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

"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.

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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

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