I can think of a half dozen scenes from "The Holy Grail" ("We're not peasants...we're an autonomous collective...")and from "Life of Brian" (esp the sermon from the mount..."I think he said 'the cheesemakers will inherit the earth.'") that always bring a smile to my face. Also, "The Producers" is one of my favorites. ("Smart as a whip that one...met her at the public library!")
For me a fish called Wanda will stand out.. I laughed throughout that entire movie.. When finally the third dog dies, causing the old woman to keel over, I lost it in the movie theatre.. Wet my pants from laughter... caused me to crack up even more...and continue to wet my pants... I was in my twenties...here.. Long way off from needing diapers..
I'm with you..!! "Something About Mary" had absolutly..Something For EVERY ONE....and just when I thought "It can't get much better than this".... at the end, when Brett(My Guy) enters...it did...!!!OMG...And my second.."Booty Call" I had tears through the whole thing...From laughter...These are two movies, I could see a million times and never get tired of....Now that's entertainment...!!!.BUT....#1 Comedian is still W.C. Fields....IMO
Anything at all from Monty Python - esp "Castle Anthrax", which should be damn popular on this board.
And Airplane - the little girl tells the boy "I like my coffee like my men - black" and the heroine tells the hero when he say "don't you remember how it used to be Elaine?" and she says "Ted, I remember sitting on your face and squirming" I thought the guy behind me was going to puke he was laughing so hard. And "Poor Johnson, he thinks he's Ethel Merman..." Oh and the movie "1941" had me in stiches and tears too... "Holly wooood!!!"
in 'Vacation' was totally unexpected and hilarious. I still think it is the funniest movie scene.
The jail cuddling scene in 'There is something about Mary' before Ben Stiller got bail is very funny.
The outburst of the agent, "I f****d her in the a**", in 'Adaptation' is also very funny and shocking.
There is a scene in an obscure Spanish film "Sex and Lucia" shown last year that was shockingly funny especially since I saw it with 3 of my female friends. The scene is about Lucia walking along the beach and found a man buried in a mud bath. The camera then zoomed to his long penis and mushroom head bursting through the mud. Coupled with the screaming of the female audience and my friends, I just couldn't stop laughing.
Bill Murry cracked me up and that movie.. Groundhog Day, another one as well as Screwged
The rest of the scenes were just a result of great insight to let Bill do whatever he wanted in front of a camera while the rest of the movie was being filmed.
Then they just did a cut and paste job to get his work in the film.
I liked the movie so much, I took Bill's characters name as my TER handle.
Carl "the greenskeeper" Spackler
The "bouncing away in a spacesuit" scene in Woody Allen's "Sleepers" floors me every time...
O.
A number of scenes come to mind:
"The Producers": Gene Wilders neurotic antics in the scene where Zero Mostel sells him on the idea to produce a show. Also, every scene with Kenneth Mars (the guy who plays the Nazi author).
"Some Like it Hot": the tango scene with Joe E. Brown and Jack Lemmon in drag. BTW, the American Film Institute lists this as the funniest film of all time. My #1 as well.
"Eating Raoul": A scene where Raoul discusses different flavors of lubricant gels, including "trail mix".
Any scene in "A Fish called Wanda" in which Kevin Kline appears.
Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?"
A Japanese mobster is shot down. His last words are, "I'm dying, call my Rabbi".
I thought this movie was hilarious! All the way through. Especially the scene where all the girls are in the chinese restaurant singing: "You're too big to fit in here..."
Taylor Fox
For me it has to be from "When Harry Met Sally"...specifically the scene in the diner when Meg Ryan show Billy Crystal how a gal CAN fake an orgasm---several minutes of table-grabbing, moans, oohs & ahhhs, etc...& a great punchline at the end. Every one I know who saw the flick remembers that scence.
Have you noticed how a few advertisers have stolen that line?
Shame!
That scene and there are sooo many great scenes in that movie!
How about the scene where Tom Hanks and his friend are in the house with the (friend's wife) talking about weepy movies. She names a typical chick flick and the two men roll their eyes and go on about some typical guy war movie and how they always cry when the last man gets it...
And when the flood of letters come in and Jonah (the little boy) is opening and innocently reading. One is from a woman who "She's looking for someone French. Or Greek."
Three outstanding scenes come to mind:
1. The "Bigus Dickus" scene in Monty Python's "Life of Brian."
2. The stoning scene from the same movie.
3. The scene in "The Naked Gun" where Leslie Nielson is on the window ledge holding on for dear life to a statue's dick, while a woman watching this from another window is screaming in horror.
BTW, I laughed all through "A Fish Called Wanda." It's also the only movie where I enjoyed Keven Kline's performance.
I can think of a half dozen scenes from "The Holy Grail" ("We're not peasants...we're an autonomous collective...")and from "Life of Brian" (esp the sermon from the mount..."I think he said 'the cheesemakers will inherit the earth.'") that always bring a smile to my face. Also, "The Producers" is one of my favorites. ("Smart as a whip that one...met her at the public library!")
OK My short list is:
Snatch - Just about any scene rips me up, but the scene where the three guys with "replica" guns go after "Bullet Tooth Tony" is classic.
Animal House - Pick a scene, they're all great!
Get Shorty - When John Travolta shoots Dennis Farina's hair in toward the beginning of the movie.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The Movie) - Paul Reuben's death scene
How about 'As Good As It Gets' - I laughed non-stop through that movie, same with 'Analyze This'!
As good as it gets did not have me laughing the whole time.. I thought there were funny scenes but I actually thought the movie had a more serious undertone..
However Analyze This, was a stitch.. Another Robert DeNiro movie you would love for its humor is Midnight Run..
"Weekend at Bernie's" was a classic.
tried to hide in that cardboard box. I was laughing so hard I thought I was gonna have a stroke.
For overall laughs, There's Something About Mary (90's), A Fish Called Wanda (80's) and Airplane (70's) top the list.
When the band is being interviewed about one of their drummers who died: "The official report was that he choked, on vomit. Of course, we're not really sure whose vomit it was. Scotland Yard doesn't ... well, you can't really dust for vomit."
Also from Woody, in Sleeper, when he's thawed out from his cryogenic state, and shown films of TV commercials from the 60's and Richard Nixon clips, and he gives his interrogators HIS viewpoint on that all of these items actually were.
But let me explain first. By todays standard that's one stupid movie. But back in the 70's when I was younger (22 yo),I remember almost wetting my pants. The Wizard of Oz scene had me busting. Oh well, too each his own...
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