# What is "The funniest thing ever"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thing-ever/236392 "2004-03-25T18:26:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thing-ever/236392/41 "2004-03-27T03:38:42Z")
> [@GSV Consolation of Dreams](#): > > Monty Python: The Fish Slap dance. I think you may be right. This was one of the things going through my mind when I first posed the question. Personally, I don’t find monkeys the least bit humorous, no matter how they may or may not be clothed. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thing-ever/236392/42 "2004-03-27T03:43:01Z")
HDS, we were looking for\* funny\*. That link was just plain _ **scary!** _ ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thing-ever/236392/43 "2004-03-27T03:45:46Z")
Sorry 🙂 Wish mine looked as perky as his, though. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thing-ever/236392/44 "2004-03-27T03:52:08Z")
The “funniest thing ever” is the “post office” in Weesatche, Texas (population ~ 100), it is a tool shed (Morgan building) but since it’s a federal building it had to be handicapped accessable so a wheelchair ramp was installed out front, it had to have cost more than the “post office”, I almost fell down I laughed so hard the first time I saw it. I love this country Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thing-ever/236392/45 "2004-03-27T04:24:11Z")
One of the funniest things I’ve ever witnessed was the look on the face of an elderly Italian gentleman when I explained to him that in America, the word “chow” means “food”. I think he suddenly, in that single moment of revelation, understood jokes he’d been hearing from all the crazy Americans he had known for the past fifty years. Another all-time classic was a performance of the balcony scene from _Romeo and Juliet_ I was fortunate enough to witness. Romeo was being played by an extremely masculine woman with a deep voice and east Texas twang. Juliet’s lines came from a short, balding, mustaccioed gentleman who spoke them with a flawless Inspecter Clouseau accent. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thing-ever/236392/46 "2004-03-27T05:11:11Z")
Like Jehovah68’s entry, mine also involves a “gentlemen’s club”. The funniest thing I’ve ever seen is a dancer entering the stage at the beginning of her set, with her carefully crafted stage persona and her pouty, ‘screw-me’ face working at full power, when she turns around, and wait, what’s that? The unmistakable shape of a toilet seat pressed into her ass flesh. Good God, I KNOW her confidence must have been ruined that night at an audience full of men laughed hysterically at her. ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-funniest-thing-ever/236392/47 "2004-03-27T05:25:30Z")
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