How could we forget The Tonight Show tomahawk scene?
And Ed Ames is still alive! He and Doc Severinson are around the same age (95!) and both with us. Good for them!
I can think of literally a thousand scenes that made me laugh to an extreme degree. I don’t see how you could even reduce it to the ten funniest. But thank you for this thread and your efforts - they’re great, and just seeing the titles of some of these things recalls some great moments.
One gets the impression few Dopers are snappers, or even whippersnappers, though.
The funniest scene I ever saw as a kid was from the old W.C. Fields vehicle Million Dollar Legs. 'Twas funny because it was ridiculously absurd: Fields gives his major domo a letter to deliver in the next town, but, because it is a secret message, he puts a goat’s head on the major domo. The major domo then runs (and they speed up the film for this part) and crosses some railroad tracks ahead of the locomotive, then turns and says “And you call yourself a train.”
I fell off the sofa laughing. I was nine or ten. It’s not at all funny now.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is chock full of funny scenes. I’m particularly fond of the Dinner Scene:
Definitely SNL.
Key & Peele, “White Zombies”
Tim Meadows, The Ladies’ Man, “What is Love? by Leon Phelps”
Found it!! Its on vimeo snl dannys song.
Four guys, including jason sudeikas and rainn wilson sitting at a bar telling awful things that happened to the song even though we ain’t got money. Theres a surprise ending.
Someone please find and copy here, my phone won’t let me.
Shaun of the Dead:
David, kill the Queen!
What?
The jukebox!
This one?
Yes! Thanks
Thanks, that show is quite lame at times, but that was indeed a well crafted little moment.
That set of SNL sketches is nice, but I don’t see that they were inspired by the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.
Angus T. Jones kills it in “Who’s Vod Kanockers?” As background, Charlie said earlier in the episode that when he was a baby, his mother’s breasts, rather than being a source of nourishment and comfort, were a source of silicone and Russian vodka. And so:
The Dick Van Dyke Show - I’m No Henry Walden! (Verisimilitude) - YouTube
After the pompous intellectual has left, Mrs. Fellows remarks on what a “remarkable mind” he has.
Rob Petrie concurs, adding that he expresses thoughts that “appear vague, but are in fact, meaningless”.
“It’s the Staypuff Marshmellow Man”
The audience was rolling for the whole film, but they about fell out of their seats there.
One not mentioned yet is the Loki/Hulk scene in the original Avengers movie. I won’t spoil it even though I suspect everybody has seen it before, but the pause from the dramatic to the beatdown to Hulk’s one speaking part just roiled the audience I was with.
Thanks so much for reminding me of the Golden Girls and Rose’s St. Olaf’s stories - I can’t believe I forgot this on my list. I will never not laugh at great length at the punchline in this one:
