This type of laugh can be accomplished by attempting to hold your laugh in for as long as possible, then suddenly exploding in laughter that makes you out of breath. The key here is to tighten your vocal cords so the sound of your laugh comes out more like you’re having trouble breathing. This type of laugh usually also involves wanting to cover up your face while you’re laughing, because you’re embarrassed you’re laughing. And this type of laugh usually causes your eyes to water.
This laugh is more about the noise your make and less about how you look while laughing. The key to this laugh is to make the most crazy sound imaginable while laughing. It is this crazy sound that makes the laugh contagious because other people will start to laugh at you laughing. This laugh can also start with an attempt to hold the laugh in which then results in a sudden explosion of crazy laughter. This laugh needs to look and sound natural. You also need to avoid looking embarrassed about the sounds your making. This is the type of laugh where the person making the crazy sound doesn’t care that they’re making a crazy sound.
This laugh might be one of the easiest to perform because it is essentially fake. This laugh requires that you separate the expression in your eyes from the expression your mouth makes. Your mouth should show laughter, but your eyes should not. The laugh itself needs to sound pleasant, but not exuberant. It needs to be polite, but not overwhelming.
To try this laugh it might be best to pretend you’re embarrassed over what you’re laughing about. Imagine someone slipping on the ice, or walking into a glass door. You shouldn’t laugh, but the action was funny. This laugh requires that you try to keep your facial expression neutral, but you are going to fail. Instead of looking happy though, you want to look embarrassed and/or nervous.
When attempting this laugh, take the time to pretend like you want to hide your laugh, but in reality you don’t. You want to look at the people around you in such a way that they also find humour in whatever it is that you’re laughing about. The sound of this laugh is very playful and child-like. And people who make this type of laugh tend not to care that their laugh sounds child-like.
You might want to watch some old movies where a “proper” lady finds something funny and starts to giggle. Gigglers need to look like they’re shy or trying to maintain their decorum, but are overcome with the humour of the situation and can’t help buy giggle. Giggles shouldn’t end up too loud or obnoxious, but can be done in such a way as to be contagious and start other people laughing as well.
Observe how other people laugh and what you like and dislike about each type of laugh.
Sometime what we hear coming from ourselves, and what other people hear coming from us, is different. You may want to record yourself trying out various tones and playing them back to get a better sense of how you’ll sound to other people.
Practicing will help accomplish two things: making your laugh sound natural and help your new laugh become instinctive. [10] X Expert Source Ben WhitehairActing Coach Expert Interview. 3 June 2021. You may want to consider watching yourself laugh in the mirror to watch the way you move your face muscles and change your facial expression. [11] X Expert Source Ben WhitehairActing Coach Expert Interview. 3 June 2021. This is another step where recording your laugh and playing it back may be useful as it’ll give you a better sense of how to sound to other people.
Humans tends to laugh more often when there are other people around who are also laughing. Yet that laughter isn’t always directed at hearing or witnessing something funny (i. e. a reaction). Laughter is used more as a behaviour that we use in social settings to express how we feel and what we’re thinking.
Scientific research has found that women actually laugh more than men, 126% more in fact. Men, on the other hand, tend to be the ones attempting to make women laugh by saying something funny or witty — or really stupid, which could have the same effect! As people get older they tend to laugh less. Older people also tend to respond less to tickling.
