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

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!"

the bit in BANANAS where the old lady gets beat up on the subway and woody kicks her crutch away

http://www.filmclassic.com/Exclusives.htm

Tubby workmen falling through the roof of the house they're building; hard to top.

What's awesome about it is that later on you see Annie's pictures of Alvy holding the lobster up on the wall in her apartment.

Walter: Certainly, why I wouldn't let her stay. She deserves all this happiness, Bruce. All the things I couldn't give her. Yeah, all she ever wanted was a home.
Bruce: Well, I'll certainly try to give her one.
Walter: I know you will, Bruce. Where are you gonna live?
Bruce: Albany.
Walter: Albany, huh? Got a family up there then?
Bruce: No, just my mother.
Walter: 'Just your mother.' Oh, you're gonna live with your mother?
Bruce: Well, just for the first year.
Walter: Oh, that will be nice! Yes, yes, a home with mother - in Albany too!
Bruce: Mighty nice little town - Albany. They've got the state capital there, you know.
Walter: Well Bruce, how is business up there? Any better?
Bruce: Well, Albany's a mighty good insurance town. Most people there take it out pretty early in life.
Walter: Yeah, well I can see why they would

I'm torn between the Young Frankenstein scene that slutsky mentioned and the Super Troopers opening nickalicious mentioned. On the one hand, I think Young Frankenstein is a funnier movie, while Super Troopers -- although I liked it -- never reaches the superhilarity of those first five minutes. On the other hand, nickalicious is an adjective, and slutsky is not.
Since none of those things are really relevant, I'll call it a tie.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 2 May 2003 02:47 (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

two not-bad shouts, but my two YF high points are "what hump" and 'puttin on the ritz'

the high fidelity scene where they kick the shit out of robbins also one i remember losing it at

lestat dancing a corpse around in front of a horrified brad pitt took ten minutes to recover from nb this may not have been their intent idk

kung fu hustle road runner chase

the spitting in the sunshine boys

dress/tux in bringing uo baby

nic cage interrogates a wheelchair bound pensioner in bad lieutenang

My longest, hardest laugh was probably the last scene with Sam Jackson and The Rock from The Other Guys. I honestly almost peed myself.

yeah

and the whisperfight at the funeral

movie srsly needed an editor tho

The Statham scenes in Spy kill me every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAaKs3M1ZOY

danny cooks breakfast for the house in this is the end

Dalton's final fate in Hot Fuzz, although I was the only one howling in the theater so that might just be me.

The scene with MacGruber's team in the car on the runway.

I'm noticing a pattern here.

That MacGruber scene was amazing.

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