Tell me about inappropriate moments where you laughed

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Me and my mum were watching Mamma Mia 2 (kind of spoilers ahead!) in the cinema and we were at then the bit at the end where Sophie's baby is getting christened and Donna's ghost sings with Sophie. Very emotional and sad. Randomly my mum whispered to me "doesn't Glenn Close look good for her age?". I was and whispered back "I'm not sure I've not seen her in a while". Then mum looked at me like I was crackers, pointed to the screen and said "She's there.", meaning Meryl Streep. I burst out laughing, which made mum laugh and boy did we get some funny looks from other (teary) cinema goers probably wondering why the hell we were laughing at such an emotional scene (before I get flamed I did apologise and made an effort to quieten down). I felt really bad but I really couldn't help giggling.

Also when I started my first office job she 21, my first week ad I was really nervous. it was really stuffy in the room and my supervisor went to open the window. She opened it onto her forehead, and I started to laugh before I realised she'd actually cut her forehead as there was blood gushing down her face

Please regale next with your cringey inappropriate laughing moments!

At my grandad's funeral, I have no idea why but I just had the urge to laugh

While conducting a job interview, when the person we were interviewing was talking utter rubbish. I managed to turn it into a cough and just about got away with it.

Funerals, weddings and church services have always been my downfall.

I was keeping my uncle company while he dug my grandmother’s (his mother’s) grave in a remote rural cemetery. One of the sides collapsed while he was down there, and the two of us ended up howling with laughter.

On my wedding day, when saying l will, l couldn’t stop. I hate the dvd and my 4 year old daughter loves to watch it x

When our boss came over and whispered something to my colleague. She left the room and colleague put her hands in her face and her shoulders started shaking. I thought she was laughing (she was a big character who was always full of mirth) so I started to nervously chuckle along and say “what’s going on, what’s so funny??“. Turns out her friend who worked in the office next door had just been delivered the news her husband had died. I felt like absolute trash.

When my dad was dying in hospital weirdly

We were really sad and stressed so think it was just a bizarre reaction to the stress. We were in the waiting room while a nurse checked on him and this bloke walked in who looked like Larry Lamb. My brother leant in to me and whispered “Archie Mitchell” and we both fell about laughing.

Our mum looked at us in absolute horror but luckily our aunt who’s a nurse said it was quite normal to laugh in times of stress.

DH's Grandma's funeral. She was a complete character: extremely no nonsense; lived to judge her neighbours; intransigent. She went to the ballet once in her life and sat there with folded arms, tutting and declaring it "a waste of time" in a very loud voice. She was inappropriate, outspoken and extremely difficult at times. It was clear at the funeral that the rather ingratiating vicar had never met her as she described the Anglican version of an elderly lady who was sweet and reverent and kind. As she trilled that she was about to play a song that summed up dear old granny's life and we might recognise it from The Wizard of Oz, my brain helpfully whispered "ding dong the witch is dead". I had to disguise my inappropriate and spontaneous laughter as a sob as the strains of Somewhere Over The Rainbow floated over my shaking, hunched form.

In the dentists chair with the dentist working in my mouth

Choosing my dad’s coffin with my sister. We started choosing all the things he would have hated most like a pearly king horse and carriage, a football team theme and a massive flower teddy - we laughed so much I thought we’d be thrown out.

I went to a spiritualist church with my sister where they pass on messages from the dead. (One off, we were not regulars). The second hymn turned out to be 'I Have a Dream' by Westlife. They were all singing along so seriously, we snorted through the whole song and only managed to stop by the skin of our teeth. We left at the end and howled for so long outside.

To be fair Glummy that was pretty funny ..

When I was young a boyfriend asked me to marry him .. the thought had just never occurred to me and so I started to laugh. I suppose it couldn't have been great for him but it took me completely by surprise. And of course that put the complete kibosh on the relationship

In my defence it was so surprising because it was in the days before people employed a camera crew to film them up in the hot-air balloon or dangling from Sydney Harbour Bridge or on a tightrope over Niagra Falls or whatever people feel the need to put on Instagram these days ..

At my grandmother's inquest. My Mum, through total thoughtlessness, made a massive massive faux pas (of the sort to be genuinely extremely upsetting) with a relative shortly before it began. We we all sat in the relatives seats in the middle of the room and she leaned into me and told me. I looked at her and we both started laughing (in shock and horror) so hard that we cried and 'luckily' it just looked like we were crying, our shoulders were up and down and everything. One of the officials kindly came over with tissues. 😁

Oh dear god. I have a thing about laughing when other people hurt themselves! Not seriously hurt and I don't mean it. At school when someone got hit in the face with a rounders ball...quiet hysterics. WTF is wrong with me.

Also, a now famous comedian galloped with me on their back once when I was a kid, pretending to be out of breath, I laughed so hard I actually wet myself...

I also had belly-aching hysterics on my own once thinking about a past relationship realising how craply I was treated.

At my mums funeral. She was being cremated and at the crematorium the coffin is on a kind of conveyor belt thing and they move it behind a curtain at end of the service. One of my sisters leaned over to kiss the coffin just as it started to move back. She is the clumsy one anyway and the rest of us all got a fit of the giggles as we all instantly imagined her falling flat on her face. Dad threw us a look which made us laugh more. And then the song we had chosen to play at the end started and instead of the original version it was a slightly disco version. Even dad laughed then!

Also another crematorium one. DH’s dad died and his step-mums sister came over to the uk from LA for the funeral. Service etc all went fine and in the evening MIL wanted to go back to the crematorium to look at the flowers and read the cards on them. So we drove over with her and her sister. It was late October. We get out of the car at the crematorium and MIL’s sister takes a deep breath as we step out of the car and says “oh I love the smell of England in Autumn - it smells just like bonfire night”. DH and I just looked at each other and she realised what she had said and where we were and we all collapsed laughing. Poor MIL had no clue what was going on.

At my grandads funeral, we were all lined along pathway into the church & there was a kind of lip separating the path from the grass. As the coffin passed us on a trolley thing with wheels my cousin stepped back and her heel sunk into the grass, she grabbed hold of me to stop herself falling and we both stumbled struggling to stay on our feet and we both dissolved into giggles. My Grandama shouted thank you girls that lightened the mood.

I still feel terrible about it but when my gf was dying in hospital and my sister and I went to visit him. I was holding his hand and I can't remember what set me off but I started giggling, my sister had her back to me and she was doubled over but gf couldn't see her but was looking straight at me giggling into his dying face. I tried to pretend I was crying, not laughing and in between spasms, blaming my sister telling him that she was making me do it. The poor man looked bewildered but I hope to this day that he thought he was hallucinating or something and that it wasn't real.