Meme lore
What is the Goodfellas Laughing meme?
Goodfellas Laughing is a reaction meme from Martin Scorsese's 1990 film Goodfellas, showing Henry Hill, Tommy DeVito, and their crew cracking up at a restaurant table. It captures the feeling of laughing together at something absurd, inappropriate, or darkly funny that only your group would find hilarious.
Origin & history
In Goodfellas (1990), Henry Hill narrates a night out with Tommy DeVito and associates at the Copacabana nightclub. After a tense exchange where Tommy demands to know if something is funny, the mood shifts and the group erupts in laughter together at the table. The camaraderie of mobsters laughing at dark humor made the moment instantly quotable.
The laughing table still spread as a reaction GIF and image macro on Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr in the 2010s. Meme makers pair the image with captions describing a situation where you and your friends are the only ones laughing - at an inside joke, a terrible idea that somehow works, or something that would horrify outsiders. It is closely related to the separate 'Goodfellas Funny How' meme from the same scene.
The laughing table still spread as a reaction GIF and image macro on Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr in the 2010s. Meme makers pair the image with captions describing a situation where you and your friends are the only ones laughing - at an inside joke, a terrible idea that somehow works, or something that would horrify outsiders. It is closely related to the separate 'Goodfellas Funny How' meme from the same scene.
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