I was thinking today what my favorite comedic movie scene of all time is. I’m sure I am forgetting a lot of them, but right now, these two are at the top of my list. The first made me think of the second:
Prolly the Nicholson.
There is also this classic scene from the Wire (not really a movie, though):
I still think Bunk has the greatest voice of all time. Better than James Earl Jones, even.
What scenes do you all love?
bjacques
Alec Baldwin’s motivational speech in “Glengarry Glen Ross,” of course. What every corporate “all hands” meeting really boils down to.
General Stuck
The Nicholson clip DH Lawrence is my top one.
Then there is Mongo
Comrade Luke
Dammit. Only one comment, and you beat me to it!
Coffee’s for closers.
kindness
Blazing Saddles – pick any number of scenes.
How about when Clevon Little walks up to the podium to address his new town and says ‘Excuse me while I whip this out!’ to the shrieks of the townsfolk.
SiubhanDuinne
The first time I saw The Producers (1968, first run) I was literally (LITERALLY!) on the floor sobbing with mirth at the “Springtime for Hitler” sequence. It’s still great and I still love it, but nothing will ever quite match that first unexpected jolt.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Pretty much any scene chosen at random from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The anarcho-syndicalist peasant scene seems particularly apropos for our politics these days. Except that today you know who is King because he
hasn’thas a maximal amount of shit all over ‘im, thanks to the poo-flinging hominids.Keith Johnsen
In Raising Arizona when HI’s foreman Glenn and his wife come to visit. Four incredible comic actors bouncing off each other (and trees).
gogol's wife
Irene Dunne pretending to be Cary Grant’s sister in “The Awful Truth.”
dan
Laurel and Hardy pushing a piano up a flight of stairs.
ant
For ABL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emvySA1-3t8
General Stuck
Then there is the best movie fight ever
Spiros Vondas
The best part about Bunk is that he can also sing.
Spaghetti Lee
Well, keep in mind I am a man of low taste, but the “Jim Carrey insults everyone in the boardroom” scene from Liar Liar always cracks me up.
khead
The end of Stalag 17
Michael Carpet
The escape sequence in Stalag 17. Great movie, wonderful lines.
John Cole
If we are going to go with Alec Baldwin comedy performances, nothing is funnier than the 30 Rock where he pretended to be Tracy Morgan’s mother and father:
Hal
You liked Three Amigos?
John PM
“Gentlemen, there is no fighting in the war room.”
“But, he’ll see the big board!”
singfoom
He really hates those CANS!
That or the gasoline fight from Zoolander send me into uncontrollable laughter.
dan
Three Amigos is a funny movie.
Wag
“The res zone is for loading and unloading…” scene from Airlplane.
Actually, the whole damn movie.
Culture of Truth
It begins “I am Arthur, King of the Britons” and ends with “Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”
khead
Tried to link to youtube once already but I think I ended up in moderation because I included two links to youtube.
The (almost) end of Stalag 17.
schrodinger's cat
John Cole @top
Any action scene with Tunch. We need our blog deity, we haven’t seen him in a long time. Why do you deprive us so?
khead
Also, in The Caine Mutiny…
The scene where Bogart loses it or this one.
metricpenny
My favorite comedic scenes are from The Wonder Boys.
I don’t want to be a spoiler so I’ll just say there is one near the beginning of the movie featuring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire and a dog.
I’ve watched it numerous times and have laughed out loud each time. Hell, I’m laughing now.
gogol's wife
@khead:
You think the scene where Bogart loses it is funny?
Culture of Truth
Since ThatLeftTurn mentioned the same scene, I will also accept anything involving Captain Oveur or Leslie Nielsen.
ant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr7djGY1fhA
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Walter Huston, Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
srv
Network’s Corporate Cosmology scene:
Relevant 40 years go, relevant today.
And any progressive would love Thelma & Louise driving off the cliff.
khead
@gogol’s wife:
Heh. Didn’t realize it was comedy only.
John PM
Also, Tropic Thunder, the r-tard-d scene between Ben Still and Robert Downey, Jr.
CaptainFwiffo
The courtroom scene in Kentucky Fried Movie has probably the most well crafted joke I’ve ever seen (when a witness is asked to state his name). It starts at about 3:30. Although the movie has a lot of slow parts too.
Captain Haddock
Lethal Weapon 5 is perhaps the best movie ever made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjhV1DavSRM
khead
Franks and beans
Comrade Luke
You can’t talk about the Three Amigos without the Invisible Swordsman.
gogol's wife
@khead:
Whew. That scene is one of the best pieces of acting I’ve ever seen. My husband can make “The mess boys ate the strawberries” sound very funny, but it isn’t funny in the original context!
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Culture of Truth:
Great minds, etc.
NCSteve
Like the guy said, any random scene in “Blazing Saddles.” But, also, too,
In Trading Places, the scenes with Akroyd in the filthy, cheap Santa suit after his plan to frame Eddie Murphy fails.
Jumping onto the buffet table with the gun. Drunkenly staggering out the office building door with that .45 stuffed into his belt and perloined smoked salmon peaking out from behind the foul, filthy beard.
“Hey, Winthrop!”
“Nyeaaugh!”
The drunkenly eating the salmon all tangled in the filthy beard on the bus. The failed suicide attempt when the dog comes and pees on him and then it starts raining.
Love that movie in general, butthose scenes in particular make me giggle like a ten year old. No idea why.
khead
@gogol’s wife:
Every now and then I drop “but I proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt using geometric logic” on some folks when arguing…
…but usually all I get is a blank stare in return.
srv
@schrodinger’s cat:
Old Tunch pr0n.
Nalbar
One of the things that REALLY bothers me about BJ is that many have no sense at all.
Hands down the funniest scene in film, never to be topped;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
dedc79
So many scenes from Rushmore it’s hard to pick one but here goes
Same problem for The Big Lebowski
Geoduck
This bit from the live-action George of the Jungle movie. Yes, it’s toilet humor. I make no apologies.
Svensker
@Comrade Luke:
Also, too, “Sew! Sew like the wind!”
Also, too, too, “Do you know what a plethora is?”
Thoughtcrime
Almost any scene from “The Party” with Peter Sellers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN8FjyvrHY4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-C_n85vH9Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fICVCI6EfQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hrb_fcCcSw&feature=related
reflectionephemeral
No one else likes Woody Allen’s “Deconstructing Harry” as much as I do, but I think it’s excellent. This very much NSFW scene, particularly the first two minutes, where his wife confronts him about his affair, is simultaneously hilarious and disturbing.
dianne
Randy Quaid and Jeannie Garafalino ??? on a blind date in a movie about divorced fathers who all meet at McDonalds to exchange kids with their ex-wives. The movie was just ok but that one scene of those two in a restaurant together is hilarious.
Tall Tom
Faking the big “O”, in When Harry met Sally.
JGabriel
Favorite Comedic Scenes?
Two of them involve Cary Grant. From His Girl Friday:
And then there’s the scene in Bringing Up Baby where a character asks Grant why he’s wearing a women’s bathrobe/dressing gown, and, pushed to the point irrationality, he jumps up and down screaming, “Because I’ve just gone gay!”
.
Kitty
Steve Carrell as Evan Baxter in “Bruce Almighty”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iplfWUtKMzI
keith
Anything from Black Dynamite or maybe the ‘Tell me what you want me to fuuuuuuck’ scene from MacGruber.
MikeJ
Any scene from Bringing up Baby.
John Cole
@dedc79: o. R. You?
schrodinger's cat
I have seen John’s future, you can see it here for yourselves.
gogol's wife
@reflectionephemeral:
I think “Deconstructing Harry” has numerous hilarious scenes. But I was the only one in the theater who was laughing, for some reason.
Culture of Truth
The killer bunny scene is good, but then we might as well thrown in Black Knight for a comedy walkoff
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
The 1967 film “The 25th Hour” with Anthony Quinn and Virna Lisi is the story of a Romanian man in WWII who is fingered by a neighbor and dragged off by the Nazi’s. His experiences during the war are incredible and baffling.
from IMDB
policomic
Another vote for almost anything from Holy Grail (“That’s a good idea, oh Lord” / “Of COURSE it’s a good idea!”), but I would also nominate Laurel and Hardy trying to break into the second story of a building using a block and tackle and a mule in Way Out West.
I provide a link to the clip, if I could find it.
Svensker
@JGabriel:
“You told them my name was Bone and you didn’t tell me!”
Bubblegum Tate
Ricky Bobby says grace.
Also: Pretty much any scene from Spaceballs, particularly: “When will then be now?”, “No, sir, I didn’t see you playing with your dolls!”, “I always have coffee when I watch radar–you all know that!”, and “Radar about to be…jammed!”
schrodinger's cat
@srv: Thanks!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Love and Death Subjectivity.
“Judgment of any system, or a priori relationship or phenomenon exists in an irrational, or metaphysical, or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstract empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself. ”
Boris: Yes, I’ve said that many times.
Digital Amish
I haven’t seen it in years but the street scene in “All of Me” when Steve Martin first deals with Lily Tomlin’s spirit in his body was a masterpiece of physical comedy. At least I remember it as one.
Taylor
@bjacques:
Baldwin had five minutes in that film, and it’s the only five minutes I can remember.
“Third prize, you’re fired.”
Absolutely remarkable performance.
But in terms of the most timeless scene, I’d say something like the Atlanta wounded scene from Gone With The Wind, or the closing scene in Casablanca, or “Leave the gun, take the canolis” from the Godfather.
khead
You don’t want no part of this shit.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Jim Jarmousch : The last cigarette. Blue in the Face
4jkb4ia
Because there has never been anything false about hope–first minute of the ritual of distributing the season tickets in Fever Pitch. When Drew Barrymore meets the fellow season ticketholders also classic.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream
Down by Law
PhoenixRising
Steve Martin doing the wacky weather in LA Story.
” ‘The cats were out till around ten. But it got a little too cold for them and they came in’. Well, that’s how L.A. coped with that surprise low of 58 degrees that turned the weekend into a real weenie shrinker!”
4jkb4ia
@SiubhanDuinne:
I forgot that!
Nalbar
@General Stuck:
Sorry,
The best fight scene in film is the bar room fist fight in Shane. Two guys take on six, and just as they are about to get their asses kicked, they back out. Shane understood, sometimes you have to make a stand, even if it means getting hurt. And Van Heflin was right, some things are just not fit for a decent woman to see.
No video on this one.
nalbar
Cat Lady
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
Yevgraf
“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball” kills me every time.
Svensker
@Digital Amish:
Yes. Ha ha ha.
Spiffy McBang
@Bubblegum Tate: “I knew it, I’m surrounded by assholes!”
ARGH, fucking ads…
Culture of Truth
There’s a brief but hilarious scene in the Kentucky Fried Movie in which laboratory mice dress in white polyester and disco.
JGabriel
@Bubblegum Tate:
I can’t say I’m a fan of Spaceballs, but that one scene, where Moranis ends up looking at an infinite regression video of the back of his helmet is pretty inspired, and lands somewhere in my top 20 or 30 funniest scenes.
.
AnnaN
Everyone is missing it by a mile.
“Son, you got a panty on your head.”
wrb
They are in the Pink Panther movies, the Thin Man movies, You Can’t Take It With You, Libeled Lady, Monty Python, Harvey, The Philadelphia Story, but picking one? That’s not my minkey. and that’s not my dog.
Don’t like my picks? Don’t say stinks, darling. If absolutely necessary smells but only if absolutely necessary.
Hop hop hop hop hippity hop.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Nalbar: The one in Bad Day at Black Rock where one-arm WWII vet Spencer Tracy takes on Borgie is pretty good,
Svensker
@wrb:
The whole movie. But especially all the Gladys scenes.
Joel
“Beautifully fucking illustrated.”
piratedan
well there’s a bunch i’d like to nominate……
“First, never start a land war in Asia…….” – Princess Bride
various scenes being stolen by Kurt Russell in “Big Trouble in Little China” but especially the penultimate fight scene where Jack shoots the masonry out of the ceiling and knocks himself out
the very first line from MST3K’s treatment of Cave Dwellers….. “Just how much O’Keefe is in this movie?…. Miles O’Keefe”
“your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries….”
“sorry we hurt your field mister”…. George Harrison, In a Hard Day’s Night.
Nylund
I’m going to go with this one from the Graduate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeE-Hkno9Ao
It’s the scene where a very nervous Dustin Hoffman tries to get a hotel room to start his affair with Mrs. Robinson.
Svensker
And no one has mentioned A Fish Called Wanda? Otto?
Nylund
The “Poop back and forth, forever” scene is probably the funniest scene I’ve ever seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQoJo81lujk
wrb
@Svensker:
Absolutely!
Although the fishing ain’t bad
slightly-peeved
The entire second half of Hot Fuzz. Especially the showdown with the old lady holding a shotgun.
gogol's wife
@Joel:
Ooh, that’s a good scene. I’ve only seen him play Jane Austen heroes. Didn’t know he could act.
piratedan
@Svensker: well the London Underground is not a revolutionary group, I looked that up Otto……
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Newman, Hombre
Audra Favor: I can’t imagine eating a dog and not thinking anything of it.
John Russell: You even been hungry, lady? Not just ready for supper. Hungry enough so that your belly swells?
Audra Favor: I wouldn’t care how hungry I got. I know I wouldn’t eat one of those camp dogs.
John Russell: You’d eat it. You’d fight for the bones, too.
Audra Favor: Have you ever eaten a dog, Mr. Russell?
John Russell: Eaten one and lived like one.
Audra Favor: Dear me.
handsmile
The first one that came to mind: each and every scene featuring Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker in In the Loop (2010), probably the funniest, most incisive political satire I’ve ever seen.
This clip offers but a glimpse of the genius of Capaldi and the film itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5q3xFB8MXo&feature=related
AnnaN
@wrb
I second all your nominations. I’ve seen Philadelphia Story so many times, I have the dialogue memorized by heart.
Don’t stop, Mikey. Keep crooning.
Thoughtcrime
Since I missed the “Worst Fight Scene Ever”, I’ll post something from one of my favorite, hilarious, horribly bad movies. And it stars The Shat and Odd Job!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6I63VGLVP0
Bubblegum Tate
@Spiffy McBang:
“Keep firing, assholes!”
God, I love that movie.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
An honorable mention to just about any scene from The Blues Brothers, but especially the Going to see the Penguin scene near the beginning of the movie, and the Chicago police freakout chase scene at the very end. And I won’t soon forget the first time I watched it together with my kids and they both turned to me at the same time and asked: “What is Princess Leia doing in this movie and why is she trying to kill Jake and Elwood?”
Nevgu
Meh….don’t think any of those clips are particularly funny. So in addition to being naive it appears Wrong Way Cole does not have much of a sense of humor either.
This may not be the funniest scene but it’s still a great scene.
http://youtu.be/y-AXTx4PcKI
ant
@Nylund:
omg
cathyx
@Nevgu: So you don’t like John and you don’t like his sense of humor. Why would you bother being here? Don’t you have any friends? You have an angry streak about you and I see why you picked that clip to exemplify what is funny to you.
BDeevDad
Many from Princess Bride including Hello, my name is….
JPL
I’m dating myself also, but I thought Cat Ballou was hilarious. Here’s the song from the funeral…link
The classic scene was Lee Marvin and his horse leaning against the barn but I couldn’t find it.
cathyx
My humor runs in the direction of “The Office” and “Modern Family”. I know several people for whom “The Office” makes them squirm, but my daughter likes it too. It’s nice to have the same sense of humor as your child.
BDeevDad
OMG, slightly off topic, saw this when looking. 100 greatest movie insults.
Comrade Kevin
How about Stonehenge?
Montysano
The Sirens sequence from O Brother Where Art Thou?, but I could easily pick several other scenes. It’s one of the most perfectly realized films ever.
Short Bus Bully
Midnight Run.
Robert De Niro calling his bail boundsman boss from jail. EPIC swearing. Has me dying with laughter every time.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
No one mentioned Young Frankenstein?
Cloris Leachman: “He vas my …. BOYFRIEND!”
and many many other scenes.
khead
@Short Bus Bully:
“Gee, I’ve been lookin all over for these. Thanks Alonzo!”
“10 years for impersonating a Fed? How come no one’s after you?”
Love that flick.
klondike
Todd Louiso dropping the air conditioner on Tim Robbins in High Fidelity.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
oh, comedy.
long ago
There’s a nice scene in “The Matchmaker” where the Boston pol who has gone to Ireland to find his (fake) Irish roots is introduced to some authentic Oirish people in a real live shanty. A bucket of shite, false teeth, threats of flogging, and other mayhem ensue.
And speaking of the Oirish, I can *always* laugh at the Swedish Chef, Beeker, and Animal singing “Danny Boy”. (not really a movie, though).
Short Bus Bully
@khead:
Could watch it every day, literally.
“And then I call Marvin and he’s telling me to go fuck myself… EVERYONE IS TELLING ME TO GO FUCK MYSELF!”
Thoughtcrime
@JPL:
Jackson Two-Bears: Kid, Kid, what a time to fall off the wagon. Look at your eyes.
Kid Sheleen: What’s wrong with my eyes?
Jackson Two-Bears: Well they’re red, bloodshot.
Kid Sheleen: You ought to see ’em from my side.
Paula
Chasing Amy
“BLACK RAGE!”
hildebrand
Any scene with J.K. Simmons in Burn After Reading.
Short Bus Bully
@Paula:
Oh hells yeah! Haven’t thought about that one in years. Holy shit that’s funny.
Yevgraf
I thought I was the only guy who loved Midnight Run.
I confess to loving Captain Ron, as well.
Nalbar
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Yes, Raven.
It is.
Moik
My $0.02: Best fight scene in all of cinema is the final showdown of Yojimbo – facing off in a dusty town square, the lone nameless samurai against a dozen men (the leader, of course, packing heat). Can’t find video of the scene, but it’s one of my favorites.
cckids
The last 10 minutes or so of “Moonstruck”. Cher, Olympia Dukakis, Nic Cage, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia, plus the old gentleman who plays the grandfather. The timing, the writing, the interplay between the characters. No incredibly funny lines, it is a package; a perfect little snippet of moviedom that makes me laugh out loud every time I see it. This is a badly edited version of it, but the only one I can find:
adolphus
The Lance Armstrong cameo in Dodgeball slays me every time. Best cameo ever.
tworivers
@dedc79:
Lebowski’s definitely got a number of worthy scenes. Walter’s “Do you see what happens, Larry?” freakout is definitely up there in the pantheon.
I’d also put in a vote for a couple of Jack Black moments
From High Fidelity, the scene where he sings “The Night Laura’s daddy died” (can’t find a clip)
And the Legend of the Rent from School of Rock
I also like the possessed hand scene from Evil Dead 2.
Who’s laughing now?
cathyx
One of my favorite comedy movies of all time is “Defending You’re Life” with Albert Brooks. The premise of the movie just cracks me up.
Yevgraf
Captain Ron: [telling how he lost his eye] Yeah, it happened when I went down off the coast of Australia.
Katherine Harvey: Your boat sank?
Captain Ron: No, no, no, no. Not my boat. My boss’s boat. Yeah, we hit this reef. Huge son-of-a-bitch. Ran the whole coast.
Katherine Harvey: Wait. The Great Barrier Reef?
Captain Ron: You’ve heard of it, huh? Smart lady.
Short Bus Bully
@Yevgraf:
If you’re going to go Kurt Russel on me you have to go Big Trouble in Little China, easily his best movie evar.
Jack Fucking Burton!
adolphus
And of course anything from Paint Your Wagon. That movie is fricking hilarious. But I think I have mentioned that here before.
Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin singing!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzVM6Q4YwAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnbiRDNaDeo
Seonachan
Comedic scenes: For me nothing will ever top the opening 15 minutes or so of the Producers. Gene Wilder at his hysterical finest, and Zero Mostel as his usual self.
birthmarker
@JPL:
This brought up a whole different type of movie to me…
As for comedy movies, many scenes in Spinal Tap are classic. Even the camera shots are cliche.
The redneck bar scene in Beverly Hills Cop with Eddie Murphy is great.
In Kentucky Fried Movie, where the scientist screams out, “Toy Robot!,” well, my husband to be and I nearly fell off the seats we were laughing so hard. 30 plus years later, we still say the line from time to time. It’s especially useful during the childrearing years.
cckids
@cathyx: Speaking of Brooks, I laugh at (and quote) his character’s line from “Broadcast News”. When he’s the nerd pudgy kid getting the sh*t kicked out of him by the athletes, & he cries “sure, you can beat me up now, but you’ll never make more than thirty thousand a year!”.
Also, too, the scene in The Producers when Will Ferrell takes over the auditions “Thats our Hitler!”
JPL
@adolphus: Lee Marvin was great.
FlipYrWhig
It begins and ends with _Spinal Tap_.
cckids
@cckids: aargh, FYWP, trying again with the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubp-RI-Imxg
Mr Furious
@Short Bus Bully: Made it all the way to the 100s and I thought, “Really? No one with Midnight Run?”
Robert DeNiro and a Who’s Who in great role actors put together one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. It is almost certainly the most quotable…
Any scene with Jimmy Serrano (Dennis Farina) lambasting his feckless hit men is awesome.
Brian R.
The redneck bar scene in Beverly Hills Cop with Eddie Murphy is great.
That was in 48 Hours. “There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is Reggie Hammond. Right on.”
My favorite line in that movie though is when he takes out his old crime partner by opening the car door as he’s running by. “What’s happening, Luther. Sorry about the car door. That looked real painful when you slammed into it.”
Water balloon
Pretty much any scene from CLUE.
*Pushes pretend glasses up nose* “Well, I had to stop her screaming!”
adolphus
@JPL #130: Yes he was, but he couldn’t sing worth a damn and that movie is embarrassing.
I think they should remake Paint Your Wagon, but with the actors and in the idiom of Deadwood. Don’t tell me that wouldn’t be awesome.
tworivers
The mirror scene from Duck Soup
Not knee-slappingly funny, but amazing and brilliant.
Brian R.
No one’s said “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka”?
This scene kills me every time. The opening segment is lame, but the final bit starting at 2:13 is hilarious.
“It’s a good thing you came, man.”
“Yeah, ’cause I heard you screamin’ all the way down there…”
“I wasn’t screaming, all right?”
“Yes you was…”
“I said I wasn’t screaming! I was whistling for you!”
“… You was whistling ‘Willie, help get this bitch offa me’?”
birthmarker
@Brian R.: Thanks! I admit I didn’t google to check myself. Lazy.
quannlace
I’m sorry. But I could go the rest of my life with never seeing that clip ever again. I mean, it was funny the first 50 times it’s been played. But like a stick of gum, it lost it’s comedic flavor a while back.
“My Favorite Year’. Alan Swann mistakenly walks into the ladie’s room. An occupant indigently tells him, ‘This is for ladies only!” Swann unzips his fly and says, “So is this, Ma’am. But every so often I have to run a little water through it.”
Then later, when Swann realizes he has to go on live TV.
‘I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!”
Brian R.
I love the opening scene with the news bulletin.
“The popcorn you’re eating has been pissed in. Film at 11.”
adolphus
Black Acting School from Hollywood shuffle. Sadly still relevant today except for the “There’s Always Work at the Post Office” tag line.
Short Bus Bully
@Mr Furious:
True dat. Dennis Farina nearly stole that whole movie. I’m sitting here laughing out loud at work just thinking about it.
Nevgu
@cathyx: Thanks for the kind words my little groupie. We both know I make you moist.
Still waiting for your hilarious sugarplum fairies and gumdrops video.
daveNYC
The scene In High Fidelity where they just beat down Tim Robbins is great in how The violence just comes out of nowhere and is over the top.
The morning after scene in Shaun of the Dead where he walks to the corner store and
Abates to miss all the signs of the zombiepocalypse. On that note, Zombieland is pretty good too.
cckids
@quannlace: Oh, god yes! My Favorite Year has to be one of the funniest, underrated movies around. Thanks to Peter O’Toole.
I’ve always thought he would have made the perfect Dumbledore.
Ron
@CaptainFwiffo: Kentucky Fried Movie has a lot of great stuff. Everything from one-liners like “The popcorn you’re eating has been pissed in. Film at 11” to the entire ‘Fistful of Yen’ bit.
khead
@adolphus:
Sneakin in the Movies > Black Acting School
Mainly due to the levels of gravitivity and polarity and shit.
AMD
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned the Biggus Dickus scene from Life of Brian. “He has a wife you know. She is called… incontinentia.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPGb4STRfKw
Ron
There are a so many funny scenes out there that it’s really hard to pick one favorite. Probably one that sticks out to me right now is the scene with Miracle Max in The Princess Bride.
Irony Abounds
The sequence in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex with Woody as a sperm is great, as is the Stonehenge scene in This is Spinal Tap. Peter Graves’ scenes in Airplane are classic as well.
artem1s
@Moik:
ah yes, Mifune is teh awesome in any fight scene, but that’s an especially good one.
one of my favorite funny scenes…a very stoned Brad Pitt giving directions to the mob hit men in True Romance.
Also, just about any scene from Lebowski and while we are covering Jarmusch, Screaming Jay Hawkins and the bell hop in Mystery Train.
SiubhanDuinne
@Thoughtcrime:
Yessssssssss! The Party!
Studly Pantload
Little Miss Sunshine. When Olive reveals onstage the number her Grandpa Hoover had taught her for the pageant. I don’t think my wife and I have ever laughed so hard at any one scene in a movie.
Much more nuanced is a scene from an underrated gem from 1971 called A New Leaf. The inimitable Walter Matthau tries to help costar and director/writer Elaine Maye with the Grecian gown her mousy character is wearing wrong as only he can. “You’ve got your arm in the head hole.” Must be seen to be appreciated (I programmed my DVR to record it when ever it might come on.) Then there’s him being introduced to a socialite named Mrs. Hitler, to which he responds, “Are you of the Boston Hitlers?”
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Mr Furious: Count me as one of the big Midnight Run fans. I live for the moment that it’s on some random channel when I’m up late desperate for something to watch.
dad23g
A Night at the Opera, stateroom scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZvugebaT6Q
Short Bus Bully
@artem1s:
Fuck yeah.
SiubhanDuinne
@wrb:
Do you have a leesawnse for your minkey?
Amir Khalid
My own favorite comedy movie is one none of you guys have ever heard of, but it’s a classic of Malaysian cinema: a completely off-the-wall 1961 version of Ali Baba and The 40 Thieves titled Ali Baba Bujang Lapok. The whole thing is pretty weird, but I’m particularly fond of the scene where the leader of the thieves ditches the kid’s high-rider bicycle he was getting around on, in order to steal Kassim Baba’s Vespa scooter.
JPL
@Studly Pantload: Both movies were great. I went with a friend to see Little Miss Sunshine shortly after it’s release without reading any reviews. It was such a surprise. We laughed all the way home. Alan Arkin is always great but it gave me a new appreciation for Greg Kinnear.
SiubhanDuinne
@cckids:
Very fond of My Favorite Year.
Also too, that scene in Broadcast News where Joan Cusack does some amazing physical comedy running the tape up to the control room, sliding under open file cabinet drawers and sprinting up the stairs three steps at a time.
LT
I just watched “Gay bear! Theater!” four times and have spat cornchips all over my desk.
Okay, pretty sure he didn’t yell “Gay bear!” but why not? ANd “theater!” is cracking me up again.
Mr Furious
@Short Bus Bully:
“don’t fuckin conden-send me…I’ll fuckin kill ya, man.”
“True Romance” is another vastly underrated flick chock full of amazing cameos. The scene with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken is a classic. Hilarious, riveting and brutal all at the same time.
Allen
It was the early 70’s, I was living (temporarily, thank the FSM) and was walking home from work. It was hot out and I saw a theater showing Mel Brooks “The Twelve Chairs” and a sneak preview for movie called “Blazing Saddles”. Thought what the hell, I like “The Twelve Chairs” and hadn’t seen “Blazing Saddles”. Best decision about movies I have made.
“Doctor Stranglelove” is damned funny too.
JPL
I’m watching Jane Eyre, the recent one with Mia Wasikowska and directed by Cary Fukunaga. It sorta follows the book and reminds me that Bronte was a feminist long before Sarah Palin could criticize feminism but it seems so inappropriate on this thread. It is a beautiful remake of the novel though.
SiubhanDuinne
@cckids:
Yes indeed he would have.
kimp
Hands down, Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Svensker
@cckids:
Yes, it’s genius. And it just gets better and better the more you watch it.
Svensker
@Studly Pantload:
A really underrated movie.
I love Walter Matthau.
Svensker
Nobody’s mentioned “Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!” The In-Laws.
And speaking of Alan Arkin, The Russians Are Coming — when Whittaker Walt is tied up with the telephone operator.
And The Housesitter, when Steve Martin sings Tura Lura.
And then there’s Mr. Hulot’s Holiday or, maybe even better, Mon Oncle. Hard to pick a single scene since the humor in both is so cumulative.
So much good stuff out there. Sigh. In fact, I’m off to watch a movie with the hubster.
Cain
@Short Bus Bully:
“Keep the home fires burning and if I’m not back by dawn, call the president”
hehe
Susan S
Betty White feeding the baby crocodiles in “Lake Placid;” every scene in “The Ref;” Galaxy Quest, hands down.
Cain
Airplane II, courtroom scene.
Prosecutor: Dr. Stone, would you give the court your impression of Mr. Striker?
Dr. Stone: I’m sorry, I don’t do impressions… my training is in psychiatry
hehehe
Lojasmo
Adam sandler’s song to liev schreiver in “mixed nuts”
Almost any scene from almost any Cohen brothers’ film.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Svensker: The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming!
My favorite scene was always “Emergency! Emergency! Everybody to get from street!”
Drove my family and friends crazy repeating the line every time I saw an emergency exit.
Librarian
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.
“I hadn’t seen a body put together like that since I’d solved the case of the murdered girl with the big tits.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_piLm38E_U&feature=related
wasabi gasp
Dead Gator
artem1s
@Mr Furious:
Drexel Spivey best pimp ever!
Lojasmo
The reveal in “the usual suspects” and the reveal in “primal instinct”
Hot damn.
handy
Best. Movie. Scene. Ever.
YellowJournalism
Pick a random scene from the second half of Best in Show, although I just love the part where Parker Posey has a freak out in the pet store over the Busy Bee.
Jack Lemon dancing the tango in drag always cracks me up. But anything from Some Like it Hot deserves a mention. “Nobody’s perfect!”
Madeleine Khan’s entire performance in Paper Moon deserves a mention.
And I second the mention of the scene from the divorced dad comedy. I can’t even remember the damn name of the film, but that first date scene was wonderfully akward.
suzanne
In The Princess Bride, the whole scene with Vizzini. “Different and only SLIGHTLY LESS WELL-KNOWN is THIS! NEVER go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!”
Monty Python, Life of Brian: “YES! WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!”
Monty Python, Meaning of Life: “Every Sperm is Sacred”.
Tom_23
One of my all time favorite is from Amazon Women on the Moon (dir by John Landis) and the opening scene
Who hasn’t had one of these days.
http://youtu.be/EHSoN8t6x3M
Paul
The tailgating scene in “Lost Highway” is a dark classic (and cathartic.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDilD3wAxt8
patrick II
I am late to this party, but have to mention an old TV movie (from 1972) “Evil Roy Slade” with John Astin starring as the meanest outlaw in the west. He was so mean and evil even the wolves would not raise him.
It was immensely silly, with Evil Roy just unable to understand anything that wasn’t evil despite his best attempts because of the love of a pretty schoolteacher.
DaddyJ
The first time I saw it, the Monty Python and the Holy Grail sequence starting with Tim the Enchanter (“Look, you’re a busy man…”) leading up the killer rabbit (“That rabbit’s dynamite!”) took me to that laughing stage where I was actually gasping for breath. On the DVD, irascible old John Cleese complains about Terry Gilliam’s direction being too artsy, but one of the things that makes that movie so funny for me is the contrast between the beautiful (but cheap!) visuals and the depraved comedy.
Mr Furious
“Pineapple Express” is probably the funniest film I’ve seen in the last few years. Added bonus is the great fight scenes… James Franco v. Rosie Perez, anyone? Did Shane grind anyone’s face into a litter box?
DaddyJ
@JPL: Kinnear is excellent in Ghost Town as well; the smarm shines through.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
WHAT?! No one has brought up any scene from Animal House?
Also, the knives scene in Kung Fu Hustle.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Oh, and while there are too many great scenes in Preston Sturges’ films to list, I’ve got to put the “First Drink” scene from The Sin of Harold Diddlebock up there at #1.
RadioOne
I think the best movie comedies by far were “Airplane!” “Blazing Saddles” “Animal House” and “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
But they’re all ancient movies, and I can’t think of any recent movie that’s made me laugh as much as those did when I first saw them. I think TV tends to be much better venue for comedy, with Community and Parks and Rec being hilarious on a weekly basis.
blueneck
I don’t know about “favorite”, but this one’s pretty funny…
karl
@Moik: @Svensker:
Yes! Yes!
“Carbon on the valves.”
mai naem
A ton of scenes in Bowfinger(freeway crossing scene, scenes where they go up to Eddie Murphy filming the movie scenes) and Midnight Run(pulling the FBI agent checking for forged 20 dollar bills,the scene where Charles Grodin saves Deniros life and Deniro shackles him, the scene in the airport with the kidnap idiot who recognizes Deniro.) Also the final dance at the pageant scene in Little Miss Sunshine.
Svensker
@YellowJournalism:
Yes! “Look what you’ve done. You’ve torn my chests.”
and @mai naem:
The freeway scene in Bowfinger makes me laugh so hard my eyes ache.
Rosalita
I can’t help it but the deli scene in When Harry Met Sally still cracks me up.
Also too, any movie that has a scene with John Travolta dancing. The one in “Michael” particularly makes me smile.
gogol's wife
@handy:
That’s hilarious!
Sad_Dem
Everything already mentioned, plus the Marx Brothers. Possible all-time fave: the stateroom scene in Night at the Opera.
Sad_Dem
Oops, I see that the stateroom scene has been mentioned. Well, there’s always the trial and musical number in Duck Soup, a funnier movie in toto than Night at the Opera.
Kyle
For comedies, pretty much any scene from Drop Dead Gorgeous.
For scenes from any kind of movie:
Atticus leaving the court room in To Kill A Mockingbird.
The final scene in Places in the Heart where everyone, and I mean everyone, is in church.