Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

I really should read my own blog.

Come on, man.

He really is that stupid.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The willow is too close to the house.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Not all heroes wear capes.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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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?

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  1. 1.

    bjacques

    Alec Baldwin’s motivational speech in “Glengarry Glen Ross,” of course. What every corporate “all hands” meeting really boils down to.

  4. 4.

    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.

  5. 5.

    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.

  6. 6.

    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’t has a maximal amount of shit all over ‘im, thanks to the poo-flinging hominids.

  7. 7.

    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).

  13. 13.

    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.

  16. 16.

    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:

  22. 22.

    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!”

  24. 24.

    schrodinger's cat

    John Cole @top

    What scenes do you all love?

    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?

  26. 26.

    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.

  28. 28.

    Culture of Truth

    Since ThatLeftTurn mentioned the same scene, I will also accept anything involving Captain Oveur or Leslie Nielsen.

  38. 38.

    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!

  40. 40.

    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.

  41. 41.

    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.

  49. 49.

    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.

  51. 51.

    JGabriel

    Favorite Comedic Scenes?

    Two of them involve Cary Grant. From His Girl Friday:

    Cary Grant: We’ve been in worse situations, haven’t we Hildy?
    __
    Rosalind Russell: (depsairingly) Nope.

    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!”

    .

  53. 53.

    keith

    Anything from Black Dynamite or maybe the ‘Tell me what you want me to fuuuuuuck’ scene from MacGruber.

  58. 58.

    Culture of Truth

    The killer bunny scene is good, but then we might as well thrown in Black Knight for a comedy walkoff

  59. 59.

    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

    The finest and most memorable sequence in the film is the final one with Anthony Quinn and Virna Lisi trying to smile. The father carrying a daughter born out his wife’s rape by Russians is a story in itself but the director is able to show the reconciliation by a simple gesture–the act of carrying the child without slipping into melodramatic footage.

  60. 60.

    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.

  62. 62.

    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!”

  64. 64.

    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.

  65. 65.

    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.

  66. 66.

    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.

  71. 71.

    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!”

  73. 73.

    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

  78. 78.

    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.

  81. 81.

    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.

  85. 85.

    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.

  90. 90.

    slightly-peeved

    The entire second half of Hot Fuzz. Especially the showdown with the old lady holding a shotgun.

  93. 93.

    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.

  95. 95.

    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.

  98. 98.

    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?”

  99. 99.

    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

  101. 101.

    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.

  103. 103.

    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.

  104. 104.

    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.

  107. 107.

    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.

  108. 108.

    Short Bus Bully

    Midnight Run.

    Robert De Niro calling his bail boundsman boss from jail. EPIC swearing. Has me dying with laughter every time.

  109. 109.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    No one mentioned Young Frankenstein?

    Cloris Leachman: “He vas my …. BOYFRIEND!”

    and many many other scenes.

  113. 113.

    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).

  114. 114.

    Short Bus Bully

    @khead:

    Love that flick.

    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!”

  115. 115.

    Thoughtcrime

    @JPL:

    The classic scene was Lee Marvin and his horse leaning against the barn but I couldn’t find it.

    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.

  121. 121.

    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.

  122. 122.

    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:

  124. 124.

    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?

  125. 125.

    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.

  126. 126.

    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.

  127. 127.

    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!

  129. 129.

    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.

  130. 130.

    birthmarker

    @JPL:

    I’m dating myself

    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.

  131. 131.

    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!”

  135. 135.

    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.

  136. 136.

    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.”

  137. 137.

    Water balloon

    Pretty much any scene from CLUE.

    *Pushes pretend glasses up nose* “Well, I had to stop her screaming!”

  138. 138.

    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.

  140. 140.

    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’?”

  142. 142.

    quannlace

    Faking the big “O”, in When Harry met Sally.

    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!”

  143. 143.

    Brian R.

    In Kentucky Fried Movie, where the scientist screams out, “Toy Robot!,”

    I love the opening scene with the news bulletin.

    “The popcorn you’re eating has been pissed in. Film at 11.”

  146. 146.

    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.

  147. 147.

    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.

  148. 148.

    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.

  149. 149.

    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.

  152. 152.

    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.

  153. 153.

    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.

  154. 154.

    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.

  156. 156.

    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?”

  157. 157.

    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.

  159. 159.

    Short Bus Bully

    @artem1s:

    one of my favorite funny scenes…a very stoned Brad Pitt giving directions to the mob hit men in True Romance.

    Fuck yeah.

  161. 161.

    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.

  162. 162.

    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.

  163. 163.

    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.

  164. 164.

    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.

  165. 165.

    Mr Furious

    @Short Bus Bully:

    one of my favorite funny scenes…a very stoned Brad Pitt giving directions to the mob hit men in True Romance.

    “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.

  166. 166.

    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.

  167. 167.

    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.

  172. 172.

    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.

  173. 173.

    Cain

    @Short Bus Bully:

    If you’re going to go Kurt Russel on me you have to go Big Trouble in Little China, easily his best movie eva

    “Keep the home fires burning and if I’m not back by dawn, call the president”

    hehe

  174. 174.

    Susan S

    Betty White feeding the baby crocodiles in “Lake Placid;” every scene in “The Ref;” Galaxy Quest, hands down.

  175. 175.

    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

  176. 176.

    Lojasmo

    Adam sandler’s song to liev schreiver in “mixed nuts”

    Almost any scene from almost any Cohen brothers’ film.

  177. 177.

    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.

  183. 183.

    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.

  184. 184.

    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”.

  187. 187.

    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.

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    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.

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    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?

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    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.

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    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.

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    Svensker

    @YellowJournalism:

    Jack Lemon dancing the tango in drag always cracks me up. But anything from Some Like it Hot deserves a mention. “Nobody’s perfect!”

    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.

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    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.

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    Sad_Dem

    Everything already mentioned, plus the Marx Brothers. Possible all-time fave: the stateroom scene in Night at the Opera.

  201. 201.

    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.

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    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.

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