Quite often TV networks do a ‘funniest moments’ special which are often perplexingly random in their actual funniness. A notable exception is the show that chooses Del-boy’s undignified fall through the bar on only fools and horses. (I’ve only ever seen that on clip shows about funny moments. I never saw the episode as it was aired)
It makes me wonder. There is undoubtedly a ‘best’ and ‘worst’ of absolutely everything. So there must be a ‘best’ funny moment/clip/joke out there in the world that may or may not make one die (of laughter) or enter a state of unimaginable euphoric hysterics.
what is the funniest thing you the reader of this op ever encountered?
Ok it gave me a chuckle but I’ve seen plenty funnier.
Much of Fawlty Towers is funnier and I never saw the humour in the dead parrot scetch (which many tv shows have voted the funniest) I guess hilarity reallly is subjective. The dead parrot scetch just leaves me with a feeling that they were lacking ideas that day.
It’s since been removed from YouTube, but there’s one skit at the very end of an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyways? (U.S. version with Drew Carey), where they’re doing the Irish Drinking Song.
The three guys–Drew, Colin, and Wayne–rhyme off, doing their lines, and then the fourth–Ryan–goes “And then awuablublabla,” obviously unable to think of anything, and everyone cracks up. Colin goes “meooooow” and the entire audience is in stitches, and the pianist can’t even keep playing she’s laughing so hard, and the rest of the skit is blown but it’s hilarious. Trust me on this.
Peter Sellers as Shakespeare’s Richard III covering the Beatles “It’s been a hard day’s night”
But when I get home to you
I find the things that you do
Will make me feel… … all right.
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore totally destroying the Thunderbirds and Supercar idea of Supermarionation.
Either one of the Jive talking scenes from the movie Airplane!
Or the pre-flight and take off scene from the same movie (I could not find a clip of the pre-flight)
Roger, Roger.
If there’s nothing sadder than seeing a crying midget, then a midget, in a bikini, laughing hysterically at a guy with a perfect mullet might be as good as it gets.
I’ve always loved Steve Martin as the Great Flydini. A magic act where he pulls scarves, eggs, and a succession of other strange objects out of his fly. (and the eggs kind of weirdly “emerge” :eek: )
A scene in the second Bottom Live stage show where Rik Mayall screws up and ACTUALLY hits Ade Edmonson in the nuts.
See, it’s funny when Rik and Ade pretend to hit each other in the nuts (or the head, or face, or kneecaps, etc) but Rik accidentally hits Ade for real, on stage in front of a live audience, realizes his mistake, has to wait for Ade to recover and then consider how Ade might retaliate…damn, it has me in STITCHES!!!
I can’t find a clip of it on You Tube but if you don’t know Bottom, here’s a little montage.
Many years ago Michael Parkinson, distinguished reporter turned TV interviewer, had a then little known-comic, Billy Connolly, as a guest.
Connolly had a strong Scottish accent, which made you concentrate in order to understand him. He was telling amusing stories about working in a dockyard, when he suddenly produced:
“That’s as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit.” :eek:
Short pause … then Parkinson cracks up, TV audience cracks up, show stops (and my Dad and I almost fell off the couch laughing).
