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[Gracelessly]

I went through one of my Freaks and Geeks tapes - preparing for the DVDs - and watched the Halloween episode where Neil dresses like Groucho and Bill - ah! Bill - dresses up like the Bionic Woman. And one would think as Neil is the sarcastic funny one he would be the one with the best rib ticklers, no, no, Bill getting into the character of Jaime Somers is the best, he uses his/her bionic hearing, claims the breasts are real, not bionic and just looks amazing dressed as a woman. Love it, it still has me rotfl.

[Gulftastic]

I saw again the Futurama episode where Fry, Bender, Zap Brannigan and Kiff land on the planet with the giant amazon women.

Their 'laughing their asses off' reaction is priceless when the amazon tells them about amazon basketball and how, although they can't slamdunk, their basketball is more entertaining because it has better 'fundamentals'.

Edited by Gulftastic, Jan 26, 2004 @ 3:54 PM.

[emace]

There was a special on John Stamos, and they had Bob Saget on, too.

"It was about three straight guys raising three girls in San Francisco. That was my tag back then."

"Why didn't they anyone tell us about our hair? I had big poufy hair like Joyce DeWitt."

And my favorite: "Tune in tonight for a Very Special Episode, in which Uncle Jesse gets diarrhea."

[catharsis]

This holiday season on Conan O'Brian, they decided to have a race of the holy icons. The Menorah, the Baby Jesus, and the Kinara (the symbol for Kwanzaa) all competed for the title of the World's fastest holiday symbol. The Menorah and Baby Jesus race by the camera to the tunes of Hava Nagila and the Hallelujah chorus, and a few seconds later the Kenorah slowly cruises its way across the screen to "Let's Get it On". As soon as it's over Conan orders an impassioned "Again! and Again! One more time!" Then he says: "Man, that's not the fastest holiday symbol, but it sure is the coolest. " It cracks me up every time.

Edited by catharsis, Feb 3, 2004 @ 6:31 PM.

[DQMP7]

On David Letterman, I looove when Pat & Kenny read Oprah transcripts in the Pat & Kenny Read Oprah Transcripts segment. Its done rarely enough so it cracks me up every single time. And the guys are so incredibly emotionless while they read the transcripts, it is so hilarious.

Edited by DQMP7, Feb 4, 2004 @ 12:06 AM.

[Gulftastic]

So they do that 'Oprah' reading more than once? Good news!

Dave's show is on VERY late here in the UK so I only see it when I get home from a night shift, but I saw them do Oprah with Jennifer Aniston last night and it nearly made me fall off my sofa. Those guys are brilliant. I think it was the cig hanging out of the little guy's mouth that did it. I will never think of Rachael the same way again.

[Melted Rubber]

Will and Grace:

Grace is dating someone with six toes, and in the Toy Store, Karen makes this.. circus noise. That just cracked me up.

Anything with Jack in it. Especially when he gets hooked on coffee.

Episode where Will is trying to get to a Barry Manilow concert. Karen likes the songs, and then at the end Grace sings. Its funneh.

[Sori]

That 70s Show's "Taternuts" episode. The whole thing leaves me holding my stomach from all the laughing.

[DQMP7]

Gulftastic, that's the same one that reminded me to post here!! The transcripts are exactly word for word, including Oprah talking to the audience in the way she does, so my favorite parts are when the guy who reads Oprah's part (I have no idea who is Pat and who is Kenny) says things like, "Woo. Hey, girl. Woo. Woo. How's it going, girlfriend." because he has absolutely no emotion in his voice at all.

[chocolatesauce]

Also on Will and Grace:

I don't remeber these being posted here before, but in the episode where Will finds out his dad is cheating on his mother (aaaages ago), and Grace first sees his dad and his girlfriend together at 'Suessical: The musical'. Grace is out with her date, and when she's finished talking to Will's dad and his date, and they go back inside, she says to her date "Is there anything worse than a married man sheating on his wife?". He just looks at her and says "Oh. I should go.", and leaves. Hil.Arious. It's all in the delivery. May not sound so funny written down, though.

Also on W&G, Jack and Karen are in a waiting room together, and there are some helium ballons. So Jack breathes in the neck of one, and speaks with his helium voice. Karen goes "Oooh! Let me have a go!", and breathes in deeply. Then she says "Hello", but she's still got the same voice! And Jack starts rolling around laughing on the floor. Karen says "How do I sound, how do I sound", and Jack says "Oh, you sound so wierd". Hee. Love that show.

[bottleredhead]

DOMP7, Pat is the taller one who reads Oprah, and Kenny is the little guy with the cigarette who reads the guest part. I love these so much that I'm close to sending off for the transcripts so that I can read them with my friends, as Dave always suggests.

[emace]

Jon Stewart had a JJ nipple segment that was hilarious. One guy (I forget who) insisted on having the clip shown over and over at the bottom of the screen. Then he mentioned how many different ways you could conceal the nipple by editing - such as the pixel, the blur, and the Star of Shame.

Then he asked for it in black and white, and the camera duly obeyed.

All the while talking about how horrible and over-exposed the controversy was.

[DQMP7]

emace, I saw that, too. I am incredibly sick of the coverage (though it has died down a lot in the last couple of days), but that was just too funny. I think Steven Colbert was the one who kept the clip going in the corner of the screen...either that or he was the other guy, and someone else was the guy with the corner scene. LOL.

[etain]

On the CBS Sunday Morning news show, they're doing a segment on it, and the commentator keeps referring to Janet's "jewelry" as "bosom metallurgy."

HEE!

[TheCustomOfLife]

Call me cruel, but the most unintentionally funny moment on TV had to be when Reva drove her car off the bridge into the ocean on Guiding Light. I didn't cry for Springfield's Slut. I laughed.

[Alexandria Bay]

Good lord, this topic was so buried, I had to use the search function!

I was just reminded, in the Joan of Arcadia forum of all places, of a line from M.A.S.H. that still makes me giggle. Col. Flagg is trying to intimidate Charles and pronounces Charles's sister's name, Honoria, as "Hon-a-ree-a."

I don't know why, it just makes me laugh.

[Sideshow Al]

Col. Flagg is trying to intimidate Charles and pronounces Charles's sister's name, Honoria, as "Hon-a-ree-a."

I don't know why, it just makes me laugh.

I think that part of the reason that it's funny is that it rhymes with . . . oh, I don't know . . . something beginning with "g" . . .

[Eris Rising]

Just read back to the transcript reading, and have to put in a plug for "The Daily Show"'s "Great Moments in Punditry", in which they have elementary school kids read transcripts of the so-called "talking heads" news shows.

While the message may be overly obvious, I can't help but crack up every time. Great perspective on the blowhards who infest our airwaves.

[phoenixwolph]

Hmmm, this thread was buried when Angel's puppet episode ("Smile Time") aired... That entire episode is the funniest thing I have ever seen on TV.

"I'm made of felt... And by doze cobes off."

"I do not have puppet cancer!"

And on, and on...

[Ridha]

So many of my Comedy Gold moments are from dramas:

- Bosco turning the table on his muggers, and making them strip before taking off, then turning green when he sees them in the station hysterically trying to describe him. The entire sub-plot from there, from Bosco dragging Faith into the stalls and trying to rationalise what he did, the toilet flushing, Bosco freezing and then with narrowed eyes 'I thought I told you to check the stalls' he accuses Faith / 'I didn't know you were gonna confess to armed robbery!' So now Ty and Sully are in the know, and they could not be more perfect as foils. The 4 of them looking at the sketch artists drawing of a glowering Bosco on the bullettin board has me laughing now.

- Also on 3rd Watch when the retard who has a 'crush' on Bosco steals the cop car, and Faith and him hitch a ride with 2 other cops, and give chase. Whatever Bosco yells at him 'pull over' 'shaddup' the guy is sincerely trying to imitate him and is squeaking back.

- In ER Carter (oh so earnestly and wide-eyed which is what brings the funny) knocking his head against the glass door to get Benton's attention, because he's already scrubbed up. Benton is in the midst of a romantic conversation and is just glancing up irritatedly at this, and when he finally does leave he stalks right through the door pushing it through so hard it knocks Carter's head right back. Bwah!

- In Stargate's time loop ep, Daniel casually suggesting that they could do anything without consequences, and Jack and Teal'c looking at eachother, doing an about turn and walking out of the lesson.

- In Malcolm in the Middle, it still can be funny and hasn't jumped the shark, but my god in the earlier seasons it was genius. When Francis has been playing the boys against eachother competing for the tickets, and then takes a girl, and a slip falls out of the sunvisor reading 'you will pay'. He smirks 'amateurs'. Then the whole pulling over by cop cars as the car's been reported stolen, and when Francis is rolling his eyes 'officer I can explain' he finds in his wallet 'it gets worse'. The cop hears a hammering coming from the boot and there's Mal and Reese trussed and gagged.

[Tabbyclaw]

Also in "Bad Blood," Scully's lustful "HOO-boy!" upon seeing Luke Wilson (Sheriff Hartwell).

AKA my "You've got mail!" sound.

Most of my other favorites have already been mentioned, but her y'are:

Whose Line: "Tapioca!" And uber-word on Ryan breaking the neon. I nearly wet myself.

Wetbiscuit McLee! And I don't remember exactly what it was, but they got Colin to dance on one of the Greatest Hits things. I was in tears.

MST3K: Space Mutiny! My God, that kills me every time.

"Listen, lady!"
"It's doctor"
"Doctor lady!"

Coupling: Oh lord, where to begin? Every episode ever, and every word Jeff has ever said.

People have mentioned the Stargate SG-1 with the time loop, but nobody's given a nod to my favorite bit: Jack strides into the base in civilian dress and announces that he's handing in his resignation. Hammond demands to know why, and Jacks responds, "So I can do this," and grabs Sam and kisses her. Time loop flash back to the beginning of the day, and Sam giving some uninteresting presentation. She pauses: "Commander, is something wrong?" Cut to Jack, wearing the smuggest little grin in the history of television. "No, nothing at all."

Will & Grace, when Will sneaks Leo home early and is trying to keep Grace from finding out, but she's beginning to realize something's going on: "(gasps) You're wearing your short robe! (gasps louder) I smell orange juice! (gasps so loud she probably injures her lungs) I have no idea what this all means!"

[emace]

On the Most Embarrassing Game Show moments show, there were a couple.

Woman, slowly: "How do you spell relief?"
Guy gets sheepish look on his face: "F - A - R - T!"

Question: "In my house, the electricity travels from the WHERE to the WHERE?"
Woman blurts out: "From the plug to the vibrator?"

And Bob Eubanks having Ben Stein list the surprising things you are allowed to say on the air - he keeps going and going.

Bob: "OK, that's enough now."
Stein, deadpan: "Bueller, Bueller."

[LMS]

Hey, does anybody remember the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" episode where Will was not allowed to graduate cause he flunked music-class. So then he had to take the class with little children. And at graduation he was forced to sing "You are my Sunshine" dressed like a sunflower (In green tights, and petals on his head) in front of the graduating class!

And then in the middle of the song they switched and did a "James Brown Version" of You are my Sunshine with that kid from Code Mercury doing these hillarious James Brown noises. Just that combined with Will Smith in body suit and yellow petals on his head made me laugh so hard I was crying!

*Ehum*, why yes, I've seen every episode of Fresh Prince at least twice, heh.

Edited by LMS, May 11, 2004 @ 8:40 AM.

[bella1013]

Coupling

The monologue Steve gave the gang during dinner about what men are about
"potpourri; looks like breakfast, smells like your granny". Funniest sentence ever!

[MisterMcGee]

with that kid from Code Mercury doing these hillarious James Brown noises.

Ha! That kid sounded like he had something stuck in his throat. That was a great episode.

And a few days ago I ran across an old episode of Three's Company that has long been one of my favorites. It's the one where Jack takes Janet to a fancy party and he's high on tranquilizers. Then he drinks a "pick-me up" and starts to dance and spazz about. I remember cracking up over this as a kid and re-watching it, it's just as funny. John Ritter's physical comedy was pure genius.

[TudorQueen]

Call me cruel, but the most unintentionally funny moment on TV had to be when Reva drove her car off the bridge into the ocean on Guiding Light. I didn't cry for Springfield's Slut. I laughed.

Not as hard as I laughed when the Learning Channel's "A Wedding Story", which chronicles the real life triumphs and so forth of 'ordinary' people's weddings, did a heavily promoted episode covering the third wedding of "Reva Shayne" and "Josh Lewis" and everything they went through to get together.

I never watched the actual episode, but the commercials, which acted as if this was all very real and very moving, cracked me up every time.

[Neko]

Omigod! That episode? cheese city! I stumbled across it and, like a bad car wreck, couldn't look away (well, not quickly enough). I tuned in at Reva marrying Josh's father (who looked old enough to be at least his grandfather), then seducing Josh (who was of course living with him, what with his being in a wheelchair and all), and hung on until she started mumbling something about having been presumed dead, was found living on an Amish farm, and then somehow turned out to have actually been involved with some prince during this time. WTF? Clearly I missed something, because I grew up in PA and I don't remember any Amish princes. It just got too painful watching that poor actress try to sell this shit as if she's really telling her life story. But it was a hoot looking at the bad hair, clothing and make-up from the various clips-through-time.

[TudorQueen]

The Amish storyline and the one about the Prince were two different storylines, but I can understand why you would be confused about it because essentially they were the same storyline - Reva is assumed dead, Josh tries to get on with his life and Reva is found living a very different life.

It's all pretty funny, really, if you ask me. That and Kim Zimmer's three Emmy Awards for getting through the muck.

[maybetomorrow]

Those stupid game show or news bloopers shows always have at least one hilarious moment. A recent favorite was from some local newscast:

Anchor guy 1 was narrating a "human interest" story about a couple of escaped cows rescued from a road or whatever, and as the video was going he was saying: "The cows, Black and Gus, I guess those are their names, were taken in to blahblahblah."

And at the end of the story they cut back to the desk and Anchor Guy 1 looks confusedly at Anchor Guy 2, who is trying to stifle some laughter. Anchor Guy 2: "Um, Jim. I'm wondering if maybe those were black Angus cows?"

Also, I recent promo for Crossing Jordan that I saw during The West Wing cracked me up, although it was trying to be dramatic and serious:

NBC dramatic V/O guy: "And on Crossing Jordan, one of the team is stalked..."

Character 1: "I thought you were stalking me!"
Character 2: "I thought you were stalking me!"

NBC V/O guy: "But...who is stalking who?!"

Me: I can't believe you're serious with that!

[patty1h]

Sorry if this already showed up somewhere in previous posts, but here's one of mine:

SNL again... The skit where David Alan Grier, Will Ferrell and Nancy Walls are hosting a live morning show, and the teleprompter dies. They're all terrified at the prospect of improvising/performing before the live camera without every word written out for them. They immediately start babbling, crying, and panicking. Then it gets worse.

In the space of 3-5 minutes, they've regressed to caveman. Will Ferrell challenges DAG for alpha male rights for the area (the studio). They start to fight and next thing you know, WF has ripped DAG's head off! A few seconds, later, the teleprompter is working again and there's WF with his shirt torn off, and DAG's bloody head in his hand. All this is going out to the viewing audience.

Comic genius.

Edited by patty1h, May 14, 2004 @ 12:02 PM.