Laughing (The Guess Who song)


"Laughing" is a popular song by Canadian rock band The Guess Who. It peaked at #1 on the Canadian Singles Chart and at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's second single to reach the Top 10 on the latter. It also became their second of three gold records.
The song deals, following the end of a love relationship with a girl, that she was laughing at him, because she took away everything that he had, and had put the hurt on him.
It appeared on their 1969 album, Canned Wheat, and was released as a single that year. It sold more than 350,000 copies in its first three weeks of release.

Critical reception

Dave Bist of The Montreal Gazette has written that "These Eyes" and "Laughing" gave its audience the impression that the group only made music for the money. "Undun", the group's third "biggie", and "No Time", he wrote, changed that impression.

Promo video

A rare black and white music video for the song exists.

Personnel

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Cover versions

The song has been covered by saxophonist Dave Pell.

Uses in popular culture

An edited version of the song is used in an Instagram post by film director Todd Phillips as foreground music of a camera test for 2019's Joker, featuring Joaquin Phoenix starring as the DC Comics character The Joker.
It was also used in trailers for the 2017 horror film Jigsaw; the sequel/soft-reboot of the Saw film series.