NEW YORK - Bobbi Gould, a digital nomad and self-described “laughlete” from Key West, Florida, has been crowned the 2025 American Laughing Champion — and she didn’t just laugh her way to the top. She ROFLED there.
“I’ve spent my life being told I smile too much,” she laughed. “It finally paid off.”
Gould literally rolled on the floor laughing, sealing her victory at the 10th Annual American Laughing Championship — a unique online event where competitors giggle, chortle, and snort their way through a series of outrageous challenges to claim the title of the nation’s most contagious laugh.
A longtime pioneer of joyful living, Gould blends high-vibe humor with social activism. Her latest project, Joy Walking, mixes laughter exercises with intentionally ridiculous public strolls.
This year’s competition tested participants with laugh-offs, snort-offs, and other absurd feats of hilarity. But it was Gould’s unfiltered authenticity, boundless energy, and total physical surrender to laughter that won over the judges — and earned her a spot at the World Laughing Championship on September 20, 2025.
“The World Laughing Championship is shaping up to be the best — and most hilarious — yet,” said Albert Nerenberg, Laughologist and founder of the global laughing championship movement.
For the record: ROFL — “Rolling on the Floor Laughing” — is no longer just an internet meme. It’s a championship-winning strategy.
Gould is on a mission to ignite joy and spark resistance through laughter.
“Laughter isn’t escape,” she said. “It’s resistance. I’m here to Make America Laugh Again.”
Gould and Nerenberg are available for interviews. Courses@Elevatorfilms.com
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