A lot of my favorite funny movie moments are by the Pythons.
The priest saying the following prayer:
Oh Lord, oooh, you are so very big, so absolutely huge, gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you...
We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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tommyrot - Aug 25, 2005 8:56:08 am PDT #6794 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sue - Aug 25, 2005 8:58:49 am PDT #6795 of 10002
hip deep in pie
I know Bringing up Baby always has me in stitches, but I can't recall any particular scene that's amazingly funny except for the disentegrating dinosaur skeleton.
What Matt said.
Also, The Pink Panther movies. And Withnail and I, esp "Get in the back of the van!"
Sean K - Aug 25, 2005 9:01:31 am PDT #6796 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
what movie (or mass entertainment) scenes made you laugh the hardest?
Any number of scenes between Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont, or between Groucho, Chico and Harpo. Harpo Marx in general.
The Tarzan, Tonto and Frankenstein scene from SNL where they're all being interviewed on a talk show, and Lovitz does something to make Hartman crack up so hard he has to just stand up and say "FIRE BAD" in between giggles, and goes crashing through the back wall of the set, just to get off stage and lose his shit.
Just about any sequence from News Radio, especially any scene with Jimmy James.
A bunch of stuff from both animated and live-action Tick, though nothing specific is coming to mind right now.
And I think the GWtW Caroll Burnett scene may just be the funniest thing of all time.
Aims - Aug 25, 2005 9:03:18 am PDT #6797 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Tim Conway's elephant bit.
Sean K - Aug 25, 2005 9:05:06 am PDT #6798 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Ah Robin, sharing the Marx Bros love with me.
Michael Palin driving the steamroller in A Fish Called Wanda was a definite high point too.
Pretty much that whole movie had me in danger of peeing myself from laughing so hard.
Sean K - Aug 25, 2005 9:06:37 am PDT #6799 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Tim Conway's elephant bit.
You know it's funny when even the professionals can't keep from laughing.
Scrappy - Aug 25, 2005 9:08:19 am PDT #6800 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Kramer slammming the money down, "I'm out" in the Master of my domain episode of Seinfeld.
askye - Aug 25, 2005 9:08:22 am PDT #6801 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Another great moment from The Carrol Burnett show as in a Mama's Family skit. I forget what the set up was -- I think they were playing some kind of game -- and Tim Conway goes into this long story about Siamese twin elephants that are joined by the trunk. He makes everyone lose it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 25, 2005 9:11:37 am PDT #6802 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
That's the elephant bit Aimée mentioned.
I remain amazed that Vicki Lawrence didn't crack up during that scene. But it was her "You think the little !@#$% is finished?" that completely destroyed everyone else for the work day.
Fred Pete - Aug 25, 2005 9:11:57 am PDT #6803 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
During the mid-'80s, Tom Hanks hosted SNL (Sade was the musical guest). I saw the ep in a crowded dorm lounge.
The final sketch was a Greek-fisherman thing, with Hanks and one of the regulars in costumes that included fake mustaches. About halfway through the sketch, Hanks' mustache started sliding out of place. For the rest of the sketch, we couldn't hear the dialogue because everyone was laughing so hard at the mustache going here, there, and everywhere except Hanks' upper lip.