My answer is still the same as it was before the recent jump though
― imago, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 19:59 (eleven months ago) link
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."
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 20:06 (eleven months ago) link
funny scenes in otherwise dreadful movies is another concept
the pussy troll scene in clerks two deserved to be in a far better movie
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 20:08 (eleven months ago) link
theres a line mrs ferriter probably never saw her prize sixth class pupil typing but hey
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 20:09 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 20:18 (eleven months ago) link
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"
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 20:20 (eleven months ago) link
I'm laughing just thinking about that one, it's a contender.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 20:27 (eleven months ago) link
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
― soref, Monday, 15 April 2024 13:33 (one month ago) link
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
― soref, Monday, 15 April 2024 13:41 (one month ago) link
this line always makes me laugh, the fact that it was apparently improvised makes it even better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhdNT1dnoL8
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 14:26 (one month ago) link