# Show me the funny! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899 "2012-09-26T16:50:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/1 "2012-09-26T16:50:59Z")
Be it cartoon, photo, joke, skit or song, what is the funniest thing you have ever seen or heard? One per customer-no lists _please_. Mine would have to be [Tim Conway’s elephant story](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY) from _The Carol Burnett Show_. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/2 "2012-09-26T19:18:53Z")
Nothing to add except I just spent 20 minutes watching Carol Burnett out takes. Still funny 30+ years later. Nothing used to crack me up more than watching Tim Conway destroy Harvey Korman every week. Thx. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/3 "2012-09-26T20:45:07Z")
It might not actually be the funniest single thing I have ever seen but it’s a real classic that I still find funny every time: Who’s On First. ---
**Author:** ![Groucho\_Twain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Groucho\_Twain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Groucho_Twain)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/4 "2012-09-26T21:48:55Z")
Don’t know that I could pick THE funniest (but I agree that Conway’s elephant story is up there as one of my faves). The Kids in the Halls “Girl Drink Drunk” is also a favorite (YouTube it), as well as their “Bikini Inspector” & “Shitty Soup” skits. SNL did a spot-on parody of undecided voters this past weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Groucho\_Twain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Groucho\_Twain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Groucho_Twain)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/5 "2012-09-26T21:51:26Z")
Sorry, Czarcasm…that was kind of a list, wasn’t it? _sheepishly slinks away_ ---
**Author:** ![core\_dump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@core\_dump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/core_dump)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/6 "2012-09-26T22:05:04Z")
For me [“In the butt Bob”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XM5hbS7GlU) takes it. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/7 "2012-09-27T00:43:02Z")
The hardest I’ve laughed in recent memory was at an old MST3K short. I think it was _Circus on Ice_. These two girls are skating around in pink outfits, and the riffer starts singing to the tune of the background music: These two girls They make quite a pair They will come From your worst nightmare They will haunt your soul forever And now, when you see pink You’re gonna think We’re doomed! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/8 "2012-09-27T00:45:29Z")
[I still think it is Richard Simmons on Whose Line.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTxkxG3DF4k) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/9 "2012-09-27T00:50:07Z")
The elephant skit is one of my favorites; I first saw it when someone (you?) linked to it years ago. The one I was gonna post I forget what it was, but it’s also something I learned about from the Dope, so someone’s bound to come along and post it, and then I’ll say, “Yeah, that!” ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/10 "2012-09-27T01:34:20Z")
[Vitameatavegamin](http://fan.tcm.com/_Vitameatavegamin/video/813173/66470.html?createPassive=true) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/11 "2012-09-27T02:14:11Z")
[Bully for Bugs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk6QDOHdVSchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk6QDOHdVSc) ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/12 "2012-09-27T06:18:27Z")
It’s hard to pick just one. But I’ll go with this clip from “Everybody Loves Raymond”. [Everybody Loves Raymond - Whoops!! - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CSECwl-gaQ) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/13 "2012-09-27T07:23:47Z")
When I was probably about 11 or so years of age back in the dark ages when the only way to see a movie was to see it in a movie theatre, my father used to rave about Marx Brothers movies. Then one Sunday he spotted in a newspaper that a Marx Brothers movie called “Go West” was playing that afternoon in a theatre somewhere nearby so we all piled into the car to go and see it. The movie has a scene involving a train. I won’t spoil it for you but it’s very funny. We were all laughing fit to burst, but my younger brother was laughing so hard that he couldn’t breathe, fell off his seat and was rolling on the floor. Not only that but the scene goes on for some time and every time he’d get his laughter under control enough to start to haul himself back up onto his seat he would glance at the screen again, which would cause him to completely lose it again, and fall back on the floor. I have never laughed so hard, though I have to admit that it is hard to separate the extent to which I was laughing at the scene in the movie and the extent to which I was laughing at my brother. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/14 "2012-09-27T09:47:34Z")
[Go watch QI if you aren’t already. It’s both excellent and hilarious.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIiYRO_yl5E) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/15 "2012-09-27T13:05:35Z")
I found [This](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maj05m39la1qe9gxxo1_400.jpg) one of Romney the other day by accident. It gave me quite the chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/16 "2012-09-27T13:16:58Z")
This might be biased because its one of my earliest memories of laughing so hard I was crying, but Red Skelton’s Cy routine. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/17 "2012-09-27T14:16:11Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I found [This](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maj05m39la1qe9gxxo1_400.jpg) one of Romney the other day by accident. It gave me quite the chuckle. I’m not looking for a “chuckle” here, though-I’m look for something that you found rolling-on-the-floor _funny_. What is the _funniest_ thing you’ve ever seen or heard? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/18 "2012-09-27T14:18:32Z")
> [@Zyanthia](#): > > This might be biased because its one of my earliest memories of laughing so hard I was crying, but Red Skelton’s Cy routine. I don’t think I’ve seen that one, and I can’t find it online. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/19 "2012-09-27T14:22:14Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > [Go watch QI if you aren’t already. It’s both excellent and hilarious.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIiYRO_yl5E) Amusingly, they later determined that the Parthenon’s columns do _not_ bow outwards in the middle, leading Stephen to ask, “Why do the columns in the Parthenon look so straight?” and the answer was “because they are” which broke poor Johnny Vegas’ mind. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/20 "2012-09-27T14:24:20Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I’m not looking for a “chuckle” here, though-I’m look for something that you found rolling-on-the-floor _funny_. What is the _funniest_ thing you’ve ever seen or heard? OK, fine. [This one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXHaCEhOiWU), puts me in tears every time. [Family Guy. Frog incident.] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899.md?page=2)