# Funniest Moments in Television(with clips) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858 "2006-05-23T03:15:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858/1 "2006-05-23T03:15:15Z")
I’ll nominate the classic segment on Whose Line is it Anyway with Richard Simmons as the guest. See it here: [Richard Simmons is Gay](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywk0jliemcg&search=richard%20simmons%20whose%20line) I’d actually nominate the clip from Arrested Development where the whole family does their “chicken dances”. I can’t find that, so I am posting the next best…just Gob and Lindsay. [Lindasy and Gob Chicken Dance](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4653911160739929435&q=arrested+development) What are other funniest moments…the ones that absolutely kill you? ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858/2 "2006-05-23T11:30:15Z")
I’ve always been partial to [the freaked out newscaster](http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/26663/Jumping_Lizard.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858/3 "2006-05-23T16:42:47Z")
I nominate Johnny Carson and Jack Webb doing the [Copper Clappers Sketch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prigg6WrF48&search=johnny%20carson). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858/4 "2006-05-23T16:58:32Z")
I’ll add: [David Brent’s Dance(poor quality)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRPla16rzmg) and [David Brent’s “Free Love”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLtXx2349yA) Watch both until the end. “Free Love” was quiet on my computer. Turn the volume up! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858/5 "2006-05-23T18:35:01Z")
Niles and the great ironing incident from a Velentines episode of Frasier always leaves me in stitches… If someone could find me a clip of that, I would gladly link to it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858/6 "2006-05-23T23:43:18Z")
If this unfortunate clip from [Catch Phrase](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRMETCIqRk4) doesn’t have you in stitches, you are not human. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858/7 "2006-05-24T03:52:49Z")
I’ll add: [Crazy Whose Line Song Gone Wrong](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORrAC9VhPI&search=whose%20line) ---
**Author:** ![metonymic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@metonymic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metonymic)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858/8 "2006-05-24T04:25:33Z")
I saw **Lady Venom** ’s hilarious newscaster clip among other ‘bloopers’, one of which was [this](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1171246024685658304&q=techtv/) , where a wax cylinder unfortunately shatters in the hands of the man speaking about it. The comic timing is so perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858/9 "2006-05-24T13:35:30Z")
[Robin Williams on “Whose Line”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6cGz9B5nvY&search=whose%20line) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-television-with-clips/357858/10 "2006-05-24T14:09:29Z")
Jason Priestley as color man for the figure skating on SNL Chris Farley as Carnie Wilson on SNL, and in fact the whole free-range chicken charity song Those guys dress as GWAR who tried out for American Idol