What's the funniest scene you've ever seen in a movie?

Chevy Chase sees his long lost dog running across a field in the distance -- Funny Farm

Chevy Chase gets run over by a perfectly spherical boulder while trying to kill his mail man -- Funny Farm

Will Ferrel's drugged out tranquilizer rampage -- Old School

Will Ferrel brain washing scene -- Zoolander

Vince Vaughn, every second of screen time he has -- Made

(1) Except at "Bart the Daredevil".

Vacation and Fletch have some corkers, and so does Airplane. Freddy got Fingered was widely lambasted but I thought it was subversive as fuck and really hilarious.

Being around eleven and watching "Up In Smoke" for the first time with my Dad and uncle. Mind you, both of them are about as far away from Cheech and Chong as you could get, but they still laughed their ass off. I was pretty young and didn't get the whole dope thing, but the scene where they end up on that median with the car filled with smoke is still funny as hell to me now.

The first time I saw "Raising Arizona" I thought I was going to split my side. I laughed at the entire thing and was completely straight. The scenes with John Goodman in the therapy circle in the prison where he states "sometimes a man has to choose between a family and a career" and when they break out during the rain storm still kill me.

Seeing "The Big Lebowski" in the theatre on grass was out of hand. My friend laughed so hard, he got sick during the part when Turturro shows up on screen as the bowler. There are so many subtle things in the dialog and scenes (like the Autobahn album cover) that movie gets to me, but maybe I identify more with Lebowski than I care to admit.

The play scenes in Rushmore of Serpico and later with the Vietnam epic are also killed me.

Of course, it is hard to remember how hard I laughed the first time I saw all of those great Mel Brooks movies, Airplane, etc.

The scenes in The Producers with the Nazi play writer are great. "Hitler was a better dancer than Churchill." I only know Dick Shawn from this movie and "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World", but he takes over the stage every time he was on screen.

Since none of those things are really relevant, I'll call it a tie.

I also laughed hard at the cowboy in The Big Lebowski. It seems like that was put there just for me.

I think it was the sheer absurdity of it mixed with horror/disgust.

Office Space, geeks beating up a fax/copy machine to the Geto Boys.

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park -- Gene Simmons: "Starchild! No need for gratitude...your thoughts SPEAK to us!!" Paul Stanley: "You're looking for someone...but it's NOT Kiss!!!!"

Last shot of Citizen Kane.

Guest cleaning some fluff off his guitar mid-solo as it sustains the note

the zombies-style drummer in their 'Gimme some money' performance

"the druids..no-one knows who they were...or what they were doing..."

Saucy Jack

Artie Fufkin

sandwich-folding

Guest working in a shoe-shop

Recording Bill Borchardt's "one line of dialogue" in American Movie... well, nearly any scene with Bill, really.

The fat opera singer opens his mouth and is shocked to hear a tuba instead of his voice in the Bugs Bunny short Long-Haired Hare.

Most of the sequences in that flamenco club in Silent Movie.

Ed Harris disco dancing in Creepshow.

And when the film blacks out to the credit: "Also Starring David Alan Pickelsimer".

And I seriously cannot NOT laugh until it hurts watching the Will-Ferrell-on-tranqs scene in Old School. Same (but to a slightly lesser extent) I could say for the "we're goin' streaking!" scene (especially "SNOOPALOOP!").

How can you say that?

"...Now, fuckin' every now and then I fall apart!"

"Billy, earmuffs"

"Hey, honey, we're streakin'!"

"You're my BOY, Blue! You're my boy!"

And of course"

"Duuuuddde, youuuu've gottttaa darrrrttt sttuuuckk innnn youuu'rrre neccckkk."

"You're crazy, man....I like you, but you're crazy."

Oliver Hardy's reaction take near the end of Sons of the Desert.

julie hagerty blowing up otto the autopilot and then leslie nielsen walks in on them in airplane (scratch that, ALL the leslie nielsen scenes in that are totally classic:
"well, there was a choice: steak or fish."
"mmm, yes, i remember. i had the lasagna.")

the catholic high school girls in trouble! segment of kentucky fried movie ("show me your NUTS!")

many many many many scenes from wet hot american summer but to single out specific scene, when victor's driving back to camp, singing along to "danny's song" and then suddenly shouting OH FUCK! and crashing it into a tree. fuckin' hysterics.

how about funniest deleted scene: parker posey's alternate audition monologue in waiting for guffman ("WHO'S ON TOP AND WHO'S ON BOTTOM NOW?!?!") (my roommate last year knew this monologue by heart and would do it for you on request)

and the simple scene where paul is in his spanish class and the teacher tells him in spanish that he's to report to the principals office.

liar liar - maybe it was due to my being really high but the first time i saw this i completely lost it during the scene when jim carrey is going around the conference room making fun of all the lawyers.

Yeah, that scene is pretty great, especially the kid with cerebral palsy who's running for vice president unopposed! What hilarious and observant details.

also, henry fonda falling flat on his face in "the lady eve" and eve mistaking the horse's nuzzling for charles are two of the best scenes ever, both in the same movie.

on the mark my feathered friend (you are a bird right?)

"I'm Jose Conseco!"

There's a film called Easy Money with Travolta, her from Friends, and Michael Moore... It's not a great film, but there's one scene with a truck that just wrecked me...

Tar tackling Elliot Kaplan

Probably the crossing-guard interview in Lost in America.

^^ this was the first thing that came to mind for me when I saw the thread title.

Or maybe the "I want out of the marriage!" scene from The Heartbreak Kid.

also the "would that it were so simple" bit from Hail Caesar, one of the babershop scenes from Coming To America (are the bit were they argue about how old Joe Louis is and the bit about meeting MLK the same scene?), the boardroom scene from The Magic Christian

Characters on drugs in movies are not usually funny, imo, with the exception of this scene in "21 Jump Street":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO8_ZHrfvy8

Or maybe the "I want out of the marriage!" scene from The Heartbreak Kid.

We definitely share a sense of humour.

Probably the scene from _Lebowski_ where he asks the cop if they have any leads as to who stole his car. That's the one my kids and I laugh about the most, anyway.

Somebody mispronounced the name of the character Radfoot in Our Mutual Friend yesterday as Radford and all I could think a our was the discussion in The Big Lebowski during the what-have-you about the location of the North Hollywood In-and-Out Burger.

the scene in the Elvis movie where he hits 'em with the wiggle and the crowd reacts as though they're being mowed down by a sniper made me laugh the whole way through

lol

I can’t really quantify personally, but

It was definitely wild and memorable to be in a movie theater at 18 years old for Something About Mary in those fleeting few days before people knew about the big jizz reveal.

to think how big of a deal that scene was, like I remember being "holy shit cum, in hair, in a mainstream movie?" and now like if that same scene appeared in your average raucous big summer comedy, it'd be like the 17th most audacious thing

as a teen I used to enjoy watching adults break down into screaming children in high intensity situations, so the scene in Nothing to Lose where Martin Lawrence/Tim Robbins and the two robbers are screaming "shut the fuck up", "no, YOU shut the fuck up" over and over back at teach other had me howling .

idk if I'd find it funny now cos it'd just feel like being at work.

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or from Nutty Professor (remake):

"I didn't say nothin about stickin tubes in nobody's ass"
"how do you think you get your colon cleansed? take your asshole to the car wash?"

Yes, I come from a farts-are-the-height-of-comedy family, and the Nutty Professor remake's family dinner scene was the funniest damn thing all of us had ever seen

The scene in Real Life where Albert Brooks is discussing the face scanning technology and then cuts to the result of test subject absolutely destroyed me.

Christmas vacation, when the old dude who looks like Kurt Vonnegut blows up the Christmas tree with his cigar

a handful of mst3k riffs = the hardest i've laughed during a movie

my "everyone laughing hysterically through the whole movie in the theater including me" experience was "superbad". doubt i'd find it that funny now.

"once again, it's...Manos, the Hands of Fate"

definitely. choke on my lungs, barely survived it type laughter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHqiipcw6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgkxxA1dpsn

dang, anyways, wanted to post a clip from The Wrong Guy starring Dave Foley, which is a very light and slight comedy filled to the brim with the funniest scenes I can think of, much recommend for Kids in the Hall fans, it's on YouTube in full, skip to 34:00 for the train catch

not a very well regarded film but very much full of hysterical scenes including this one, gets me every time. especially the stenographer reading back the transcript, and when the baron points out the silly man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2IkPKHoMZ0

anyone who matters knows that is a cracking screwball comedy

can confirm, I do know this

The Dinner scene with Mark Torgl in the Troma sex-comedy "The First Turn-On."

Gotta say, when I was a kid the um yeah THAT scene in Intolerable Cruelty (not the one mentioned above but...yeah, that one) did pretty much kill me

My answer is still the same as it was before the recent jump though

From Charade:

Peter Joshua: Do we know each other?
Regina Lampert: I already know an awful lot of people, and until one of them dies, I couldn't possibly meet anyone else.
Peter Joshua: Well, if anyone goes on the critical list, let me know.

I can still get a chuckle from the "Romans Go Home" Latin lesson.

Airplane!'s Jive scenes work for me. Not only because the Jive was completely invented, by the actors, for the movie - but also because of the completely deadpan subtitles. I will not credit the Zuckerwhatevers with being tasteful and sensitive filmic artists, but I thought that the handling of the Jive scenes worked. Similarly the "What's a Nubian?" bit from Chasing Amy.

But mostly for me and my family we can trade lines from Charade forever. Or the Muppet Movie ("That's a myth!" "Yeth?"). Ditto Top Secret, Auntie Mame, Better Off Dead. "Gee, Ricky, I'm sorry your mom blew up."

funny scenes in otherwise dreadful movies is another concept

the pussy troll scene in clerks two deserved to be in a far better movie

theres a line mrs ferriter probably never saw her prize sixth class pupil typing but hey

xps i was sort of non-plussed by the dave foley train jumping scene until it resolved into the little forehead clunks on the ladder, then i lost it.

on thinking closer my answer is now "the moment when 'stonehenge' is lowered in This is Spinal Tap and Nigel registers a look of abject shock at the abysmal size of the thing as it lowers"

I'm laughing just thinking about that one, it's a contender.

Probably the crossing-guard interview in Lost in America.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 02:19 (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^ this was the first thing that came to mind for me when I saw the thread title.

Or maybe the "I want out of the marriage!" scene from The Heartbreak Kid.

also the "would that it were so simple" bit from Hail Caesar

the waitress scene from Jerry Lewis's Cracking Up is another favourite, and I think that these are maybe all funny in similar way: two people having a strained conversation where they are not really connecting or communicating, at least one of them is dying inside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ENZglTjDrA

The Heartbreak Kid/"I want out of the marriage!" scene is so great in how it starts out with Jeannie Berlin oblivious and Grodin dying inside while he tries to get his point across, and then when she realizes what's happening it switches to him being oblivious and her dying inside (and of course he perks up once he has the chance to get into his sales pitch about why this is actually a good thing for both of them), like she's contingently oblivious where he's essentially oblivious

this line always makes me laugh, the fact that it was apparently improvised makes it even better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhdNT1dnoL8