Death by Laughter isn't Funny... OK?

30 Morbid Minutes

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8 • 731 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The concept of "laughing oneself to death" has been around for centuries in folklore, myth, and media, but it CAN happen in real life, too. Laugh along with us as we cover real stories and dig into the underlying causes. Leave us a review -- it helps the show! :) Follow Us - @30MorbidMinutes Elyse Willems - @ElyseWillems Jessica Vasami - @jessicaaaaavasami Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	This podcast covers mature, intense, morbid, and sometimes just scary stuff.
0:34.3	Listener discretion is advised.
0:36.3	Can you really laugh yourself to death? Come laugh with us
0:39.9	in 30 morbid minutes. This is the podcast where we cover topics, people, places, and history of a morbid, macab, dark, and downright grisly nature.
1:01.4	And we don't laugh and have fun here at all.
1:04.5	I'm Elise Willems.
1:05.8	And I'm Jessica Vasami.
1:07.2	No, we cannot laugh in this episode at all.
1:09.6	I already messed up.
1:10.5	I already laughed. Yeah, you did like a really evil laugh, too. I did. Okay. No, we cannot laugh in this episode at all. I already messed up. I already laughed.
1:11.4	Yeah, you did like a really evil laugh too. I did. Okay. No laughing. From here on now,
1:16.2	no laughing. No joke make. No jokes. No maker jokes. Okay. Okay. The year was
1:22.8	1988 on a crisp March day in Oarhouse, Denmark. A man by the name of Old Benson, an audiologist,
1:30.7	walked into a movie theater to enjoy a film and was carried out dead.
1:35.2	I want to know what movie this man saw.
1:38.0	Oh, yeah. Yes, this movie was none other than the British 1988 John Cleese film,
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