
(all laughing)
Super villain laughter.
(Craig and parents maniacally laughing)
- I should have gone to the bathroom before I did this.
(all laughing)
(mom sighs) - I'm sweating.
(sighs) Good workout, guys. (mom sighs)
- Oh, I feel great.
- Hey, yeah? - That's good.
- I feel good, yeah.
- I gotta go to the bathroom.
- Part of the challenge is trying to laugh realistically.
Get it from the gut. Make it feel real.
(Craig laughing)
See, that doesn't feel as good.
That just feels like I'm performing.
Here's the thing.
Just like meditation, just like exercise,
just like yoga, things that you force yourself
to do to feel better, when you're tired,
that's the time you don't want to do them the most.
Like I want to live in my tiredness.
I want to just be like (grunting).
That's like the last thing you wanna do is laugh,
but it works.
You laughing makes you laugh more,
and eventually it does feel legitimately real.
It gets you over that hump and I do feel better now.
I really do.
Okay today, we're gonna try a little sit laughing.
I don't know if it's a thing. I just.
(Craig exhales)
(Craig laughing)
(Craig coughing)
Oh, look at that big dumb face.
(Craig laughing)
(Craig coughing)
Do feel better.
I don't think I can breathe as well sitting and laughing.
I do have asthma after all.
That's where the wheezy in WheezyWaiter comes from.
(Craig laughing)
(Craig coughing)
Nice to meet you. What do you do for a living?
I make YouTube videos.
What about? Oh, I just laugh.
What do you do for a living?
Oh, I work with eight charities.
Improving thousands of lives directly.
(Craig laughing)
The angry laugh.
(Craig angrily laughing)
(Craig crazily laughing)
(Craig laughing)
There's a guy. (laughs) He's not looking at me.
(laughs) Oh, that's good.
Oh, there's a car across the street.
It's just sitting there.
(laughing) I hope they're not looking at me.
Tinted windows, I can't see. It doesn't matter.
I'm just a normal dude just laughing in his car.
(laughing) It actually looks weirder
that I'm looking around while I do it.
(Craig laughing)
Hey, I can't see. (laughing)
(Craig laughs)
(Craig grunts)
(Craig laughing)
(Craig sighs)
I feel great.
(both laughing)
(Craig coughing)
That happens every time.
(both laughing)
You laugh once, you laugh twice,
you laugh three times, you laugh four times,
you laugh five times, et cetera, go.
(Craig laughs) (Chyna laughs)
(both laughing)
- I can hear you counting.
(both laughing)
- Oh, this might be the first time my eyes
are actually watering from it.
- Well, I feel great. Now go away.
- Oh, wow.
(Craig laughing)
This one's gonna be really hard to laugh
and do at the same time.
(Craig laughing)
- What may become apparent in this video
is how often I wear this hoodie.
I have washed it since the beginning of this video.
I feel good every single time I laugh.
I don't know if it affects the entire day.
I think it might.
(Craig laughing)
I stopped doing any gimmicks or any exercises.
I'm just laughing every time now.
I like it better. (sighs) I don't even smoke.
And it sounds like I have a smoker cough. (coughs)
(Craig laughing)
- [Ada] No!
(Craig laughing)
(Ada laughing)
Hi! - Hi!
(Craig and Ada laughing)
- [Ada] That was funny.
Why am I putting his (speaks indistinctly).
- [Chyna] What is so funny?
(Ada and Craig laughing)
- My dog is peeing and pooping.
It's cold and gross out.
Why do we live in Wisconsin?
Why would anyone? It's so stupid.
Oh, and my neighbor's coming. (laughs) This is embarrassing.
Poop and pee, poop and pee, and poop and pee.
We consume stuff and then it comes out of our butts.
(laughs) And it's so gross.
I guess we're not supposed to eat it,
so it helps evolutionarily,
but why does it smell so bad? (laughs)
(Craig laughing)
Would you like to laugh with me?
- Yeah. (Craig laughing)
(man in red shirt laughing)
- All right, it's nighttime before bed.
Do some quiet laughter.
(Craig laughing)
(Craig coughing)
(Craig quietly laughing)
Some of you are probably wondering,
is it real laughter or not?
And it's hard for me to tell, too. (sighs)
(Craig laughs)
(Craig sighs)
(Craig laughing)
(both rhythmically chuckling)
(both laughing)
- Hee. - Ha.
- Hoo. - Ho.
- Ho, ho. - Ha.
- Ha. - Ho.
- Ho, ho. (Craig grunts)
Eh. - Oh.
- Beep. - Ha.
- Floop. - Honk.
(both laughing)
Last day, ya big dumb idiot.
(Craig laughing)
I feel like this is like the Joker origin story.
(Craig maniacally laughing)
(Craig laughing)
All done. I'll never laugh again. (laughs)
Just kidding, just kidding, just kidding.
Here's what I learned.
Five minutes is a long time to laugh.
Fake laughter feels kind of bad,
but also sometimes good.
Fake laughter leads to real laughter.
Real laughter feels wonderful,
which I kind of already knew,
but now it's more obvious to me
that it makes your entire body feel good,
and it lasts for several hours after probably.
It's better with others and humor is what you make it.
What I mean is that this experiment was a good reminder
that nothing is really funny or not funny.
Except for me. (laughing)
It's more a question of if you can find
the humor in it within yourself.
I believe it was Nietzsche who said,
"Sure, hilarious whether you think so or not, dingus."
I'm paraphrasing.
He actually said, "And we should consider every day lost
on which we have not danced at least once.
And we should call every truth false
which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
Here's another good one.
He's got a lot about laughter and dancing.
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane
by those who could not hear the music."
That Nietzsche, sharp cookie, he's got a future.
So now I've learned another tool to put
in my tool belt for when I want to legally feel good.
This is why I just try things.
See if they work, do stuff to learn.
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(Craig laughing)
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