Funniest moment in TV history

[Larry]

Hey, it's off season. Sue me.

My nominee: Carol Burnett's Gone With the Wind satire.

In the story, Scarlett wants to seduce Rhett Butler, but she doesn't have anything suitable dramatic. Spotting some fancy curtains in her (practically gutted) house, she orders her servant to make her a dress from the curtain's fabric.

The satire of this scene used this costume:

http://www.design-your-life.org/files/448c29ab396bfcurtains2.jpg

(And the line, when Rhett asked where she got that dress, "Oh, it's something I saw in a window".)

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My runner-up is a scene that I haven't seen, but my parents have described, from The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Rob and Laura are having a baby. Laura is in the hospital. Throughout her stay, people keep coming into their room looking for the Peters. (The star's last name is Petrie). Nurses deliver flowers that are addressed to Mrs Peters. They get phone calls for the Peters. All kinds of things.

After the birth, once they've gone home, Rob (Dick van Dyke) slowly comes to the conclusion that the baby doesn't look like him. Or his wife, either. He becomes increasingly convinced that the hospital gave him the wrong baby.

He investigates, and he finds an old newspaper article saying that the same hospital got two babies switched 10 years ago. And there have been other mistakes over the years, too.

All his friends, and Mom, tell him he's wrong. But he's increasingly convinced.

Finally, he looks up Mr Peter's phone number. Calls him. Convinces him, over Mr. Peter's objections, of his theory that the babies have been switched by the hospital. He asks Mr. and Mrs. Peters to come over to his place, with the baby.

When he tells Laura he's done this, she's angry. She's convinced that this is the baby she gave birth to. But Rob tells her that it's too late now, and when she sees the right baby, then she'll know that he was right.

They're still arguing when the doorbell rings.

The Peters are black.

[Boots]

the Carol Burnett show was great, and that skit in paticular was very funny. I always liked anything with Ms. wiggins the dumb secretary in it.

and take heart, only 26 more days untill training camp!

[28rdsknsfn28]

Fraiser - There was an episode where Niles was trying to make dinner for someone (Spaghetti), he ends up cutting his finger and every time he looks at it he starts to pass out, starts a fire somehow, uses the water with the spaghetti to put the fire out, and end up passing out when he looks at his bleeding finger.

[redskinss]

what about that episode of the newlywed show when the woman was asked where was the strangest place she and her husband had ever had sex her response was in the ass.

[ACW]

CBS or Fox? had the 20 funniest moments; here was 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLcJyEJ_Bn8

[PleaseBlitz]

To the tune of The Flintstones:

Simpson, Homer Simpson,
He's the greatest guy in history.
From the...town of Springfield,
He's about to hit a chestnut tree.

[Burgold]

Jim getting his driver's licence on Taxi always makes me laugh.

The Siamese Elephant bit on the Carol Burnette show is amazing.

[No_Pressure]

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/57900/detail/

[PokerPacker]

CBS or Fox? had the 20 funniest moments; here was 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLcJyEJ_Bn8
i enjoyed that one :laugh:

[PokerPacker]

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/57900/detail/
:laugh: anything with Walken in it is GOLD!

[No_Pressure]

:laugh: anything with Walken in it is GOLD!

True, which made it hard for me to choose.

[PokerPacker]

True, which made it hard for me to choose.
well i'm glad you chose that one since i'd never seen it before.

[Larry]

CBS or Fox? had the 20 funniest moments; here was 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLcJyEJ_Bn8

Sorry. Doesn't really do anything for me.

(I did like Walken, though. The guy's got a talent for the straight man.)

[TorresA]

Hey, it's off season. Sue me.

My nominee: Carol Burnett's Gone With the Wind satire.

In the story, Scarlett wants to seduce Rhett Butler, but she doesn't have anything suitable dramatic. Spotting some fancy curtains in her (practically gutted) house, she orders her servant to make her a dress from the curtain's fabric.

The satire of this scene used this costume:

http://www.design-your-life.org/files/448c29ab396bfcurtains2.jpg

(And the line, when Rhett asked where she got that dress, "Oh, it's something I saw in a window".)




The whole skit
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wfv7QdLtKo8 Part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0jlhwa_HfXk Part 2 (the window dress part )

[tizzod]

Fraiser - There was an episode where Niles was trying to make dinner for someone (Spaghetti), he ends up cutting his finger and every time he looks at it he starts to pass out, starts a fire somehow, uses the water with the spaghetti to put the fire out, and end up passing out when he looks at his bleeding finger.

That was great stuff. Great comedy.

[Larry]

Fraiser - There was an episode where Niles was trying to make dinner for someone (Spaghetti), he ends up cutting his finger and every time he looks at it he starts to pass out, starts a fire somehow, uses the water with the spaghetti to put the fire out, and end up passing out when he looks at his bleeding finger.

Actually, I really liked the episode when he and Niles bought a restaurant. Great stuff.

[Blondie]

I Love Lucy.


Too many episodes to name the funniest one.

[ldysknzfn1]

[QUOTE=Larry]Hey, it's off season. Sue me.

My nominee: Carol Burnett's Gone With the Wind satire.

In the story, Scarlett wants to seduce Rhett Butler, but she doesn't have anything suitable dramatic. Spotting some fancy curtains in her (practically gutted) house, she orders her servant to make her a dress from the curtain's fabric.

The satire of this scene used this costume:

http://www.design-your-life.org/files/448c29ab396bfcurtains2.jpg

(And the line, when Rhett asked where she got that dress, "Oh, it's something I saw in a window".) QUOTE]

I have to agree w/this one...it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV!..I could not stop laughing after this. Another one from this show was that crazy Tim Conway was playing the boss and Carol Burnett was playing his secretary..Miss Wiggins...and the way he said her name cracked me up...and all of the Mama's Family skits were hilarious!:applause:

[KevinthePRF]

Of recent history? Any SNL skit mocking the President from Hartman to Ferrell. Here's my favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETKfCD1KbCg

Of all time? Abbott and Costello:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJhyXzOayis

[illone]

Dave Chappelle when he was the blind KKK leader.

:laugh:

[.Guy.]

I've never laughed harder while watching TV:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kvIaViGe_zQ

[Skins24]

Two words


Spurrier's lips
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZBJTXyDL7g

[Park City Skins]

The episode of Frasier mentioned earlier had me in tears. For me, too many to count. But a few examples would be:

Any one of dozens of skits with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett show, (they used to crack each other up which made things even funnier).

Any one of dozens of skits done by the late,great Red Skelton on his show.

The "Dear Sigmund" episode of MASH for one, (though there were many others).

Pick a moment from the first season of Mork and Mindy.

Ect.....

[Barney B]

Any one of dozens of skits with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett show, (they used to crack each other up which made things even funnier).


Those guys were some ad-libbing fools. Here's how I remember one particular scene:

Tim Conway (lying in hospital bed): He shot me with a double-barrelled shotgun!

Harvey Korman (standing): A double-barrelled shotgun? That's terrible!

Conway: Yes, a double-barrelled shotgun! (Ad-libbing now) AAAUUUGGGHHH!

Korman: What? What's the matter?

Conway (pointing at Korman's nose): Is that thing loaded?

Korman can't stop laughing long enough to get his next line out.



Steve Allen's work on the Tonight Show and the Westinghouse show was absolute gold. Too much too list.

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[Jimbo]

Besides Carol Burnett, some of the other funniest moments from the 70's would have to include Foster Brooks on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DYusPRre07k

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nqJn-lMgCtc&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=n8L-ZZSc8JU&mode=related&search=

Another moment that brought me to tears was the Flip Wilson show where the Pips sang "Midnight Train to Georgia" without Gladys Knight. The camera keeps panning to an empty microphone when it was Gladys' turn to sing and nothing. Then you hear the Pips chime in with their part. Great stuff.

[Califan007]

THIS...is the absolutely ****ing funniest moment I've EVER watched on T.V. :laugh:...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLB_v6YpQa8


"IT WAS A SEVEN!!!!"

[Fergasun]

Ugh... old timers. Carol Burnett? Dick van Dyke? How about when Lucy mixed up the production line for the chocholate factory? A riot!

I don't know why you fools keep posting YouTube links, but I'd have to say Triumph the Comic Insult Dog talking to the people in line for Star Wars.

If you prefer SNL than Celebrity Jeopardy or More Cowbell.

If you prefer Chapelle, Black KKK leader is funny, but the R. Kelly "I'm gonna pee on you video probably takes the cake." My 2nd best would be the Real World Parody.

For Simpsons I'd have to say anything with Hans Moleman... I think Yugo blowing up or football to the groin...

I'm trying to think of unintentionally funny moments... it's gotta be someone in sports taking one to the balls... or something stupid that happened during the Olympics or World Cup... global stage.

[DWinzit]

I don't remember anything funnier than the Carol Burnett crew working off each others mistakes and ad-libs. They really need to do more live comedy. I'd laugh just looking at Tim Conway!:laugh:

Burt Reynolds, Dom Deluise (sp), Dean Martin and company had a couple great live comedy specials that were hysterical.

[mjah]

Conan had a skit -- I think it was one of the puppet sketches -- in which they did a rundown of popular sitcoms and showed a purported brief scene from "The Nanny."

Fran Drescher was represented by a closeup of some dude's hand holding an air horn festooned with googly eyes and yarn hair. Every time "she" was supposed to have a line, the guy would just tear off a huge blast on the horn.

I laughed so hard, I ended up lying on the floor crying.

[rincewind]

The sea was angry that day my friends! Like an old man trying to return soup at a deli...



http://theambler.com/images/costanza.jpg

[Kilmer17]

Sam sends all of the Cheers crew on a bus to nowhere because they fear the mob is going to kill them.

Then he calls a cell phone to say- "Gotcha"

[CrabR]

WKRP turkey episode

the last Scene in the Last Newhart show

Foster Brooks on tonight show as the Mayor of Burbank Califormia,[this is where he got his start]


I will also concur with:
jim taking his driving test
Carol B Went with the Wind

[codeorama]

Soup Nazi.

[rincewind]

There was a SNL episode that the Stones were on. During the weekend update Mike Myers came out as Mick Jagger and Jagger came out dressed as Keith Richards. Seeing Jagger doing Richards was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[UncleBen]

There was a SNL episode that the Stones were on. During the weekend update Mike Myers came out as Mick Jagger and Jagger came out dressed as Keith Richards. Seeing Jagger doing Richards was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Indeed, or a similar skit on SNL of "former child stars."

Michael J. Fox played Danny Bonaduce and killed David Spade who was doing an impersonation of Michael J. Fox (dead on). Hilarious.

While we're on SNL... I love the skit where Phil Hartman plays Ronald Reagan. At the beginning of the skit he's giving an interview sheepishly saying that "I just didn't know." As soon as the interviewer leaves the Oval Office, Reagan claps his hands and five guys come rushing out of the next room, take there seats as Reagan barks orders. "Thompson, you're new. The green countries are the countries we sell arms to. The blue ones are where we wash our money." It's classic Hartman.

[McMetal]

The Crank Yankers skit where David Allan Grier called a phone sex line with the most horrible case of the flu ever...totally vomiting and farting the whole time. Crazy ass funny.

I can actually think of a few scenes from that show that are right up there...

[jrockster21]

This is an impossible question to answer. Each time I think of something, something funnier pops into my head, and I start laughing all over again. I could waste the entire day surfing youtube for clips, too. :laugh:

Some finalists:
Seinfeld - the contest
Seinfeld - shrinkage
Simpsons - Homer goes over the cliff on a skateboard
Chapelle's Show - Rick James
SNL - Dick in a Box (recent, but hilarious)

[rincewind]

This is an impossible question to answer. Each time I think of something, something funnier pops into my head, and I start laughing all over again. I could waste the entire day surfing youtube for clips, too. :laugh:

Some finalists:

Simpsons - Homer goes over the cliff on a skateboard



Hilarious. Thinks he's going to make it, just to barely miss. Hits his head the entire way up, just to have the ambulance hit a tree and start the whole mess all over again. That some greats TVs. :laugh:

[jrockster21]

Hilarious. Thinks he's going to make it, just to barely miss. Hits his head the entire way up, just to have the ambulance hit a tree and start the whole mess all over again. That some greats TVs. :laugh:

I don't think I've ever laughed that hard - that might be my #1.

Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! DOH! DOOOH! Doh! Doh! Doh!

[jrockster21]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aO_Hsv9LK8

[jrockster21]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKTP80Lo3S4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZn70YMETFE

[jrockster21]

Fraiser - There was an episode where Niles was trying to make dinner for someone (Spaghetti), he ends up cutting his finger and every time he looks at it he starts to pass out, starts a fire somehow, uses the water with the spaghetti to put the fire out, and end up passing out when he looks at his bleeding finger.

Pretty funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxIBk1a3qdQ

[Olky]

Whose line is it anyway episode with Richard Simmons.

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/1/116

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLpAgNu5B4
The "living scenery" skit

[Califan007]

Any one of dozens of skits with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett show, (they used to crack each other up which made things even funnier).

Tim Conway cracked EVERYONE up in this ad-libbed monologue lol :laugh: (although Vicki Lawrence absolutely kills everyone at the end with her ab-lib)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY

Says he apparently refused to let the skit continue until he got his elephant story out of the way, and nobody else in the cast knew what the hell he was going on about lol...it's supposed to be the longest continuous audience laugh in tv history.

[Kilmer17]

Carol Burnett shows were absolute brilliant. Pure comedy gold.

[Dan T.]

Great candidates so far. . .


Jim getting his driver's licence on Taxi always makes me laugh.
What does a yellow light mean? Slow down. What. does. a. yellow. light. mean? Slow down!




The sea was angry that day my friends! Like an old man trying to return soup at a deli...

One of the best Seinfelds ever. The look on Kramer's face when George holds up the golf ball is priceless.

The chemistry of the Carol Burnett cast was great, especially Conway and Kormann. Another old school classic is from the Mary Tyler Moore show, the funeral for Bubbles(?) the Clown, where Mary is desperately trying to stifle laughter during the eulogy. "A little song. A little dance. A little selzer in your pants."

[UncleBen]

One of the best Seinfelds ever. The look on Kramer's face when George holds up the golf ball is priceless.

"Er, hole-in-one."

http://www.seinfeld-fan.net/pictures/kramer/kramer053.jpg

[rincewind]

Whose line is it anyway episode with Richard Simmons.

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/1/116

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLpAgNu5B4
The "living scenery" skit




:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:


Never seen that before - I think I hurt my stomach laughing during the 'jet ski' part. :laugh:

[28rdsknsfn28]

That was great stuff. Great comedy.

Found it on youtub

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvxRuuGKSlY