What kills me about this that the movie that Toung Frankenstein is most directly parodying – Son of Frankenstein – actually has such a scene of dart-playing between Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone!) and the one-armed, one-eyed officer (Lionel Atwill). Mel Brooks didn’t have to make it up – just make it funny.
I also love that you can count about eight darts as he drives away – in the two mounted tires, the spare, and his aide’s kepi – yet only two darts actually went out the window.
And the Officer puts his monocle in the eye with the eyepatch. It was a while before I caught that.
All these *Clue * lovers! My brothers! My sisters!
And Young Frankenstein has got to be one of the funniest movies ever.
I just remembered another, sort of obscure. In All of Me, when Steve Martin first becomes possessed by her after being hit on the head with the bowl, and then one side of body is hers and one is his…that was hilarious. His acting was superb.
I also liked the guy who played the Indian swami. “Get Edwina…back in bowl!”
“Backinbowl! Backinbowl! Fixbowl! Fixbowl!”
Clue: the secret passages. (“Let us in! Let us in!” “Let us out! Let us out!”) Wadsworth pausing to watch Yvette polish the glasses. That would give me pause, too.
A Night at the Opera: the stateroom scene. In particular: honkhonk honk* honkhonkhonk “Either it’s foggy out or that’s another dozen hard boiled eggs.”
Life of Brian: Romans Go Home. Priceless, especially when seen the year after having spent four years in Latin classes…
Any of a number of throw-away sight gags in Shrek.
For an old time classic: The Court Jester, certainly when Glynis Johns explains to the king about her father’s twisted, plague-ridden body writhing in agony from “Breckenridge’s Scourge.”
But, even better, Danny Kaye and Robert Middleton walking up to stand before the king and drink the ceremonial toast, each trying desperately to remember that the Pellet with the Poison is in the Vessel with the Pessel (all while “Sir Griswold” keeps having to shoulder the Jester off of him because the Jester’s armor has been magnetized by a lightening strike). Roll on the carpet laughing the first time you see it stuff.
From The Gods Must Be Crazy–Steyn has winched the Antichrist up into a very tall tree. When his friend finds them and asks where the jeep is, Steyn points up, and his friend stares and says, “Whaaaat in the hell did you do that for?” Kills me. Also–I second the final scene where he knocks the table over–he put that same item (cup? pitcher? I can’t remember now!) back on the table about 20 times, all the while explaining why he’s such a klutz whenever he’s around a woman. Priceless!
From Noises Off!–The first rehearsal. Freddy: “Why does my character do this illogical thing–wouldn’t it make more sense if he did this other thing instead?” Director Lloyd (flat-voiced, trying to discourage more questions): “No.” Freddy: “It just seems it would be more logical–” Lloyd (flatly): “No.” It was just the way he tried SO HARD to keep from having to discuss it, and dopey Freddy just wouldn’t let it go–cracks me up every time.
Kuffs–After having a terrible shootout in his apartment, Kuffs hears a knock at the door. He looks through a bullet hole in the door and sees a stern-looking man in a suit. He yanks the door open and yells, “FREEZE, asshole!” The guy, an accountant, throws both hands in the air, blows a raspberry, and keels over sideways. Absofreakinlutely hilarious!
even funnier to me because when I was in college doing theatre, at least one person in each show asked questions like that - and always got the same response
My mom nearly choked when he had to pull off the teacher’s panty tag because it was caught on the bush. He has nowhere to put it, so he pulls open the panties and drops the tag down her butt.
Noises Off: The whole Cleveland performance at the end, when everything goes wrong. “The sardines. . . they’ve gone! Oh, no they haven’t, they’re right there.”
South Park: The “Uncle-Fucker” song, made especially funny because the movie had been clean up to that point.
Harlem Nights had some great comedy in it, like the scene at Benny’s house where Vera volunteers to make a sandwich. Or Arsenio Hall’s scene, where he’s chasing after Eddie Murphy and accidentally shoots one of his lackeys in the back of the head. And who could forget this classic exchange:
Sugar Ray: Vera, do you have a girl who can turn him out? Vera: I have got a girl whose pussy is so good, if you threw it up in the air, it would turn into sunshine.
I’d also have to nominate the scene in the modern version of The Italian Job where Seth Green is mocking Handsome Rob and his amazing abilities with women.
I have to disagree with the people who nominated those scenes from Something About Mary. The guy gets his dick caught in his zipper and later on somehow manages to jizz in his own hair. I don’t see the funny in either situation.
In that scene, I’ve got to go with the “shaved scrotum” monologue.
Leslie Nielsen’s endless leak in Naked Gun .
Trooper’s heart attack in Animal House .
Just about every minute of Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie , but especially Mel mouthing the words “YOU SON OF A BITCH” to Marty Feldman and the title card says “You bad boy!”. That, and the two old ladies saying “FAGS!” A forgotten classic!
In Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, when John Malkovich purses up his lips and says “Bless You,” I just lose it every time.
In the new Family Guy DVD movie, the Elmer Fudd/Bugs Bunny cartoon segment is friggin’ hilarious, albeit totally WRONG!
Baseketball–“How to speak San Franciscan; Vajoina!” Classic!
The secret signal in Team America, World Police. I’ve been trying to find that as a still to import to my phone for wallpaper. No luck so far, guess I’ll have to pull it off the DVD myself, dagnabbit. (Heh, the SO just read this over my shoulder and is now collapsed in my lap, eyes squirting tears and I think he just peed a little bit.) I think it’s the random patches of pendejos all over his face (the puppet, not the SO!) that really makes the scene.
Not a movie, but this makes me laugh hysterically.
The SO is still laughing himself sick next to me, and everytime he looks like he’s about to wind down I just wag my hands in the air and go “AAAUUUGH” and he’s off again. Blessed are the easily amused, my mom always says, for they will be… Spouse torture, it’s the best!
Which reminds me of Fred Willard as the commentator from Best In Show:
"Doctor, question that’s always bothered me and a lot of people: Mayflower, combined with Philadelphia - a no-brainer, right? Cause this is where the Mayflower landed. Not so. It turns out Columbus actually set foot somewhere down in the West Indies. Little known fact. "
or -
“And to think that in some countries these dogs are eaten.”
or -
"I went to one of those obedience places once… it was all going well until they spilled hot candle wax on my private parts. "
Roger Ebert mentioned in passing on his show that he felt that Fred Willard should have received an Academy Award nomination for this role. I can’t disagree.
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming - the scene where Mr. Everett takes such a long time to discover the predicament his wife Muriel is in.
While definitely the weakest of the 3 Austin Powers films, the scene in Austin Powers in Goldmember with mini-me and Austin in the henchmen physical had me nearly pass out from lack of breathing, I was laughing so hard.
