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Post a line from your favorite comedy of all time (Original Post) red dog 1 Dec 2017 OP
Nigel: HopeAgain Dec 2017 #1
... Docreed2003 Dec 2017 #4
There's something about this that's so black.....It's like, how much more black could this be?... red dog 1 Dec 2017 #28
You beat me to it... It goes to eleven! The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2017 #42
So many... sweetloukillbot Dec 2017 #60
My favorite: Nac Mac Feegle Dec 2017 #101
We got both kinds...Country and Western... Docreed2003 Dec 2017 #2
"We're on a mission from God!" red dog 1 Dec 2017 #21
We are!!! Docreed2003 Dec 2017 #49
"Nazis. I hate Illinois Nazis." Beartracks Dec 2017 #73
Its a 106 Miles to Chicago Docreed2003 Dec 2017 #91
I love that scene. kairos12 Dec 2017 #106
I wasn't even supposed to be here today. kairos12 Dec 2017 #107
"You contemptible pig. I remained celibate for you. CentralMass Dec 2017 #202
Please...please dont kill us... Docreed2003 Dec 2017 #203
"Put the candle back". Sedona Dec 2017 #3
What hump? red dog 1 Dec 2017 #9
Perfect!. EOM WiffenPoof Dec 2017 #173
From "Blazing Saddles": "Excuse me while I whip this out." brush Dec 2017 #5
"Mongo only *Pawn* in Game of Life." lastlib Dec 2017 #57
"The sheriff's a n---***BONG!!!***---... Beartracks Dec 2017 #70
Too Un P C SeaDoo77 Dec 2017 #79
I know, it's like people USED TO understand humor, but now... Beartracks Dec 2017 #83
I know. I paused a sec before posting the "Excuse me while I whip this out" line because of... brush Dec 2017 #96
I inadvertently said that in a work meeting once! Beartracks Dec 2017 #111
What happened? Did anyone react? brush Dec 2017 #112
Fortunately, no. Beartracks Dec 2017 #113
... Docreed2003 Dec 2017 #92
Yes it was. Seems Mel Brooks' movies are well represented on this favorites list. brush Dec 2017 #95
The late Annette Apollo (Tangerine LaBamba/Old Leftie Lawyer on this board) told me gleefully rzemanfl Dec 2017 #131
I have a British friend who pronounces mangos "Mongos." Absolutely kills me every time. nt Still Blue in PDX Dec 2017 #150
The greatest scene from the greatest movie that was ever made Botany Dec 2017 #176
Are there more beans, Mr. Taggart? red dog 1 Dec 2017 #98
"She turned me into a newt" DBoon Dec 2017 #6
So many good lines from that... HopeAgain Dec 2017 #11
I'm not dead yet! ms liberty Dec 2017 #20
"What did he just say?" red dog 1 Dec 2017 #23
I had minor surgery a few weeks ago.... A HERETIC I AM Dec 2017 #105
*snort* smirkymonkey Dec 2017 #167
+ 1 red dog 1 Dec 2017 #120
"What -- behind the rabbit?" Beartracks Dec 2017 #72
Run Away Run Away SeaDoo77 Dec 2017 #80
Bring forth the Holy Hand Grenade! Beartracks Dec 2017 #84
Just look at the BONES! longship Dec 2017 #206
That was Mine! n/t Brainstormy Dec 2017 #26
Who is that? Must be a king. cos dem Dec 2017 #34
Tis but a scratch. cos dem Dec 2017 #35
"Your mother was a hamster and Jakes Progress Dec 2017 #190
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." dchill Dec 2017 #7
(Off the top of my head, with no help from Google) red dog 1 Dec 2017 #17
Yep. The only Hindenburg parody I've ever seen! dchill Dec 2017 #47
Stop calling me cilla4progress Dec 2017 #8
Oh stewardess, I speak jive! red dog 1 Dec 2017 #24
A hospital, what is it? cos dem Dec 2017 #33
Ah ha ha ha! Beat me to it! Beartracks Dec 2017 #71
A sale at Pennys! Dustlawyer Dec 2017 #44
I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue n/t TexasBushwhacker Dec 2017 #141
"Whaddya make of this?" bullsnarfle Dec 2017 #152
"Guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue" smirkymonkey Dec 2017 #168
"Nothing is fucked? The goddamned plane has crashed into the mountain!" Glamrock Dec 2017 #10
That's like, your opinion, man! cos dem Dec 2017 #32
Shut up, Donny! red dog 1 Dec 2017 #119
Both from same movie... Ferrets are Cool Dec 2017 #12
Gunga galunga..... Glamrock Dec 2017 #27
"Hey, you scratched my boat" Chipper Chat Dec 2017 #53
More laughs in this movie than most. Ferrets are Cool Dec 2017 #102
I think the line goes: GusBob Dec 2017 #199
oh yeah. Chipper Chat Dec 2017 #212
'Forty-two!? Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work? Xipe Totec Dec 2017 #13
"You LOST Vietnam!1" - A Fish Called Wanda UTUSN Dec 2017 #14
Don't call me stupid! red dog 1 Dec 2017 #19
"I've worn dresses with higher IQ's!" smirkymonkey Dec 2017 #169
"Mrs. a-Wiggins!" Glamrock Dec 2017 #15
Snork! ms liberty Dec 2017 #22
Well, Eko Dec 2017 #16
I'm the goddamn paderfamilias! Glamrock Dec 2017 #25
How' ma hair!? Eko Dec 2017 #193
"Damn! We're in a tight spot." Jakes Progress Dec 2017 #191
Well, I wasn't usin' it. Eko Dec 2017 #194
She couldn't be your mother. Arkansas Granny Dec 2017 #18
Here ya go: Lifelong Protester Dec 2017 #29
Ive always loved you. Adsos Letter Dec 2017 #30
You Should Have Bought A Squirrel Glorfindel Dec 2017 #31
It's a Mr Death or something, he's here about the reaping? cos dem Dec 2017 #36
You Americans, you're always talking... sweetloukillbot Dec 2017 #62
The salmon mousse! geardaddy Dec 2017 #157
"Those aren't pillows!!!" Bradshaw3 Dec 2017 #37
I'm cracking up just thinking about that one. red dog 1 Dec 2017 #118
Great movie. SharonClark Dec 2017 #133
"That's right, karate.. Permanut Dec 2017 #38
How to be a latin lover...Salma Hayek, Eugenio Derbez RestoreAmerica2020 Dec 2017 #39
Do you have anything beside Mexican food? TlalocW Dec 2017 #40
"There's nothing to see really, we're inside a Chinese dragon." nt Binkie The Clown Dec 2017 #41
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2017 #43
"I hate Illinois Nazis" GeoWilliam750 Dec 2017 #45
"This man may look like an idiot, and he may talk like an idiot...but don't let that fool you..." First Speaker Dec 2017 #46
"How'd you like a job in the mint?" jmowreader Dec 2017 #139
Vincent:How many times have you said spontaneous is romantic? Mona Lisa Vito: A burp is spontaneous. Dustlawyer Dec 2017 #48
What's a Yute? red dog 1 Dec 2017 #136
"You know what Freud said... 'If you don't pay for it, you don't get better!'" moriah Dec 2017 #50
What's the matter, Colonel Sanders? Sailor65x1 Dec 2017 #51
"Dear Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn Baby Jesus." Bleacher Creature Dec 2017 #52
That boy is a P.I.G. pig! hibbing Dec 2017 #54
"These go to 11." JenniferJuniper Dec 2017 #55
"And someday you'll die ... NanceGreggs Dec 2017 #56
Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore DUgosh Dec 2017 #58
NO we're not going to fucking do STONE'ENGE Skittles Dec 2017 #59
One miniature bible, one issue prophylactics.... pangaia Dec 2017 #61
used... sweetloukillbot Dec 2017 #63
This message was self-deleted by its author sweetloukillbot Dec 2017 #64
Used prophylactic or bible? pangaia Dec 2017 #65
one soiled, sorry, got it wrong... sweetloukillbot Dec 2017 #67
I'm going to get them doors open if it harelips everybody on Bear Creek. longship Dec 2017 #69
Same movie: Laffy Kat Dec 2017 #89
Lololol pangaia Dec 2017 #93
I don't need my dog... sweetloukillbot Dec 2017 #66
Reading through these (and never having heard of 99% of them) ashling Dec 2017 #68
From the iconic The Odd Couple - 3catwoman3 Dec 2017 #74
"WHAT... is there air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" Beartracks Dec 2017 #75
"It's Christmas and we're all in misery" gopiscrap Dec 2017 #76
Ludicrous Speed SeaDoo77 Dec 2017 #77
Except for you, lady. May you just drop dead! jberryhill Dec 2017 #78
Thank you very little! bdtrppr6 Dec 2017 #81
it's not so much the speed, bdtrppr6 Dec 2017 #82
"Real tomato ketchup, Eddie?" bdtrppr6 Dec 2017 #85
COUSIN VICKI: "I French kiss" red dog 1 Dec 2017 #134
"Her first baby... GallopingGhost Dec 2017 #86
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her, C Moon Dec 2017 #87
Give him a SEDAGIVE?!!! -nt Freelancer Dec 2017 #88
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." ("Airplane") LastLiberal in PalmSprings Dec 2017 #90
Soap - the series csziggy Dec 2017 #94
I loved Soap. GallopingGhost Dec 2017 #97
How shall we fuck off, O Lord? hurl Dec 2017 #99
"FLAMES! I have FLAMES on my CAR!!!!" (Alan Arkin in The In-laws.) Demoiselle Dec 2017 #100
"I'm a man"... bmbmd Dec 2017 #103
Love that movie! MountainMama Dec 2017 #116
"Daphne had a proposal last night!" red dog 1 Dec 2017 #130
"I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear---" nt Atticus Dec 2017 #104
"You're in more dire need of a blow job than any white man in history." lastlib Dec 2017 #108
How Could this Happen? Wolf Frankula Dec 2017 #109
Hitler was a better painter than Churchill. ..He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon, red dog 1 Dec 2017 #137
"too many notes" diva77 Dec 2017 #110
I think of that a lot too. Alice11111 Dec 2017 #122
Which ones would Your Majesty like me to remove? catrose Dec 2017 #183
"NObody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" CTyankee Dec 2017 #114
That wasn't in any of their movies, was it? jmowreader Dec 2017 #140
It probably was from their TV show. Was the question limited to movies? CTyankee Dec 2017 #144
"Death is so final." bif Dec 2017 #115
voom! Like a rat out of an aqueduct! GregW Dec 2017 #117
"'ees not the Messiah, 'ees a very naughty boy". smirkymonkey Dec 2017 #170
You leave me little notes on my pillow... red dog 1 Dec 2017 #121
"Wait! Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!" DFW Dec 2017 #123
Wait, I was going to make espresso! red dog 1 Dec 2017 #124
"A mute...an incredibly big mute." n/t sarge43 Dec 2017 #126
"You fucked up. You trusted us." sarge43 Dec 2017 #125
covfefe. Nt itsrobert Dec 2017 #127
"Electrolytes." rzemanfl Dec 2017 #128
Don't f#@! with me man! rownesheck Dec 2017 #129
"I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, SharonClark Dec 2017 #132
Sally "Are you saying a man can be friends with women he finds unattractive?" TexasBushwhacker Dec 2017 #142
I'll have what she's having... bluecollar2 Dec 2017 #145
lol red dog 1 Dec 2017 #172
BTW, if you haven't watched The Mindy Project TexasBushwhacker Dec 2017 #143
Because there's no crying in baseball. THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! No crying! SharonClark Dec 2017 #135
We ain't never gonna get to Rock Ridge! jmowreader Dec 2017 #138
"Hey keep it easy man, I'm in pre law." Initech Dec 2017 #146
"We just sat through 2 hours of so-called acting, constable..." Initech Dec 2017 #147
"Now Drebin, I don't want any trouble like you had on the South Side, that's my policy." Initech Dec 2017 #148
We Know Where You Are (My Fellow Americans NSA Colonel Tanner) meow2u3 Dec 2017 #149
I got the shit kicked out of me in Wisconsin Soxfan58 Dec 2017 #151
From "Dick" jayschool2013 Dec 2017 #153
"...and 2 hard boiled eggs." kairos12 Dec 2017 #154
Crucifixion's a doddle geardaddy Dec 2017 #155
"I'M LISTENING TO THE FUCKING SONG." WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2017 #156
LOL. Excellent movie! geardaddy Dec 2017 #158
Makes me laugh every time! WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2017 #160
"Where is pancakes house?" geardaddy Dec 2017 #159
Fargo is your favorite comedy? red dog 1 Dec 2017 #162
A plan so cunning, you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel... OnDoutside Dec 2017 #161
What did you just call me, thigh high? red dog 1 Dec 2017 #163
Hey Bill Alpeduez21 Dec 2017 #164
"He ordered his planes to attack your country. Well, let me finish, Dmitri. Let me finish, Dmitri." VOX Dec 2017 #165
"Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!" Va Lefty Dec 2017 #175
Are you fucking with me? red dog 1 Dec 2017 #166
"Johnson, Navin R. Sounds like a typical bastard." smirkymonkey Dec 2017 #171
This RobinA Dec 2017 #174
From Austin Powers: Goldmember SummerSnow Dec 2017 #177
You know who I used to be?.. red dog 1 Dec 2017 #178
"Well I practice a lot when I'm by myself" underpants Dec 2017 #179
Hey everybody, be sure to say what movie they're from I've got some catching up to do! snot Dec 2017 #180
Damn your eyes..Too late. red dog 1 Dec 2017 #181
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas sakabatou Dec 2017 #182
"That's Our Hitler".....from the Producers. Stuart G Dec 2017 #184
Lorenzo St. Dubois red dog 1 Dec 2017 #186
I don't caare what he says..I'm not wearing this armband. red dog 1 Dec 2017 #185
Max, he's wearing a dress! red dog 1 Dec 2017 #187
They say the fucking smog is the fucking reason for the fucking beautiful sunsets! red dog 1 Dec 2017 #188
"You got that right" Jakes Progress Dec 2017 #192
From the same movie... lame54 Dec 2017 #189
Animal House: 7 years of college down the drain...might as well join the fucking Peace Corps Submariner Dec 2017 #195
"hello my name is inigo montoya you killed my father prepare to die" yuiyoshida Dec 2017 #196
"I don't understand!" red dog 1 Dec 2017 #197
"A mighty wind is blowing you and me." lindysalsagal Dec 2017 #198
Not that theres anything wrong with that..... a kennedy Dec 2017 #200
My favorite - and the one that has gotten me in big trouble at work: yallerdawg Dec 2017 #201
Edith Bunker offers Archie a calf tongue sandwich and .. Alwaysna Dec 2017 #204
"Does your dog bite?" UnTied Dec 2017 #205
EMERRRGENCY...EVERYBODY TO GET FRO STRITT. Thunderbeast Dec 2017 #207
From "Soap" WiffenPoof Dec 2017 #208
Son, you got a panty on your head d_r Dec 2017 #209
Gee im real sorry your mom blew up ricky d_r Dec 2017 #210
Just roll her old bones over here d_r Dec 2017 #211
Oh no. What's on second. discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2017 #213
I am the author..You are the audience..I outrank you! red dog 1 Jan 2018 #214

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
1. Nigel:
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 10:28 PM
Dec 2017

This is the top to, uh, you know, what we use on stage, but it's very, very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to eleven. Look… (pointing at the amp dials), right across the board. Eleven, eleven, eleven ...

red dog 1

(27,817 posts)
28. There's something about this that's so black.....It's like, how much more black could this be?...
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 11:06 PM
Dec 2017

...And the answer is none...None more black.

sweetloukillbot

(11,028 posts)
60. So many...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 01:40 AM
Dec 2017

"Heavy metal's deep. You can get stuff out of it."
"What's wrong with being sexy?"
"Kick this ass for a man!"
"I'm just as god made me sir!"
"Mime is money."
"So when you're onstage you see yourself as a preserved moose."
"Don't look for it, it's not there anymore."
"We'd love to stay and chat, but we've got to go and wait in the lobby."

Docreed2003

(16,862 posts)
91. Its a 106 Miles to Chicago
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 08:15 AM
Dec 2017

We got a full tank of gas, a half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses...”

Docreed2003

(16,862 posts)
203. Please...please dont kill us...
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 12:45 AM
Dec 2017

You know I love you baby...I ran out of gas...I had a flat tire...I didn’t have enough money for cab fair...my tux didn’t come back from the cleaners...an old friend came in from out of town....

(Such a great freaking scene)

lastlib

(23,243 posts)
57. "Mongo only *Pawn* in Game of Life."
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 01:17 AM
Dec 2017

"HOLD IT! Next person makes a move, the n----- get it!" "Oh, Baby, you are SO TALENTED!"

"Oh, it's TWUE, it's TWUE! Oh!"

Hysterically funny movie!

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)
70. "The sheriff's a n---***BONG!!!***---...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 02:21 AM
Dec 2017

"What did he say?"

"He said the sheriff is near!"

"Oh!" [continues clapping]

-----
One of THE funniest movies ever!

==========

 

SeaDoo77

(540 posts)
79. Too Un P C
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 02:38 AM
Dec 2017

To ever be released today.

How about "We'll take the n____rs and the Chinks, but no Irish.

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)
83. I know, it's like people USED TO understand humor, but now...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 02:43 AM
Dec 2017

... media consumers seem to focus on getting offended at the WORDS, rather than listening to the MESSAGES.

=============

brush

(53,784 posts)
96. I know. I paused a sec before posting the "Excuse me while I whip this out" line because of...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 12:27 PM
Dec 2017

Last edited Fri Dec 15, 2017, 05:11 AM - Edit history (1)

the current sexual harassment climate but I finally said, "screw it", I posting it anyway.

Glad I did. One of the funniest movies ever.

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)
111. I inadvertently said that in a work meeting once!
Fri Dec 15, 2017, 04:41 AM
Dec 2017

We were talking about using cameras with big lenses, and I just blurted it out. I made it all the way to "whip" before I realized what I saying.

===============

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)
113. Fortunately, no.
Fri Dec 15, 2017, 01:55 PM
Dec 2017

At least, I'm pretty sure no. There was already some joking and laughter going on when I whipped out that line, and as I finished saying it I made sure to not react myself (so as to draw no more attention to it). Of course, I made no eye contact with anyone for a while after! lol

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Docreed2003

(16,862 posts)
92. ...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 08:22 AM
Dec 2017

He was nothing, the bitch was inventing the Candy Gram and they probably won't even give me credit for it.

rzemanfl

(29,565 posts)
131. The late Annette Apollo (Tangerine LaBamba/Old Leftie Lawyer on this board) told me gleefully
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 09:09 PM
Dec 2017

that when she met Mel Brooks he grabbed her ass with both hands. Different times.

red dog 1

(27,817 posts)
98. Are there more beans, Mr. Taggart?
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 05:41 PM
Dec 2017

For You Tube Video:
Google "Blazing Saddles - Farting Cowboys - Greatest Fart Scene of All Time&quot

ms liberty

(8,580 posts)
20. I'm not dead yet!
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 10:55 PM
Dec 2017

Ive actually used that line this week - I was out of work all last week with the flu, yesterday one of my colleagues saw I was back and asked me how I was doing.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,370 posts)
105. I had minor surgery a few weeks ago....
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 11:08 PM
Dec 2017

and as they wheeled me from the prep area into the OR, I told everyone who was near that "I don't want to go on the cart....I feel Happeee! I want to go for a walk!"


Only a couple people got the reference!

red dog 1

(27,817 posts)
17. (Off the top of my head, with no help from Google)
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 10:51 PM
Dec 2017

LES NESSMAN:
"This is Les Nessman, your on-the-scene reporter, here at the Cincinnati mall."
(People are walking around him, in the parking lot, wondering who the hell he is)
"The crowd is....curious!
Wait...I see an airplane...It's carrying a sign...and the sign says;
W......................K.....................R...................P
Now something just fell out of the airplane.......a skydiver, perhaps.
Now another one, and another, and another,,,,..,,I don't see any parachutes....It can't be skydivers.
OH MY GOD THEY'RE TURKEYS!
They're falling to the ground like sacks of wet cement!
The people here are running for their lives!
One just fell through the windshield of a parked car!
Oh the humanity!"

dchill

(38,502 posts)
47. Yep. The only Hindenburg parody I've ever seen!
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 12:19 AM
Dec 2017

But Mr Carlson's line is, the real punch line! WKRP was not my favorite comedy, but that was my favorite episode, and the most memorable.

cos dem

(903 posts)
33. A hospital, what is it?
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 11:11 PM
Dec 2017

It's a big building with patients. But that's not important.

And, stop calling me Shirley.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
44. A sale at Pennys!
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 12:05 AM
Dec 2017

Reporter -"Ok boys, let's takes some pictures." (guys remove pictures from the walls)

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
168. "Guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue"
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 07:36 PM
Dec 2017

"Billy, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

Ferrets are Cool

(21,107 posts)
12. Both from same movie...
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 10:38 PM
Dec 2017

“This is your wife, huh? Hey baby, you must’ve been something before electricity.” — Al Czervik

“He’s a Cinderella story. A former assistant groundskeeper about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac… It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!” — Carl Spackler

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)
29. Here ya go:
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 11:07 PM
Dec 2017



'It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.'


'Hit it!'

sweetloukillbot

(11,028 posts)
62. You Americans, you're always talking...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 01:42 AM
Dec 2017

Saying, Let me tell you this, or I just want to say that. Well your dead, so shut up!

Bradshaw3

(7,522 posts)
37. "Those aren't pillows!!!"
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 11:37 PM
Dec 2017

From Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Steve Martin to John Candy as they woke up next to each other, with Candy's hand - he thought - between two pillows.

That line was later followed by Martin "drying" his face unknowingly with Candy's oversized underwear. By that time I was crying and laughing so hard that I thought I was going to have a seizure.

My favorite comedy of all time.

TlalocW

(15,383 posts)
40. Do you have anything beside Mexican food?
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 11:50 PM
Dec 2017

- Dusty Bottoms (Chevy Chase) unable to keep a taco from falling apart as he, Ned, and Lucky are being honored in a small Mexican town.

I have three demands. One: That you stop harassing the innocent people of Santa Poco. Two: That the land of Mexico... be redistributed equally among the people... and a proportional system of government be established... consisting of three separate, but equal, branches... the legislative, the executive and the judicial. And three: (Gets choked by El Guapo) That the girl Carmen be returned to me unharmed.
- Lucky Day (Steve Martin)

Throw down your guns!
*All Mexican banditos drop their guns along with Dusty Bottoms*
Not you, Dusty!
Sorry! (quickly picks up gun again, points at bandito and smiles up at Lucky)
- Lucky Day and Dusty Bottoms

Three Amigos. I used to watch it once a week in college.

TlalocW

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
46. "This man may look like an idiot, and he may talk like an idiot...but don't let that fool you..."
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 12:16 AM
Dec 2017

"...he really is an idiot." From Duck Soup, the greatest of all the Marx Brothers films...and thus, automatically the greatest comedy ever...

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
48. Vincent:How many times have you said spontaneous is romantic? Mona Lisa Vito: A burp is spontaneous.
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 12:26 AM
Dec 2017

A burp is not romantic

Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along, you get thirsty, you spot a little brook, you put your little deer lips down to the cool clear water... BAM! A fuckin bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are laying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask ya. Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?

Vinny Gambini: [about his secondhand suit, which has an 18th-century look and is red] I bought a suit. You seen it. Now it's covered in mud. This town doesn't have a one hour cleaner so I had to buy a new suit, except the only store you could buy a new suit in has got the flu. Got that? The whole store got the flu so I had to get this in a second hand store. So it's either wear the leather jacket, which I know you hate, or this. So, I wore this ridiculous thing for you.
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Are you on drugs?
Vinny Gambini: No. I don't do drugs.
Judge Chamberlain Haller: I don't like your attitude.

moriah

(8,311 posts)
50. "You know what Freud said... 'If you don't pay for it, you don't get better!'"
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 12:53 AM
Dec 2017

Also, from the same movie: "Shit, I knew it, an insurance salesman. I've already got Prudential."

NanceGreggs

(27,815 posts)
56. "And someday you'll die ...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 01:12 AM
Dec 2017

... and I'll go to your funeral in a red dress."

Cher (as Loretta Castorini) in Moonstruck.

DUgosh

(3,056 posts)
58. Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 01:19 AM
Dec 2017

“I could lay under you, eat fried chicken, and work a crossword puzzle at the same time”

Response to sweetloukillbot (Reply #63)

ashling

(25,771 posts)
68. Reading through these (and never having heard of 99% of them)
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 01:55 AM
Dec 2017

I am impressed with the 2 laws of funny lines:

1) very few lines are inherently funny

and its corollary

2) context is everything



continue

red dog 1

(27,817 posts)
134. COUSIN VICKI: "I French kiss"
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 09:16 PM
Dec 2017

Last edited Sat Dec 23, 2017, 07:03 PM - Edit history (1)

AUDREY:
So what, everybody does that!

COUSIN VICKI:
"Yeah, but daddy says I'm the best!"

C Moon

(12,213 posts)
87. After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 03:44 AM
Dec 2017

and after half an hour I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.

90. "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." ("Airplane")
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:56 AM
Dec 2017
What was the origin of “Don’t call me Shirley”?

Jerry Zucker: The origin of that joke is similar to the origin of a lot of jokes in the movie: While we were writing, we used to watch a lot of old, serious movies that had a lot of this overly dramatic dialogue. We’d say, “Wait, wait, wait. Stop the tape,” and we’d go back and we’d put in our punch line or our gag in the background. That was one of those lines where someone actually did say, “Surely you can’t be serious.”

David Zucker: The other person might have even said, “I am serious.” But we added the “Don’t call me Shirley.”

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
94. Soap - the series
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 11:16 AM
Dec 2017
Burt Campbell: Life plays funny tricks...You see what happens in life is this - something bad happens to you and you say “Oh God, look at this bad thing that just happened to me.”

Then you figure it’s over and it will all get good again but then what happens is another bad thing happens and then you say “Pffft, that was a surprise. I mean, two bad things in a row but I guess that’s it for a while ‘cause I just had my quota of bad.”

And then what happens is some awful thing happens to you like everything gets taken away from you and you say “Pfft, well, that’s it, there is nothing else that can happen - I lost everything.” And then life plays it’s ‘funny trick’ - you die.

Soap Season 2 Episode 16


And since comedy is delivery and context, here is the episode:



The scene with the lines above is at the beginning. Sorry about the lousy quality - it's the only version I can find online.

lastlib

(23,243 posts)
108. "You're in more dire need of a blow job than any white man in history."
Fri Dec 15, 2017, 12:14 AM
Dec 2017

Robin Williams, Good Morning, Vietnam!



"that's funny!"


Wolf Frankula

(3,601 posts)
109. How Could this Happen?
Fri Dec 15, 2017, 12:51 AM
Dec 2017

I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?

The Producers, 1968
Wolf

red dog 1

(27,817 posts)
137. Hitler was a better painter than Churchill. ..He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon,
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 09:36 PM
Dec 2017

..two coats!

GregW

(6,155 posts)
117. voom! Like a rat out of an aqueduct!
Fri Dec 15, 2017, 07:52 PM
Dec 2017

So many good lines from Monty Python's "The Life of Brian"...

BRIAN: You mean... you were raped?
MANDY: Well, at first, yes.

red dog 1

(27,817 posts)
121. You leave me little notes on my pillow...
Fri Dec 15, 2017, 08:50 PM
Dec 2017

..I told you a hundred-and-sixty-eight times --- I can't...stand...little...notes...on...my...pillow!
"We are all out of Corn Flakes. - F.U.".
. It took me three hours to figure out that F U was Felix Unger!

DFW

(54,403 posts)
123. "Wait! Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!"
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 04:34 AM
Dec 2017

And "What knockers!"

Both from Young Frankenstein

(last line in the scene for "espresso&quot




SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
132. "I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody,
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 09:14 PM
Dec 2017

you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." - When Harry Met Sally.

Yes, I'm a romantic.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,196 posts)
142. Sally "Are you saying a man can be friends with women he finds unattractive?"
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 12:06 AM
Dec 2017

Harry - "Nah, you pretty much want to nail them too."

"Why are there no Sunday underwear?"
"Because of God."

TexasBushwhacker

(20,196 posts)
143. BTW, if you haven't watched The Mindy Project
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 12:08 AM
Dec 2017

you can stream all 6 seasons on Hulu. It's a great Rom-Com. Plenty of Rom and Com.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
135. Because there's no crying in baseball. THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! No crying!
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 09:19 PM
Dec 2017

from A League of Their Own

Initech

(100,080 posts)
147. "We just sat through 2 hours of so-called acting, constable..."
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:27 AM
Dec 2017

"And their kiss was the only convincing moment in it."

"When's your birthday?"
"22nd of February."
"What year?"
"Every year."
"Get out!"

Initech

(100,080 posts)
148. "Now Drebin, I don't want any trouble like you had on the South Side, that's my policy."
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:42 AM
Dec 2017

"When I see 5 weirdos dressed in togas, stabbing a guy in the park in front of a full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards, that's my policy."
"That was a Shakespeare In The Park production of Julius Caesar, you moron! You killed 5 actors! Good ones!"

Alpeduez21

(1,751 posts)
164. Hey Bill
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 06:58 PM
Dec 2017

remember when we were freshmen and your mom was a senior?

Shut up, Ted!

Remember when I asked your mom to prom?

Shut UP, Ted!

VOX

(22,976 posts)
165. "He ordered his planes to attack your country. Well, let me finish, Dmitri. Let me finish, Dmitri."
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 07:10 PM
Dec 2017

“I'll tell you what he did, he ordered his planes...to attack your country. Well, let me finish, Dmitri. Let me finish, Dmitri. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri? Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?”
--Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley, in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964).

Sellers improvised most of his lines in the film. And satire was never more biting.

RobinA

(9,893 posts)
174. This
Sat Dec 23, 2017, 01:10 AM
Dec 2017

Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.

And the “Jew eat yet” riff from the same movie. One of my all time faves, Annie Hall.

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
177. From Austin Powers: Goldmember
Sat Dec 23, 2017, 05:38 PM
Dec 2017

Nigel Powers: "There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch."

red dog 1

(27,817 posts)
178. You know who I used to be?..
Sat Dec 23, 2017, 05:41 PM
Dec 2017

Max Bialystock! ..King of Broadway!..Six shows running at once!..Lunch at Delmonicos..
$200 suits...Look at me now..LOOK AT ME NOW!!..I'm wearing a cardboard belt!

red dog 1

(27,817 posts)
197. "I don't understand!"
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 08:16 PM
Dec 2017

(From "The Birdcage&quot

Gene Hackman, after his wife takes the wig off Nathan Lane exclaiming:
"He's a MAN!"

GENE HACKMAN
"I feel like I'm going crazy!"

Alwaysna

(574 posts)
204. Edith Bunker offers Archie a calf tongue sandwich and ..
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 01:03 AM
Dec 2017

He says"Im not eating nothing that came from a cow's mouth! Edith cook me an EGG sandwich" !

UnTied

(58 posts)
205. "Does your dog bite?"
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 02:01 AM
Dec 2017

"No"
After getting bitten? "I thought you said your dog doesn't bite?"

"That is not not my dog

WiffenPoof

(2,404 posts)
208. From "Soap"
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 06:37 AM
Dec 2017

One of the funniest scenes ever broadcast... They probably couldn't do this scene today.

All of the women of Soap find themselves up in the middle of the night at the kitchen table. They are all sexually frustrated because they aren't getting any. They can't sleep so they decide to share a cheesecake in an attempt to satisfy their frustration.

They start talking about sex. More specifically, they talk about their preferences. I think Carine says something like...i like it in other rooms. Another says....I like it outdoors....

Finally, Mary stated that she likes to make love with the lights on. That way she can look into her lover's eyes. There is a long pause as Jessica has a confused look on her face. Finally she says "His eyes?"

Priceless. Not sure how they got it by the censors.

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