Editing Death from laughter (section)

==In fiction==
* "The Three Infernal Jokes", short story in ''[[The Last Book of Wonder]]'' (1916) by [[Lord Dunsany]], about three jokes "which shall make all who hear them simply die of laughter".
* "[[The Funniest Joke in the World]]", episode of British sketch comedy ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', which revolves around a joke so funny that anybody who hears it promptly laughs themselves to death.
* In the 1988 [[fantasy comedy]] film ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'', the [[weasel]]s of the Toon Patrol literally die laughing. Judge Doom mentions earlier in the film that this happened to their [[hyena]] cousins.
* "[[The Stand In (Seinfeld)|The Stand In]]", episode of American comedy ''[[Seinfeld]]'', which features [[Jerry Seinfeld (character)|Jerry Seinfeld]] telling a joke to a hospital patient who then suddenly dies from laughter.
* ''[[Infinite Jest]]'' (1996), a novel by [[David Foster Wallace]] in which the meta-narrative includes a film so entertaining that those who see it lose all interest in anything else, and die.
*''[[The Clean House]]'', a play where dying of laughter is a reoccurring theme.
*[[Scott Tenorman Must Die|"Scott Tenorman Must Die"]], episode of [[South Park|''South Park'']], which features [[Kenny McCormick]] dying from laughing at a humiliating video of [[Eric Cartman]].
*On the television series ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]'', a semi-fictionalized case, based on some of these actual deaths, was dramatized as "way to die" number 302, "Funny Boned", in the season 1 finale "I See Dead People (and They're Cracking Me Up)"; the fictional incident, claimed to take place on January 18/19, 1997, follows a pub patron named Chuck, who enjoys telling and hearing jokes, hearing one particular one so funny he simply could not stop laughing after hearing it, even after leaving the pub and returning the following day; by this time, he had been laughing for over 36 straight hours, and it proved such a strain on his heart that he dropped dead in the pub of a [[heart attack]].