# Scenes that are laugh off loud funny for inexplicable reasons **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625 "2008-02-21T21:49:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625/1 "2008-02-21T21:49:54Z")
“Putting on the Ritz” in Young Frankenstein. Laugh out loud, tears in my eyes and gasping for breath funny. Why? Dammed if I know. What are yours? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625/2 "2008-02-21T21:53:34Z")
The bit in Hot Fuzz where whosname slips on the bar and his pint spills. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625/3 "2008-02-21T23:56:35Z")
I love the “Puttin’ on the Ritz” scene too. The first time I saw it, I fell off the couch and we had to pause the movie until I could collect myself. In _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_, the reading from the Book of Armaments about how to use the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch slays me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625/4 "2008-02-22T00:26:01Z")
The first scene with Chris Tucker (who I didn’t know anything about at the time) in the movie 5th Element. I wasn’t sure why at the time, but I now think the reason is that he did this completely over-the-toppiest-top performance without holding anything back, without winking at the audience to show he knew how silly it was, or anything like that. I’ve never seen a better \*reductio ad absurdem \* of this combination of hyper-gay-drag and self-obsessed celebrity personality in my life. I saw this with my sister (both middle-aged) and although she enjoyed it she couldn’t understand why I was laughing uncontrollably. Still makes me giggle. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625/5 "2008-02-22T00:41:36Z")
I loved the Family Guy “Blue Harvest” episode, but for some reason every time I see the ‘pimped-out’ TIE Fighter go bouncing past the Death Star I just lose it. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625/6 "2008-02-22T02:07:08Z")
Tony Curtis’s first movie. They show a castle in the distance. He says,Yonda lies the castle of my fodda, in his unmistakable Brooklyn accent. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625/7 "2008-02-22T02:18:02Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] Tony Curtis’s first movie. They show a castle in the distance. He says,Yonda lies the castle of my fodda, in his unmistakable Brooklyn accent. [/QUOTE] [The Prince Who Was a Thief](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043935/) (1951) was his 12th movie, according to IMDB, and was preceeded by such masterpieces as **Francis the Talking Mule** and **How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border** - his actual first movie. Mind you by the time **Spartacus** came around 9 years later his accent wasn’t much better. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625/8 "2008-02-22T03:45:35Z")
[“That’s how much fuck fish.”](http://imdb.com/title/tt0268126/) I find that line irresistibly funny every time. Especially because it’s not written as comedy. **Roderick Femm** , your post reminded me of this line from Umberto Eco: ““This is parody’s mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.”” ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625/9 "2008-02-22T06:22:16Z")
Usually the most you’ll get from me is a good chuckle, but Robert DeNiro in Stardust? I lost it. I think because it caught me so much by surprise. I haven’t watched it again, so I’ll see what happens, but it’s still making me smile. eta: Well, I guess it wasn’t so inexplicable. Except that if you described that scene to me I probably wouldn’t think it could be all that funny. So it had to be the actual performance. ---
**Author:** ![berff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@berff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berff)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-laugh-off-loud-funny-for-inexplicable-reasons/438625/10 "2008-02-22T07:10:43Z")
In Nutty Professor (the 1996 version), when Buddy Love is at the comedy club and laughs uncontrollably the entire time, I laugh uncontrollably the entire time. When the movie came out, I watched it at least 7 times in one week just for that scene.