# Funniest movie comedy moments? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802 "2010-12-03T13:48:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/1 "2010-12-03T13:48:43Z")
With so many of us confessing to be underwhelmed by the comedy classic The Hangover, just what are your funniest movie comedy moments? Three spring to mind for me though I’m sure I’ll recall more later. When Katharine Hepburn’s dog runs off with Cary Grant’s priceless dinosaur fossil and buries it in _Bringing Up Baby._ On a much cruder level, the _Song of Sodomy_ number from _Meet the Feebles._ _Springtime for Hitler._ ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/2 "2010-12-03T13:51:16Z")
Look! It’s Enrico Palazzo! (Really, the whole baseball game sequence from **The Naked Gun** ) But I liked **The Hangover** , so what do I know? ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/3 "2010-12-03T13:53:30Z")
Clarke Griswold: “Roll’em up” as the Family Truckster rides through the hood. ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/4 "2010-12-03T14:01:08Z")
Steve Buscemi’s drunken five minute rant in the Wedding Singer. “Best damn guitar player in the world! Self taught - no lessons! Thank you Dad!” ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/5 "2010-12-03T14:05:52Z")
Groucho tells Harpo “You can’t burn a candle at both ends.” Harpo reached into his coat pocket and pull out a candle burning on both ends. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/6 "2010-12-03T14:11:28Z")
“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.” ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/7 "2010-12-03T14:15:32Z")
“We’re not Watusi…we’re not Spartans!” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/D8Q1fDf0GeY/hqdefault.jpg "Stripes Parade Prep Speech.wmv") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Q1fDf0GeY) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/8 "2010-12-03T14:21:02Z")
[The Thing About My Folks.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429177/) Peter Falk hustling the pool hustler. “We are but poor travelers…” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/9 "2010-12-03T14:25:00Z")
Carol Kane as The Ghost Of Christmas Present in _Scrooged._ [A sample.](http://movieclips.com/U2oH-scrooged-movie-the-truth-is-painful/) ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/10 "2010-12-03T14:25:38Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > But I liked **The Hangover** , so what do I know? 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: > [@](#): > > I’d known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She’d hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don’t recall her playing an instrument or being able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact, I bought her a harp for Christmas. She asked me what it was. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/11 "2010-12-03T14:30:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/12 "2010-12-03T14:32:29Z")
The look on the Union General’s face in **The General** after the [train crashes into the river.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmtXsWU9sEk#t=00m48s) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/13 "2010-12-03T14:47:35Z")
“What hump?” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/14 "2010-12-03T14:51:03Z")
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: _\_ “I’m sorry, honey. They _made_ me say that.” _\_ “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. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/15 "2010-12-03T14:53:28Z")
Steve Carell trying to report the news in _Bruce Almighty_ while Jim Carey is jinxing him. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/16 "2010-12-03T14:56:18Z")
Steve Carell get chest-waxed in _The 40 year Old Virgin_. Gotta be the funniest ad-libbed bit in the last decade. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/17 "2010-12-03T15:00:09Z")
Fairly recently, the last scene in _Burn After Reading_, where the CIA boss reviews what we’ve learned from the adventure cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/18 "2010-12-03T15:33:19Z")
Numerous moments from _A Shot in the Dark_ – like the one where Clousseau spins the globe, or the bit with the pool cues. The part in _Arsenic and Old Lace_ where Cary Grant first discovers what his aunts are up to. Donald O’Connor’s “Make 'Em Laugh” from _Singin’ in the Rain_. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/19 "2010-12-03T15:35:41Z")
Alex Karras punching out the horse. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802/20 "2010-12-03T15:36:39Z")
I could post a hundred clips from [_Love_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ganb0ngav1g) _and_ [_Death_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LboBvMaGcbY), but these 2 will have to do. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-comedy-moments/562802.md?page=2)