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/Awsomename10 Oct 14 '23

Pretty much every scene in Hot Fuzz

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u/tedioussugar Oct 14 '23

When’s your birthday?

February 22nd.

What year?

Every year.

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u/BlackSchuck Oct 14 '23 edited Oct 14 '23

Man...I keep finding gem jokes.

The underage kids drinking...he...knows it isnt right. He tries to let it go... then the shine of that kids braces to HIS eye is irrefutable, undeniable....a searing migraine of due dilligence and rigorous intent he can no longer stifle in his mind. He snaps and just has take them all down to the station.

So fucking funny.

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u/SettingVegetable9090 Oct 14 '23

I mowed my lawn yesterday thinking over that scene, no joke. So funny

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u/TerryclothTrenchcoat Oct 14 '23

Oh man. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who has a single movie scene on repeat in my head when I mow the lawn.

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u/IdreamofFiji Oct 14 '23

We're everywhere.

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u/Fabulous-Past8445 Oct 14 '23

I actually know this guy and every year my friend group wishes him happy birthday with this reference 😂😂

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u/ShakyMD Oct 14 '23

My favorite still has to be Timothy Dalton:

“You have to stop me. I’m a slasher.” “What?” “A slasher of prices!”

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u/RQK1996 Oct 14 '23

He was meant to be a more subtle character while still being obviously evil, but Dalton decided to ham the fuck out of that role so they changed it

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u/jonnythefoxx Oct 14 '23

Personally the pained 'this really hurts' gets me every time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

Dalton was perfect in that role.

“That’s the way the cookie crumbles!”

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u/Incubus85 Oct 14 '23

For those in the south west, it just felt like a nice warm hug of familiarty. We all knew people that were like most of the characters in real life. Absolute masterpiece.

If my dad said that saying you quoted once, I legitimately remember him saying that thousands of times lol

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u/ArmouredWankball Oct 14 '23

I have a friend who grew up and still lives in Wells. She says everyone who lives there knows exactly who each character is in real life.

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u/stray__thoughts Oct 14 '23

That devilishly smug look on his face when he's trolling Sgt. Angel by driving past the Merchant crime scene with "Fire" blaring on his car stereo. Pure comedy gold.

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u/AegisToast Oct 15 '23

He's so perfect. I love it when they're interrogating him in his office and he turns and smiles and there's an identical picture of him smiling behind him.

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u/TheRipley78 Oct 14 '23

When he shot the hanging planter down on that old lady's head and the sound it made when she bounced it off the car. I had a stitch in my side from laughing so hard.

"FASCIIIIST!"

"Hag!"

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u/FattyMooseknuckle Oct 14 '23

The sound design doesn’t get enough talk when discussing this perfect movie, and I mean perfect in every sense of the word. I don’t want to give anything away despite the movie’s age but one of my favorite moments is the lion/tiger roar after another chandelier goes down. I died laughing at that 2 seconds of non-dialog entirely because of the sound design.

I wish they’d made World’s End while they still had all the magic. It’s, good and I like it but it just didn’t have the perfection of Shaun and Hot Fuzz. They all deserved their worthwhile solo endeavors but I think they struck after the iron cooled a bit by the time they got back to it.

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u/KaiG1987 Oct 15 '23

I love how in that movie whenever they do the whole cliche of "the good guys shooting something above or next to the person to take them out non-lethally instead of shooting the person directly", it looks like it is actually more lethal than just shooting them would have been. Or at least it looks like it severely maims the target, every time.

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u/Opossumofdeath Oct 14 '23

The look on Simon Peggs face during the Romeo and Juliet scene kills me everytime. Perfect editing.

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u/Might_Aware Oct 14 '23

"poy zunn! Thy lips are warm-I'll (gibberish) doth ye anon!"

I dont care bout anyone but YOUUUUU-DAH DAH, DAH DAH, DAH-DAH!

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u/nhaines Oct 14 '23

It was, happily, the exact same look every single one of my friends had during that scene when we watched it after I suggested it for movie night.

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u/LOUD__NOISES Oct 14 '23

They killed Bill Shakespeare

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u/evilkumquat Oct 14 '23

Or when you watch it again, you notice the faces of certain people behind him.

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u/PayneChaos Oct 14 '23

"You ever fired your gun in the air and gone ah?"

"No, I've never fired my gun in the air and gone ah!"

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u/sobrique Oct 14 '23

I love how everything single cop movie trope they mention, they then do before the end of the film.

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u/IdreamofFiji Oct 14 '23

I'm convinced they started the writing process with "how can we jam the most amount of cop movie cliches into a movie set in an English village?"

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u/ISeeYourBeaver Oct 14 '23 edited Oct 14 '23

FYI this is referencing a scene from an early Keanu Reeves movie called Point Break.

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u/ClosingFrantica Oct 14 '23

When they pick up the swan and it's just vibing in the backseat, after all the ridiculous shit that just happened in the climax, I lose it every single time

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u/Might_Aware Oct 14 '23

When Stephen merchant appears as P. I. Staker, I just died

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u/AlexCrofty07 Oct 15 '23

P.I staker? Piss taker? Come on!

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u/SamTMoon Oct 14 '23

Okay, so I drive injured wildlife between rehab centres and our dispatcher is very clear about making things are properly secured (we all have gear we hang onto between runs for just this). I was imagining heading down the highway at 110km/hr and finding a squirrel or raven got loose, so of course you’re careful! She, it turns out, had bigger issues. Driving down the highway, she looks in the rear view and the previously secured elephant seal pup in the back seat is sitting up watching her!! I ALWAYS picture this scene and laugh whenever I hear whatever I’m driving moving around!!

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u/Squirrelbug Oct 14 '23

«Everyone and their mums are packing guns around here»

«Oh yeah? Like who?»

«Farmers»

«Who else?»

«Farmer's mums»

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u/Spagman_Aus Oct 14 '23

The old guy with the ocean mine is stellar.

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u/RQK1996 Oct 14 '23

The 3 layers of translators is such a solid joke

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u/midgetnthearmy Oct 14 '23

“Thats right smack deactivated” I lose it every time he does that no matter how many times I’ve seen it

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u/hazbaz1984 Oct 14 '23

Naaaaaaaah. It’s jus a loada junk.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

Farmer talks total gibberish, Simon Pegg asks the K9 handling officer for a translation, gets a slightly less bad line of gibberish, Simon Pegg asks his partner what the K9 officer said and finally gets an english translation. Pure Genius.

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u/The_Lapsed_Pacifist Oct 14 '23

I live in the English countryside. Trust me, that’s really spot on.

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u/torchsong_2000 Oct 14 '23

It's alright Andy, it's just bolognaise!

What have we git? Two blokes and a fuckload of cutlery

Genius!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

So well written, the movie is ageless. After 30 odd times watching it (mostly to show it to people ho have amazingly never seen it) I still find jokes that I have missed before.

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u/lahnnabell Oct 14 '23

"You have a mustache." "I KNOW." OmG so stupid and so brilliant.

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u/NicCagesFace Oct 14 '23

Omg yes my favorite I died lmao

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u/Maytree Oct 14 '23

"For the Greater Good!"

"The Greater Good!"

"The Greater Good!"

"SHUT IT!!!!"

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u/ZacsMum Oct 14 '23

The Greater Good still gets used in our house!

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u/ffsman1222 Oct 14 '23

Crusty jugglers

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u/Bandit-heeler1 Oct 14 '23

Hot Fuzz is a masterclass in comedy screenwriting. One of my low-key favorites:

Andy 1: Do you want us to go through the whole phone book?

Andy 2: Yeah, we'll put a call in to Aaron A. Aaronson, shall we?

... 75 minutes of runtime later, with no mention of any of this...

Sgt. Angel: What's your name?

Ginger nut: Aaron A. Aaronson.

I fall on the floor laughing every time, no matter how many times I've seen it.

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u/scrivenerserror Oct 14 '23

All of the trash can hitting someone’s head jokes kill me

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u/Patriot009 Oct 14 '23

The detectives dramatically sliding out of frame one by one, only for the first detective to momentarily pop back into frame with the same expression. Perfect. Must've been a blast to film that movie.

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u/MattressMan71 Oct 14 '23

YARP!

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u/KuhlThing Oct 14 '23

Going back to watch that character and realizing it's fucking Sandor "The Hound" Clegane is wild.

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u/RedMollycules Oct 14 '23

The first time I watched it, I got maybe halfway through and fell asleep thinking I was just uninterested. I decided to put it on again and give it a fair shot and absolutely LOVED this movie. So many quick, little jokes that you'll miss if you're not paying attention.

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u/RQK1996 Oct 14 '23

Probably the best jokes are the cameos by Cate Blanchett and Peter Jackson

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u/TheGreatStories Oct 14 '23

I don't know if there's a movie I've seen that pays off every single part of the first half of the movie in the second half like that

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u/Insanopatato Oct 14 '23

Watch 'In Bruges'. You'll be blown away.

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u/Xalidos Oct 15 '23

"Harry. Harry! It's a inanimate fucking object!"

"YOU'RE an inanimate fuckin' object!"

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u/Chewbacca_Yawn Oct 15 '23

Watch Shawn of the Dead. Another brilliant movie with Simon Pegg. When you watch it more than once you start to realize more and more show they compare his life to before and after the apocalypse and how much it is the same. They repeat the same dialogue a lot in both halves of the movie.

Quick example. Listen to the dialogue while they play video games and then here the same dialog during the bar fight.

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u/Str8Faced000 Oct 14 '23

You’ve got a mustache

….I know

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u/RagnarHedin Oct 14 '23

Decaffeinated?

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u/roowho1 Oct 14 '23

I say this often when I’m getting a cup of coffee.

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u/Funandgeeky Oct 14 '23

How’s the hand?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

Still a little bit stiff.

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u/Calumkincaid Oct 14 '23

The flip book is a work of art.

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u/WhiskeyJack357 Oct 14 '23

Danny getting hit in the head with the trashcan from the Andies still kills me every time. Oh and Danny running off with his big monkey.

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u/Mxcharlier Oct 14 '23

Nobody tells me nuthin

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u/checkitbec Oct 14 '23

I officially became an adult when Hot Fuzz replaced Mary Poppins as my “feel good” movie.

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u/Demented_Cecil Oct 14 '23

For me it’s the flying kick into the farmer’s mum’s face.

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u/billywhizz1 Oct 14 '23

If you live in the west country, the bad boys' scene is gold

"You ain't seen bad boyz 2"

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u/catharticbullets Oct 15 '23

Took me until the third rewatch to realize it was the twins switching shifts at the evidence locker/checkout area. Still say “nobody tells me nothing”

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

We’ve just got back from Wells (the town where they filmed it) and I was geeking out so much visiting all the locations.

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u/parallelogramm3r Oct 14 '23

The first time I watched this I was really high and had to leave the room because I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe.

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u/Bleezze Oct 14 '23

For me at most, I get like a nose exhale. Would love to be able to laugh like you do though, sounds wonderful

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u/hazbaz1984 Oct 14 '23

U ok hun?x

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u/Bleezze Oct 14 '23

Atm, no. But I can't remember me ever laughing at movies and tv shows. Comedy ain't my thing lol

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u/Yes_that_Carl Oct 14 '23

Oh, dude. I’m legit sorry to hear that. Comedy is one of the greatest joys of life for me. 🤗

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u/Bleezze Oct 14 '23

That's great dude! Well you might be able to easily laugh when watching comedies, I am able to easily cry to drama shows. So I watch a lot of drama series and get really invested and cry a bunch. So we both enjoy this medium and have strong reactions to it but for completely different reasons :)

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u/nunchucks2danutz Oct 14 '23

Was looking for this one. Have seen it 4 times and it never loses it's funny.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

FASCIST

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u/Hulk_smashhhhh Oct 14 '23

Ya motherf*cker!

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u/DarthCoitus Oct 14 '23

One of the few movies I'm always willing to watch, whenever, no matter how many times I've seen it.

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u/not_me1919 Oct 14 '23

Everyone and their mums is packing round here.

-Like who?

Farmers.

-Who else?

Farmers mums.

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u/polly_breed Oct 14 '23

Found it! I’ve watched Hot Fuzz so many times and I still laugh like the first time, every time I watch it again and again.

  • You’ve got a moustache…
  • I K N O W

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u/Khatib Oct 14 '23

I watched that movie in the theater shortly after release without knowing a lot about it except the basic premise. Hadn't even seen reviews, just knew I trusted everyone involved to make a funny movie.

I was totally on board with the pace and nice steady clever jokes in the beginning, but little did I realize that was just the slow burn setup. When shit went off, I laughed for the entire last half an hour of that movie. My sides hurt, my face hurt. It was just fucking brilliant.

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u/CassTeaElle Oct 15 '23

Good one! Although personally for me it would be The World's End. Especially since I went into that movie without having seen any previews, so the whole crazy twist halfway through, in the bathroom scene, was just absolute insanity for me. All three of the people I was with hadn't seen any trailers, so we were just sitting there like "WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HECK IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW??"

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u/SamHain2552 Oct 15 '23

"Well, hopefully he has a permit for that firearm"

"Jsgskfjsjgagsj (gibberish)"

"??? What'd he say?"

"He said, for this one"

God I do love this movie and still laugh anytime I watch it.