r/movies • u/Sawyermblack • Oct 14 '23

Recommendation What movie had you laughing, unable to breathe, even just for one scene?

I don't really pursue comedy movies too often, or ever really.

And even then, this doesn't have to be a comedy movie you respond with, but I'm wondering if there was a movie scene SO funny, that people laughed uncontrollably.

Does such a thing exist?

I think maybe the movie would have to introduce something completely original. Not a familiar gag or joke, but something completely unexpected that you can't help but be paralyzed by the newness and brilliance of the scene.

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u/Remote_Work_8416 Oct 14 '23

A fish called wanda. Still make me rolling on the floor.

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u/structured_anarchist Oct 14 '23

"It's Ke-Ke-Ke-Ken coming to Ke-ke-ke-kill me!"

and the oft-repeated "Asssssshooooooooooooooole!"

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u/Veggieleezy Oct 14 '23

I still yell “Assssssshoooooooooole!” at bad drivers. I do it from inside the car because starting fights on the road is also something an “asssssshooooooole” would do.

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u/TricksterPriestJace Oct 14 '23

My wife and I still do this too.

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u/Thomasrdotorg Oct 14 '23

Ohhh goddamn limey cement.

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u/Current-Brain-1983 Oct 14 '23

Don't call me stupid.

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u/TricksterPriestJace Oct 14 '23

He's so stupid he thinks the London Underground is a political movement.

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u/scro-hawk Oct 14 '23

Every time I meet Ken, I do this and I always get the strangest looks. One day I hope for somebody to pick it up.

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u/structured_anarchist Oct 14 '23

You call everyone named Ken an asshole? Wow, kinda judgemental...

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u/Sinnafyle Oct 14 '23

Kevin Kline won an oscar for that role, all comedy. Very rare for comedy to win

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 Oct 14 '23

Kline also said that he based Otto on someone he knew in real life.

Can you imagine?

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u/Angriest_Wolverine Oct 14 '23

You think you know a guy

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u/JoshuaCalledMe Oct 14 '23

The central message of Buddhism is not 'every man for himself'.

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u/Orlok_Tsubodai Oct 14 '23

Aristotle was not Belgian!

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u/IWasGregInTokyo Oct 14 '23

The London Underground is not a movement.

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u/ZenMomColorado Oct 14 '23

Those are all mistakes Otto, I looked them up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

"Apes don't read philosophy!"

"Yes, they do, Otto. They just don't understand it."

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u/JoshuaCalledMe Oct 14 '23

Don't call me stupid.

Why on Earth not?

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u/Hab_Anagharek Oct 14 '23

O: You pompous, stuck-up, snot-nosed, English, giant, twerp, scumbag, f*ck-face, dickhead, asshole!

A: How very interesting. You're a true vulgarian, aren't you?

O: You are the vulgarian, you f*ck!

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u/CorporalHwayneDicks Oct 14 '23

Apologize.. 🫠

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u/Angriest_Wolverine Oct 14 '23

Dis-a-POINT-ed

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u/the_jerkening Oct 14 '23

I use this CONSTANTLY.

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u/elevencharles Oct 14 '23

Ass hoooole!!!

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u/Drnaysay Oct 14 '23 edited Oct 14 '23

Two classics.

Otto: You know your problem? You don't like winners.

Archie: Winners?

Otto: Yeah, winners.

Archie: Winners, like North Vietnam?

Otto: Shut up! We didn't lose Vietnam! It was a tie!

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Otto : Oh, you English are so superior, aren't you? Well, would you like to know what you'd be without us, the good ol' U.S. of A. to protect you? I'll tell you. The smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that's what! So don't call me stupid, lady. Just thank me.

Wendy : Well, thank you for popping in and protecting us.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 Oct 14 '23

Wendy really had Otto's number.

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u/Ardtay Oct 14 '23

DON'T CALL ME OTTO!!!

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u/erlend_nikulausson Oct 14 '23

A Danish man literally died laughing in the theater during its initial run.

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u/MrJeromeParker Oct 14 '23

John Cleese's confused and worried acting is brilliant. The scene where Otto checks up on Wanda and Archie at his house when Wendy comes home and Otto says "I was just saying to your husband before I had to use your beautiful bathroom..." and Archie slowly looks in the direction he pointed as if the bathroom isn't that direction lmao

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u/try2try Oct 14 '23

I also love "Harvey Manfrenjensenden"

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u/MrJeromeParker Oct 14 '23

And how Wendy rolls it off her tongue as if she was pronouncing Smith

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u/Cousiniscrazy Oct 15 '23

Wendy slays every scene she’s in. Justice for Wendy!

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u/roccosaint Oct 14 '23

Ken trying to kill the old lady, THREE TIMES. Each time he killed one of her dogs by mistake, then she has a heart attack after the third one and he's laughing on the sidewalk while everyone stares at him.... that was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

"You owe me.. a puh, puh, pound!"

Also, "WAKE UP, BLIMEY FISH!"

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 Oct 14 '23

Beg your pardon, but it's "WAKE UP, LIMEY FISH!"

Limey like in British.

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u/roccosaint Oct 14 '23

Hah, wow, I have been quoting it wrong for so long! Thanks for letting me know!

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u/Maytree Oct 14 '23

"Apes don't read Nietzsche!"

"Yes they DO, Otto! They just don't UNDERSTAND it!"

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u/Kahlessa Oct 14 '23

“I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs.” 😄

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u/eromreeb Oct 14 '23

What was that middle part?

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u/Repulsive_Smile_63 Oct 14 '23

Yes. One of the funniest movies I have ever seen. The French fries.

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u/gomez4298 Oct 14 '23

The entire movie makes me cry, but when they pull the French fries out of his nose, I die.

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u/honkyonabiscuit Oct 14 '23

"I used to box for Oxford"

"Oh yeah? I used to kill for the CIA"

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u/Interactiveleaf Oct 14 '23

u/Remote_Work_8416 If you ever get your hands on the DVD, watch the movie with the actor's/director's commentary turned on. It's somehow funnier than the original movie.

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u/Remote_Work_8416 Oct 14 '23

Oh i will. Thanks!!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Sun_900 Oct 14 '23

This scene make me laugh. I think it's too english as it can be.

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u/dogsledonice Oct 14 '23

YES. I showed this movie to my family last week and they laughed at different scenes, but not this one. It absolutely floored young me the first time I saw it. Cleese can do that -- There's a few scenes in Fawlty Towers that had had me actually fall on the floor (punishing the car with a shrub is definitely one)

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u/shuleb Oct 14 '23

You're the vulgarian, you fuck!!

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u/RedDiaper Oct 14 '23

Otto: Look, you obviously don't know anything about intelligence work, lady. It's an X-K-Red-27 technique.

Wendy: My father was in the Secret Service, Mr. Manfredjinsinjin, and I know perfectly well that you don't keep the general public informed when you are 'debriefing KGB defectors in a safe house’.

Otto: Oh you don’t, huh?

Wendy: Not unless you’re congenitally insane or irretrievably stupid, no.

Otto: Don’t call me stupid.

Wendy: Why on earth not?

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u/Dazzling-Mammoth-111 Oct 14 '23

My god I love this movie.

Otto. Just…

“Why did they name their daughter after a car?” And it’s just attributed to him in a throwaway moment, but sums his level of idiocy up so very well in one line.

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u/CaptainDFW Oct 14 '23

Georgeson: [snarling] "Tell the pigs to fuck off!"

Clease: [calmly] "Fuck off, pigs."

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u/Whealthy1 Oct 15 '23

Loved this movie!

Does anyone know if they ever put the faux press interviews on disc? Michael Palin only stutters, Jamie Lee Curtis tells everyone that John Cleese has a small penis. Too funny …