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

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Without a doubt, the funniest scene ever is ... in Dead Ringers when the twins play switcheroo while examining Claire. It's really subtle and very telling of my sense of humor, but if you think about the scene from Claire's point of view, it's extremely funny to imagine that your gynecologist stops examining to leave the room, change into a tuxedo, and finish the exam. Luckily Cronenberg doesn't hit you over the head with it. End.
-- TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (EMAL...), December 31st, 2003.

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

latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

metfigga--thanks for making me no longer feel like the only person who appreciates the movie "Liar Liar"

"I'm Jose Conseco!"

jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 14 November 2004 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link

the last ten minutes of SAW

latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

the lobster scene in annie hall!

Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

william demarest falling flat on his ass in "the miracle of morgan's creek"

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
the part in THE JERK where steve martin attatches the house to the back of the car

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

piscesboy, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Probably in the W.C. Fields short The Dentist, when he's working on the tall, stuck-up lady in the chair.

Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not proud of it, but there was a silent comedy trio variously called A Ton of Fun or The 3 Fatties -- they tipped the scales between 250 and 400 pounds -- whose weight-based slapstick frequently sent me into oxygen debt. Scroll down to "Heavy Love":

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


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

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

the lobster scene in annie hall!

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.

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link

For me it's the lunch scene in His Girl Friday...

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

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the longest I've ever laughed at something in a movie was the first time I saw Cave Dwellers, when Ator manages to make a hand glider. But I was very young then.

Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 14 January 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

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

flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link

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

These Sticks Were Made For Dipping (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link

yeah

and the whisperfight at the funeral

movie srsly needed an editor tho

flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link

The Statham scenes in Spy kill me every time.

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

DJI, Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link

danny cooks breakfast for the house in this is the end

flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link

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

These Sticks Were Made For Dipping (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link

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

I'm noticing a pattern here.

These Sticks Were Made For Dipping (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link

That MacGruber scene was amazing.

DJI, Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link

I laugh-cried one of my contact lenses out at the bathroom stall fight in Austin Powers.

a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link

climactic scene of toni erdmann killed the entire cinema dead

bonus points for turning it into one of the most tearjerking scenes ever

imago, Friday, 24 August 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link

Not sure if it's the funniest scenes but the one that pops into my head is a tiny part of the first Cheech and Chong movie where (IIRC) they go to meet a slightly manic, paranoid weed dealer and at one point they step out through the front door onto the plain suburban street and he says 'Will ya look at that - THE GREEEAT OUTDOORS!'

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Friday, 24 August 2018 08:39 (five years ago) link

Not the funniest but after 30 years UHF still cracks me up, esp. Raul's Wild Kingdom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb8C7dxTGRM

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 24 August 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link

four years pass...

crucifixion in Passion of the Christ

the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 June 2023 20:24 (ten months ago) link

A pretty good one from recent years was the comic/erotic scene being filmed in Dolomite Is My Name where the crew themselves all erupt in laughter after the cut.

nashwan, Monday, 12 June 2023 20:48 (ten months ago) link

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.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 12 June 2023 21:01 (ten months ago) link

mine is still "son, is this your homework?"

the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 June 2023 21:03 (ten months ago) link

"Is this your homework, Larry?"

or

"No, Walter, I don't think Larry was about to crack."

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 12 June 2023 21:04 (ten months ago) link

"Oh, no, he has health problems."

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 12 June 2023 21:06 (ten months ago) link

hardest I've ever laughed in the theater was during Fast Five, there's this scene where the crew is gathering intel on the FBI agent who is chasing them, who happens to be noted WWE Superstar The Rock. they hack into the government database or whatever and pull up his employee profile and in his official government photo he is doing The People's Eyebrow. idk if that was supposed to be a joke but it really made me laugh.

frogbs, Monday, 12 June 2023 21:12 (ten months ago) link

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.


“or the credence” just destroys me

brimstead, Monday, 12 June 2023 22:44 (ten months ago) link

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...

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 00:47 (ten months ago) link

Tar tackling Elliot Kaplan

Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 01:18 (ten months ago) link

Probably the crossing-guard interview in Lost in America.

clemenza, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 01:19 (ten months ago) link

^^ 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

he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 08:11 (ten months ago) link

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

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 12:53 (ten months ago) link

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

We definitely share a sense of humour.

clemenza, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:23 (ten months ago) link

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.


Love this one. Also the way Julianne Moore says “vagina” to gauge his reaction. And the whole sequence with the sheriff of the “beach community” and thrown coffee mug - probably my favorite thing in the movie.

beard papa, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:36 (ten months ago) link

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.

CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:10 (ten months ago) link

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

frogbs, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:26 (ten months ago) link

lol

CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 16:09 (ten months ago) link

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.

young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:18 (ten months ago) link

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

the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:38 (ten months ago) link

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.

the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:41 (ten months ago) link

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?"

the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:43 (ten months ago) link

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

fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 19:17 (ten months ago) link

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.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 19:29 (ten months ago) link

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

brimstead, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 20:42 (ten months ago) link

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.

ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 00:51 (ten months ago) link


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