Talk:Corpsing

Help tidy up
Saw a link for this on the article for laughter and figured I'd better write it up, but I don't know much about original article creation, so if someone wants to tidy this up or something, feel free. --NaOH 07:34, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Might be real corpses involved
Pretty sure this phrase comes from an incident or incidents where characters in a stage play who are supposed to be dead begin laughing. Might try to dig up (forgive the pun) a reference. 86.42.124.92 05:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Any relation
I have also heard the phrase "you're killing it" when referring to 'unwanted' laughter in jokes. Is this related? If it has a link it should probably go in the article. --Gigitrix (talk) 22:11, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

now that Jimmy Fallon has officially been listed as Conan O'Brien's replacement...
...you'd think that Fallon's name would be mentioned in this article as a famous, recent example of someone addicted to "corpsing". :) 199.214.26.226 (talk) 21:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

What about the Carol Burnett show? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.72.235.4 (talk) 14:33, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh God, yes.....Tim Comway FREQUENTLY went out of his way to make Harvey Korman bust up...often rendering the character-breaking more funny that the scene being wrecked! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.112.239.142 (talk) 07:55, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

I agree about "The Carol Burnett Show" being a show that the actors frequently broke character by laughing, forgetting lines, part of their costumes (such as a wig) coming off, a prop falling or not working and the actors trying not to laugh was indeed many times funnier than the actual skit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.28.37.218 (talk) 02:40, 31 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh, Jesus, no! That's such a blatant NPOV/BLP violation... (Fallon, that is)  Twin Bird (talk) 00:09, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Why should corpsing and breaking character be separate articles?
Does anyone have a good reason? The Hero of This Nation (talk) 22:59, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Citation needed for Monty Python. I believe this is a common internet misconception. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deflink (talk • contribs) 20:59, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

I don’t think it means what you think it means
I disagree with the definition that "Corpsing is British theatrical slang for unintentionally laughing during a non-humorous performance". It more commonly pertains to unintentionally laughing during a humorous performance that the corpsing character is not meant to have found funny. I think this is born out by the examples.93.73.172.200 (talk) 16:23, 5 October 2018 (UTC)