Inspired by a thread regarding the scariest scenes from horror flicks. First scene that comes to mind: Eddie Murphy’s geeky character in Bowfinger trying to cross a busy highway. The expression on his face is absolutely priceless. One that had me in absolute stitches was the audition part in The Full Monty. Although i don’t remember much of the movie (i saw it more than 10 years ago), i remember i had a fun time watching Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t, a Japanese film about a college sumo wrestling team.
How about Jerry Lewis in The Disorderly Orderly, when he’s caretaking that woman in the wheelchair, who is describing her symptoms in graphic detail, and Lewis gets all these sympathetic symptoms. The faces he makes and the contortions he goes through are priceless!
From an otherwise mediocre movie, perhaps the funniest scene I’ve ever seen on film in Super Troopers: the scene with the highway patrolman stopping the carload of stoners.
Marx brothers film, Duck Soup.
The scene where Leppo is pretending to be Groucho’s reflection in a non-existent mirror.
Feeding the alien in Dark Star:
“Congratulations, you’ve decided to clean the lift”. Shaun of the Dead where the two groups of survivors (with exact matching sets of sidekicks) pass each other in an alleyway. Blazing Saddles To pick two. The turnstile in the desert, the fast-draw. . . Spaceballs which in not that funny for the most part. A battlecruiser flies past, and past, and past, for a ludicrously long time.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – many scenes, but my favorite was Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) and Hysterium (Jack Guilford) discussing how to get a dead body.
Pseud: Milo the Body Snatcher! He owes me a favor! But he died yesterday.
Hyst: What about his body?
Pseud: Somebody snatched it. Let me see..... Who do we know that's dead?
Hyst: I wish I were!
Pseud: (looks at Hysterium with a very strange gleam in his eye)
From It’s a Gift , where WC Fields is trying to go to sleep on a bench swing on the porch.
“I’m looking for a man named LaFong. Carl LaFong. Capital L, small A, capital F, small O, small N, small G…”
Then the mother sending her daughter out to the drugstore, the milkman and the coconut dropping down the steps, and then Baby Leroy drops grapes into Fields’ mouth.
First, Kevin Kline (Otto) to John Cleese’s wife (Wendy):
Otto: “Don’t call me stupid.”
Wendy: “Why on earth not?”
Otto: “Oh, you English are so superior, aren’t you? Well would you like to know where you would be without us, the old U.S. of A to protect you? The smallest fucking province in the Russian empire. So don’t call me stupid lady.”
Wendy: “Well thank you for popping in protecting us.”
Otto: “Without us, you’d all be speaking German!”
Second, Kevin Kline (Otto) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Wanda):
Otto: “Don’t call me stupid.”
Wanda: “Oh, right, to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs. I’ve known sheep that could outwit you, but you think you’re an intellectual don’t you, ape?”
Otto: “Ape don’t read philosophy”
Wanda: “Yes, they do Otto. They just don’t understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things here. Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not ‘every man for himself,’ and the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.”
Monty Python & the Holy Grail:
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.”
That entire scene.
Rat Race
You should have bought a squirrel.
Tommy Boy
The scene in the salesman’s office where Tommy is demonstrating the superior quality of his company’s brake pads, using the model cars on the desk.
I’ve seen most of these, and they warm my heart to remember them - in line with the Jerry Lewis scene mentioned, there’s the reprise in Airplane!, as the doctor details the food poisoning symptoms as the poor Captain suffers them in quick succession.
I forget which one, but in the Pink Panther movie where everybody thinks Clouseu is dead and Chief Insp. Dreyfus is delivering the eulogy written by the wife of some high muckety-muck. He can’t help laughing at the high praise being heaped on the incompetent Clouseu, but his stifled laughter is interpreted as crying by the audience.
I haven’t seen that scene in a very long time, but it had my whole family in hysterics. I hope it’s as funny when I see it again.
That plus the scene Gilligan mentions from Monty Python & the Holy Grail. “If I went around claiming I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they’d put me away!”
You guys took most of my absolute favorites, but I’ll add:
The Meaning of Life:
“I’m a Roman Catholic,
I have been since before I was born
And the one thing they say about Catholics is,
They’ll take you as soon as you’re warm”
That whole scene is hilarious.
And then in Clue:
“I’m the butler. I like to keep the kitchen tidy.” That’s my favorite movie of all time.
Murder by Death:
“My eyes…are getting tired.” (said by the Chinese detective)
“I thought they always looked like that.”
I say this to my SO (Chinese) all the time.
Airplane, Holy Grail, and Night at the Opera are all hilarious.
“Everything about you reminds me of you. Except for you. Isn’t that odd?”
I agree with the audition scene from The Full Monty. When the talentless dude drops trou, everyone’s bug-eyed reaction never fails to slay me (especially Gaz coughing out the cigarette smoke!).
Also agree with the turnstile in the desert scene from Blazing Saddles–that “get a shitload of dimes” line is simply hilarious–especially with the way Slim Pickens talked.
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Life of Brian, where the Roman guards are supressing laughter at the mention of the name Biggus Dickus. “Incontinentia Buttocks!” HA! I’m giggling all over again!
