Thoughts on evil laughter.

[rosieknight]

Today a got a gold star at work.

For laughing, of all things.

Actually, today I was selected to the announcements. (Attention customers: Check out shoes!) Now, I wrote the three announcements for the Halloween stuff, but only two have been used in my hearing.

The third - the evil laugh announcement - no one wanted to do.

I'd offered before to do the evil laugh one, but no one had taken me up on the offer.

Until today.

So, I do the Evil Laugh Announcement, complete with evil laugh at the end. Everyone loves, it. My co-workers think it's hilarious, a customer near me compliments me on my laugh, and someone on the phone with one of my co-workers comments on it also.

So, that gets me thinking.


What makes a good evil laugh?

I've always modeled mine after the "Ghost Host" from the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney, The Shadow, and the taped evil laugh in the Indiana Jones Stunt Show. So, it's a fairly standard Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha sounding thing pitched a bit deeper than my normal speaking voice.

There are other evil laughs out there. The Wicked Witch of the West's cackle, Mark Hamil's Joker has an insane & evil laugh, Tim Curry's is excellent, just to name a few.

It's not really all that hard to do an evil laugh. Just close your eyes, take a deep breath, think of your favorite evil laugh, and just... laugh.

Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

Edit on 10/16: Today's Dilbert comic features an evil laugh. I am amused. Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Comments

[stoltingrid.livejournal.com]

YAY~! *CLAPS* Congratulations!! ^_^ You'll have to do it for us sometime! Do you get to KEEP the gold star, eventually? Cause...it's gold. Even if it's fake gold.

What DOES make a good evil laugh...? I don't think I have one, for example. Mine is just normal "Hah hah hah hah." Or maybe like...Nelson from The Simpsons. But that's not evil, it's just...mocking.

[rosieknight.livejournal.com]

Actually, the "gold star" is a card that gets entered in a drawling for me to win stuff.

And, if I get enough "gold stars" I get a new name badge.

Remind me the next time I see ya all and I'll do the laugh. (Heck, if I remember the whole thing, I'll even do the announcement for you.)

[immora.livejournal.com]

WOOOOO GOLD STAR!

I HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE NOW THAT I KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS A GOLD STAR!

... Hey, you have to squeeze what enjoyment you can out of retail, right?

You have a good evil laugh! I think I swiped mine from some crazy anime villain, but I'm not sure which. I don't use it enough to be memorable.

[rosieknight.livejournal.com]

*laughs* And people will wonder if we're still in kindergarden.

Exactly. It's especially important for me, since I'm in the "Hole o' Solitude" most of the time.

Next time we see each other, I'll have to hear it. Maybe we can figure out who you modeled it after...

[immora.livejournal.com]

Oh no no, see, when I was in kindergarten, you could either get a checkmark, a star, or a sparkly star! I don't think gold stars came around until perhaps Math Super Stars, if that.

Maybe if you call it after Superman's "Fortress of Solitude," it'll sound more... super.

It's possible the laugh was done in Sorceror Hunters, or in Sailormoon by one of the sillier villains. It's a high-pitched "OOOOHOHOHOHO!"

[rosieknight.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* For me, there were gold stars and stamps in kindergarden, pre-school, and first grade. After that, I saw stickers and stamps for quite a while.

That's what I called it originally. Then I almost got locked in the store a couple of time cause people were overlooking the archway (-ish hole in the wall) to the area I was in.

Isn't the "OOOOHOHOHOHO!" also from Slayers?