Funniest scene in a movie...

Most of Peter Sellers' work leaves me gasping, but the one that never fails to crack me up is this scene in the hotel lobby:

almost any scene of The Party can make me snort.

George C. Scott as General Buck Turgeson, in "Dr. Strangelove", suggests a moment of prayer after a particularly tense moment. All become quiet, then Scott begins by bellowing, "LORD!!" as if he's calling a buck private to attention.

One among many funny moments in that great film.

"Gentlemen, please! There's no fighting here, this is the War Room!"

Mandrake to Ripper: "Let's face it, we don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, do we?"

any Laurel & Hardy movie.

just about any scene in the film The Party w/Peter Sellers (except the ridiculous ending???), but especially when he's on the intercom saying, "birdy num-nums, biiirrrrddddyyyy num-nums".

He he!

Hardy: Stanley, I don't think you've ever met my wife.
Stanley: Yes, I never did.

Don't know the name of the movie, however.

A great intro to Laurel & Hardy is "The Music Box", which won an Oscar for best short subject. They spend most of the movie trying to deliver a crated piano to a house at the top of an incredibly long set of steps. When they finally do get to the top, they are asked, "Why didn't you drive around to the other entrance?" which of course is right at house level.

My favorite L & H bit (I don't know what film) has been repeated by Abbott & Costello and probably others. They are sailors and have picked up two girls and are treating them to sodas, but they only have enough money for three sodas. So Hardy explains to Laurel that L is to say "no thank you" when asked if he wants a soda. So the girls order sodas, Hardy orders a soda, and Hardy says, "So, Stan, what will you have?"
L: "I'll have a soda, too". So Hardy takes him aside and explains the plan again, that Laurel is to refuse a soda. They sit back down, the two girls order sodas, Hardy orders a soda. H: "And Stan, what will YOU have?"
L: "I don't care for anything, thank you."
H: "Stan, don't be a spoil sport, the rest of us are having sodas..?"
L: (confused) "I don't care for one."
H: "Come on, Stan, one little soda couldn't hurt..."
L: "Okay then, I'll have a soda." This repeats in various forms ad hilarium.

I agree. I laughed my ass off when I saw that scene the first 20 times.

The scene is "Topper" in which the ghosts are walking a very drunk Cosmo Topper through the hotel lobby. Since they're invisible, he seems to be walking in a bizarre manner that violates the laws of phsyics.

I think there's a scene in "Dr. Strangelove" in which British exchange officer, Major Mandrake, captured by the US army by mistake, is trying to call the pentagon from a pay phone to give them the probable form of the code needed to turn back the fail safe jets from attacking Russia and starting an unnecessary World War 3. He tells the US Army major who captured him to shoot the lock off the Coke machine in the hallway to get him some change for the phone, and the major says something like, "Alright, but if this is another one of your preverted Communist tricks, you'll have to answer to the Coca Cola Bottling Company." Not sure of the exact line, but it was something like that.

When Inspector Clouseau used laughing gas in trying to pull the teeth from the police captain.

'Catballoo', Lee Marvin turns up at the funeral, blind drunk - sees all the candles and starts singing 'Happy Birthday'!

"People of Jewusalem. Rome is your FWIEND!!"



"Welease WOGER!!"

Pilate: Who is this Woger
people: a Wapper, it's a wobber

some else: it's a thief

What movie is that from?

Life of brian - monthy python

every one should have seen that movie

Life of Brian had some great bits. My two personal favorites from LoB:

1. The unwashed masses have somehow gotten the mistaken idea that Brian is the messiah, and follow him everywhere. "Look," he tells them, "I am NOT the messiah!"
"Only the true messiah would deny his divinity," offers one of the masses.
"All right then," sighs Brian, "I AM the messiah."
The masses in unison: "HE IS! HE IS THE MESSIAH!"

2. The centurions are processing prisoners. The Roman bureaucrat (Cleese of course) is checking off each prisoner and asking each what his punishment is to supposed to be. Several in a row say "Crucifixion," and are told to go out the door, turn to the left, one cross per victim, thank you very much. Another prisoner (Eric Idle) comes up and the bureaucrat asks him about his punishment. "They said I was to be set free!"
"Really? Well they never tell me anything. Alright then, off with you."
"No," says the prisoner,"I was just kidding- it's really crucifixion."

waht about this one:

Stan: "I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'"
Reg: "What?!"
Stan: "It's my right as a man."
Judith: "Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?"
Stan: "I want to have babies."
Reg: "You want to have babies?!"
Stan: "It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them."
Reg: "But... you can't have babies."
Stan: "Don't you oppress me."
Reg: "I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the fetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!"

The new DVD release is enjoying record sales for a comedy.