funniest movie scenes

[by Devol]

ok - seriously?
absolutely nowhere in this forum is there a funniest scenes thread?
There has to be.
Huh.
I tried a forum search for “funniest film moments”, “funniest scenes” and figured ok that’s good enough - if that’s not gonna cover it……so…..anyway -

Eraserhead - Henry having dinner with his girlfriend’s parents

Man Bites Dog - another dinner scene - protagonist shoots dinner guest in head for getting giggly and jiggy with protagonist’s ex, and the resulting shot of everyone sitting around the table, blood-spattered, as the protagonist (in a neckbrace) resumes with another forkful of venison, and sip of wine: priceless.

M.P. and H. Grail - killer rabbit

Royal Tennenbaums - tennis pro sibling coming unhinged on court

Boogie Nights - the rock recording. Funny on more than one level. Also - to sing off-key like that, so consistently, is kinda tricky, actually.

Eating Raoul - Ed Begley Jr. as psychedelic hipster daddy trying to make his moves on Mary Woronov.

Blue Velvet - Isabella Rossellini’s naked introduction to Laura Dern and family. (as she looks dazedly at Laura: “he put his disease in me.”)

Nuts in May - whole thing

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore - kid (who could be funny as shit in this sometimes) trying to console Ellen Burstyn, and then - with a convincing, impovised-looking impulsiveness - they end up in a no-holds-barred waterfight

Frenzy - whenever the detective was trying to eat a meal.

Lost in America - Albert Brooks trying to convince Garry Marshall (as casino owner) if he could find it in his heart to refund Brooks’s losses.
Fucking classic.

Rollerball 75 - incredibly gross cocktail party and then spilling outside, as they fireball a lone tree.

King of Comedy - De Niro interviewing cardboard cut-outs of Liza Minelli and friends in his mom’s basement. And Sarah Bernhart’s romantic evening with a securely-taped-up Jerry Lewis. And Pipkin’s stand-up routine at the end.

Happy Gilmour - Sandler vs. Barker

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - driving along, Oates delusionally barks away at the severed head in a gunny sack on the front seat next to him. (making this, far and away, the most twisted “buddy” film in the entire history of cinema, I’ll proudly proclaim) (good luck trying to come up with a more fucked-up buddy flick)

queue Denizen schooling me with archaeological thread recovery in 3.……2.…….1.…….

[SirStuckey]

[Stewball]

Rollerball 75

OK, out of all those this is the only one I've seen that I remember, and since I cannot fathom how it could be funny either intentionally or unintentionally, I wonder about the rest.

[TheDenizen]

Rollerball 75 - incredibly gross cocktail party and then spilling outside, as they fireball a lone tree.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - driving along, Oates delusionally barks away at the severed head in a gunny sack on the front seat next to him. (making this, far and away, the most twisted “buddy” film in the entire history of cinema, I’ll proudly proclaim) (good luck trying to come up with a more fucked-up buddy flick)

queue Denizen schooling me with archaeological thread recovery in 3.……2.…….1.…….

No I think you're the first with a "funny moments" thread that I've seen.

The Rollerball and Alfredo Garcia moments you mentioned are two of my faves....funny but also kinda disturbing. That's the best kind of funny IMO, followed closely by something that's supposed to be serious but ends up being tragically funny because it's so pathetic (actual "comedies" rarely make me laugh).

There's a moment near the beginning of recent exploitation masterpiece "Dear God No!" where there are 4 or 5 badass bikers (who have just finished mutilating some nun corpses) and they all line up on their big Harleys for what is supposed to be a sweet shot of them looking like tough guys in front of a big explosion while heavy rock music blasts in the background....but the pyro goes off like a wet fart, fizzing and smoking for few seconds before finally belching out a tiny little flame. I guess they only had the budget to do the shot once, so they just used this comically bad take in the final film, with the bikers all stoically trying to look tough and hide their disgust at the poor pyro effect. Very, very funny.

(BTW, I hope I haven't oversold this movie now. I've praised it a few times, it would suck for it to finally come out on DVD and have everyone who watches it on my recommendation absolutely HATE it. )

[mwgerb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTR-cG5W1I

Edit: So, the Youtube tags don't work anymore? Darn. Anyway, I love this scene. Shows how much the soundtrack matters.

[TheDenizen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTR-cG5W1I

Edit: So, the Youtube tags don't work anymore? Darn. Anyway, I love this scene. Shows how much the soundtrack matters.

you just put the "SnTR-cG5W1I" part between the youtube tags, not the whole link.

Like this:

[CMonster]

I could go on for hours about funny movie scenes, but I'll bring this one up because I was showing the movie to my roommate yesterday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x6LPfRGAL8
I couldn't find this scene with the part where Salma Hayek first turns into a vampire and kills Quentin Taratino, but that plus this makes pure hilarity after a mostly serious build up.

Also, 100% yes to Shaun of the Dead and Queen.

[by Devol]

Rollerball 75

I totally howl at futuristic scenes - not the technological/sci-fi ones, but the social ones, like this example, where the beautiful corporate fucks congregate at a party replete with handshakes where palms are rubbed together and then slide away from each other. With a super-twerpy-sounding mini moog score in the background, the moustachio'ed team goon hits on a woman by putting one hand up on the wall (his other hand on his hip) and asks her if she likes poetry. When she says "yes", he says "I got a poem for you upstairs." Lots of cheesy shit like that, capped off with partiers strolling in the nearby countryside, fighting over a gun that basically blowtorches trees.

OK, out of all those this is the only one I've seen that I remember, and since I cannot fathom how it could be funny either intentionally or unintentionally, I wonder about the rest.

you should give the others a chance instead of casting doubt - just because the above scene didn't
do it for ya, certainly doesn't mean all the other scenes won't.

[CMonster]

Also, how have you not seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That is just a classic.

[hellboy76]

I could only find this clip in Russian, which was even funnier to me.