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!

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[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.)