Funniest movie scenes ever

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I haven’t read them all, so I hope there aren’t many repeats.
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: Spencer Tracy loses it while listening to his wife and daughter argue on two seperate phones he’s holding. He places the receivers down so they face each other and sits there with this placid expression – it is priceless (as is his behvavior for the remainder of the movie).

And

Sonny driving to save his momma: “I’m comin’ momma, your Sonny boy is comin’ to save ya!” Tears in his eyes, screaming down the highway in a convertable.

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Sid Caesar and Edie Williams trapped in the basement of the hardware store trying to break out.

There are many other moments in this movie – far too many to list.

Noises Off!: The final act in which the show falls completely apart, there are three burglers on stage, The housekeeper has completely dropped character and Chris Reeve’s nose keeps bleeding causing him to pass out.

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Act II where all of the backstage dramatics are done in mimed silence only to finally be broken by Poppy screaming at the top of her lungs: “I’m Pregnant!!!”

Star Wars: Episode 5: Leia: [to Han] I love you. Han:[in reply]: I know!

O, Brother, where Art Thou: What we have here is a Geographic oddity . . .

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“I don’t think that’s Pete”
“Course it is, look at him!”

After Hours: “It’s not your fault.” Probably the funniest line uttered in all of cinema that is pointless without the rest of the movie.

Raising Arizona: The group therapy scene in which the large African American dude proclaims that he feels he’s a woman trapped in a man’s body.

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The fight with the bounty hunter, particularly Holly Hunter’s “You give me back my baby you warthog from hell!” line punctuated by a pump shotgun pump. And Nick Cage’s being thrown away realizing he’s holding the pins to the grenades.

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Leaving the baby on the roof

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Robbing the convenience store.

Comedy of Terrors: Vincent Price (a funeral director) has tried to kill his landlord (Basil Rathbone) in order to drum up business for himself. Unfortunately, Price (and his assistant Peter Lorre) find Rathbone hard to kill – which is complicated by Rathbone’s Narcolepsy which causes them to mistake him for dead when he isn’t. Finally satisfied that he is dead, funeral arrangements are made, he is lying in his casket while Price plays the pump organ, Lorre pumps it to exhaustion and Price’s wife, played by Joyce Jameson, gravely sings “He is not dead but sleepeth.” Through gasps Lorre comments to price: “I wish you chosen a different song!” or words to that effect. Very amusing stuff.

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Oh, and I LOVE in Big Trouble in Little China where they are going up the elevator and Jack is feeling the effects of the war juice or whatever it was they drank before going into battle.

“I don’t know about you guys, but I feel GREAT! Whoo!” etc.

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And to the two bums sitting in the Queen’s box seats, Frank the umpire calling balls and strikes while moonwalking and cleaning home plate with a vacuum cleaner, the arch-enemies (Jew/Arab, Postman/dog) embracing each other after the “This is our hill, and these are our beans” speach, the 8 color commentators all in the booth, and the USC Marching Band and marching over villian (“My mother died the same way”).

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I just remembered Undercover Brother.Dave Chappelle stole the movie.“I’m shot.I’m alive.Ahhh,I just shit on myself.”

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Another one I almost died watching was the scene in Without a Paddle where Seth Green encounters the bear and it carries him away and treats him as her cub. She gives him a nasty piece of rotten meat and he has to eat it while crying in fear and pretending it’s good…I’m actually laughing out loud just typing this.

And the scene where they have to huddle together for warmth but they’re all afraid of looking gay…ah good times.

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No, the funniest scene of that movie was the fight scene, where the white guy was fighting the black guy and the black chick was fighting the white chick, and then the guys looked at each other, then looked at the girls, then both guys settled in on the sofa with some popcorn and drinks to enjoy/watch the chickfight.

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Some funny scenes i’d love to see again (and again and again):

Enter Laughing I don’t remember much about the film but i’ll never ever forget the part when the character (a stage newbie) nervously walks onstage and recites the first few words on his script “enter laughing”.

Kung Pao Lots of scenes. Love the “ventriloquist” part a lot. Watched this high on weed and the fighting cow freaked me out. Oh, and the part where the main character meets his love interest. The “you might think i’m a slut” bit and she keeps on removing her top.

Spinal Tap Yeah, the “stonehenge” bit. Watched this stoned and i couldn’t breathe properly for a minute or two.

The Golden Child Not everyone likes this film but there are a few funny scenes in it. Eddie Murphy’s character enters the Tibetan monastery and does his “i want the knife” bit.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Oh, and does anyone remember the Tijuana Toads cartoon?

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Another of my favorite scenes from Noises Off!–during that disastrous Cleveland performance. There’s a part in the play where you hear Freddy’s character say (from backstage), “Oh, my God!” and the housekeeper acts as if she’s the one who said it. In the Cleveland show, Freddy slips in a pile of sardines backstage just as he’s delivering the set up line, resulting in terrible crashing sounds while he says, "Oh, my Go—OOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! So to cover, Carol Burnett starts smashing up the set while repeating the line.

Oh, well, it’s hard to describe, but it makes me laugh every time!

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All three of the ones that came to mind for me were Peter Sellers scenes. (Surprisingly, they are minor scenes but wonderfully done scenes nonetheless)

The scene in Dr. Strangelove where Peter Sellers is trying to convince Kenan Wynn to shoot the lock off the coke machine so he can call the President.

The bathroom scene in The Party. Sellers’ character has had to pee for a good portion of the film and he finally gets to the upstairs bathroom, does his business and notices his shoe is muddy he goes to take a piece of toilet paper off the toilet roll and it begins to unwind, and continues to unwind and continues…The laugh curve in that scene is fascinating. It goes until the last piece of paper comes off the roll. He then stuffs all the by now pile of toilet paper in the camode which causes it to overflow. He has to go out the window onto the upstairs roof.

My favorite scene is once again one that is seldom thought of, but it is so very strange, it is wonderful. It is from What’s New Pussycat. It is the scene between Sellers and Woody Allan. Sellers, an insane English psychiatrist has decided to commit suicide by wrapping himself in a Norwegian flag and lighting himself on fire in a small boat along the Seine River in Paris. Unfortunately for him, at that moment Allan, a lonely American, walks up and sets up a card table and places wine and dinner on it to celebrate his birthday. Apparently he does it every year at the same location. Each plays his own strange type of humor so well off the other.

To be sure I also love the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, etc. but those three are my favorite.

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Speaking of Chapelle, this doesn’t qualify as a movie, but his “night out” with Wayne Brady from Chapelle’s Show NEVER ceases to make me crack up.

Oh, and ddgryphon, the line is “Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity? Two weeks from everywhere.”

But that entire movie’s great.

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I liked Spaceballs. But my “funniest scene ever” from it was where Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz are trying to locate Lone Star by watching a copy of the movie they’re appearing in:

Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You’re looking at now sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We’re at now, now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then!
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can’t.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
Dark Helmet: How soon?
Video Operator: Sir!
[Dark Helmet has becomed far too confused and everyone now ignores him even though he’s center screen]
Dark Helmet: What?
Video Operator: We’ve identified their location.
Dark Helmet: Where?

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From Ruthless People:

“Perhaps we should shoot him” is when I literaly fell out of my seat.

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I’ll second one:

The mime in Aristocrats. Woo.

One of my faves in Big Lebowski: When he goes to the repo yard to get his car back. The interaction is so genuine and everything is fucked up.

“What’s the smell?”

“Oh, that. . .we think some vagrants used it as a restroom.”

“You got any leads?”

“Oh sure, we got a whole team of guys working on it down at the station. We got 'em working in shifts. Leads!”

Then they cut to him driving down the road, and his Credence tape is playing.

Also, his first meeting with the The Big Lebowski. Hilarious dialogue between the two contrasting characters.

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Can’t believe I forgot this the first time around, especially since it wasn’t a comedy.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark when the scimitar-weilding assassin faces off against Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford’s shrug of resignation as he pulls out his gun and shoots his opponent caused the entire audience to just about wet their pants.

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And I forget The Money Pit when Tom Hanks becomes trapped in the upstairs floor/rug and amuses himself by singing the name game among other odd behavior.

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Another Clue lover here. The one scene I especially liked that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is when they mention at the beginning how Mrs. White’s husband died (with certain…um…parts missing, or damage to them; I don’t remember exactly) and all the guys simultaneously crossed their legs.

Other fave scenes:
From X-Men: the break-in to the Statue of Liberty. The alarm goes off, Wolverine slashes it, Cyclops gives him a disgusted look and Wolverine retracts all but his middle claw.

Later, when Wolverine is fighting Mystique-as-Wolverine and comes back out to the others:
W: It’s OK, it’s me.
Cyclops: Prove it.
W (glaring): You’re a dick.
C: OK.

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“Let’s try…Walter!”

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I got downright giddy after watching the scene in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels when a patch-eyed Ruprecht (Steve Martin) is humping his prospective future Stepmom, “Not Mother?”, Lawrence Jamison (Michael Caine) warns him with “Ruprecht, am I going to have to break out the genital cuffs?” and instantly Ruprecht comes flying through the air away from her.

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Ruprecht is GREAT! Always quotable in my family’s house.

“OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMAOKLAHOMAOKLAHOMA!!!”

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More *Clue * love here. “Communism was just a red herring!”

The fight between rival gangs of local newscasters in Anchorman. “I killed a man with a trident!” Just so outlandish and unexpected.

The “Puttin’ on the Ritz” scene in Young Frankenstein.

Another one for Spinal Tap’s Stonehenge scene.

One of the early scenes in Chasing Amy, where Hooper X is explaining how Star Wars is really a racist parable with a little help from Banky. “Well, isn’t that true?”