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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFunniest scene in movie history.
Sooooooooooooo many , right?
I always think of this one, though
TlalocW
(15,381 posts)The premise is that 3 out of work Hollywood actors in the early 1900s are lured to Mexico to save a village from constant attacks by banditos while they think they're just going down there to perform. Just before entering the bar of the town, a German (who is a fan of the Amigos and carries a gun similar to theirs and is running guns to the bandits), enters the bar and shoots it up after being disrespected for his, "Sissy gun." He warns the patrons to treat his friends - arriving later - with more respect. The Amigos enter moments later.
TlalocW
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)TlalocW
(15,381 posts)Was Lucky's "3 Demands."
I have 3 demands! First, that you quit harassing the innocent people of Santa Poco. Second that all the lands of Mexico be redistributed equally among the people and a proportional system of government be established consisting of three separate but equal branches - the executive, the legislative, and the judicial, and three (gets choked by El Guapo) that the girl Carmen be returned to me unharmed.
Also their first night in Mexico eating with some villagers in their home, and Dusty asks if they have anything other than Mexican food.
TlalocW
yardwork
(61,596 posts)tblue37
(65,336 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)The whole movie is hilarious.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)laugh till i hurt
irisblue
(32,968 posts)the whole movie
OnDoutside
(19,954 posts)irisblue
(32,968 posts)it was the 70s. I was in college inWest Michigan. I lived in Kistler Dorm. It was the 70s...nuff said there. 😀the whole movie+a whole dorm+the 70s.😀
OnDoutside
(19,954 posts)sakabatou
(42,148 posts)FSogol
(45,480 posts)montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)I was going to say, everything in Blazing Saddles! LOL
Dr. Strange
(25,920 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)The Jerk
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)"i dont need anything, I NEED this!" and he reaches down to get the chair
I remember sitting in the theater laughing at that one part so hard I cried
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)Funny that whenever anyone says I only need this one thing, someone else says and this thing and maybe this thing and that's all I need. It's become a true classic.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Ohiya
(2,230 posts)I don't think that I've ever laughed harder. I'm still wiping tears of laughter away from just watching this again!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)"Johnson, Navin R. Sounds like a typical bastard!"
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)And the scene at the airport, and the "it goes to 11" scene, and "Rock and Roll Creation" where Derek gets stuck in the pod. So many...!
JenniferJuniper
(4,510 posts)are beyond brilliant.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,411 posts)The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a large flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (Comedy) in 1932. In 1997, this film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
I have from time to time tried to see if W. C. Fields's scene from "If I Had a Million" has been restored to Youtube. It has not. I last saw it there several years ago. The film has been removed due to copyright issues. I wish it could be put in the public domain so that it could be viewed again.
If I Had a Million is a 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Studios anthology film. There were seven directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, and H. Bruce Humberstone. Lubitsch, Cruze, Seiter, and Humberstone were each responsible for a single vignette, Roberts and McLeod directed two each, and Taurog was in charge of the prologue and epilogue. The screenplays were scripted by many different writers, with Joseph L. Mankiewicz making a large contribution. If I Had a Million is based on a novel by Robert Hardy Andrews.
A wealthy dying businessman decides to leave his money to eight complete strangers. Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, May Robson, Charles Ruggles, and Gene Raymond play some of the lucky beneficiaries.
....
Road Hogs
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Ex-vaudeville performer Emily La Rue (Alison Skipworth) is very content with her life, running her tea room with the help of her partner, ex-juggler Rollo (W. C. Fields). Only one thing is lacking to make her satisfaction complete, and it is delivered that very day: a brand new car. However, when they take it out for a drive, it is wrecked when another driver ignores a stop signal. The heartbroken woman returns to her tea room, where Glidden finds her.
She comes up with an inventive way to spend part of her great windfall. She and Rollo purchase eight used cars and hire drivers. They all take to the road in a long procession. When they encounter an inconsiderate road hog, Emily and Rollo immediately set off in pursuit and crash into the offender's automobile. They then switch to one of their spare cars and repeat the process, until they run out of automobiles. At the end of the day, Emily purchases another new car, but it too is destroyed in a collision with a truck. No matter. Emily tells Rollo it has been "a glorious day".
Stuart G
(38,419 posts)A review from IMBD...................."Like the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.".......
(if you haven't seen it, looking at those stairs,,so many,..and many and many is worth the time...and these two...Laurel and Hardy...are the best..)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023251/
pansypoo53219
(20,974 posts)michael douglas is no peter falk. SERPENTINE SHELDON!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)But I gotta go with the bar fight.
No, wait! Slapping the hysterical passenger...
Maybe when the little boy visits the cockpit and has a conversation with the pilot!
Then I'll maybe go with the screechy table in Men in Black.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Y'all ain't laughing, though.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)I call it the "bar fight" scene because of the girl scouts.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)IIRC in this scene he was talking about how he was stationed in this place with the Air Force but then he's shown in a Navy pilot uniform
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)on the floor, ambulance had to take me to Johns Hopkins for ER treatment
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Glorfindel
(9,726 posts)Honestly, I think that's the hardest I ever laughed!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)I do a mean Clousseau
"This is Inspector Clousseau talking on the phooooone"
japple
(9,822 posts)hilarious:
FSogol
(45,480 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)[link:
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(31,109 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)FSogol
(45,480 posts)but for some reason, they don't have the Merv Griffin scene.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Recently took a comedy class from Steve
Sure, it was online and I didnt meet him and I was one of 35,000 others, but hey
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)There are so many good scenes, but Kevin Spacey finally having enough of his overbearing mother is one of the best ones:
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)ms liberty
(8,573 posts)MFM008
(19,805 posts)but the scene from "Ace Venture--Call of the Wild", where Jim Carrey gets stuck in the Rhino and has to get out and exits the rear end and the tourists think the rhino is having a baby.
My God i laughed until I couldnt stand....
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)my son and I watched the first one, Ace Ventura, over and over and over...the UPS scene, etc.
painful to watch it is so funny, hurts to laugh that hard
MFM008
(19,805 posts)I know its not the greatest movie but it made me laugh at a terrible time in my life.
lindysalsagal
(20,678 posts)spooky3
(34,439 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Django Unchained . . . the scene, new KKK and their white hoods. I could not stop laughing.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)(Also, pretty much ANY scene from ANY of the British 'Carry On' movies! Substituting a daisy for a rectal thermometer comes to mind...)
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)most people love him in Dr. Strangelove, Being There and The Pink Panther movies but there are so many scenes that crack me up in this one.
FSogol
(45,480 posts)and my fav:
Stuart G
(38,419 posts)Just look at the expressions on the 5 in the audience as they watch this short performance...at the very end, Zero yells out..."That's our Hitler"....Shawn plays someone who doesn't know what the tryout is about, but sings his song anyway..(they let him tryout, even though he doesn't know where he is.. ) ..The group is producing a play..called Springtime for Hitler..and they need a lead singer for the show.(the funniest moment for me in films) Zero and Gene want to produce the worst play in all history, take a huge loss and keep all the money after the play flops terribly the very first night,,that is why they want the worst singer for the lead in the show)
jmowreader
(50,555 posts)lastlib
(23,216 posts)Reporter (off-screen): "Sir, can you give us your opinion of Richard Nixon?"
Henry Kissinger: "Vvelll, I dink Richuhrd Nixon is......"
Parrot (beside Kissinger): "A COLOSSAL ASSHOLE!"
Henry Kissinger: "...a colossal asshole..."
. . . . .
malthaussen
(17,187 posts)While I agree that "Blazing Saddles" is a laff riot all through, "Some Like it Hot" is another comedy that everyone should watch.
-- Mal