It's always good to start the year with a smile in your face and a good laugh. That's why I bring you a humble list of some of my favorite funny clips from classic comedies.
Sit back and enjoy!
In Kingpin Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) is a former bowling prodigy/champion, who lost his good hand after a bet-fixing incident fight. Years later, he comes across Ishmael (Randy Quaid) and decides to coach him hoping to bring success and riches. At one point in the movie, he brings Ishmael over the house of a potential sponsor and here's what happens:
I've never met anyone who hasn't seen My, Myself and Irene, but just in case, I'll put in you in context: Charlie is a Rhode Island Police Officer who suffers from dual-personality schizophrenia. He's assigned to escort Irene (a witness from a dangerous trial) to a court in Connecticut and during the journey he loses the pills that help him treat the disorder. So, his other persona "Hank" shows up and after introducing himself to Irene, he tells her "he wishes they shoud get to know each other better..."
I Dream of Jeannie is one of those guilty pleasure shows everyone watched back in the day -or watches today on TCM or Classic Channel-. Each episode is filled with great one-liners from all characters, however... one thing that took me by surprise was when the king of one-liners appeared in one of the episodes:
Recently The Big Lebowski was added to the National Film Registry Library. Scenes like this justify that decision:
If there were umpires as good as Frank Drebin in Naked Gun, there wouldn't be any need for instant replays, hawk-eye, bird-view or whatever technological aid for competitive sports... in ANY sport !
There isn't much that can't be said about Bob Hope that hasn't been said yet. I'm also probably wetting the lake on a rainy day here when I include what some consider his best line ever from Ghost Breakers:
Tropic Thunder is one of the most underrated comedies of all time. Perhaps it went way too far with the stereotypes and subtle accusations, but that doesn't mean that Jack Black's one-liner cannot make my list (despite the fact that Black's role was forgettable the rest of the movie):
Top secret! was the originator that began the huge trend that made the sport Skeet Surfin' so popular today. I have always wanted to practice that sport. By the way, I envy those who went to that concert at 2:18 !
There's something about Mary will always be remembered for this (sorry I coulnd't find the whole scene):
I really hope they never remake or do a sequel to Beetlejuice. The feeling of seeing the first love of my life (Winona Ryder) will never be repeated... ever.
Marylin Monroe's acting has been questioned over the years by pundits and fans. Me personally, I love her in Some like it hot; I think she's the third funniest character in the movie (after Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon). It's one movie I recommend to everyone. The scene that makes it to my list however, doesn't feature her, but Lemmon instead, who has been forced to dress like a woman to hide from some gangsters, and ends up being courted by a lonely millionaire who wants to marry her (him). The scene -in my opinion- is the best end scene to any comedy movie of all time.
While I want to stay away from controversial topics such as religion, I just had to include this clip from Bill Maher's documentary "Religulous".
Some people call Bill Murray the King of Dry-Wit, and here's an example why (from Ghostbusters)
In Zoolander, Ben Stiller stars and direct a satire on fashion and its materialistic environment. David Duchovny is just gold here:
How about one from the late great Chaplin?
It's a good think Anchorman clearified me what do anchors talk about after the broadcast
I've always wanted to get myself an amp with a volume meter that goes to 11 to get that 1 more... like the one in Spinal Tap
The General is not a man, it's a train. Buster Keaton may not have been in the army, but he is a General when it comes to performing his own stunts:
Coming to America is one of those movies that were the best in the average in Gauss' Bell Curve, meaning it was great, terrific and had the potential to become a classic, but it didn't. It's still a great film, and this scene is filled with dry-wit humour. I mean, how can you wrong with Eddie Murphy and TWO Arsenio Halls !
If you like Southpark but you haven't seen Monty Python (either the movies, the shows or the clips), then you don't earn my respect. Not only Trey and Matt have declared themselves huge fans, it is quite evident the huge influence Monty Python has on them and Southpark (well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know?)
Speaking of Southpark, I don't listen to hip-hop:
For those of you who thought MM&I would be Jim Carrey's only spot on the list, well you thought wrong. While there are dozens of Carrey's worthy moments and even though not quick-wit, this scene from Dumb and Dumber makes it hand down
See no evil, hear no evil, is one among the many Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor collaborations. To understand this scene you have to know the plot of the movie: it's about Dave (Wilder) a deaf man and Wally (Pryor) a blind man, who get wrongly arrested for a murder they didn't commit.
Bringing up Baby flopped when it premiered and it was deamed as a failure. Time has proven both critics and the box office wrong. In fact, several sources attribute to Bringing up Baby the first use of the word "gay" in its modern sense.
One of the best memories of a beautiful woman I keep in my mind is Kristin Scott Thomas in Four weddings and a funeral. Also in the same film, one of the funniest memories of Rowan Atkinson I keep in my mind is his performance as a nervous rookie priest in charge of the second wedding:
As I already mentioned above, Groucho Marx was known for being the best one-liner actor of all time. In these scene from Duck soup however, he needs no words to prove his genius
I advise you: NEVER watch Clerks while drinking any beverage. This scene made me spit soda all over my surroundings (and yes, shamefully, that included people!).
Dante -a quickstore clerk- asks his girlfriend Veronica how many boyfriends has she had prior to him and she tells him she has only had two. Dante thinks it's impossible for such a nice and beautiful girl to have only slept with two guys, so he asks how many men has she had sex with, to which again she replies the same two. Dante feels she didn't entirely answer the question, so he demands her to define "have sex". She tells him that there's a difference between having actual sex and having oral sex (aka sucking dicks), and that if he wants to know how many men has she given oral sex to, then the answer is different, meaning higher than the two men she has slept with. This puzzles Dante, as now he asks to Veronica "well, how many dicks have you sucked?" Veronica then starts to feel a bit uncomfortable and tries to move away from the subject, but Dante keeps pressuring on. That's when the clip starts and here's what happened:
It's a mad, mad, mad world is one of the first real epic comedies. This scene may not be liked by everyone, but I find its irony amusing. The joke is that there's a group of people travelling cross-country to find a hidden treasure worth millions of Dollars. They haven't even found the money, and they're already discussing whether it should be tax-deductable or not
Coca Cola's stocks have been up 400 % after proper product placement of their vending machines in what most people (including me) consider the best satire/dark-humour movie ever made: Dr Strangelove
And finally, for those of you waiting for a scene from Airplane to be on the list, well, I'm sorry to dissappoint you... I don't think anyone can choose just ONE scene ! I will comment though on many of the hidden references/jokes some people may/might not have caught at first:
0:16 = The church of religous conscious takes a hit from conscious !
1:57 = Gay reference from "Spartacus". Later on at 2:32, he would ask Joey if he'd ever been on Turkish prision, referencing the gay scene from "Midnight express"
2:10 = The second cup of coffee is an old joke, because there was a commercial advising against second cups of coffe
4:05 = Captain Oveur states they're flying by the Hoover Dam and south the Grand Canyon to distract the passengers, who right away take a look through their windows... even though it's a NIGHT FLIGHT !
5:06 = Pull it out, and BLOW IT !
There's a missing scene in which Captain Ouver's wife asks who is her husband to which Kramer replies "alive but unconscious", to which Johnny quickly adds "... just like Gerald Ford!"
Another missing scene is when Elaine (stewardess) offers a passenger a magazine. The passenger asks for something light to read, to which Elaine replies "how about this leaflet, FAMOUS JEWISH SPORTS LEGENDS" ?
and of course, every scene featuring the aircraft: does anyone get that the engines sound like a 1910 propeller?
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