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The [[Annoying Laugh]] usually comes in several specific flavors (the Asthma Attack bellow, the high [[The Hyena|Hyena-like cackle]], the Snort-Snort-Snort, the Machine Gun Chuckle, and the Donkey-like Bray being the most common). In some cases, the [[Annoying Laugh]] is used in place of actually fleshing out a character, since the type of annoying laugh can lead the audience to assuming the character basically is just as annoying as his or her laugh happens to be. In some cases, a character will have an [[Annoying Laugh]] because the script calls for it, but sometimes its because the actor playing the role laughs like that for real.
A subtrope of [[Most Annoying Sound]], and the supertrope of the [[Noblewoman's Laugh]]. Almost always [[Played for Laughs|Played For]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Laughs]]. Compare [[Evil Laugh]]. Sometimes part of an [[Overly Long Gag]]. The annoying laugh is very common in animation and sitcoms.
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* Naga the Serpent from ''[[Slayers]]'', whose epic [[Noblewoman's Laugh]] can be classified as a deadly weapon in 37 states. It also sends old women scrambling to the nearest shrine, begging whichever deity that happens to be nearby to "please make it stop".
** Her voice actress also did a bit more laughing as Black Rose Kodachi in [[Ranma ½]].
* Emerald from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
** Also Zoicite from the English dub.
*** Voiced by the same actress.
*** Taken, as one would expect, to the N'th degree in ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]''.
* 4Kids manages to do it to 2 antagonists: Meowth from the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime and Marik from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''.
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* The Italian dub of ''[[One Piece]]'' is basically one big [[Lampshade Hanging]] of how the unusual different kinds of laughter (case in point: Hogback), while somewhat acceptable in a manga, actually end up working ''awfully'' when get animated. On the other hand, there are exceptions such as Brook's Italian VA, who did a ''perfect'' job at that.
** Actually, the laughs are played quite good (just listen to Perona) but they did, however, simply ignored the 90% of the remaining laughs.
* Kodachi in ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
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* On an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' when Cuddy is trying to get pregnant, House brings one of the sperm donors she's considering in for an interview. The man had a very annoying laugh which came out when he was nervous. This was one of House's arguments for why he shouldn't be considered as the father.
* One episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' has Jerry dating a woman with an annoying laugh, and he can't bear to tell her. It's compared to "Elmer Fudd sitting on a juicer."
* Kitty from ''[[That '70s Show|That 70's Show]]''. Unlike a lot of television characters who have annoying laughs, who basically have annoying laughs because the actor involved does, Kitty's laugh is '''''not''''' the actual laugh of actress Debra Jo Rupp.
* ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'': Sibyl Fawlty. A combination of the Machine-Gun Chuckle with a Donkey Bray finish. According to her husband, it sounds like "somebody machine-gunning a seal".
{{quote|'''Sybil:''' A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-''EUUUUH!!''}}
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* Another snorter is [[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark]].
* One of the guests on Malcom McDowell's ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' had a fantasy about hooking up with his childhood crush, who he remembers as having a wonderful laugh. Maybe it was selective memory, but when his fantasy comes true it turns out she has a kind of glass-breaking rattle.
* A ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' episode has Helen dating a man with a laugh like a [[The Hyena|braying hyena]]. It becomes so annoying that Helen eventually decides to break up with him because of it, but before she can do so, he dumps her because he cannot stand her Southern accent.
* Fran Fine from ''[[The Nanny]]''. Her laugh is practically the tagline for the show.
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' has the character Strife and, later, his twin brother Deimos, who are both infamous among the other characters for their hyena-like laugh:
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== Video Games ==
* From ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'': Vexen and Larxene in the Japanese versions of ''Re: Chain of Memories''. People on [[YouTube]] loop their laughs and dare people to see how long they can listen to them without clawing their ears forcibly off their heads. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRfMle74Zoc Have a listen.][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHy99AllPMk&feature=related Or two.] Make it stop indeed.
** Seeing how he shares his Japanese voice actor with Vexen, Professor Hojo from ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'' also possesses a high-pitched maddening cackle. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg66mdGHSHs Hear it for yourself].
* Heidegger from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has a "gya-ha-ha" laugh that irritates the other heads of Shinra to no end.
** And from the same franchise, we have the infamous laughing scene in [[Final Fantasy X]] between Tidus and Yuna. (Though, of course, they were forcing it.)
* Moe the clown from case 3 of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Justice for All''. "Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha!"
** Also, [[The Hyena|Calisto Yew]] from ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth|Ace Attorney Investigations]]''.
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', Misha's trademark "Wa ha ha~!" laugh seems to be this; it certainly seems to grate on Hisao's nerves after a while. Probably a good thing the developers decided not to go with full voice-acting...
* Soda Popinski of ''[[Punch-Out!!]]'' lets out a truly aggravating laugh when he knocks you down. It's bad enough in the Wii version, where it's a real person; in the NES version, it's an ''eight-bit digitized laugh'', similar to the one used by [[Game Over Man|Ganon]] in ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|Zelda II the Adventure of Link]]''.
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** Not to mention [[Daffy Duck]]'s "Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo!" in his earlier cartoons, which is all but phased out in later shorts.
* [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] has a combination High Nasal Twitter and Hyena-like Cackle.
** One of which is a dolphin 'twitter' exactly like Flipper's.
** Squidward has a honky laugh.
* Mandark from ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''.
** It would later be revealed that the vague rhythm of his laugh applies to ''everything he does.'' "Brush! Brush brush! Brush brush brush buh brush!"
* Nelson's "HAAA-HA!" from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
* Peter Griffin in ''[[Family Guy]]''. His wife Lois too, in later episodes.
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* Scratch from ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'':
{{quote|"We've got you now, hedgehog! Ba-HA ha-HAAA!!"}}
* Naturally, ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'''s famous "Huh huh huh huh", uttered whenever [[Heh
* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' revealed that [[Creepy Child|Heloise]] had cursed a man to never laugh because she thought his laugh was annoying.
* The one shot character Cissy Cobb from the [[King of the Hill]] episode "Peggy The Boggle Champ", it when something like "Ah haw haw haw ha!"
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== Real Life ==
* A number of sitcoms that [[James L. Brooks]] worked on, including ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' and ''[[Taxi]]'', frequently featured Brooks' own loud, honking laugh as part of the studio audience.
* Every character Fran Drescher has ever played has a donkey-like nasal bray of a laugh... because the actress herself really laughs like that.
* Tom Selleck's actual laugh is of the "high-toned hyena cackle" variety.
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* At the final screening of ''[[Clerks]]'' at Sundance, where [[Kevin Smith]] was hoping to find a distributor, after about 20 minutes or so, Kevin noticed someone with a loud, incredibly obnoxious laugh drowning out the laughter of ''the rest of the audience.'' "Turns out it's [[Miramax Films|Harvey Weinstein]]."
* Mexican actress Consuelo Duval gives us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_vNkuT5c4 this horror].
* Alan Alda's laugh, frequently heard on ''[[M*A*S*H]]''.
* The French channel Canal+ caricatured its then-president Dominique Farrugia's laugh as sounding like a sea-lion.
* [http://youtu.be/UuuRHLeHPic This guy's laugh] will give you nightmares.
* Due to internet stereotypes, the Brazillian "HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE" has become the bane of MMO players everywhere.
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