The stoning scene in Life of Brian gets my vote. (“Who threw that?” “I thought we’d started.” “Go to the back…there’s always one, isn’t there?”)
Almost all of Kentucky Fried Movie was funny, but this scene, which probably couldn’t even be made today, left me in tears when I saw it:
Yes, there was a joke somewhere about being sentenced to watching all of the TV show Flying Circus. Sounds fun, but it is actually quite unfunny a lot of the time. The hit sketches are sporadic and most of it is just zany and unfunny.
The movies are brilliant and I think Meaning of Life is incredible throughout.
Randal placing an order for movies for the video store in Clerks.
Three for me - one from Night Court (can’t find a clip on YouTube). The setup is that a Japanese man died in the courtroom, was being wheeled around by Bull in a motorized wheelchair, and someone turned on the motor while Bull’s back was turned and…
Harry: “How do you lose a dead Japanese industrialist?”
Bull: “He outsmarted me, sir.”
Harry: “What do you mean, he outsmarted you? Bull, a corpse is a corpse!”
Dan: “Of course, of course.”
The second is the scene of all the crucified people singing “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life” at the end of “Life of Brian.” I cannot stop laughing at that.
Finally, from Rat Race:
Here are a few scenes that always make me laugh:
Those aren’t pillows!:
You’re going the wrong way!:
Dwayne driving Alvy to the airport after Dwayne confesses to an impulse to steer into an oncoming car:
Choose almost any scene from when Garth Brooks was on The Muppet Show. Try the “country music” scene.
I think I agree. No other show made me laugh as hard as often.
Surprisingly, I’m finding I only agree with about a third of the posts in this thread. Most Mel Brooks leaves me cold. Oh, and Judd Apatow comedies are so unfunny to me. I see he’s involved in a movie I avoid it. Two “cult” shows I missed when they were first run were Arrested Development and Freaks and Geeks.
I adore Arrested Development, and even better, re-watching improves it. Freaks and Geeks bored me when it wasn’t actively annoying me.
The IT Crowd – Jen’s new shoes.
or translating Italian
That is what I came to write: Harold Lloyd made me cry laughing when I was a teenager and he still makes me laugh today.
From Frasier, in one of the most perfectly written and acted sitcom episodes I can recall. This punchline is built up from the opening bit with Daphne trying to put some of Martin’s useless old junk into the storage, and this item gets a passing mention. The whole episode builds to this scene, where Niles is hysterical about his possible divorce, and he goes into the bathroom to throw water on his face. And then …
p.s. If you watch this in reruns they clip out a critical part in the opening scene, in order to have more time for commercials. I hate them for that. Anyway, this is the best clip I can find at short notice.
From The Big Bang Theory, made all the more hilarious because there’s no way the flying papers could be scripted.
Also from BBT, and the reason it’s a crime Mayim Bialik never won an Emmy.
The Drew Carey Show could get very surreal at times. Check out this scene in which Daffy Duck applies for a job at Winfred-Louder.
Clarke and Dawe did a series in Australia called The Games which is one of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen.
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The Dick Van Dyke Show, episode That’s My Boy?. You have to watch the entire episode to really get the payoff, but the last minute of Act 2 literally had me rolling on the living-room floor, laughing so hard that I could scarcely breathe. Maybe it isn’t as funny now; times change. But back then—they say they had to just cut off the end, because the live studio audience wouldn’t stop their wild laughter.
I love Matt Berry in What We Do in the Shadows but he’s never been funnier than the “Boyfriend” scenes from Snuff Box.
