"Did he do the whistle?"

Ricky Gervais, laughing so hard he's crying, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Louis CK, laughing so hard he's crying.

They laughed for 13 seconds straight, couldn't talk. Ricky Gervais, the host, got up out of his seat he was laughing so hard, Louis CK kicked his right leg up in the air he was laughing so hard. Chris Rock, collapsed to his left, laughing so hard. Jerry Seinfeld, who delivered the impenetrable question to Louis CK that set off this explosion, buried his head in his hand for some seconds before the image at top, laughing so hard.

These are four of the greatest stand-up comics of our time. The show is Talking Funny. All four are highly intelligent. They are students of their craft and humor can be difficult to understand, much less explain. For 45 minutes they talked seriously at times, laughing half the time, one here, the other there, sometimes a couple or three. Out of context, the ignition to the explosion is impenetrable. Even in context, they were bandying about a crude joke that Louis CK had heard at a dive delivered by a fourth-rate comic going for a cheap laugh, they were discussing why that joke worked despite being crude and taking the easy cheap route. But it did! Whether because, as Ricky Gervais suggested, Louis CK saw it and projected "irony" onto something that was not "objectively" convulsing. Seinfeld disagreed but could not articulate why the joke worked except it did. "There's something there," he said to Louis CK. Louis was responding seriously to Seinfeld, he had an point he wanted to make but in the middle of his first sentence of explanation, Seinfeld delivered the neutron bomb. The others immediately started laughing but it took Louis CK a second to switch gears. He began delivering his explanation again, got 2-3 words out and then closed his eyes in uncontrollable laughter and collapsed to his left. I was not expecting this frisson in all four simultaneously. It was the first and only time in the show that all four reacted instantaneously and in unison. These are funny, funny men and to see these greats literally rise from their seats clapping,

kick their legs out,

unable to speak for :13 and laugh so hard that at least 2, maybe Seinfeld was a third, they were crying, hearing Ricky Gervais' amazing, cackling laugh, this was an awesome thing to witness and I laughed long and hard seeing these amazing men laugh uncontrollably in unison. A transcendent moment. I will never forget it. I have replayed it a few times already. It will stay with me forever. These guys improve the soul.