« Diddy Laugh » : the most famous laugh in the world

You may not be aware of it, but you have certainly heard this sound once in your lifetime. The « Diddy Laugh » is probably the most used child laugh in the world. If you have seen Star Wars : The Phantom Menace, the movie Taken, the Sherlock TV series, or the Walt Disney version of Mulan… you heard it. Video games, Hollywood blockbusters, adverts… Like the famous “Wilhelm scream”, this sound effect has over thirty years and gradually spread everywhere into the audiovisual industry.
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Sources :
The blog of Steve Paget :
https ://bit.ly/2xHIIiM
The Hollywood Edge Premiere Edition Volume 1 :
https ://bit.ly/2Q6unTV
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[@tacotruckderrick55]

I’ve always thought I was crazy for noticing it and being bothered by it every time. It’s like once I hear it in a movie or a show my credibility meter for what I’m watching goes down lol

[@ran.a4806]

Omg saaaammmeeeeeee

[@madisonmcrhoads5132]

SAME

[@OkOkOkJeez]

YES!!!!! I'm like... it's this supposed to b my sign that I'm in the matrix?

[@jeeyseepatatas_30]

also the Wilhelm Scream

[@Zrayph]

@@jeeyseepatatas_30 Fuck that scream, as unfunny as it is overused, never fails to kill my enjoyment of a movie/show whenever it pops up.

[@aswaysuller7500]

OMG there’s other people that have noticed it!!! I swear it’s the only kids laugh sound effect ever recorded. Why is it so over used???

[@Daezon]

I stg I thought I was the only one that noticed this.. my origin of it was from diddy Kong racing on n64 but supposedly it was dubbed before that.. kinda satisfying that I’m not crazy but still a little annoying lol

[@patrickjones8255]

Because it's the most unique pure example of a kid laugh. Like a Wilhelm scream.

[@coraf6406]

EXACTLY! I’ve been wondering this for 2 decades

[@bigenergy3880]

it ruins movies for me

[@HRMLadyArtemis14]

Omg, I HATE THAT LAUGH!! I hear it EVERYWHERE, and no one seems to know wtf I'm talking about. Thank you for putting this out there!!

[@Ajc11299]

Same 😂😂

[@Ronnie06spartan]

That laugh has been EVERYWHERE since the '90s....

[@WaterLemon147]

I keep hearing them on modern nickelodeon ads

[@vanessaortiz2863]

@@Ronnie06spartan actually the 60's

[@samdiego1965]

I HATE that sound effect! I’ve noticed it every time I’ve ever heard it since I was a kid, even before Diddy Kong racing. *HOW HARD IS IT TO RECORD NEW SOUND EFFECTS OF 2 KIDS LAUGHING?!?*

[@Roiiboss]

I believe it's become like the Wilhelm scream.

[@BrockLee3]

There's something about that girl going, "Huh, heh heh heh, heeh! Ha, huh ha ha ha ha!" and how it just starts and cuts-off so quickly which makes it seem so fake! I heard it first when I was a kid (before 1994, I think); and it's now 2020 and I still automatically hate ANYTHING which uses that laugh as a sound-effect.

[@samdiego1965]

Bryan Neblett no I think it’s just laziness. If we the general public have noticed, so have they. They just don’t care, even if it is annoying and shows lack of creativity

[@Dianimations_]

I FUCKING KNOW! I HATE IT SM

[@sarahsheepdog]

The Willhelm Screem, the baby coo from disney's Tarzan. I hear these over and over again

[@wallywutsizface6346]

It’s also in Plague, Inc.

[@CertainOverlord]

hol up

[@killthegod8888]

DAAAAANN

[@voicelessuvularplosive]

yeah

[@rawtrout007]

what's Plaque, ink?

[@epicrandomdude9225]

raw trout 2020

[@katlynsnader3748]

I have never felt SO SEEN!! I first recognized the Diddy Laugh in the Mulan game too and now I hear it EVERYWHERE. Thank you for creating this!

[@coraf6406]

I found my people 🙌🏻

[@lemondefr]

La version française de cette vidéo se trouve ici : kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKe8ooKen8qJrLc Comme elle a beaucoup plu à notre public français, on s’est dit qu’elle pourrait aussi intéresser les anglophones.

[@imsxndro]

Très bonne idée !

[@Luco7777]

Pas bête 😂

[@louisbokiau5124]

Oui ! Et du coup je l'ai à nouveau regardée en Anglais ^^

[@Xxsiil06xX]

Alors là je dis oui!

[@goawaaay7574]

Je me suis même pas aperçu que je regardais une vidéo en anglais 😂

[@coraf6406]

OH MY GOD!! I thought I was the only one! This laugh has been haunting me for 25 years, and my husband thought I was crazy, UNTIL I found this video and showed him! I now have closure- thank you.

[@FinalGuyKris]

I'm so damn tired of Hollywood using this damn stock sound

[@babakpourmand8727]

Been hearing this goddamn laugh since I was a small child

[@JokerFaceDG]

I can’t believe I finally found a name for this damn sound effect and that im not the only one who noticed it and hates it. After a while it got creepy and made me feel stuck on an endless loop. It’s like nobody else I knew ever noticed it or something

[@liammccbyrne4184]

Yup and no child in history has ever sounded like that without being the host of a few demons.

[@JokerFaceDG]

@@liammccbyrne4184 😂😂😂

[@coraf6406]

You are not alone. This sound has haunted me for 20+ years !

[@LavenderRose3]

I’ve heard this laughing throughout my whole 33 years of life. Kids in general are great, but I’ve grown to HATE this laughing sound. It doesn’t even sound good to me. I really wish people would stop using it. Thank you so much for the research you did on this damn laughing sound. I’m so relieved to know that I’m not the only one to notice it. 💗😩

[@gettyfanatic8860]

The Premiere Edition Child Laugh was recorded by John Moran in 1978 and voiced by an Australian girl named Astoria Morgan, who was the daughter of a family friend of a Soundelux employee. Morgan had recorded two separate laughs that were combined together to give the illusion of two children laughing simultaneously. Morgan was 11 at the time of the recording. This sound made its first appearance in the TriStar film, Air America on August 10, 1990. 3 days later, The Hollywood Edge later added it to The Premiere Edition Volume 1 library. Later in 2014, Sound Ideas took over to acquire it after the bankruptcy of The Hollywood Edge. It is also known as the "Diddy Laugh" (which is named after Diddy Kong when the laugh sound effect is used in the intro for Diddy Kong Racing). So far, over 50 million pieces of media use this sound effect and this child laughing sound is very popular.

[@Insert639]

Sources? Didn't John Moran in the video say he didn't know who voiced the children? Maybe I misunderstood something.

[@gettyfanatic8860]

@@Insert639 WHAT?

[@Insert639]

@@gettyfanatic8860 Where did you find out that the children of the Diddy Laugh were voiced by an Astoria Morgan and recorded by John Moran who in this video said he had no idea who they were?

[@idelsagil9129]

As a Toys You Hear This

[@nyxshadowhawk]

The finale of Castlevania Season 2 was spectacular and utterly heartbreaking, but the use of this laugh for child-Alucard came very close to ruining it. It pulled me out of the scene.

[@louiswgr7618]

Faites peut être une seconde chaînes pour vos vidéo anglaise

[@alchaeologist]

OH MY GOD I'm so happy someone else knows this laugh. It haunts me like the papyrus font.

[@Link-ji7kx]

I noticed it in Roller Coaster Tycoon

[@israelsoprano4524]

This is as legendary as the willhelm scream and everytime a door opens in a movie they have the same screeching sound if anyone has noticed

[@TomTomTom87]

YES!

[@lemrxrealtyadvisors1214]

I'm pretty sure that sound effect was published WAAAAY before you claim. I recall hearing it in early 90's movies.

[@imaginerus]

She said the sound library was released in 1990

[@SlapstickGenius23]

The prairie laugh Is actually different though. The Diddy laugh was recorded in 1978 by an Australian girl.

[@gracetam6981]

I notice it every single time my whole life and have always thought it was the only one. Literally no one I’ve ever asked knew what I was talking about

[@D4B35T]

It's in Breaking Bad as well, when the children run past Walts hidden broken HAZMAT Helmet.

[@LadyPepitos]

Bon accent c'est agréable de voir que les frs se débrouillent enfin en anglais

[@asstryfi3259]

C'est une anglaise qui double.

[@Marco.massa91]

C'est une américaine

[@badasssteak3324]

@@asstryfi3259 sûr ? On dirait qu'il y a un petit accent fr

[@eldarr0uge482]

Bon par contre faut arrêter, l’accent n’est en rien garant du niveau d’une personne en anglais. Beaucoup de français sont bons en anglais mais n’osent jamais l’utiliser car justement tout les autres se foutent d’eux à cause de l’accent. Tant que les mots sont biens prononcés et qu’il n’y a pas de fautes de grammaire...

[@bluesun_0]

Lol, I already saw the French version of this video. I didn't know that you did these vids in English.

[@brionnedavis7660]

So glad I found this gem because I’ve always wondered why is this laugh track in almost every movie/tv shows

[@darkentriesx]

it was in the first episode fo Sabrina the teenage witch on Netflix

[@Nubcakelmfao]

I remember hearing it first on Diddy Kong Racing as a child. Just heard this again on Peaky Blinders in 2022. Almost haunting how long it's been following me, taking space in my brain.

[@KutsaiChan]

Omg I've heard this EVERYWHERE ALLTHE TIME and I'm so sick of it!! I always point it out every time I hear it on TV or something and not many people seem to notice what I'm talking about- it's frustrating haha. I call it "canned children's laughter".

[@TheHareedo]

Thank you for this. I can rest easy now.

[@raiha528]

Been bugging me for years

[@MerlinErdogmus]

Nothing compares to the truck driver honking in almost every movie. It's really the most overused sample ever.

[@quakerdaddy5237]

I have literally lost sleep over this laugh

[@miscellaneouslyric]

Thank you for this lmao you gave me closure

[@raphexe]

It’s everywhere.. I’m sick of hearing it !

[@SiMills]

I thought it was an industry joke, you know, sneak it in for a laugh type thing

[@SenorNeo]

Just heard this laugh track in the movie “to die for” with Nicole Kidman 1995

[@Alvaro-em4wd]

0:25 my eyes hurt watching the CD being pushed

[@mohaawwkk]

I first heard this sound on the Windows 95 CD-ROM. To this day I still hate it LOL. Unfortunately it's still being used, I heard it like 5 minutes ago in a new, professionally produced royalty free music track.

[@BHIB_NL]

They had this sound effect in microsoft windows back in 1987

[@commandantcousteau6874]

Very strange ,i swear i have already seen this video but in French.

[@dons2go]

Watching this on magic mushrooms and holy fuck...

[@maximebaidakov]

Je pense qu'il est préférable de faire une seconde chaîne pour les vidéos anglophones si il y en aura plus.

[@eucalyptus1]

Trop bien ! Je vais progresser en anglais comme ça ^^ !! J’avais déjà beaucoup apprécié cette vidéo en français. Et même si cette vidéo est en réalité destinée au public anglophone, je sens que je vais la regarder :D

[@bossyspaghetti]

Nickelodeon used this sound byte back in the early 90s. I've been hearing it constantly ever since, and I've often wondered about it too.

[@devanbernard4070]

‘The diddy laugh” has a whole new meaning now 🙃

[@sourthecat]

I also heard it in The Phantom Menace. It plays when Qui Gon Jinn and Shmi Skywalker are talking while watching Anakin and his friends play after fixing the podracer

[@emilys3638]

I've definitely noticed this laugh everywhere since I was a child in the 90s... But for some reason, I've always heard it in the opposite order. If you notice, there are two "pieces" of laughter in sequence. I've always heard the lower one first, then the one that ascends to a higher pitch at the end instead of the beginning. Whoever used it must have cut it and then stitched it together with the last part first and first part last, probably to make it sound "unique" from the original recording. But thing is, until today, I've never heard it in this order which seems to be the original. So the modified one is the version I always have heard. Anyone else?

[@TomTomTom87]

Yep!

[@SkinnieMatt]

Thank you for making this video, I never knew about this until last night I was playing Witcher 3 and walked by some children and the laugh was instantly recognizable to me from the Diddy Kong intro so many years ago.

[@KaiCreative]

Just watched an episode of Bones … which had this laugh 😂 and the search landed me here …

[@bartekgakowski5]

Thank You.I have a great problem with stock noises, child laughter, breaking wood noises uses often in horror or action movies and many more.Too bad its a topic so obscure and people dont care as much about it I couldnt find anything... wow ... Im not crazy🖤

[@chukieeee]

As a kid before internet, I was bored one day and was searching on CD to find hidden contet or games (which could sometimes be be really found). One day on one Microsoft CD I found this sound file, this exact kids laughter. And since then, like all of you here, I could hear it everywhere. I'm glad that people like you are out there who notice such things.

[@lilibertuna]

I’ve heard the laugh everywhere in everything since I was a kid , I’m 33 ,I was just watching a show and heard it again and finally decided to google it because I needed to find the source that produced the sound of what hell would sound like and I finally found it , I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed it , i don’t know why finding this makes me feel like I’ve completed a puzzle . But it does haha

[@orsonzedd]

If I hear that sound effect and it's not immediately followed with the Diddy Kong Racing theme, I rage. Any time not spent playing Diddy Kong Racing is time wasted.

[@kaymarie9451]

This is so crazy! I just proved that Grogu's laughter sounds are also in a Barbie babysitting game I played as a child, then I mentioned how I also remember a very specific laugh from the Mulan game. I searched "children laughing stock sound" and found this video and I FREAKED when you first mentioned the Mulan game!

[@vistanis]

I heard this laughter in a German TV ad about some beer.

[@Ruzgob25]

had an adverse reaction to a medication, and I could hear that laughter everywhere. Got off that stuff real quick.

[@maxsthill951]

Just heard it in ‘4 weddings and a funeral’. Decided to Google it and found a community 😂

[@moviegeekchick]

I came here looking for this and got exactly what I needed. THANK YOU

[@tobisteindl951]

I watch these videos to learn French I already know English

[@alphalupy]

I was watching LEGION and they kept putting this laugh. I was like"BRO IT'S THE LAUGH!!!!"

[@RubberChickenFilms]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed this and hates it. This and the crowd gasp one.

[@allyson7514]

Celebrity ghost stories used it. Launched me into this search lol

[@Reniibooo]

The Most popular laugh : Balloon Boy : Hello. :>

[@29Jhony29]

Why don't you do an other channel for this ? (call it "The World" lol)

[@zakzak247]

Pourquoi t'écris en Anglais? T'es francophone..

[@xttx_darknes2972]

@@zakzak247 Why not ?

[@zakzak247]

@@xttx_darknes2972 Parce qu'il s'adresse à la chaîne

[@xttx_darknes2972]

@@zakzak247 Mais les gars de la chaine LeMonde parle Anglais donc where is the problem ?

[@TatenokaiGrindset]

ZA WARUDO

[@Laura-xs7oz]

Ok but there’s another audio of kids laughing and I hear it ALL THE TIME! It’s not this one and I can’t find it. It’s in Phantom Menace when little Annie was fixing the pod racer and the kids ask him to play and then run off. It’s killing me

[@claesholm9080]

I was looking for this one aswell! A more higher pitched laugh. Cant find it anywhere and nobody seems to understand what I mean. I remember these things extremely well because I have ADD (probably) and now I just cant stop obesssing over finding it!

[@jake8669]

it’s now in the movie M3GAN.

[@lizziewaymire2001]

OMG I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT!!

[@manuelcamara8120]

@@lizziewaymire2001Dude, that's exactly what's happening, I'm watching Megan's movie with my brother, and I told him hey, it's Didy Kong's voice! And I came to see if anyone had already noticed it.

[@KRzzzzzzzz]

That’s a creepy laugh. It makes me think of horror films I used to watch.

[@almightysapling]

"around a very old Nintendo logo" "Very old" Why did you do this to me

[@MrBrettStar]

Diddy kong fan here! I hear it all the time, Manifest season 1 ep 2 finally made me search for it

[@malenkylizards]

I just called it "that ubiquitous child laughing stock sound". Nice to know it has a name!!

[@MattsInTheBelfry]

It's my Wilhelm Scream. Thank you for the video and Steve Paget!

[@shawnaozz9920]

I’ve noticed this laugh since Diddy Kong Racing! And I thought I was the only person who noticed. No one knew what I was talking about. I’m so glad I finally found this!

[@juanpais3341]

I've been hearing this sfx for more than 20 years. From the old Microsoft Ocean's software to The Witcher 3. Probably there's a lot of other spammed sfx but as Wilhelm scream, this one is too noticeable.

[@jessieviher8401]

My earliest memory of this, I think, is in Arthur on PBS. late 90's.

[@Ladfan310]

Just heard it on a super bowl commercial

[@shaneventress2161]

Lmfaoooooooooooooo I hear this laugh in every movie that has kids playing 😂😂

[@bettyboop86]

I thought I was the only one who is being followed by this laugh track!!

[@aarontallada]

I’m so glad I’m not the only one!!!

[@arvidvanparys4867]

I have been wondering about it ever since diddy kong. Came on this by accident. Thanks for clearing it up. I wont say it was haunting me but i couldnt help noticing it evertime its on radio or tv

[@DaDualityofMan]

The laugh was always kinda creepy, actually, I think I've heard it in horror movies before

[@genevievesweeney2293]

Diddy Kong Racing

[@MXOY99]

Rollercoaster Tycoon... =_=

[@ProtoRaptor40]

I’m so glad I found this. After playing Diddy Kong Racing when I was little, I would notice it everywhere else but my sisters didn’t. I will now have to share this video

[@CStove]

Just heard it on a Car Fax commercial on 9/26/20

[@BrockLee3]

Words can NOT describe how much I hate that laugh! Anytime I hear it, it makes me cringe and automatically hate whatever incorporates it.

[@benjaminoshane209]

Diddy Kong racing is the first game I ever clocked 🥰

[@ethanstout3383]

I grew up with that sound effect in one of the water rides in Silver Dollar City. It was a while before I started noticing it in tv, but when I did I started hearing it everywhere.

[@cortnymichelle]

I first heard this laugh in a doll I owned a kid.

[@pessoatrouxa2085]

I heard it for the first time in a dress up game somewhere.

[@hornguy04]

First heard it in Diddy Kong Racing back in 1997. Just heard it for thousandth time but this time in the movie “Case 39.”

[@Widdershins.]

Guys, might be dating myself here, but I heard it when I first saw The Exorcist back in '73. And I only noticed it then because I'd ALREADY come across it so many times prior that it sounded familiar. So I'd been wondering for over 45 years about it before the internet (and eventually KZbin) got invented, and I started to get answers. That's a long time to be annoyed and not know who to blame.

[@m0otube]

I've heard it on a track on a old rave/dance album. Fantazia Twice as Nice the track is by Transhuman called Baby! Released = 1993!

[@MarcBliss]

HOLY SHIT. THIS IS MY TRIBE!

[@mengel420]

This was actually present on Windows 95 before it was ever conceived elsewhere. When you booted up Windows 95, this would be the sound that might play while the OS was still loading the GUI. And the recording listed in this video is only a partial recording of the actual full recording.

[@NoMasNames]

Ohhh myyyy ggoooooddddd. I thought I was the only one who recognized this for my entire life up until now.

[@AudreyPennings]

First heard it in a Loriel kids commertial in the 90s. Have heard it ever since on various movies shows and commercials and it haunts me

[@MawcDrums]

It's in Windows 95 too.

[@crispysquidoftheacidcats295]

the more you hear it the more it doesnt sound like a laugh

[@bstn881]

Lol that's the first see time I remember hearing it too on my Mulan computer game. I used to love that game. My dad used to get me the best computer games. I miss the 90s

[@TomTomTom87]

OMG!!!! I remember it from diddy Kong and just heard it in freaking Rambo 4!!!!