El Risitas was the stage name of Spanish comedian Juan Joya Borja, whose infectious laugh first reached television audiences in Spain through an interview clip. Years later, internet users began re-editing that interview with invented subtitles, placing his laughter over politics, technology and gaming topics he never discussed. The format spread rapidly across YouTube and social media in the mid-2010s, turning a local television moment into a global reaction meme. It remains popular because the laugh needs no translation and instantly signals that something is ridiculous.
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The famous El Risitas laughing sound from the Spanish TV interview, used in memes and reaction videos when something is hilariously funny or absurd.
This clip captures El Risitas, the Spanish comedian Juan Joya Borja, breaking into his unmistakable wheezing, high-pitched laugh during a television interview. The laughter builds in short, gasping bursts, pauses as he struggles to catch his breath, then erupts again, making it sound both genuine and completely out of control. Listeners instantly recognise it as the internet's shorthand for something so funny it cannot be contained, and hearing it over an unrelated video makes even a mundane fail feel like a punchline, because the joy in his voice is infectious and impossible to ignore.
