Funniest scenes in films - Just the scene --not the whole picture

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Bill Murray's eventual seduction and proposal of/to that one girl in 'Groundhog's Day'.

The Revenge Montage, 'Rushmore'.

The opening pre-titles sequence. 'Raising Arizona'.

"Wow, I can't believe I used to find you attractive..." "Well, that changes everything!" OR anything Albert Brooks does in 'Broadcast News'.

Pretty much anything Albert Brooks does in everything.

All of Woody Allen's scenes in 'Hannah and Her Sisters', especially his pre-cancerous stroll of New York. Inner monologue interrupted by the fat jogger: "Oh. Look at that one."

Tom Cruise's performance in 'Rain Man'. Shallow sonovabitch & an autistic dude. Hilarious.

"Oh, boy! A puppy!" The end of 'Toy Story'.

Eddie Bracken's contagious stutter. 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'.

The Walk-Off. 'Zoolander'

All of 'Sons of the Desert'.

When Paul Giamatti breaks his pencil while writing to Hope Davis that one time in 'American Splendor' and can't even finish his interior monologue without grumbling. No idea if it was planned or not but I died laughing.

Everything Bill Murray does in 'Tootsie'.

The many takes of the kitten. 'Day for Night'.

Pictures of dicks. 'Superbad'. Too soon? Not at all.

Really all of 'Groundhog's Day', not that I think about it.
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I thought the car chase in the original The Pink Panther was hysterical.

Since this is scenes, not funny lines, I won't quote from Clue.

I hate the movie overall, and I really shouldn't have been as tickled as I was, but the "fart" scene in Robots worked surprisingly well and was the only highlight in the entire wreck of a movie.
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I second the Barbie Museum and Gilbert Godfried...great moments.

Some others no one has mentioned yet:
Everyone in Groucho's cabin from "A Night at the Opera"
The chase scene in "What's Up Doc?"
Cary Grant in a pink bathrobe in "Bringing Up Baby"
Puttin' on the Ritz in "Young Frankenstein"
Charlie Chaplin as a cuckoo clock in "The Circus"
The intruder with a gun in "The Thin Man"
Vernon Hardapple attacks the car in "Wonder Boys"
The West Side Story monologue in "Camp"
The kidnapping in "Raising Arizona"
Make 'Em Laugh in "Singin' in the Rain"

And some Woody moments:
The trial scene in "Bananas"
A small moment of Woody explaining art and laughing in "Everyone Says I Love You"
Don't Speak in "Bullets over Broadway"
Woody playing poker in "Manhattan Murder Mystery"
The bank robbery in "Take the Money and Run"
Any five minutes of "Sleeper"
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Gilbert Gottfried's bit in The Aristocrats
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You know, Pen, I think Rat Race is a severly underrated. I was also rolling on the Squirrel scene.
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Here are some moments where I was laughing so hard tears were streaming down my face and it literally hurt:

The faux wedding between Jean Harlow and William Powell in Libeled Lady.

The pie fight ("More brandy, please!") in The Great Race.

The duel in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.

Jon Lovitz and Kathy Najimy visit the Barbie Museum in Rat Race.

Jan (Jennifer Elise Cox) dons an afro in The Brady Bunch Movie.

Jon Heder and Will Farrell's first routine together in Blades of Glory.

Diane Ladd makes faces at the beginning of Wild at Heart. (My friends had to pause the movie because I was literally, yes, literally, rolling on the floor laughing for 10 minutes straight--let's put it this way: it was the first time I ever inhaled! Ah, days of youth.)




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The first ten minutes of Hellzapoppin' have to be right up there.
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Mame visits the Upsons in Auntie Mame

The dachsund gets ahold of the dinosaur bone in Bachelor Flat

The shipboard climax of The Fuller Brush Girl

The climactic chase scene in Eight On The Lam

A cop comes upon Laurel and Hardy trying to exchange pants in Liberty
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There is no shortage of films that are downright pee-the-pants, crying-with-laughter "funny", but let's see if we can determine the funniest scene in a comedy film. I will start off, by choosing one from dozens of good( and mostly critically applauded) films.
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The gin rummy scene from Born Yesterday( Judy Holliday and Broderick Crawford)
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