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Last year, Joaquin Phoenix gave one of his career-best performances with Joker. Directed by Todd Phillips, the film turned out to be a blockbuster worldwide with rave reviews from fans and critics. All thanks to the film’s success and Phoenix’s promising act, it had also received 11 Oscar nominations this year.
There are a lot of reasons why Joker will be one of the best works to come out of Hollywood. One such factor that the audience was impressed with from the film is Joaquin Phoenix’s character Arthur Fleck’s laughter act. In the film, whenever Arthur is anxious or tensed, he breaks into laughter and it sounds a bit weird. He always carries a chit along which mentions that his laughter is a medical condition so that people don’t misunderstand if he laughs during a serious situation.
The latest news coming out of Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News is that a man from Turkey is suffering our Joker’s same ‘uncontrollable laughter’ condition. The person’s name is Kasim Can, a farmer who resides in the northwestern Turkish province of Kars. People in his village call him the ‘laughing man’.
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