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What are your favorite funny scenes from the movies? My top 10 are:1. The "snuffbox" scene from Laurel & Hardy's BONNIE SCOTLAND.
2. "Puttin On the Ritz" scene from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
3. "Goodness had nothing to do with it..." The intro scene with Mae West in NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. Mae's first film.
4. "Walls of Jericho" in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. This is a splendid film and maybe the greatest single post-silent comedy.
5. Chaplin eating his shoe in THE GOLD RUSH.
6. Buster Keaton in drag in SHERLOCK JR.
7. "It's twue..." from BLAZING SADDLES. The whole Lilly Von Schtuck character was inspired and Madeline Kahn (we miss you!) was born to play the part.
8. The Charles Laughton scene in the classic IF I HAD A MILLION.
9. The fight between Marlene Dietrich and Una Merkel in DESTRY RIDES AGAIN. Dietrich's character was the inspiration for Lilly Von Schtuck.
10.Jacques Tati's tennis game in the movie MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY.
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can't remember the film, and in fact I think this long scene was cut from the origional release so it might be hard to find...Bill is playing pool but the only cue available to him has a wicked hook--a gag that is so common in pool comedy that it's become trite...
but never underestimate Fields, he hangs the scene out to dry for going on 10 minutes, lining-up his shot with this impossible, rediculous cue all the while carrying on with a hilarious monologue/story...
the climax is to die for.
For those who don't know, Fields was a brilliant juggler, considered to be the best that ever lived. He used to practice 10 to 12 hours every day, often stopping only when his hands began to bleed. He had a one-man show that was riviting...there are some clips of his more famous bits...showing his comic brilliance and origionality unlike anyone has seen since (nobody has been able to duplicate his tricks--they are just too hard!). Every now and then you'll notice he slips a gag into his films. Even late in life when alcohol had dulled his deftness his ability to slight-of-hand a balance and juggle of almost any item around him was so brilliant you almost didn't notice how hard it is. And that voice...
Fields repeated the pool routine in several films. One of his silents is called "The Pool Game." And I do think it is one of the all-time great scenes. Everytime I see it I about wet myself from laughing so hard.It's not that what Fields does is so funny. What is funny is the way he does it and his reactions to those around him. He was unique and wonderful. My fav Fields movie is "The Bank DIck" but I like them all.
My wife can't stand him. "For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, no explanation will suffice." (St. Thomas Aquinas)
...the Bob Barker/Adam Sandler fight scene in Happy Gilmore.AS
The "Exorcist / vomit " scene in Scary Movie 2. Has me rolling on the floor every time!
Rob CThe world was made for people not cursed with self-awareness
...the funeral wreath scene and the fox fur stuck on the shoe heel.I don't know the name of the particular episode, but when Stan Laurel visits Oliver Hardy in the hospital (with a broken leg), brings him boiled eggs and walnuts, and Hardy and his leg counterweight fall out the window while Laurel tries to figure out how to rescue him.
I once saw a short with Laurel and Hardy were the gag is they own a boat. Naturally you expect there to be water gags, but the boat is on blocks in a backyard and there is no water in sight, anywhere.Stan and Ollie are fixing-up the boat, at one point, Stanley is in the cabin and gets his head caught between the bulkhead and the mast, he can't free himself and starts to panic. Fortunately, a saw is within his reach, and he proceeds to saw thru the mast, obviously proud of his resourcefulness (that he doesn't have to suffer the humiliation of calling Ollie). Meanwhile Ollie is painting, and as you might expect, the fat man is painting while hanging on to the very top of the mast (you wouldn't put a skinny man up there, would you?).
Back in the cabin Stanley has sawn halfway thru the mast, when he notices that he's cutting towards his stuck neck, right at the Adam's apple--this illumination is hilarious. He adjusts his position and continues happily to complete the act of securing his freedom, with the expected disasterous results to his companion at the top of the mast (with paint bucket).
This is the set-up for the inevitable conflict where "...another fine mess...", and it follows that the water appears: a hose used to wash the boat--what follows is without any doubt the funniest scene in any film i've ever seen. I won't tell you what happens, you may be lucky enough to see it for yourself some day.
I confess, I have a weakness for Stanley Laurel--and Buster Keyton and Harold Lloyd and W.C. Fields and yes, even Chaplin. Those were the golden years of film comedy--nothing since has come close.
I wish I knew where I could find this priceless gem.
...You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask"...Woody Allen's adaptation of one of those "I'm OK, You're Fucked-up" self-awarness books from the 70's (a book that was so bad it didn't even burn well).
Weilder plays the psychiatrist who's patient tells him he's in love with a sheep...and does the longest (not) double take in the history of film....Allen's brilliant direction leaves the camera on Gene for what feels like an hour...not a word is spoken, not even a blink from Wilder...the smile permanently frozen on his face says volumes about the desperate thoughts clawing for air just beneath the surface...just thinking about it cracks me up.
if this scene doesn't slay you...how about the end of this bit, with Weilder lying in the gutter, a bottle of Woolite clutched in his hand...
most certainly. I'd about forgotten that film. The whole thing is funny.Also Woody Allen in Love And Death has many screamingly funny scenes.
In 'Home Alone', I find a lot of the bits when the bad guys take a beating hilarious.
The sword fight scene in Monty Python's 'Search for the Holy Grail' is very funny.
The scene in 'Caddyshack', when Bill Murray takes a bite out of what appears to be an Oh Henry bar (or?), is a great comic situation.
Movies that are full of hilarious scenes - 'Dr.Strangelove', 'Animal House', 'The Producers' and 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'.
How about almost any scene from "Start the Revolution Without Me"
or "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"
Steve
The bedroom scene in Buneul's Discreet Charms of the Bourgoisie. The couple are just getting it on when their guests arrive early and ring the doorbell. Both are frantically torn between completing the act and greeting the guests. Hilarious!clark
Max! He's wearing a dress! The Producers (BTW, Where is the dvd of this movie?)Up yours n***er! Blazing Saddles
The scene in Porky's where Balbricker proposes a lineup of tallywhackers.
Brother Bluto smashing the guys guitar.
Just two words: bicus dicus
P
And the guy singing 'Berserker' in "Clerks"
1. Tom Hanks eating a sardine on a pretzel in "The 'Burbs"
2. Jim Carrey at Medieval Times in "The Cable Guy"
3. Lee Marvin's target practice in "Cat Ballou"
4. Laurence Harvey's Hamlet soliloquy in "The Magic Christian"
5. Eddie Deezen and his dummy on the Ferris wheel in "1941"
6. Dancing dwarves and 12" Stonehenge megalith in "Spinal Tap"
7. Springtime for Hitler in "The Producers"
8. Ralph Brown's pharmacological discourse in "Withnail & I"
9. Tim Thomerson at seance in "The Wrong Guys"
10. Roscoe's Chicken 'n Waffles video in "Tapeheads"
except for the Carrey choice, an excellent list. Carrey is an aquired taste. I find him repulsive and unfunny, except for THE MASK, which is brilliant because he is fairly subdued. He is a major talent but strongly needs discipline before he turns into another Jerry Lewis.
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