Thursday Thirteen - 12 - 13 Funniest Film Scenes

These scenes have all sent me into paroxysms of laughter.





1 - The search for a brain in "Young Frankenstein". Ending up with an Abby Normal brain is a sentimental favorite of mine.







2 - The Stupid Prince segment from "Blackadder's Christmas". Hugh Laurie's Prince Regent has an original interpretation of the New Testament. Technically not a film, but I think this is one of the funniest things ever committed to videotape.







3 - "He has a wife, you know..." from "Life of Brian". Pontius Pilate torments his legionairies with tales of his great friend in Rome, Biggus Dickus.









4 - In the original 1967 "Bedazzled", Dudley Moore's character Stanley Moon has a magical way of getting out of the bad situations which the devil keeps placing him in - blowing a raspberry. But in one of these cases, he's crying too hard and can't blow hard enough.







5 - "Springtime For Hitler" from "The Producers". The newer one is funny, too, but I vastly prefer the original 1968 version with Dick Shawn.







6 - The Huggies chase from "Raising Arizona". The part where the doberman lunged but was stopped a hairs' breadth from Nicholas Cage is sweet.





7 - The psychedelic brainwashing in "Zoolander". Will Farrell is a scream anyway, but in this section he nearly killed me.





8 - The performance where everything goes wrong in "Noises Off". The title refers to a play term when an offstage noise is required, such as a ringing telephone. The ensemble cast in this film version of a stage comedy builds to such a pitch that when the performance starts to go wrong, you may think you'll lose your mind from laughing too hard.





9 - Mysterious man joins pillow fight in "Shanghai Knights". Owen Wilson engages in a pillow fight with the salloon gals, only to have a man we hadn't seen before show up in the midst of the dreamy fun.





10 - The chase ending with "You're the devil" in "Over the Hedge". The comic build-up in this scene is pretty phenominal when you consider it had to be storyboarded out.







11 - The drunk dancer in "The Turning Point". Leslie Browne plays a young dancer who joins a NY dance company only to fall in love with principal dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. When he breaks her heart, she gets drunk, then has to go onstage anyway. She dreamily sways left while the rest of the corps de ballet sways right. When she realizes her mistake, it's priceless.







12 - John Candy turns into the devil in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles". During their long road trip by car, while Steve Martin sleeps, John Candy gets distracted, drives down an on-ramp, gets stuck between two on-coming 18-wheelers, and Steve Martin wakes up to see John Candy temporarily appearing as the devil.





13 -The humorous secondary character is killed off in "Lady in the Water". Bob Balaban plays a film expert who functions as a secondary character in the film we're watching. When he finds himself in a life-threatening situation, he comforts himself with the statistic that humorous secondary characters are rarely killed off.