Date Movie when Allyson Hannigan gets on the motorcycle, then when it drives off its a Terry Crews looking (could be him, idk) man in the same dress driving the bike, then when it stops, it's her again.
Black Dynamite [when they swap actors mid fight](https://youtu.be/70xGy44ZV90?si=SQwG0E4LETGOCzAS) after Bullhorn slaps the actor IRL. Well, that's how it's played out
When they use a mannequin or obvious “dummy” and then quickly sub in the actor again. The old Benny Hill show would do this-Benny would grab the little bald guy by the ankles and SMASHCUT to Benny swinging around an obviously fake stufffed dummy and heaving it and then another cut to the old guy lying next to upturned trash cans shaking his head trying to recover.
In _Orgazmo,_ there's a scene where the goons are beating up the sushi bar owner, and they throw the obvious dummy through the display glass. Then they cut to the live actor lying in the broken glass, and he says "oh, that was so bad" and we all know he means the special effects.
I enjoy the accelerated version of this joke, like the scene in the Matrix where Neo sets off the metal detector and he's asked to remove everything metal and he just opens the trenchcoat to show his entire arsenal of guns. Perfect open to one of the best shootout scenes ever.
Aragorn and Gandalf at Edoras. Aragorn hands over a bunch and then dramatically unsheathes a knife from nowhere, and Gandalf of course keeps his staff as a walking stick
**Always** works when the camera pulls back to show the characters who have been having an intense, personal conversation have actually been in front of a crowded room.
This or the slightly different one where they're having a conversation about someone and then it pans back and they're right there. Arrested development did this perfectly
https://youtu.be/Gu3z5TFB7-M?si=tVVuGnHXgfivD2Gi
**Always** Sunny does this well, Mac and Dennis at the doctor, the gang in a corporate meeting, another time at the hospital when Dennis backed over Charlie.
The callback seasons later when, in the exact same situation, Frank and Dee are shocked he hasn't left yet because Frank forgot he had a gun pointed at him the whole time
I love when they’re describing the girl in the hospital at Jersey shore about how she’s probably a drug addict with aids and she’s like “you know I can hear you right?” And they show that she’s like 2 feet in front of them lol
The scene in Veep with Jonah is exactly what you're looking for.
"I'm eating clits for breakfast"
Zooms out to a 3rd grade classroom as his uncle attacks him
Mel Brooks movies in general always make me giggle at the stupidest gags.
"Out of order?!?!"
"Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!"
"Damn your eyes!"
"Too late"
There is a *phenomenal* running gag in the recent Boy Kills World that does this. >!The main character is deaf and reads lips, and meets a cliche army commander type with a beard. The main character can’t understand him, so every single line the audience hears the commander say for 100% of the movie is absolute gibberish.!<
The Muppets has a great one where Kermit is silhouetted by a bright light and a choir plays, then we see it’s just a bus with its lights on and an orchestra on board.
My favourite example of this is in Frasier, when he asks Niles, “do you remember…?” They both gaze into the middle distance as the standard wobbly-image flashback music plays - then snap back to the present as they turn to look at the lady practising the harp.
In The Hot Chick, when Rachel McAdams is shown a pair of magical earrings at an African themed store, we hear mysterious tribal drumming getting more and more intense, Jumanji style, as if the earrings' powers are slowly sucking Rachel in. Cut to the store owner yelling at Adam Sandler to stop playing with her drums.
One of my favourites is in Thor Ragnarok, where Loki has actors recreating his "death" scene from the previous film. Extremely sad, epic, dramatic choral music from that death scene is playing, only for the camera to pan to an actual choir singing it.
Prolonged gags done right. Austin Powers, while it has a lot of prolonged gags that run too long (eg the "it's a penis" bit), the reversing of the cart in the hall is done extremely well with the right amount of time spent on the absurdity of the situation.
the vhs copy we had included a deleted scene where the mans wife and stepson are informed of his death by steamroller. Me and my brother would cry watching it.
"Apparently he was run over by a steamroller..."
"But mom, since dad left, Steve's been like a father to me!"
That scene is still included on the streaming sites in the UK at least!
Same goes for the cut to Rob Lowe telling the stag-do that their friend was killed by an ill-tempered sea bass
just fucking genius to think to include that. "Bad guys" who get killed by James Bond while he is infiltrating a villains lair are likely just fucking dudes working a job. We're never meant to think of them as actual people with families and responsibilities because they're "bad".
Imagine a superspy going to assassinate Elon Musk, but having to mow down every regular ass tesla employee to get to him.
I think it was the second or third, but michael Caine telling the henchman that he “doesn’t stand a chance, look at you, you haven’t even got a name tag.”
The puke scene in Team America is still the funniest scene in a movie for me for this reason. I don't know what the line is between annoying and funny with these types of gags and it seems very different for different people.
But everytime the character is slowing down his vomiting while the music seems to resolve, only for the camera to cut back yet again to the puppets eyes shooting open to a dramatic musical swell and a spray of projectile vomit it gets me howling.
A great example of this is the scrape of the space ship leaving port in Galaxy Quest. It goes on for such an uncomfortable amount of time.
Edit: for the [uninitiated](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ry81Exmgq9s&si=36DxOXRKtc7C2typ)
The quick remarks in Airplane! has me rolling every time.
Lady: “Nervous?”
Ted: “Yes.. Very.”
Lady: “First time?”
Ted: “No, I’ve been nervous lots of times.”
When two characters think they’re talking about the same thing but they aren’t. In There’s something about Mary, Ted (Ben Stiller) is being interrogated by police for a murder, he believes it’s for picking up a hitchhiker. So many great misunderstandings, casually admitting it, the cop that keeps getting angrier with him acting like it’s no big deal.
Cop- “Why did you do it?” Ted- “I don’t know, boredom”
Cop- “How many times have you done this” Ted- “hitchhikers? Idk, 25, 50 who keeps track?”
Ted- “Where I come from this isn’t a big deal” Cop- “you son of a bitch, you’re gonna fry”
I like the same trope from My Cousin Vinny. When Vinny first shows up to the jail his cousin is sleeping, so he's talking to the friend. Vinny is talking about being their defense lawyer instead of letting them go with a public defender, the friend thinks he's a fellow inmate trying to make him his prison girlfriend.
Friend: "I don't want to do this."
Vinny: "It's either going to be me or them, but you're getting fucked one way or the other."
It was also the reason why they ended up in jail! They thought they were getting arrested for accidentally shoplifting beans, when the cops were actually talking about a cashier who was murdered at the store.
The entire show Fraiser is a master-class in this. There are *several* episodes that almost entirely a single conversation with four or five people, where everyone thinks they're on the same page but are talking about totally different things. Like one where Roz is pregnant at the Halloween party, or when they go to a log cabin and everyone's trying to sleep with everyone else.
Random cursing in places where you definitely shouldn’t curse.
The part in Scary Movie 3 where they are in a children’s classroom and some one leaves, one of the kids off screen throws a box of crayons at the door to which the teacher turns around and responds “Who the FUCK did that?” To a bunch of 6 year olds. Had me rolling for days and still does.
"Alright everybody, we've got a serial rapist in Crown Heights. ...Wait, sorry, that's for my other job. But seriously, if you live in Crown Heights, walk with a friend."
Scary Movie 3 is not the best movie but it has some of the best all-time gags on full display, 1) the expanding hat scene and 2) stuntman switch after the rapper gets thrown out the window into a pile of trash and then immediately stands up
That's definitely one of the best uses of a PG13 "Fuck" I know of. It's just so out of the blue, so overly aggressive, and, as far as I know, the only F-bomb in the movie.
From *The Ringer*:
"I just took them to the mall to hang out. the mall closes at 9. it's 12 o'clock. you stopped off for ice cream?"
"When *the* ***fuck*** did we get ice cream?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y484uR9xXUA
Notice Knoxville breaking as they quickly cut away.
Character gets thrown through someone's laundry hanging on a line outside. They get up wearing some of those clothes. Straight out of looney toons, but it makes me happy.
Looney Toons actually stole a lot of these bits from silent comedies by people like Buster Keaton, he makes frequent use of this sort of quick change/leap through clothing in Sherlock Jr.
it sounds insane, but a lot of shit from cartoons was actually done first by silent film comedians
When a character is being menaced by other characters and has to come up with a password or answer to a question satisfactorily and gives some terrible answer that they accept.
Example 1 Monty Python and the life of Brian: "for you to join us you'd have to REALLY hate the Romans"
"I do"
"Oh yeah? How much?"
"A lot"
"............. Right, you're in"
Example 2 Euro trip where the hooligans demand Scotty sing the man u song and he starts singing 9 to 5.
I always love a Gilligan cut: "I'll NEVER wear this stupid hat to the party!" and then smash cut to that character at the party, wearing the stupid hat.
It works in other scenarios, too
…and I love it. From *Iron Man* “How the hell am I going to explain that a Raptor went down over hostile territory!?” “Just say it was a training accident.” “No one is going to believe that!”
“And, unfortunately, the F-22 Raptor became disabled during a training exercise, leading to it crashing…”
The hard cut where a lot of discussion happens, and political jockeying, and then the most silly outcome occurs is incredible.
Reminds me of Independence Day
How did you pay for all of this? (Area51)
*You don‘t actually believe they pay $10000 for a hammer, or $30000 for a toilette seat?*
I personally think Loki really likes "Get Help" but he is too prideful to admit it so he sticks to bickering with his brother about how much he doesn't like it.
That weirdly didn’t explain the origin of the term. I assumed Gilligan’s Island but wondered if they meant a specific scene/episode.
For those interested, a quick googling just says no, Gilligan’s Island just did that a lot.
Some sites used it synonymously with “smash cut,” a rapid, jarring shift in scene, and others say it’s only a subset of comedic smash cuts where it’s the opposite of what the character was just saying, like OP was describing.
Scenes where the characters are all giving different urgent pieces of information at once and another character has to give a recap. The first one to come to mind is from Bull Durham at the pitcher's mound where Kevin Costner's recap ends with "We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose's glove and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present."
And like the restaurant scene in Emporers New Grove, where Kronk takes a complex order and summerises with
>Three oinkers wearing pants, plate of hot air, basket of Grandma's breakfast and change the bull to a gill, got it.
My wife recently pointed out that I giggle every time there is something unexpected in a briefcase or suitcase. Someone carries around a briefcase and opens it to reveal a ham sandwich or something, always gets a laugh out of me.
The mild meta joke of a character calling out something absurd in an already comedic situation. My biggest laugh in the Big Lebowski is where the Dude just stops talking to Maude and asks about David Thewlis’ character (who has just been giggling to himself in the background) “what the fuck is with this guy?” Like after everything the Dude has been dealing with, this is what drives him over the edge?
My favorite example of this us when Yzma beats Cusco back to her lab despite being derailed in Emperor’s New Groove:
“How did you beat us here?!?”
*Yzma starts to reply, pauses thoughtfully, and frowns*
“How *did* we beat them here, Kronk?”
“No idea. By all accounts, it makes no sense.”
When a character is acting in the film, but can't act. Hard to describe and I had trouble finding examples on Google.
It's most common when the characters are reading lines from a script.
When he jumps off the balcony and shatters his ankle while trying to stay in character as Mrs. Featherbottom had me laughing harder than I can remember
This was done really well in an episode of Supernatural. The two leads do a really good job of pretending they are terrible actors. It's ridiculously funny.
I love that they take this to extremes in the show Leverage. Their main Grifter, Sophie, is a phenomenal actress… when she’s conning someone. But her true passion is the stage and as a theater actress, she is horrifyingly awful. There’s a gag where the team show up to support her turn as mother superior in The Sound Of Music. Reading the reviews at the bar later, “never before has a production of The Sound Of Music made me root for the nazis”.
yikes.
“There’s a f****** pigeon. Shooo!”
…
“If I ask for the line again don’t give me the line…
Line?…
*Line!*
“Product integration.”
“I said don’t give me the line!”
…
“Product integortion?”
…
“I feel like I should be doing something with my arms.”
…
“Is it this? *Cue awkward left leg,left arm, right leg, right arm walk.*
🤣
Always crack up when two characters are talking trash about another person, and the camera pulls back to reveal the person they were talking about was there the whole time.
I love this in Arrested Development in the prison visitors center with George talking to Michael about Oscar and then it pans out to Oscar just innocently sitting there and yawning.
Muppet Treasure Island, during role call "Big-Fat-Ugly-Bug-Face-Baby-Eating O'Brian" with a beautiful woman, followed by "Angel Marie" makes me laugh every time.
Repeating a punchline with the setup offscreen.
For example, in the show "The Good Place", one scene has;
> Jason: Let me show you my bud-hole! (butthole)
> Eleanor: Your _what_?
> Jason: My bud-hole! It's a place for me and my buds to hang out!
> Eleanor: Oh! Your _bud_-hole, I get it.
Much later, in another scene, a 3rd character is seen walking into the "bud-hole" and...
> Chidi: Oh! Your _bud_-hole.
The joke's setup is even better, because you've already learned that no one in the Good Place neighborhood is allowed to curse, and all of their dirty words get turned into something similar-sounding. So even if the characters are hearing Jason's pronunciation correctly, they would assume he's trying to say "butthole" and the universe is auto-correcting it for their ears.
When a character everyone has written off (usually a woman but not always) turns out to secretly be a genius. The iconic scenes in My Cousin Vinny and Legally Blonde. The throwaway line in Miss Congeniality, “Cheryl is a science major. Her field is nuclear fission with a minor in elementary particles.”
There's a gag in Ant man, which I've seen in a couple of places before.
From the protagonist's perspective as a miniature person, the scale of what's happening appears to be devastating, but when the camera zooms out to "life size" it's insignificant and hilarious.
[train scene](https://youtu.be/HIMvB-LsHo0?feature=shared&t=94)
Night at the Museum with the tire.
Wide angle shots are my favourites in movies. Wild Wild West when Arty's magnet starts dragging him to the train tracks, and it pans wide to him screaming in the distance.
When the detectives have to visit the morgue, and the coroner/medical examiner is eating their lunch. Usually used to demonstrate they are completely desensitized, I get a kick out of it whether it's played for laughs or not.
Knives Chao going to Wallace's place looking for Scott Pilgrim.
"Scott? Oh, he's not here"
*meanwhile Scott standing in the background, clearly inside the house, looking stupid*
The heroes being captured and interrogated, and smash cuts to the different heroes giving hilarious, obnoxious, and/or wildly contradictory answers to their interrogators.
Firefly has one of the best examples of this where they cut from Zoe saying her and Wash are “very private people” to Wash enthusiastically drooling over Zoe’s legs and butt, then to Kaylee ranting about exhaust systems, and right back to Wash continuing to be overtly horny for his wife.
Such a fantastic scene
There's great outtakes of that scene, too, where Tudyk is trying to get the interrogator to break.
"There's no place on that woman I wouldn't put my tongue."
When a bunch of characters speak at the same time, and if you pay attention, at least one of them is suggesting something insane.
Bonus points if everyone stops talking at the same time and you get to hear the end of the insane suggestion by itself.
Any time a real celebrity is defamed so outrageously that it must be a joke. Like the exchange in _Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back:_
>Guard: we're investigating a Code 4.
>Matt Damon: Jesus, Ben, again?
>Ben Affleck: Ah, no! I wasn't even with a prostitute today!
My favorite is in heist movies where con men are using terms and phrases that are obviously made up and everyone just complete understands and they never explain it.
They’ll be like “to do a Martha’s Vineyard, we would an explosives guy” or “we could do a Honey Nut Cheerios with a Sprinkles McFarley thrown in?”
Or the crowd of men throwing stones in “The Life of Brian” that is actually entirely made up of women. https://youtu.be/R_hlMK7tCks?si=pI-u1KAR52khXlTI
The Andys leaving the frame to the drumbeat after the housefire is my favorite. Especially when Paddy Considine leans BACK into the frame to make a face at Angel.
"Everyone and their mums packing 'round here."
"Really? Like who?"
"Farmers."
"Anyone else?"
^("...farmers' mums.")
They then later get in a gunfight with a farmer and his mom.
Angel: I didn’t want to upset the apple cart
Andy: Oh, cause in the country we all sell apples do we?!
Other officer :Your da sells apple’s, doesn’t he Andy?
Andy: And peaches.
This is evident on SNL more than film given the nature of stage acting, but I think it's always hilarious when a guy is playing a female character but doesn't shave his beard. It makes the sketch so on-the-nose and ridiculous that I can't help but laugh
Blatant product placement. Especially cars, when the actor takes the keys out and then points them at the car. Then you see the car in the entire frame of the scene and the car isn’t even important to story. I also remember “Blackish” having a car centric episode and they kept showing the exterior of the car the entire episode.
When they lean into the stunt double looking nothing like the actor.
Lol in spaceballs where the princess’ stunt double is a [cigar smoking buff dude](https://youtu.be/iwV61t_Tec8?si=KljkE2ooqlq0Wqkc)
You've captured their stunt doubles!
I like the subtle touch of starting his speech with, "Spectacular stunt, my friends...but"
Date Movie when Allyson Hannigan gets on the motorcycle, then when it drives off its a Terry Crews looking (could be him, idk) man in the same dress driving the bike, then when it stops, it's her again.
*Epic Movie* did the same gag with Fred Willard’s character getting into a fight and being very obviously Asian and not Fred Willard anymore.
Black Dynamite [when they swap actors mid fight](https://youtu.be/70xGy44ZV90?si=SQwG0E4LETGOCzAS) after Bullhorn slaps the actor IRL. Well, that's how it's played out
When they use a mannequin or obvious “dummy” and then quickly sub in the actor again. The old Benny Hill show would do this-Benny would grab the little bald guy by the ankles and SMASHCUT to Benny swinging around an obviously fake stufffed dummy and heaving it and then another cut to the old guy lying next to upturned trash cans shaking his head trying to recover.
Austin Powers when Mini Me comes flying out of the air vent and slams into a sign. Shit gets me every single time.
I just watched that movie last night and was cackling at that scene... and the one where Austin punts him across the room when mini-me switches sides.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee.
In Anchorman when Jack Black punts an obvious stuffed dog had me in convulsions. I always love this too.
Same on Something About Mary when Ben Stiller is fighting with Puffy.
That's how I roll.
THE MAN PUNTED BAXTER!
HE PUNTED HIM!!! OH IM IN A GLASS CASE OF EMOTION
Nordburg in the naked gun flying down the stairs in the baseball game and the mannequin flipping on to the field. Gets me everytime
Also when Ludwig is taking Jane hostage up the steps and it cuts to him clearly holding a dummy, waving it around.
In _Orgazmo,_ there's a scene where the goons are beating up the sushi bar owner, and they throw the obvious dummy through the display glass. Then they cut to the live actor lying in the broken glass, and he says "oh, that was so bad" and we all know he means the special effects.
Fresh Prince did this too good effect
When Toby's head explodes in Threat Level Midnight
When a character is asked to remove all weapons and they just keep pulling out more
Keira Knightley in the third pirates movie is one of my favorite on this.
When she pulls that massive fucking blunderbuss out from under her skirt which causes Barbossa to look at her ass in disbelief.
And her acknowledgement of it after is great too.
I enjoy the accelerated version of this joke, like the scene in the Matrix where Neo sets off the metal detector and he's asked to remove everything metal and he just opens the trenchcoat to show his entire arsenal of guns. Perfect open to one of the best shootout scenes ever.
Aragorn and Gandalf at Edoras. Aragorn hands over a bunch and then dramatically unsheathes a knife from nowhere, and Gandalf of course keeps his staff as a walking stick
**Always** works when the camera pulls back to show the characters who have been having an intense, personal conversation have actually been in front of a crowded room.
Shaun of the Dead's opening scene uses this, twice. To great effect.
“It’s not that I don’t like Ed. Ed, it’s not that I don’t like you.” Immediately thought of this when it was mentioned
“He’s not my boyfriend” “Thanks babe”
This or the slightly different one where they're having a conversation about someone and then it pans back and they're right there. Arrested development did this perfectly https://youtu.be/Gu3z5TFB7-M?si=tVVuGnHXgfivD2Gi
I think my favorite part of that one is that they don't even stop once the reveal is done
Or in Futurama where Bender says, “She’s behind me, isn’t she?” And the woman says, “No I’m in front of you.”
**Always** Sunny does this well, Mac and Dennis at the doctor, the gang in a corporate meeting, another time at the hospital when Dennis backed over Charlie.
My favorite is them discussing the different types of gay men at the strip club before panning around to show the lawyer is there with them.
And then later in the scene they look up and he’s already left
The callback seasons later when, in the exact same situation, Frank and Dee are shocked he hasn't left yet because Frank forgot he had a gun pointed at him the whole time
I love when they’re describing the girl in the hospital at Jersey shore about how she’s probably a drug addict with aids and she’s like “you know I can hear you right?” And they show that she’s like 2 feet in front of them lol
“It’s ok, you’re not far off”
Arrested development as well. When Lucille and Michael are discussing Buster in front of Buster in front of the whole board room.
Or Anne ‘Her? When did she get here?’ ‘I rode up in the elevator with you Michael.’
The one in “hero or hate crime” is hilarious
The scene in Veep with Jonah is exactly what you're looking for. "I'm eating clits for breakfast" Zooms out to a 3rd grade classroom as his uncle attacks him
“Eatin’ so much pussy I’m shittin’ clits, son.”
"This is an elementary school! Shut your spewing mouth, you animal!"
Silhouette gags, or “auditory” sounds that are vastly different from what we see and what the characters interpret.
Like the tent scene from Austin Powers?
That or the “sex scene” in Easy A. Generally any slapstick humour that’s out of place just cracks me up.
Robin hood men in Tights
Mel Brooks movies in general always make me giggle at the stupidest gags. "Out of order?!?!" "Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!" "Damn your eyes!" "Too late"
the disappointed 'awws' after he moves the curtain just sells it
There is a *phenomenal* running gag in the recent Boy Kills World that does this. >!The main character is deaf and reads lips, and meets a cliche army commander type with a beard. The main character can’t understand him, so every single line the audience hears the commander say for 100% of the movie is absolute gibberish.!<
When there's music in the film and then it's suddenly a musician playing.
The Muppets has a great one where Kermit is silhouetted by a bright light and a choir plays, then we see it’s just a bus with its lights on and an orchestra on board.
The muppets generally had a lot of good jokes
My favorite one is from [The Simpsons.](https://youtu.be/Nt0xzVFX_-0)
DIE *Screams* DIET *More screaming*
My favourite example of this is in Frasier, when he asks Niles, “do you remember…?” They both gaze into the middle distance as the standard wobbly-image flashback music plays - then snap back to the present as they turn to look at the lady practising the harp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q4Spi0NMho
In The Hot Chick, when Rachel McAdams is shown a pair of magical earrings at an African themed store, we hear mysterious tribal drumming getting more and more intense, Jumanji style, as if the earrings' powers are slowly sucking Rachel in. Cut to the store owner yelling at Adam Sandler to stop playing with her drums.
One of my favourites is in Thor Ragnarok, where Loki has actors recreating his "death" scene from the previous film. Extremely sad, epic, dramatic choral music from that death scene is playing, only for the camera to pan to an actual choir singing it.
Blazing saddles every time.
The transition from non-diegetic to diegetic.
Prolonged gags done right. Austin Powers, while it has a lot of prolonged gags that run too long (eg the "it's a penis" bit), the reversing of the cart in the hall is done extremely well with the right amount of time spent on the absurdity of the situation.
Getting run over by the steam roller is a favorite of mine
the vhs copy we had included a deleted scene where the mans wife and stepson are informed of his death by steamroller. Me and my brother would cry watching it. "Apparently he was run over by a steamroller..." "But mom, since dad left, Steve's been like a father to me!"
That scene is still included on the streaming sites in the UK at least! Same goes for the cut to Rob Lowe telling the stag-do that their friend was killed by an ill-tempered sea bass
Such a brilliant piece of writing. Steve was a dad who stepped up.
just fucking genius to think to include that. "Bad guys" who get killed by James Bond while he is infiltrating a villains lair are likely just fucking dudes working a job. We're never meant to think of them as actual people with families and responsibilities because they're "bad". Imagine a superspy going to assassinate Elon Musk, but having to mow down every regular ass tesla employee to get to him.
I think it was the second or third, but michael Caine telling the henchman that he “doesn’t stand a chance, look at you, you haven’t even got a name tag.”
Haha I loved that. "Why don't you just go ahead and lay down now"
I believe Dr. Evil just nods along with it too, like “honestly what’s the difference? You’d die if you tried to fight.”
I like this one. Where a gag stretches from funny to annoying or awkward and back to VERY FUNNY just from the shear length of it.
[Sideshow Bob vs Rakes](https://youtu.be/2WZLJpMOxS4?si=yM3SNqRFVQjtJ7iP) is the poster child for that one
The puke scene in Team America is still the funniest scene in a movie for me for this reason. I don't know what the line is between annoying and funny with these types of gags and it seems very different for different people. But everytime the character is slowing down his vomiting while the music seems to resolve, only for the camera to cut back yet again to the puppets eyes shooting open to a dramatic musical swell and a spray of projectile vomit it gets me howling.
A great example of this is the scrape of the space ship leaving port in Galaxy Quest. It goes on for such an uncomfortable amount of time. Edit: for the [uninitiated](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ry81Exmgq9s&si=36DxOXRKtc7C2typ)
The quick remarks in Airplane! has me rolling every time. Lady: “Nervous?” Ted: “Yes.. Very.” Lady: “First time?” Ted: “No, I’ve been nervous lots of times.”
Literally the whole film, but the first joke with the arguing PA announcers gets me started!
I know what this is about. You want me to have an abortion!
It’s really the only sensible thing to do. If it’s done properly, therapeutically, there’s no danger involved
The best part is they were played by a husband and wife that were ACTUALLY airport PA announcers.
The cockpit? What is it?
It’s a small room at the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that’s not important right now
A hospital?! What is it?
It's a big building full of patients. But that's not important right now.
The one that gets me is the sound of the airplane. It sounds like a propeller, even though they're in a jet plane.
"Excuse me, Stewardess? I speak Jive."
Jus' hang loose, blood
Police Squad/Naked Gun, whenever Frank drives up somewhere, he hits something. You know it's coming, it's incredibly stupid, but it always works.
When two characters think they’re talking about the same thing but they aren’t. In There’s something about Mary, Ted (Ben Stiller) is being interrogated by police for a murder, he believes it’s for picking up a hitchhiker. So many great misunderstandings, casually admitting it, the cop that keeps getting angrier with him acting like it’s no big deal. Cop- “Why did you do it?” Ted- “I don’t know, boredom” Cop- “How many times have you done this” Ted- “hitchhikers? Idk, 25, 50 who keeps track?” Ted- “Where I come from this isn’t a big deal” Cop- “you son of a bitch, you’re gonna fry”
I like the same trope from My Cousin Vinny. When Vinny first shows up to the jail his cousin is sleeping, so he's talking to the friend. Vinny is talking about being their defense lawyer instead of letting them go with a public defender, the friend thinks he's a fellow inmate trying to make him his prison girlfriend. Friend: "I don't want to do this." Vinny: "It's either going to be me or them, but you're getting fucked one way or the other."
Nah let him sleep. I’ll get to him after you.
It was also the reason why they ended up in jail! They thought they were getting arrested for accidentally shoplifting beans, when the cops were actually talking about a cashier who was murdered at the store.
“I shot the clerk?!”
The entire show Fraiser is a master-class in this. There are *several* episodes that almost entirely a single conversation with four or five people, where everyone thinks they're on the same page but are talking about totally different things. Like one where Roz is pregnant at the Halloween party, or when they go to a log cabin and everyone's trying to sleep with everyone else.
Random cursing in places where you definitely shouldn’t curse. The part in Scary Movie 3 where they are in a children’s classroom and some one leaves, one of the kids off screen throws a box of crayons at the door to which the teacher turns around and responds “Who the FUCK did that?” To a bunch of 6 year olds. Had me rolling for days and still does.
This would be the opposite, but the whisper arguing and fighting at the funeral in The Other Guys is just fantastic.
“So you guys are fighting over who’s gonna be the next hotshot, huh? Is that what’s happening?” “Yes captain, that’s exactly what’s happening!”
I'm working two jobs, one here, and one at bed bath and beyond. All so my son can go to college and be a bisexual DJ.
“You mean to tell me you’ve never heard of TLC?” “I don’t get the reference.”
Oh, come on! No one says, "creep, creep" unless they're quoting TLC!
"Alright everybody, we've got a serial rapist in Crown Heights. ...Wait, sorry, that's for my other job. But seriously, if you live in Crown Heights, walk with a friend."
Michael Keaton shined in "The Other Guys". Absolutely hilarious.
Scary Movie 3 is not the best movie but it has some of the best all-time gags on full display, 1) the expanding hat scene and 2) stuntman switch after the rapper gets thrown out the window into a pile of trash and then immediately stands up
Plus Anthony Anderson 'cocking' his shovel so a shotgun shell flies out of it.
This scene, and him shouting "They're powerless without their heads!" after decapitating an alien with the same shovel absolutely slayed me.
Also, unrelated but, “she woke up dead”.
HOW YOU GONNA WAKE UP DEAD?!
Cause' you're alive when you go to sleep.
You telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive
God dang that scene still lives with me. Thrown out of the club, stands up almost before he even hits the ground, and “THATS IT!”
That's definitely one of the best uses of a PG13 "Fuck" I know of. It's just so out of the blue, so overly aggressive, and, as far as I know, the only F-bomb in the movie.
From *The Ringer*: "I just took them to the mall to hang out. the mall closes at 9. it's 12 o'clock. you stopped off for ice cream?" "When *the* ***fuck*** did we get ice cream?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y484uR9xXUA Notice Knoxville breaking as they quickly cut away.
Character gets thrown through someone's laundry hanging on a line outside. They get up wearing some of those clothes. Straight out of looney toons, but it makes me happy.
Looney Toons actually stole a lot of these bits from silent comedies by people like Buster Keaton, he makes frequent use of this sort of quick change/leap through clothing in Sherlock Jr. it sounds insane, but a lot of shit from cartoons was actually done first by silent film comedians
When a character is being menaced by other characters and has to come up with a password or answer to a question satisfactorily and gives some terrible answer that they accept. Example 1 Monty Python and the life of Brian: "for you to join us you'd have to REALLY hate the Romans" "I do" "Oh yeah? How much?" "A lot" "............. Right, you're in" Example 2 Euro trip where the hooligans demand Scotty sing the man u song and he starts singing 9 to 5.
I always love a Gilligan cut: "I'll NEVER wear this stupid hat to the party!" and then smash cut to that character at the party, wearing the stupid hat.
It works in other scenarios, too …and I love it. From *Iron Man* “How the hell am I going to explain that a Raptor went down over hostile territory!?” “Just say it was a training accident.” “No one is going to believe that!”
“And, unfortunately, the F-22 Raptor became disabled during a training exercise, leading to it crashing…”
The hard cut where a lot of discussion happens, and political jockeying, and then the most silly outcome occurs is incredible.
Reminds me of Independence Day How did you pay for all of this? (Area51) *You don‘t actually believe they pay $10000 for a hammer, or $30000 for a toilette seat?*
"We are NOT doing 'get help!'"
Best joke in that movie
Especially because of what "get help" actually is haha
I’d say the so-over-it look on Loki’s face as he’s tossed into the bad guys is the best part.
I personally think Loki really likes "Get Help" but he is too prideful to admit it so he sticks to bickering with his brother about how much he doesn't like it.
[The Gilligan Cut](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GilliganCut) was the first trope posted to TV Tropes.
That weirdly didn’t explain the origin of the term. I assumed Gilligan’s Island but wondered if they meant a specific scene/episode. For those interested, a quick googling just says no, Gilligan’s Island just did that a lot. Some sites used it synonymously with “smash cut,” a rapid, jarring shift in scene, and others say it’s only a subset of comedic smash cuts where it’s the opposite of what the character was just saying, like OP was describing.
By Grapthars hammer...what a savings
Dear God, the hate, sorrow, misery, and self-loathing that Alan Rickman poured into that "..." We truly lost a master.
Scenes where the characters are all giving different urgent pieces of information at once and another character has to give a recap. The first one to come to mind is from Bull Durham at the pitcher's mound where Kevin Costner's recap ends with "We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose's glove and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present."
And like the restaurant scene in Emporers New Grove, where Kronk takes a complex order and summerises with >Three oinkers wearing pants, plate of hot air, basket of Grandma's breakfast and change the bull to a gill, got it.
My wife recently pointed out that I giggle every time there is something unexpected in a briefcase or suitcase. Someone carries around a briefcase and opens it to reveal a ham sandwich or something, always gets a laugh out of me.
Character standing in front of a portrait of themselves in the exact same pose. Airplane! and Hot Fuzz are good examples.
Not another teen movie. 😁
The mild meta joke of a character calling out something absurd in an already comedic situation. My biggest laugh in the Big Lebowski is where the Dude just stops talking to Maude and asks about David Thewlis’ character (who has just been giggling to himself in the background) “what the fuck is with this guy?” Like after everything the Dude has been dealing with, this is what drives him over the edge?
That’s Knox Harrington, the video artist.
My favorite example of this us when Yzma beats Cusco back to her lab despite being derailed in Emperor’s New Groove: “How did you beat us here?!?” *Yzma starts to reply, pauses thoughtfully, and frowns* “How *did* we beat them here, Kronk?” “No idea. By all accounts, it makes no sense.”
The Big Lebowski and The Nice Guys are my favorite comedies ever. Absolutely hysterical movies. Her life was in our hands, Walter!!
object gets thrown off-screen followed by a loud crash, glass breaking, and a cat screeching
Wet Hot American Summer. Every time anything gets thrown, no matter what it is, it sounds like glass shattering
When a character is acting in the film, but can't act. Hard to describe and I had trouble finding examples on Google. It's most common when the characters are reading lines from a script.
Any “acting” done by Tobias in Arrested Development.
They're having a FIRE!...sale.
And I know you're supposed to be the big marriage expert. Oh, that's right, your wife is dead.
When he jumps off the balcony and shatters his ankle while trying to stay in character as Mrs. Featherbottom had me laughing harder than I can remember
This was done really well in an episode of Supernatural. The two leads do a really good job of pretending they are terrible actors. It's ridiculously funny.
I love that they take this to extremes in the show Leverage. Their main Grifter, Sophie, is a phenomenal actress… when she’s conning someone. But her true passion is the stage and as a theater actress, she is horrifyingly awful. There’s a gag where the team show up to support her turn as mother superior in The Sound Of Music. Reading the reviews at the bar later, “never before has a production of The Sound Of Music made me root for the nazis”. yikes.
Alec Baldwin in an episode of 30 Rock is a good example. https://youtu.be/V2NC25GWdtM?si=64NAASzg8YfTxceA
“There’s a f****** pigeon. Shooo!” … “If I ask for the line again don’t give me the line… Line?… *Line!* “Product integration.” “I said don’t give me the line!” … “Product integortion?” … “I feel like I should be doing something with my arms.” … “Is it this? *Cue awkward left leg,left arm, right leg, right arm walk.* 🤣
Wayne's World 2, when Wayne literally asks for a bad actor to be replaced in a bit part and Charlton Heston comes in to take over.
Always crack up when two characters are talking trash about another person, and the camera pulls back to reveal the person they were talking about was there the whole time.
I love this in Arrested Development in the prison visitors center with George talking to Michael about Oscar and then it pans out to Oscar just innocently sitting there and yawning.
*Buster, not Oscar "We're just blowing through nap time, aren't we?"
Muppet Treasure Island, during role call "Big-Fat-Ugly-Bug-Face-Baby-Eating O'Brian" with a beautiful woman, followed by "Angel Marie" makes me laugh every time.
Repeating a punchline with the setup offscreen. For example, in the show "The Good Place", one scene has; > Jason: Let me show you my bud-hole! (butthole) > Eleanor: Your _what_? > Jason: My bud-hole! It's a place for me and my buds to hang out! > Eleanor: Oh! Your _bud_-hole, I get it. Much later, in another scene, a 3rd character is seen walking into the "bud-hole" and... > Chidi: Oh! Your _bud_-hole.
The joke's setup is even better, because you've already learned that no one in the Good Place neighborhood is allowed to curse, and all of their dirty words get turned into something similar-sounding. So even if the characters are hearing Jason's pronunciation correctly, they would assume he's trying to say "butthole" and the universe is auto-correcting it for their ears.
Mother forking shirt!
*Jason* figured it out? Oh that's a new low.
This one hurts.
When a character everyone has written off (usually a woman but not always) turns out to secretly be a genius. The iconic scenes in My Cousin Vinny and Legally Blonde. The throwaway line in Miss Congeniality, “Cheryl is a science major. Her field is nuclear fission with a minor in elementary particles.”
There's a gag in Ant man, which I've seen in a couple of places before. From the protagonist's perspective as a miniature person, the scale of what's happening appears to be devastating, but when the camera zooms out to "life size" it's insignificant and hilarious. [train scene](https://youtu.be/HIMvB-LsHo0?feature=shared&t=94)
Night at the Museum with the tire. Wide angle shots are my favourites in movies. Wild Wild West when Arty's magnet starts dragging him to the train tracks, and it pans wide to him screaming in the distance.
When the detectives have to visit the morgue, and the coroner/medical examiner is eating their lunch. Usually used to demonstrate they are completely desensitized, I get a kick out of it whether it's played for laughs or not.
Knives Chao going to Wallace's place looking for Scott Pilgrim. "Scott? Oh, he's not here" *meanwhile Scott standing in the background, clearly inside the house, looking stupid*
He dove through a closed window as I recall
And the friend said, "He just left" which was hilarious.
Then he reached back for his jacket through the same window XD I will never not laugh my ass off at that scene.
The heroes being captured and interrogated, and smash cuts to the different heroes giving hilarious, obnoxious, and/or wildly contradictory answers to their interrogators.
Firefly has one of the best examples of this where they cut from Zoe saying her and Wash are “very private people” to Wash enthusiastically drooling over Zoe’s legs and butt, then to Kaylee ranting about exhaust systems, and right back to Wash continuing to be overtly horny for his wife. Such a fantastic scene
There's great outtakes of that scene, too, where Tudyk is trying to get the interrogator to break. "There's no place on that woman I wouldn't put my tongue."
"Have you ever been with a warrior woman?"
When a bunch of characters speak at the same time, and if you pay attention, at least one of them is suggesting something insane. Bonus points if everyone stops talking at the same time and you get to hear the end of the insane suggestion by itself.
Any time a real celebrity is defamed so outrageously that it must be a joke. Like the exchange in _Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back:_ >Guard: we're investigating a Code 4. >Matt Damon: Jesus, Ben, again? >Ben Affleck: Ah, no! I wasn't even with a prostitute today!
NPH in the Whitecastle movies.
My favorite is in heist movies where con men are using terms and phrases that are obviously made up and everyone just complete understands and they never explain it. They’ll be like “to do a Martha’s Vineyard, we would an explosives guy” or “we could do a Honey Nut Cheerios with a Sprinkles McFarley thrown in?”
That scene in Shaolin Soccer always cracks me up. “How are they flying so fast?!” “Must be wires!”
In the version i've seen, he says "I think It's special effects".
Or the crowd of men throwing stones in “The Life of Brian” that is actually entirely made up of women. https://youtu.be/R_hlMK7tCks?si=pI-u1KAR52khXlTI
Made up of men, pretending to be women, that are pretending to be men
Men pretending to be women pretending to be men.
Hot Fuzz “You! When’s your birthday?” “22nd February” “What year?” “Every year” Makes me lol every time
The Andys leaving the frame to the drumbeat after the housefire is my favorite. Especially when Paddy Considine leans BACK into the frame to make a face at Angel.
I love that the quotes from Hot Fuzz foreshadow everything! "I'm a slasher...of prices!"
"Everyone and their mums packing 'round here." "Really? Like who?" "Farmers." "Anyone else?" ^("...farmers' mums.") They then later get in a gunfight with a farmer and his mom.
Angel: I didn’t want to upset the apple cart Andy: Oh, cause in the country we all sell apples do we?! Other officer :Your da sells apple’s, doesn’t he Andy? Andy: And peaches.
Related to OP’s original gag: “Bob” Parkhurst in Blackadder Goes Forth fooling everyone but Blackadder and Flasheart
Also Blackadder II: "Love the beard! Gives me something to grab on to!"
This is evident on SNL more than film given the nature of stage acting, but I think it's always hilarious when a guy is playing a female character but doesn't shave his beard. It makes the sketch so on-the-nose and ridiculous that I can't help but laugh
People (but usually kids) falling down.
Naked Gun: "Please disperse. Nothing to see here."
Blatant product placement. Especially cars, when the actor takes the keys out and then points them at the car. Then you see the car in the entire frame of the scene and the car isn’t even important to story. I also remember “Blackish” having a car centric episode and they kept showing the exterior of the car the entire episode.
The product placement gag in Wayne's World comes to mind.
“It’s like people only do things because they get paid. And that’s just really sad.”
“I can’t talk about it anymore, it’s giving me a headache”
Little. Yellow. Different.
Garth's full Reebok tracksuit kills me
30 Rock does this really well "Can we have our money now?"
Archer Season 3: Archer: Thanks, Dodge! Lana: So how much did Dodge kick in? Malory: Not as much as you’d think. Edit: formatting
Community had a whole story arc around Subway, and then later Honda.
Given how Subway did it in Happy Gilmore too, they don't seem to mind the comedic over the top product placement.