Risitas was the nickname of Spanish comedian Juan Joya Borja, whose interview on the Canal Sur programme Ratones Coloraos in 2007 became a global meme more than a decade later. Telling a story about paella dishes left in the sea, he broke into a distinctive high pitched laugh that viewers clipped and subtitled with completely unrelated stories. The laugh spread across YouTube, Twitch and forums, later inspiring the KEKW emote, and short extracts like this one still circulate as a universal shorthand for finding something absurdly funny.
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A short burst of Risitas' infectious high-pitched laugh, from the viral Spanish interview meme used for funny fails and reaction moments online.
This is a fraction-of-a-second clip of Spanish comedian Risitas erupting into his famous wheezing laugh, a rapid hehehe that rises in pitch and cuts off almost as soon as it starts. The sound is pure uncontrolled amusement, breathy and contagious, the kind of laugh that makes a scene funnier even when nothing else is happening. Because it is so short and recognisable, it works like a punctuation mark, landing right after a joke, a mistake, or an awkward pause to signal that someone has completely lost it laughing.
