# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/41 "2012-09-28T04:52:16Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Oops - forgot my _all time favorite_ - on the Roseanne Show, Jackie has to make a phone call to announce dad died. This scene that had me laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe… > > [Clip is here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zheeF5yPak) This and the Golden Girls clip are two of my favorites, too. Soooo funny. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/42 "2012-09-28T12:04:13Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Oops - forgot my _all time favorite_ - on the Roseanne Show, Jackie has to make a phone call to announce dad died. This scene that had me laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe… > > [Clip is here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zheeF5yPak) God, I love that one. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/43 "2012-09-28T12:21:58Z")
Moving from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/44 "2012-09-28T13:04:51Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > For one-panel cartoons, it’s hard to beat the stuff in the[New Yorker](http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2008/05/07/a-laugh-a-minute-new-yorker-cartoons/2646/). > > Except maybe for the old [National Lampoon](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/Natlamp73.jpg/250px-Natlamp73.jpg). I’ve always wondered who it is who laughs at the cartoons in the New Yorker. Now I know! (Actually, I think it was on here that somebody gave me the Secret Key for enjoying New Yorker cartoons. They’re all actually very funny if you change the caption on every single one of them to “Christ, what an asshole!” It’s sort of like that Garfield Without Garfield thing, I guess.) ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/45 "2012-09-28T13:55:08Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > A few of us are fond of this 1980’s standup routine by [by Bob Nelson.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BerJdS2VJhA) It isn’t completely PC but I thought it was hysterical when I first saw it. Holy shit! For years and years and years I’ve had “My hemets and my shouldermapads” as part of my vocabulary, but I had no idea where that originally came from. Thank you so much for that link. My contribution… I know that we should provide a short explanation for our videos, but you really have to go into this one tabula rasa. > **[StumbleUpon](https://www.stumbleupon.com/su/465Jhd/:1Ip@O.b0V:Ph+hA0xu/www.marok.org/Arte/Mix/rocky_is_back.swf)** ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/46 "2012-09-28T16:22:14Z")
John Stewart’s long parody of Glenn Beck [is tearfully brilliant](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-18-2010/conservative-libertarian). He was on perfect comedy form in this one. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/47 "2012-09-28T16:51:31Z")
I think Victor Borge was one of the funniest people in history. He was only a piano player, yet some of his stuff was funnier than most stand up comedians have. A few of his funniest moments (in my opinion): [Phonetic punctuation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpIbdZhrzA) [Inflationary language](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6kElOYcd8) [Page turner](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWqFaGwNCMU) ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/48 "2012-09-28T17:04:47Z")
Hmm. Parody songs anyone? [Eben Brooks: Hey There Chthulhu](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut82TDjciSg) [Same song, photo montage version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA) ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/49 "2012-09-28T17:13:07Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I don’t think I’ve seen that one, and I can’t find it online. > [@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 think you might actually be referring to a skit from the Jack Benny show between Jack and Mel Blanc: [Classic Routine - Jack Benny Show](http://youtu.be/O9s8U0O0XPE) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/50 "2012-09-28T18:22:44Z")
Hells yeah on the Victor Borge. I’m not a huge fan of Steve Martin making funny faces, but this clip from _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels_ had me in tears: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axAA2egWeaY) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/51 "2012-09-28T18:44:58Z")
[Pinky](http://youtu.be/dR_LHlFwlhk) ---
**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 28, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/52 "2012-09-28T18:50:49Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > [Pinky](http://youtu.be/dR_LHlFwlhk) The final “around and up the tetherball pole for the spike” had me on the floor. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/53 "2012-09-29T02:34:24Z")
“[The Price is WRONG, BITCH](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QJiAK-s5a0)!” scene with Adam Sandler and Bob Barker, in Happy Gilmore. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/54 "2012-09-29T03:41:56Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > [Pinky](http://youtu.be/dR_LHlFwlhk) Some people have no freakin’ idea about cats. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/55 "2012-09-29T04:25:44Z")
There’s a Let’s Player goes by the name of Cry. He’s generally pretty funny. Especially his reactions to horror games. [Someone compiled some of his funniest scary moments.](http://youtu.be/YM64lwbQarM) I giggle throughout, then absolutely lose it with the Which clip near the end. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/56 "2012-10-02T14:23:20Z")
I remembered this in the “what’s this six foot bird” thread and I had forgotten just how hard it made me laugh - this really did appear in a REAL NEWSPAPER (and showed up the next day on the front page of my local paper as well): [Wild goose chase nets emu near downtown Rock Hill](http://www.heraldonline.com/2010/05/05/2143697/wild-goose-chase-nets-emu-just.html). “The chasers, who by now numbered at least 50 and included neighbors, city workers, women in hair curlers and one guy who had a cold beer but did not share, cheered.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/57 "2012-10-02T15:35:11Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > John Stewart’s long parody of Glenn Beck [is tearfully brilliant](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-18-2010/conservative-libertarian). He was on perfect comedy form in this one. That reminds me - one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was also on the Daily Show - John Lithgow solemnly reading a recent speech, verbatim, of Newt Gingrich. ETA: My mistake, the Colbert Report. That entire episode is one of his all time best. > **[Comedy Central Shows & Movies - Watch on Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/brands/comedy-central/)** > > Watch the Comedy Central shows, including The Daily Show, Chappelle's Show, Strangers with Candy, RENO 911!, Drawn Together, and more. ---
**Author:** ![Jimbabweosu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jimbabweosu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimbabweosu)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899/58 "2012-10-02T16:11:03Z")
WKRP in Cicinnati. “God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly” Here’s the whole episode: [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mks9\_wkrp-in-cincinnati-turkeys-away\_fun](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mks9_wkrp-in-cincinnati-turkeys-away_fun) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-funny/635899.md?page=2)