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

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