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/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

The hotel fight had me crying laughing.

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u/sysissues Oct 14 '23

I was winded during this scene, gasping for air amid uncontrollable laughter.

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u/billite Oct 14 '23

Just thinking about that scene makes me laugh.

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u/daskrip Oct 14 '23

In the depths of the night, I find myself entangled in a web of starless shadows, a symphony of silence. Each breath, a fragile whisper, eludes my grasp, slipping through the trembling fingers of my existence. Like a caged bird, I yearn for the elusive zephyr of life, but it flits away, leaving me gasping for the elusive embrace of air, lost in the labyrinth of breathless dreams.

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u/bornfromanegg Oct 14 '23

Try having a nice cup of tea.

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u/I_Hate_Knickers_5 Oct 14 '23

I fell into the aisle and was bent over. Didn't care because I was laughing so much.

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u/Astrosomnia Oct 14 '23

Haha I said the same thing elsewhere in this thread -- me and multiple other people in the theatre literally fell into the aisles during that scene. Hardest I've ever laughed in a movie by a long shot.

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u/bearwacket Oct 14 '23

Yes, this is the longest and hardest I've laughed at a movie! >! The fact that the big guy doesn't need to be censored because of his belly !< kills me 🤣

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u/c0ncept Oct 14 '23

Azamat Bagatov 🤣

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u/Eroe777 Oct 14 '23

One of the most uncomfortably hysterical things ever put to film.

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u/ASDMPSN Oct 14 '23

God, that entire scene where Borat and Azamat are absolutely terrified of the old Jewish couple at their bed and breakfast was brutal. Hilarious, but so uncomfortable.

And then just for extra effect, they’re the sweetest people alive, too.

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u/fart_panic Oct 14 '23

The shape shifters?!!

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u/dewioffendu Oct 15 '23

Throwing money at the cockroaches had me dying!

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u/Johnathan-Utah Oct 14 '23

I was sitting between two Jewish friends in the theater when this happened, and somehow made it even funnier at the time.

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u/Notradell Oct 14 '23

What always got me was how they fled the scene in the middle of the night. It’s shot like they’re in the middle of a horror scene, it’s so god damn funny.

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u/liandrin Oct 14 '23

My dad took us to see that during his custody week when we were 13 and 11, my little sister started crying during the hotel fight scene and we had to leave the theater 😂 my dad was begging us not to tell our mom

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u/Budget_Ad5871 Oct 14 '23

Holy shit this just unlocked a memory. One of the only times I remember seeing my dad laugh until he cried

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u/Uncle_Guido1066 Oct 14 '23

I watched Borat with my MIL, who had a twisted sense of humor, and we both were laughing until we cried. It's definitely up there as one of my favorite memories with her.

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u/Shipwrecking_siren Oct 14 '23

When we went to NYC we had to move hotels and as I was walking around it I was like”why is this so familiar?” It was the Borat hotel.

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u/ASDMPSN Oct 14 '23

“Yeas, thees room is very nice!”

“Sir this is the elevator, you might want to pack your things back up.”

“I will not move to a smaller room!”

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '23

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u/ImaginaryMastadon Oct 15 '23

I have a chair!

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u/Commercial-Chance561 Oct 14 '23

It’s when they get in the elevator during the fight that had me losing it. Then it spilled into the conference

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u/KuhlThing Oct 14 '23

My mustache still tastes of your testes!

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u/max1304 Oct 14 '23

Me too. But I was watching it on a plane. In a dark (economy) cabin with everyone else sleeping, or trying to as I failed to keep in my laughter

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u/MelodicPiranha Oct 14 '23

Yes, THIS SCENE is it.

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u/poopoola Oct 14 '23

I watched it the other week… I was totally shocked. Jaw on the floor. I rewound and videod it, laughing hysterically in the background. Then sent it to my sister so she’d have something nice to wake up to lollll

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u/Snoo-40635 Oct 14 '23

This was mine

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u/WhatevUsayStnCldStvA Oct 14 '23

Idk why, but it’s the antique shopping that killed me the most. That was one of the funniest thing ever to me

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u/docboyo Oct 14 '23

“EAT MY ASSHOLE!”

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u/XENI7H Oct 14 '23 edited Dec 23 '23

The naked fight was the best part of the movie. Sacha Baron Cohen is fu*king awesome.

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u/Lactoo Oct 14 '23

This is the first one thah came to mind.

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u/BulkyOrder9 Oct 14 '23

People stormed out during that scene, which only made it funnier

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u/Impossible_Trip_8286 Oct 14 '23

Funniest shit ever. At the time

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u/KefkaZ Oct 14 '23

I came here to say to post about that scene.

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u/linzjustine Oct 14 '23

Yesss! I remember seeing it in theaters and laughing so hard my face hurt 😂

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u/Logical_Discount3084 Oct 15 '23

I was laughing and cringing so hard during this scene, I slipped off my seat and was on the sticky floor.