That’s my second favorite one from that show, apart from the first one I posted earlier today. Tim Conway is a master.
The first time I saw it, the “Went With the Wind” sketch on Carol Burnett nearly made me hurt myself laughing. I guess it didn’t hold up, though, because I watched it recently on YouTube and didn’t think it was nearly as funny.
Speaking of Turkeys in sit coms, the Murphy Brown episode where the cast of FYI goes to cook Thanksgiving dinner for some homeless people at a shelter.
Murphy, of course, insists on a free range turkey, and Miles goes to get it in his BMW.
He comes back with a free range turkey, which it so happens is still very much alive.
No one has a clue as to what to do next, and at one point Murphy is putting a trail of bread cubes (from a stuffing mix) in a trail on the floor leading to the oven in an attempt to get the bird to climb in on its own.
This moment from “Everybody Loves Raymond” is one of the funniest moments ever. It shows the truth of the idea that it isn’t the outrageous thing that’s funny, it’s people’s reactions to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CSECwl-gaQ&feature=youtu.be
Just before that, there’s one joke that’s just as funny, but it has a loooooong setup.
BWAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!
A lot of people, apparently, thought the Seinfeld series finale was awful, but Part I is among my favorite episodes, particularly Newman’s speech castigating Jerry followed by his exit, laughing diabolically.
The episode where she finally came out of the closet (was it the last in the series?) The whole episode was funny as hell, but most especially the whole ‘getting a toaster for converting the straights’ thing had me absolutely dying…
The Mary Hartman chicken soup event:
mary hartman-chicken soup - YouTube. The clip is 8 1/2 minutes long, I promise it’s worth it.
Josh “You Lift Me Up” Groban hosts an episode of music-themed BBC comedy panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. If you like Groban’s music you’ll find this amusing. If you hate Groban’s music, you’ll find it hysterical. Seriously, people, watch this, even if you don’t know who any of the people on the show are.
For more Grobanesque humor, here’s a short segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live: Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets. Two and a half of the funniest minutes on the internet.
This reminds me of another Chuck & Bob scene. Jody has hidden Bob in the fridge and Chuck, fretfully going through dummy withdrawal, starts to use various items around the kitchen, including fruit and vegetables, as ventriloqual figures. While this is going on, Burt comes into the kitchen and opens the fridge door…
(Bob: “Hey, you know that little light stays on?”)
Dave Chappelle’s The Racial Draft. Political incorrectness at its funniest.
Bless you for posting this. Bookmarked and must be watched frequently.
Oh God–the look on that dog’s face! Priceless!
‘i just wanna cupcake, puhlease can I have a cupcake, imagoodboy, honest’
Another favorite episode of mine from The Vicar of Dibley was Radio Dibley. The Vicar arranged it so the village would have it’s own radio station for a week, of course broadcasting from the vicarage.
Finally pedantic Frank Pickle gets his own show and everyone else, except the Vicar, leaves. Geraldine settles in with a book and Frank starts his show:
Reverend Geraldine Granger: You’re on in fifteen seconds, Frank, and I need to hear a little bit for level, so tell us what you had for breakfast.
Frank Pickle: Toast.
Reverend Geraldine Granger: Yeah… I need a little bit more than that, so just make something up, you know, let your imagination run wild.
Frank Pickle: Wild! Great. Two pieces of toast.
Frank Pickle: Hello. I’m Frank Pickle. And I’ll be here for the next hour. Or maybe a little longer, in fact, because I have to put my coat on afterwards and say good-bye to the vicar, which should take a few minutes. Anyway, I’ll be with you for quite some time. So I’ll start by telling you something I think you’ll find very interesting. I first discovered I was gay when I was 18, and I fell in love with a young farmhand called Justin. He was beautiful. I’ve been trying to tell you, dear friends, for 20 years. But it’s tricky. That’s the lovely thing about radio. Speaking into this microphone here, alone tonight, I can say things I could never say to you face to face.
Two things made be laugh out loud: The Vicar’s reaction in the background, and the rest of the cast’s reaction the next day: no one had listened.
There’s only been one time in my life that I laughed so hard while watching TV in relative solitude, that people over in the kitchen came in to check on me, to make sure I was ok. I remember it vividly, but tragically, I can not for the life of me remember what it was that I was watching - not exactly, at any rate. I am pretty sure that it was the Simpsons, and may have been the time that Prof. Frink invents the sarcasm detector, but it may also have been Homer’s polygraph test, or yet Moe’s polygraph test. It’s difficult to know.
Oh wait! Everybody Loves Raymond has at least two other episodes that had me crying I was laughing so hard. The one where Raymond decides he’s going to do the shopping and ended up almost burning down the kitchen.
And the approved snacks for soccer.
Bless you for posting this. Even though I knew what was coming, I died. (And I’m at work, with headphones on).
“let’s all go to the taco show…”
And…any episode of Frasier with his evil agent, Bebe. (“She doesn’t have to worship the devil. The devil worships her!”) Especiallly the one where she’s trying to quit smoking so she can marry a much older, wealthy man. She’s having a hard time. (“Sorry Puddin’. Bebe slipped.”)
“Dick van Dyke”. the mixed up baby seen that ends when Greg Morris and his wife visit the Petrie’s
The Walnut episode with Danny Thomas and Laura sliding out of the closet filled
with walnuts
“Mary Tyler Moore” the death of Chuckles the Clown.
“Babylon 5” Londo is rewriting Vir’s report on Minbari “Do not say they have three classes: priests, workers and the military. Write they devote one-third of their economy to war.”
There is an episode of “Get Smart” “The Farkas Fracas” which has Tom Bosley and Alice Ghostley
as a bickering couple who are neighbors of the Smarts and want to give 99 a poisoned dessert that she will give to the Chief. Some of the examples of their bickering are Naomi complains that Emil wears socks to bed and he says his feet need protection from the dirty sheets. Anyways the Smarts are able to stop the Chief from eating the poisoned dessert and after a brief conversation between the three, they turn and see the Chief’s dense assistant lARRABEE HAPPILY EATING THE DESSERT.