In celebration of April Fools we thought we would celebrate with a list of our most beloved ha ha moments in film. I may be missing some fantastic scenes, and for this very reason I would ask you to share and discuss your favorites in the comments section!
1) Borat – Wrestling In Hotel
When I first saw this scene in the theatre I was bent in half from laughing so hard, Cohen has been known to press his luck with authorities, but to wrestle Ken Davidian nude in the middle of a seminar full of strangers took a tremendous amount of balls; and we are in their debt for taking this chance.
2) Airplane – I Take It Black, Like My Men
When a young boy asks a young girl if she wants cream in her coffee, she responds with this comment that is right out of left field. Airplane is full of fantastic one liners, but this one remains my favorite. The set up is outstanding and the delivery was perfect.
3) The Saddest Music In The World – Man Drinks Out Of Glass Leg
I saw this film just recently and it is a dark comedic masterpiece. A doctor who cut off his lover’s legs in a tragic accident years ago, seeks to woo her back with beer filled glass gams. His own son (Mark Mc Kinney) steals the legs and offers them to her as a gift; winning her affection in the process. To deal with this tragedy, the father stars to drink out of a spare glass leg as he reminisces about his lost love.
4) Brain Candy – The Happiest Memory
A pill locks you into your happiest memory and causes you to live in a state of bliss. Through the magic of cinema we see the happiest moment of Mrs. Hurdiker’s life, and it is a tremendously sad and unfortunate holiday. This scene is hilarious because it shows us the best moment of her life – so the rest in comparison must be a wasteland or sorrow and loneliness. The Kids In The Hall are among the greatest sketch troupes in history and it is a fucking shame that they don’t make more movies together.
5) Revenge Of The Nerds – Tricycle Race
Toshiro takes an alcohol suppressant in the drunken tricycle race, but still gets incredibly hammered. When asked how he is feeling at the 18th lap pit stop he responds by saying Fucking Great! I remember losing it as a kid watching this scene and it’s just as funny today.
6) 40 Year Old Virgin – Chest Waxing
You could see the strain on the actor’s faces in this scene. It took everything they had not to break character and lose their minds laughing. Each punch-line is delivered with severe pain as hair is ripped from Carrel’s chest. This scene was forged in pain, like all great comedy.
7) Team America World Police – Doll Sex
Funniest sex scene ever. This film also has the greatest comedic vomiting scene of all time.
8) The Big Lebowski – Nobody Fucks With The Jesus
A convicted pedophile names Jesus is the bowling nemesis to our band of heroes. The shit slinging dialogue between them is as classic as it gets.
9) The Party – Birdy Num Num
Peter Sellers talks to a bird and repeats the words “Birdy Num Num.” It doesn’t sound funny, but watch Sellers dance – he is a master.
10) Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Black Knight
Dismemberment + denial = hilarious.
11) Strange Wilderness – Laughing Shark
This was a bad movie with some funny scenes, the laughing shark footage is among the funniest ever made.
12) Welfare Party/Flodder – Get Off Your Sister
This Dutch comedy features a white trash family full of ill mannered antics. The sister is an unstoppable force of whoredom and at one point of the film he mother has to break up a sexual encounter she is having with her brother. If you can get your hands on this one – you will be glad you did.
13) Star Trek 4 – Spock Mind Melds With Whale
This may not be funny to many others, but I found this scene to be incredibly entertaining. I think this may be the funniest moment in a Sci-Fi film. Spock is in a whale tank, looking like an escaped mental patient and is mind melding with a whale to save the future.
14) Anchorman – Milk Was A Bad Choice
Ron Burgandy shamed, humiliated and robbed of the job that completes him, shambles the streets as a broken, breaded man. Under the heat of the noon day sun the drifter holds his big box of milk high and proclaims it to be a bad choice. We have all been there.
After taking his grandsons to a dog fight, Royal Tennenbaum is confronted by Chas (the father of the boys). When a spot is discovered on one of the face of one of the children Royal is relieved to find out it is only Dogs Blood. When Chas freaks on royal and tells him to stay away from his children, the elder Tennenbaum suggests his son is having a nervous breakdown brought on by the death of his wife.
