Corpsing / Video Games

• In Airforce Delta Strike, Giuseppe's voice actor can be heard trying to contain a giggle while saying the line "Butt-wipe? You called me a butt-wipe?!" in the second mission.
• Class of '09: When delivering the "D's to the face" line, you can clearly hear Elsie Lovelock trying to hide a chuckle in doing so.
• Command & Conquer:
  • Premier Cherdenko in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 barely contains his laughter when uttering this gem. It even kind of fits because a) RA 3 isn't the most serious game to begin with (it has parachuting bears fighting Transforming Mecha) and b) his character is a deranged lunatic even within that context.
    Premier Cherdenko: Commander! You've rrrrrained on my glorious parade! For this, I'm sending everything I got at you, but I won't let you have the satisfaction of catching me. I'm escaping to the ONE PLACE THAT HASN'T BEEN CORRUPTED BY CAPITALISM... *long pause as Tim Curry valiantly attempts to keep a straight face* -SPACE!
  • Jennifer Morrison had a hard time keeping a straight face through much of her dialogue in Tiberium Wars.
  • Natasha Henstridge (Sister Alexa) almost doubles over with silent laughter twice during her introduction in Kane's Wrath. Since this made it into the game, this must've been the best take of that scene.
• In the original Resident Evil, Barry's voice actor is clearly trying not to laugh when delivering the infamous "Jill sandwich" line.
• The opening cutscene for the mission "Fresh Meat" in Grand Theft Auto V came about because Franklin's VA, Shawn Fonteno, totally lost it when Trevor's VA, Steven Ogg, unintentionally tripped over the fence during the motion-capture session. Ogg's response was so perfectly in-character that they decided to Throw It In!
• Another Gary Owens example. He was the Lemony Narrator of the Space Quest series, and there are several cases where he's obviously making a valiant attempt not to bust up laughing at the narration he's reading. Most prominent in the sixth game where he remarks "Rats! And you were really hoping to see Tango & Cash 27!"
• Chaos on Deponia: In-Universe, Rufus will break out in giggles if he hears Janosch's lisp, offending the resistance group (of whom Janosch leads); in order to convince them to help him, he has to get through explaining the Organon plot on Deponia without triggering said lisp when Janosch reiterates it.
• Leonard Nimoy does an excellent job reading the quotes for each discovery in Civilization IV, but as he reads the quote for the "satellites" technology ("Beep...Beep...Beep...Beep..." -Sputnik I), it's clear that he's coming very close to laughter by the end of it.
• In-universe example happens in Overwatch: in one of Tracer's highlight intros, she puffs her chest and tries to strike a heroic pose, only to lose her composure and start laughing.
• The famous Combustible Lemon rant from Portal 2 has J. K. Simmons nearly break twice: once after "Do you know who I AM?" and "...that burns your house down!". He is able to salvage the take by disguising the laughter as coughing, which works perfectly since his character is slowly dying after inhaling moon dust around the time this rant happens.
• In the Story Mode of Dragon Ball Fighter Z, Goku can recruit villains such as Frieza, Cell and Nappa; there's also a scene where Goku adds Yamcha to their roster. They all proceed to absolutely roast him. Cell's voice actor is trying and failing to contain his laughter during this scene.
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater:
  • During the scene where Snake is spying on Volgin and Ocelot in front of Groznyj Grad when Ocelot walks off, there is an Easter Egg where the player can go into First-Person View and look all the way to the right to see Tatyana imitating Ocelot's signature hand gesture and visibly shaking with laughter. This was Tatyana's motion actress cracking up spontaneously during recording; Hideo Kojima decided to Throw It In!.
  • The scene at the beginning of the game where The Boss finds Jack in the jungle and starts screaming at him to "go home!" has unusual motion acting because the actress performing The Boss's motion capture was crying uncontrollably because of how sad the scene was. Even though The Boss isn't crying in the scene, Kojima kept it in because it hinted at The Boss's true emotions.
• In The Evil Within 2, there is the transmission from a Mobius operative named Watkins who is pleading for help because "the collapse is happening faster than predicted." Though he's supposed to sound weak and out of breath as he's been coughing from the gas the voice actor can clearly be heard holding back laughter, especially at the line "Those things are trying to breach!" Perhaps it was laughing gas.
• In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, during Claude and Lysithea's B Support, Claude's voice actor cracks up in one line.
  "See, there's a graveyard over here. Might run into some of those ghoooosts you hate so mu-he-he-ch...!"
• When Warframe unveiled the new Kuva Lich randomly generated named enemy, Rebecca (the voice of Lotus) was asked by Fandom VIP Quite Shy to read off some amusing examples that players had encountered. While this resulted in many predictably inappropriate names, such as "Butt Bagg," Rebecca managed to say most of them with a straight face, using her Lotus voice. She was not able to compose herself when she discovers the existence of Bopp Bipp.
• Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon: King Harkinian's "I wonder what's for dinner?" line is one of the most quotable ones from a game already riddled with Narm dialogue, but if you listen closely, you can hear his voice actor Mark Berry trying not to laugh as he delivers the line. You can hear Link's voice actor nearly laughing in his "smart sword" line as well. Even the VAs thought the Zelda CD-i games were silly!
• Friday Night Funkin': Tankman has a habit of doing this if you get a Game Over during Week 7.
  "The only thing you're funkin' tonight is your sock." *laughing uncontrollably*

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