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

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.

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

climactic scene of toni erdmann killed the entire cinema dead

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

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!'

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

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

crucifixion in Passion of the Christ

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.

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.

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

"Is this your homework, Larry?"

or

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

"Oh, no, he has health problems."

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.

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.

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.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DimFinishedBangeltiger-size_restricted.gif

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