There is a scene in a nature documentary that gets shown infrequently on HBO. There are these chimpanzees who find some fermented berries and accidentally get drunk off them. The next 5 minutes or so is just the chimps staggering around drunk but I cannot help but laugh out loud every time I see it.
I once picked up the entire season of Fawlty Towers on tape and watched them all at one sitting. There were a few times I was laughing so hard I missed following scenes and had to rewind. I can’t think of anything specific offhand, because everything in the story contributed to the overall funniness, not just one thing.
Just the usual setup where Basil commits some foul deed, tries to cover it up, browbeats Miguel and Polly into complicity, goes bugshit in front of shocked hotel guests, faces the wrath of his wife at the end, and STILL tries to get away with his lies. Works every time.
First South Park had me almost vomiting I was laughing so hard. Same with the movie.
Ren and Stimpy’s Space Madness episode.
The railroad song scene in Blazing Saddles, as well as most of the rest of the movie.
Cartman singing Kyle’s Mom’s a Bitch in the South Park movie makes me laugh so hard I can’t breathe.
Cartman tricking that kid into eating his own parents. I couldn’t stop laughing for 15 minutes.
Don Hertzfeldt’s Rejected will make you laugh, I promise.
I guess it helps to understand modern humor…
Rat Race: When the bus driven by Cuba Gooding Jr. hits the cow, which is suspended in mid-air from a balloon.
Life of Brian: The last scene, with the crucified people singing “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.”
I don’t think there’s any scene I’ve ever viewed, in movies or television, that made me laugh as hard as these two.
Oh, yes, one more…
South Park, Bigger, Longer and Uncut: Stan finds the clitoris.
That movie was full of hilarious stuff, but that scene took me totally by surprise.
Chaim Mattis Keller
smam-it wasn’t a ZOMBIE, it was a BOOGIEMAN.
The scene in Mr. Bean where he starts playing with the dolls in the nativity scene as if they were action figures. The scene just gets more and more insane, with him making cheesy sound effects and eventually bringing in a big plastic dinosaur. Priceless.
In While You Were Sleeping the early morning scene where the newspaper delivery boy is riding along and then slips on the ice.
The rest of the movie was OK.
Brain Donors, a little seen gem/Marx Brothers ripoff starring John Turturro. The penultimate scene takes place at a ballet. Just go see it, I don’t want to describe any more.
But it was pee-in-your-pants funny.
Usual Suspects–the lineup
[Suspects in a lineup are asked to read a phrase.]
Cop: Number 1, step forward.
Hockney: Hand me the keys, you fucking cocksucker.
Cop: Number 2, step forward.
McManus: Give me the fucking keys, you fucking cocksucking motherfucker, aaarrrghh!
Cop: Knock it off! Get back! Number 3, step forward.
Fenster: [laughing] Hand me the keys, you cocksucker!
Cop: In English, please?
Fenster: Excuse me?
Cop: In English.
Fenster: Hand me the fucking keys, you cocksucker, what the fuck?
I’m dyin’ here, just reading it. The actual performance is even better. I’m not sure if it would hold up to a “lame troupe” performance, but the original is excellent. Dang, now I have to get on NetFlix and order it, just so I can watch it again.
The scene in AIRPLANE when the plane is FINALLY coming down for a landing and the lights on the runway go out. And the guy looks up with a stupid look on his face and a plug in his hand and said “Just Kidding”
“Springtime for Hitler” just slays me. There are some great bits in the Beatles movies, too - the one that stands out for me right now is the curling scene in Help! “It’s a thingie! A fiendish thingie! Run, Ringo!”
There’s an episode of Beavis & Butthead where Beavis thinks he’s pregnant, but really he just has to take a big dump.
Near the end, there’s one long shot of Butthead just sitting there on the couch, obliviously eating nachos. From somewhere else in the house you hear Beavis screaming and moaning.
**MMMMMGGGGGWWWWWWWAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!
UUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!
EEEEEEEHHHHHHH!!!
EEEEEEEEEEHHHHHH!!!
UUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHaaaaahhhhhhhh…**
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And all the while Butthead just sits there with his nachos…
The scene in “Something about Mary” where Ben Stiller gets himself caught in his zipper.
There was also that scene in “The Others” where Nicole Kidman was out walking in the fog and everything is all white and misty-looking, and then a mouse ran across the bottom of the movie screen, stopped halfway across, paused, then ran back. Okay, so it wasn’t really part of the movie, but I thought it was still pretty damned funny. (Grossed my wife out, though.)
There exists a nature documentary about snow monkeys.
That were moved to Texas. Narrated by someone who sounds just like Waylon Jennings. Yee-haw.
And then tragedy strikes as the monkeys are suddenly declared legal to hunt. And one is shot!
But the monkeys are saved in the end by a benefit concert given by Tom Jones.
I can not describe this, except to say it manages to just get more and more bizarre, starting with a description, in a thick texan accent, of how they groom and bathe and ending with Tom Jones.
“I’ve had this ice-cream bar since I was a CHILD! People…always trying to take it from me! Why won’t they LEAVE ME ALONE!!”
My personal favorite: Basil is planning a surprise anniversary party for Sybill, but she leaves in a huff, thinking he’s forgotten. Basil panics.
Manuel: You planning a suprise party.
Basil: Yes.
Manuel: Mrs. Fawlty no here.
Basil: Yes.
Manuel: That the suprise!
I was in hysterics for nearly a half hour–my family did not find it funny and I was nearly sent from the room for my disruption.