“Well, it got so that every piss-ant prairie punk who thought he could shoot a gun would ride into town to try out the Waco Kid. I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille. It got pretty gritty. I started to hear the word “draw” in my sleep. Then one day, I was just walking down the street when I heard a voice behind me say, “Reach for it, mister!” I spun around… and there I was, face-to-face with a six-year old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass.”
Ed Helms’ song halfway through The Hangover was the one time I’ve heard a theatre audience applaud, so we’re not alone
There are too many Leslie Nielsen moments to quote (and sadly, there’s another thread about him at the moment), but this Naked Gun monologue cracks me up just thinking about it because of the delivery of the last line:
Lily Tomlin’s first scene of being in Steve Martin’s body in “All of Me.” The first time I saw it, I actually wondered how the hell they got Lily into Steve’s body. It was that convincing.
From Ruthless People, the “torture scene” where the kidnappers are faking torturing Midler’s character, who at this point knows her husband intended to kill her and is on the kidnappers side. They fake the torture over the phone using sizzling tofu patties. This part for example:
<enraged incoherent cursing by Midler>
“I’m sorry, honey. They made me say that.”
<more enraged incoherent cursing.>
“I’m sorry, they made me say that too.”
From the same movie there’s the scene where the mistress sends to the police chief what she thinks is a film of Danny DeVito killing his wife in order to force action against Danny DeVito. However, it was taken by her idiot assistant and is actually a scene of a man having sex with a prostitute (“I like my women to scream”); and as the camera pans back in the chief’s office you see that the man in question is the (rather horrified looking) chief. There’s a funny conversation which he interprets as blackmail naturally. Which leads to a later conversation where he starts complaining about her “persecuting” him, “how can you be so inhuman”, “everybody does it!”, and “Men get the urge!” Since she thinks he’s talking about Danny DeVito murdering his wife she’s rather shocked.