Re: Top 5 Favorite Comedy Scenes Of All Time
A friend of mine, who like myself I like to think has a good sense of humor, had this drunken conversation tonight. So well done OP because this featured in a drunken pre-clubbing debate. Here's what we came up with and a verbose explanation as to why. Personally all the real funniest stuff is TV comedy (and, sorry, biased..... but UK comedy.... Fawlty Towers, The Office, Alan Partridge, Only Fools, Father Ted), but as to HOLLYWOOD MOVIES only....
And In typical Idol style... 'in no particular order'-
1. "NED RYERSON!"- Groundhog Day. Where to start. What I've worked out in my fairly scant time on the planet is that LAYERS make me laugh. Layered comedy is what keeps me laughing because I keep seeing another perspective. So Phil obviously hates people. Ned is the antithesis of Phil. He loves talking to people... even if they probably never want to talk back. So we begin with Phil not recognizing him, but Ned desperate for him to recognize him. Then, after a while, Phil can't help but recognize him.... over and over. Which ranges from a homo-erotic confrontation, all the way to the BEST PUNCH OUT IN CINEMA HISTORY- Watch out for that first step... It's a DOOZY!
2. "We must try something a little more..... stringent'- DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS. Again, SOOOO layered. The escalation of the infliction of pain as he whips with that cane someone who is supposed to be paralyzed from the waist down is awesome enough, but again it's the layers that make this great. The two characters trying to keep up the facade. The run up. And the icing *BIG SPOILER ALERT* The fact that it's all for nothing since the person they're trying to con, is The Jackal all along. Genius!
3. 'You can start by wiping that F***ing dumbass smile of your rosey f***ing cheeks'- Planes, Trains and Automobiles. So many great moments here. From hands between 'pillows' to devil hallucinations, all the way to the still the greatest, gut-wrenching twist in a comedy, but nothing beats, still for me, the best unfiltered, expletive tirade in cinema history. Just.... Perfection.
4. Leslie Nielsen- EVERYTHING. I tried to narrow it down. But it's impossible. Anything from Airplane 'Calm Down' queue of wrenches, guns and baseball bats. Naked Gun "I've been swimming in Raw Sewage". "Isn't that right Mr. Poppy Pants. "Is this some kind of bust?". "Over here, Franks found another one". "Help the captain up" (obscure one, but both of our favorite Naked Gun moments ever). Too many! So 90% of any scene in any movie with Leslie Nielsen goes in this list somewhere. RIP- The greatest reaction shot actor of all time.
5. Jim Carrey- DUMB AND DUMBER/ACE VENTURA. We couldn't narrow this one down. Anything between "Fell off the jet way again", "He's got a gun- Did you pay the gas bill?!" " Relax, Harry. I took care of it"- Cut to thick rolls of selotape around decapitated Budgie head.... all the way to Ventura 'Yeah, and you're ugly", "I'm in psychosville and Finkle's the mayor", "....and a clean pair of shorts" and the genius of "If I'd been drinking out of the toilet, I might have been killed". Too many. impossible to filter.
I had HONORABLE MENTIONS, from Something About Mary, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Me, Myself and Irene, Monty Pythons Life Of Brian/Holy Grail, Kingpin "I'm gonna brush my teeth"..... but the alcohol is kicking in now.
And I'd hate to get any more verbose than I already am and have been. Although note how little of these have been in the last ten years.
NEWSFLASH! Apatow movies aren't that funny!
A friend of mine, who like myself I like to think has a good sense of humor, had this drunken conversation tonight. So well done OP because this featured in a drunken pre-clubbing debate. Here's what we came up with and a verbose explanation as to why. Personally all the real funniest stuff is TV comedy (and, sorry, biased..... but UK comedy.... Fawlty Towers, The Office, Alan Partridge, Only Fools, Father Ted), but as to HOLLYWOOD MOVIES only....
And In typical Idol style... 'in no particular order'-
1. "NED RYERSON!"- Groundhog Day. Where to start. What I've worked out in my fairly scant time on the planet is that LAYERS make me laugh. Layered comedy is what keeps me laughing because I keep seeing another perspective. So Phil obviously hates people. Ned is the antithesis of Phil. He loves talking to people... even if they probably never want to talk back. So we begin with Phil not recognizing him, but Ned desperate for him to recognize him. Then, after a while, Phil can't help but recognize him.... over and over. Which ranges from a homo-erotic confrontation, all the way to the BEST PUNCH OUT IN CINEMA HISTORY- Watch out for that first step... It's a DOOZY!
2. "We must try something a little more..... stringent'- DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS. Again, SOOOO layered. The escalation of the infliction of pain as he whips with that cane someone who is supposed to be paralyzed from the waist down is awesome enough, but again it's the layers that make this great. The two characters trying to keep up the facade. The run up. And the icing *BIG SPOILER ALERT* The fact that it's all for nothing since the person they're trying to con, is The Jackal all along. Genius!
3. 'You can start by wiping that F***ing dumbass smile of your rosey f***ing cheeks'- Planes, Trains and Automobiles. So many great moments here. From hands between 'pillows' to devil hallucinations, all the way to the still the greatest, gut-wrenching twist in a comedy, but nothing beats, still for me, the best unfiltered, expletive tirade in cinema history. Just.... Perfection.
4. Leslie Nielsen- EVERYTHING. I tried to narrow it down. But it's impossible. Anything from Airplane 'Calm Down' queue of wrenches, guns and baseball bats. Naked Gun "I've been swimming in Raw Sewage". "Isn't that right Mr. Poppy Pants. "Is this some kind of bust?". "Over here, Franks found another one". "Help the captain up" (obscure one, but both of our favorite Naked Gun moments ever). Too many! So 90% of any scene in any movie with Leslie Nielsen goes in this list somewhere. RIP- The greatest reaction shot actor of all time.
5. Jim Carrey- DUMB AND DUMBER/ACE VENTURA. We couldn't narrow this one down. Anything between "Fell off the jet way again", "He's got a gun- Did you pay the gas bill?!" " Relax, Harry. I took care of it"- Cut to thick rolls of selotape around decapitated Budgie head.... all the way to Ventura 'Yeah, and you're ugly", "I'm in psychosville and Finkle's the mayor", "....and a clean pair of shorts" and the genius of "If I'd been drinking out of the toilet, I might have been killed". Too many. impossible to filter.
I had HONORABLE MENTIONS, from Something About Mary, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Me, Myself and Irene, Monty Pythons Life Of Brian/Holy Grail, Kingpin "I'm gonna brush my teeth"..... but the alcohol is kicking in now.
And I'd hate to get any more verbose than I already am and have been. Although note how little of these have been in the last ten years.
NEWSFLASH! Apatow movies aren't that funny!
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