When the most prominent ictal symptom in an epileptic seizure is laughing or running the condition has been termed respectively gelastic or cursive epilepsy. The article presents five patients with these ictal symptoms and discusses their clinical and EEG-features, etiology, and localisation of lesions responsible for the seizures. Laughter and running as ictal symptoms are usually part of complex partial seizures involving limbic structures or their efferent or afferent pathways.