Longest Laugh Break?

[lipsink]

What's an example of a really long pause where the actors or comedian are waiting for the audience laughter to die down before continuing? This doesn't include applause breaks.

One I can think of is the audience laughter in the finale of the Seinfeld Marine Biologist ep just after George reveals the golf ball:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_FoG0BpDUc (Sure, there is some applause but it's mostly laughter)

Another is Jerry's reaction after his girlfriend says "ridicurous": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb1PRxV0mpw
(Though he's clearly milking the pause)

Rachel saying her boss wants to buy her baby and Joey saying "I figured it was a problem about maternity leave": https://youtu.be/iQ9mEzs9u6w

[Ornlu]

Most times in classic Dwarf, but one I remember particularly dragging is Rimmer walking in on the Polymorph/shorts.

[Echo Valley 2-6809]

Not a sitcom, but anyway, the ISIHAC Verona joke https://vocaroo.com/18og51mTb0Yc - although some of it might be laughing at Toksvig's laughter.

[BeardFaceMan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zML2J7lx76c

When Colin Mochrie starts using Richard Simmons as a jetski at about 3 minutes into that clip. That whole clip is pretty incredible really, you don't often hear sustained laughter like that.

[Brundle-Fly]

I'm sure Shooting Stars had a fair share.

[lipsink]

Not a sitcom, but anyway, the ISIHAC Verona joke https://vocaroo.com/18og51mTb0Yc - although some of it might be laughing at Toksvig's laughter.

That's pretty impressive.

Nearly forgot these 2 examples from the British Comedy Awards:

Spike Milligan: https://youtu.be/TkOAUht3G5o

Julian Clary: https://youtu.be/iAU7pATH5_M (I'd never noticed the reaction of the On The Hour team just after he says it)

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Another is Jerry's reaction after his girlfriend says "ridicurous": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb1PRxV0mpw
(Though he's clearly milking the pause)

He's got a bad rep as an actor but he was so great at this stuff. Objectively he milks lines all the time but you never notice, he doesn't break the flow even in the above clip. In the Chinese Restaurant whenever things get quickfire he noticeably slows it down and gets a half second more of a laugh when Elaine and George are trading lines back and forth. If it was someone without his sense of timing it'd be unwatchable

He must have been the pass the parcel champ as a kid, the laughs nearly always land on him.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zML2J7lx76c

When Colin Mochrie starts using Richard Simmons as a jetski at about 3 minutes into that clip. That whole clip is pretty incredible really, you don't often hear sustained laughter like that.

That is brilliant.

[Malcy]

Not a pause, although there probably should have been one, but I was at a recording of a US pilot of a UK gameshow where Alison Hammond had to move cotton balls with her Vaseline covered nose from one bowl to another while host Craig Ferguson tried to ask questions to the contestants.

I have never experienced so much sustained laughter from a crowd. It was hilarious and the contestants couldn't hear the questions. The only pause was to try calm everyone down and continue with the rest of the filming.

[BeardFaceMan]

That is brilliant.

Colin Mochrie has nerves of steel, I don't think I've ever seen him break. You've got Drew Carey taking his glasses off to wipe away tears, Proops doing the same while slapping his thigh, it's rare for Ryan Stiles to break too but even he laughs, and all the while Mochrie is playing it completely straight. Amazing stuff.

[robhug]

always remember this chap not being able to keep it together taking a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3RQEgkA_8