Subject: Best comedy lines From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 11 Nov 01 - 10:41 PM Here's one to start you off= I'm Brian and so is my wife (Monty Pythons Life of Brian) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bill D Date: 11 Nov 01 - 10:54 PM Jack Benny show: a robber steps out of an alley
robber-"Your money or your life!" (timing!) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: catspaw49 Date: 12 Nov 01 - 01:45 AM BLAZING SADDLES: Hedley LeMar's huge band of henchman are riding across the an open plain when they are stopped by a gated toll booth. Instead of simply going around, they all stop. Slim Pickens, the leader, says, "Somebody's going to have to go back and get a shitload of dimes." BANANAS: Howard Cosell, unscripted and done only as Howard could, provides commentary on the assasination of a South American dictator, including interviewing the dying despot. Cosell at his best, parodying himself. Lots more......... Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Nov 01 - 01:59 AM Four candles. No, 'andles for forks.... and the whole of that sketch from the Two Ronnies.... ah, bliss. 'He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!' from 'Life of Brian' too. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: alison Date: 12 Nov 01 - 02:38 AM "werewolves?".... "there wolves" plus many many more from "Young Frankenstein" (or is that Fronkensteen???? "you're a god-damned vampire... just you wait 'til I tell Mom!!"................. "the Lost boys" slainte alison |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,Stavanger Bill Date: 12 Nov 01 - 03:47 AM About half a light year ago there were two comedians, Jimmy Jewell and Ben Waris. One of their one-liners went as follows. Two friends meet in the street Question: "Hows the wife?" Response: "Compared to what?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Dave the Gnome Date: 12 Nov 01 - 04:11 AM Kenneth Williams in Carry on Cleo. "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" DtG |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Scabby Douglas Date: 12 Nov 01 - 05:35 AM "A pint?! ... Tha's very nearly an armful!"... "It is are not raining here also!" Galton & Simpson via Tony Hancock Cheers
Steven |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 12 Nov 01 - 07:14 AM Mae West on seeing a rather tall and handsome young man. MAE WEST - My you're a big boy !!; YOUNG MAM - Well I'm six foot nine inches mam MAE WEST - Let's forget about the six foot and just talk about the nine inches !! |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Murray MacLeod Date: 12 Nov 01 - 07:15 AM Detective Sergeant Spike Mulligan: "Look Sir, an impression of a heel !" Det. Insp. Peter Sellers: "Very clever I'm sure, but we've no time for your impressions right now" Murray
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Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Mr Red Date: 12 Nov 01 - 07:37 AM The Lady's not for turning all to gether......... OH YES SHE IS......... (on a spit) Think Thatcher.... No thanks........ I had to once. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Peter T. Date: 12 Nov 01 - 09:04 AM MAN IN RAILWAY CARRIAGE HARASSED BY BEATLES: "I fought the war for your sort!" JOHN: "Bet you're sorry you won." yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,Sledge Date: 12 Nov 01 - 11:28 AM From the goon show: Phantom rasberry blower of old London town. "loud rasberry noise" Colonel bloodnock says "you can't do that and get away with it" "another loud rasberry noise" Colonel Bloodnock "he got away with it" Sledge |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Lepus Rex Date: 12 Nov 01 - 12:18 PM From 'A Fish Called Wanda:' Wanda (to Otto):Let me correct you on a few things. Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every Man for Himself". And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes Otto. I looked 'em up. ---Lepus Rex |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: MarkS Date: 12 Nov 01 - 12:34 PM A long defunct comedy show called "Mothers Little Network" They did a knockoff of the shower scene from "Psycho."
Guess you had to see it, but I was on the floor. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Kim C Date: 12 Nov 01 - 03:40 PM This is not a line, but one of the funniest things I have ever seen on television. It was on Frasier, a show I only watch once in awhile. Frasier was working on the garbage disposal in the sink. He told his dad and Niles to stand far away from the switch. "Just get AWAY from the switch," he told them. While Frasier had his hand down the drain, Niles turned on the coffee grinder... |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,Nick Date: 12 Nov 01 - 05:00 PM From Get Smart Max and Siegfreid in a Kaos submarine with Kaos henchmen holding machine guns on Max. "I'll give each of you $10,000 if you help me aresst Sigfried" and the Guns are turned on Sigfreid who counters with a $20,00 offer Guns turn to Max, the bidding and guns go back and fourth till Sigfried warns "Boys if you keep this up you cant come to the Kaos picnic. Max offers $ 1 Mil but the guns remain on him.. " What can I say Schmart?..., zee boys LOVE picnics!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: SharonA Date: 12 Nov 01 - 05:25 PM From a Steve Martin live comedy-routine album (speaking to audience): "I don't neeeeed yooooou! I can do this act ALONE! I often do." |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Jack the Sailor Date: 12 Nov 01 - 06:07 PM Pretty much everything Brad Pitt says in "Snatch". |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Midchuck Date: 12 Nov 01 - 07:06 PM Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are all-time classics, but before either of them there was The Great Race. Most of you probably don't remember. Too bad for you.... Leslie escaped with a small friar! Leslie escaped with a CHICKEN?! I have a boat waiting! (Spoken by the evil baron whom Leslie is defeating in a saber duel. The Baron then throws his saber at Leslie and does a beautiful dive out the high window of the castle - landing right in the middle of the rowboat that is waiting for him, and sinking it.) Brandy! Ha HA! Throw more brandy! (The Mad Prince, in the middle of the great pie fight.) I HATE YOU! YOU, I HATE! ...and your suit is always white and your car is always clean...! (Professor Fate, upon realizing that Leslie really won after all.) And, especially...PUSH THE BUTTON, MAX! (Professor Fate, many times in the movie. Each time, as soon as Max does so, the Professor's latest device self-destructs violently.) Peter. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Jon Freeman Date: 12 Nov 01 - 07:37 PM "I shot an arrow in the air... She fell to earth in Berkley Square" From "Kind Hearts And Coronets". Jon |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Trevor Date: 13 Nov 01 - 04:20 AM Not a line exactly, but I once read that when 'Shaft' was given Spanish sub-titles, a line which should have said '...well you can kiss my black ass' was translated as '...well you can kiss my black donkey'! |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Jim Dixon Date: 13 Nov 01 - 10:26 AM Benny Hill (in character): " . . . and I come from a long line of male witches." Interviewer: "Warlocks." Benny: "It's the truth!" (As an American, I was rather proud that I understood that one.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,jack Date: 13 Nov 01 - 11:12 AM From a Bugs Bunny cartoon: Bugs(Dressed in drag, as he was wont to do from time to time)says to an overworked shoe salesman:"I'd like to see something nice in a bedroom slipper!" Salesman:"So would I Lady!" or Pepe L'pew(sp?)after chasing around a cat w/a paint stripe for the entire cartoon leans up close and wearing a Napoleonic uniform complete w/hat simply says... "Josephine!!" or My own son age 16 as we were driving along and discussing the changing state of our relationship as he was beginning to mature. I'm a non-custodial parent. Me:"So, now that you're graduating soon how would you rate my overall parenting skills now that you've got some perspective?" Son:"Well, I 'do' brush my teeth every night before bed and 'always' wear my seat belt." You were loose about most stuff, but things like that you were, like totally anal." Me:"Anal in a bad way?" Son:"Oh, no! You were like totally my Dad, totally responsible and gave me the business at the right time about the right stuff in totally the right way, but most of the time and I mean this in a good way...you were like my 25 year old loser brother that wouldn't move out or get a job!" |
Subject: Best comedy?? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 13 Nov 01 - 11:45 AM George Carlin... all of it... same with Dennis Leary, and Billy Connolly... Plus a lot of what Dennis Miller USED to do before he got his own lousy show... |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Raptor Date: 13 Nov 01 - 11:56 AM "I once caddied for the Dali Lama I said ""hey Lama something for the trouble"" He didn't tip me but he gave me everlasting life So I got that going for me,... Which is nice." Bill Murry Caddyshack Raptor |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: RangerSteve Date: 13 Nov 01 - 02:55 PM Mae West attempted a come-back movie in the 70's that no one saw called "Sextet". I saw the first half-hour on TV, long enough to hear the best/worst line ever: I'm the girl who hangs around Paramount all day and Fox all night." From the Burns and Allen TV show: A friends 17 year old daughter is staying at their house and George is worried about the girl going out on a date with no supervision. He wonders why Gracie isn't worried. Gracie: Oh, George, when I was her age I was 17 too. (and everything else Gracie said). |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Steve Latimer Date: 15 Nov 01 - 09:20 AM From you bet your life. Groucho: How old are you young lady? Giggly woman Contestant: I'm aprroaching forty. Groucho, full eyebows: From which direction? |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bill D Date: 15 Nov 01 - 11:16 AM ...and the line that got Groucho bleeped off the air in the days of live TV!.... A male guest on the program admitted to having something like 14 children.... Groucho replied something like.. " Fourteen kids? I smoke my cigar a lot, but I put it out now & then!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Steve Latimer Date: 15 Nov 01 - 11:27 AM Groucho was probably the quickest wit in the history of comedy. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Banjer Date: 15 Nov 01 - 07:00 PM Just about anything from the Carol Burnette Show is funny. When Tim Conway would ad-lib and crack up Harvey Korman I used to laugh til I cried. Also the spinoff, Mamma's Family when Vickie Lawrence (Mamma) used to get onto Carol Burnette's character with her trademark 'For God's sake, Eunice......'. I especially remember the one show where they were sitting in the parlor playing the board game known as Sorry. Eunice was so happy until she started losing and then all hell broke loose. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: radriano Date: 15 Nov 01 - 07:19 PM I believe Groucho Marx was interviewing a woman who had 14 children. And Groucho's comment was more like: "Fourteen kids? I like my cigar a lot too but I take it out every now and then." |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,colwyn dane Date: 16 Nov 01 - 12:54 PM The following dialogue is from 'The Man Who Came To Dinner'
Nurse Treen: "You shouldn't eat chocolates in your condition, Mr Whiteside it's very bad for you." CD. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: VoxFox Date: 16 Nov 01 - 05:07 PM From the movie "Caddy Shack", Rodney Dangerfield's comment as he is standing around at the pool party, "Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it!" I still kill myself laughing over that line because I think about it every time I see a sourpuss look from some people. VF |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,Leprechaun Date: 16 Nov 01 - 07:46 PM Jethro Bodine, Jed Clampett's nephew on the Beverly Hillbillies, was showing off his homework to somebody who commented, "This looks like it was written by a fifth grader!" Jethro: "Thankyee!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,colwyn dane Date: 16 Nov 01 - 08:06 PM One from 'Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein':
Lon Chaney Jr:"You don't understand...every night when the moon is full,
Lou Costello: "You and fifty million other guys!" CD. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 23 Jan 02 - 07:02 PM German officer="whats your name soldier?" Capt Manering ="Don't tell him Pike!" (Dads Army) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: gnu Date: 23 Jan 02 - 07:11 PM From "Never Cry Wolf"... "He says... good idea." The most famous ? "I'll be back." From... you know. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Paul from Hull Date: 23 Jan 02 - 08:23 PM What a brilliant thread! Not ONE line, but EVERY one a gem: ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet! WOMAN: Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Heh. ARTHUR: I am your King! WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you. ARTHUR: You don't vote for Kings. WOMAN: Well, how did you become King, then? ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,... [angels sing] ...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your King! DENNIS: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. ARTHUR: Be quiet! DENNIS: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! ARTHUR: Shut up! DENNIS: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away! |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Paul from Hull Date: 23 Jan 02 - 08:25 PM Oh bugger....sorry about that....I'm an idiot Well, go HERE..its easier! http://www.graphicszone.net/monty_python/scripts/Holy_Grail/Scene3.htm |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 23 Jan 02 - 08:51 PM There's a man at the door with a moustache" "Tell him I've already got one" Marx brothers. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: van lingle Date: 23 Jan 02 - 09:11 PM This exchange on "America Tonight": Martin Mull (to Tom Waits): Well that's the first time we've had a guest come out and just place a bottle of Whiskey in front of himself." Waits: "Well, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,ylime Date: 23 Jan 02 - 10:14 PM almost everything from the movie Airplane! |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: SINSULL Date: 23 Jan 02 - 10:27 PM Stop calling me Shirley! Flip Wilson as Geraldine to Christopher Columbus: "Christopher Columbus, are you going to America to discover Ray Charles?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: musicmick Date: 24 Jan 02 - 02:11 AM Oscar Levant said to an unwelcome admirer, "I'd like to memorize your name and throw my head away!" Robin Williams, improvising a riff, refered to something being as useful as a Nerf dildo. Funniest routine of all time was Bob and Ray's interview with the president of the S.T.O.A. ( The Slow Talkers of America) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,Wayne Date: 24 Jan 02 - 06:55 PM Jimmy Durante is lying on the ground moaning, having been thrown from his car. Surrounded by Milton Berle, Sid Cesaer, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney and Jonathon Winters, his leg suddenly straigntens and strikes a pail which then rolls down the hillside. Jonathon Winters says "that man is dead!" From the movie "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad World" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Don Firth Date: 25 Jan 02 - 12:14 PM From the movie When Harry met Sally: "I'll have what she's having." Don Firth |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,john in hull Date: 25 Jan 02 - 12:24 PM Are you local? (The League of Gentlemen) (UK sketch show) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST Date: 22 Nov 02 - 10:09 PM thot yo hud last wud |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bert Date: 23 Nov 02 - 01:27 AM From 'allo 'allo. "There's a woman here with a gun" "Has she got a pram?" And also from Carry on Cleo. "She's from Bristoleum" Hey Spaw. That reminds me of a time when I was in Iran during the revolution. I was driving home at about 11:30 (way past the military curfew) and I came up to a road block. The rebels had piled tyres and logs across the road and set them on fire. I just drove around over the desert and waved to them as I went by. If they had built their road block half a mile up the road on the Karun River bridge, no one would have got past. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bert Date: 23 Nov 02 - 01:37 AM Oh, and from "Take it from here" XXXVI XXVI XXXV Eye, Eye, EYE!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bassic Date: 23 Nov 02 - 01:54 AM "10 O`clock, cafe Mozart!" (Carry on parody of all the spy movies, 3rd man onwards.) "Which F***ing cafe Mozart!" (Anyone who has ever visited Saltzberg) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Art Thieme Date: 23 Nov 02 - 01:54 AM Dizzy Dean, broadcasting a baseball game in St. Louis in the 1950s, had the camera stay on a couple making out passionately in the stands. Off the top of his head, old Diz said, "Folks, I finally figured out their system. He kisses her on the strikes, and she kisses him on the balls !!!" I just about died laughing!!!!!!!!!! MIDCHUCK, that line you mentioned in the film THE GREAT RACE about the "fria(e)r" and the chicken made me fall off my chair I was laughing so hard. To this day, I wait for it whenever I see that flick. And these days that means I fall out of my wheelchair---and Carol has to go and get at least two more people to help me get up off the floor. ;-) Art Thieme |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bassic Date: 23 Nov 02 - 01:56 AM Que! (Manuel de Barcelona!) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bassic Date: 23 Nov 02 - 01:58 AM Sorry, should have been "Que?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bassic Date: 23 Nov 02 - 01:59 AM A classic line from "Flowery Twats" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bassic Date: 23 Nov 02 - 02:03 AM "Stormy Petrol on a stick!", "Gannet Ripple!" (MP) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bassic Date: 23 Nov 02 - 02:06 AM "Hi Di Hi" (Gladys Pugh) ((UK only unless you watch really really late nite TV in the US)) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bassic Date: 23 Nov 02 - 02:10 AM " A waffer thin mint?"...................... "F**K off I`m full" KEERRRRSPPPPLAAATTTTT (MPFC again) |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST Date: 23 Nov 02 - 05:20 PM Madeline Kahn plays a Teutonic titwillow in Blazing Saddles. She is performing in a dance hall and sees a cowboy with his hat on his lap: "Hello, handsome, is that a ten-gallon hat, or are you just enjoying the show?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,Peter T. Date: 23 Nov 02 - 05:56 PM I was wrong, it was Ringo, surprisingly. yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Bill D Date: 23 Nov 02 - 06:13 PM "ummm...Lord...what's a cubit?" Bill Cosby also.. "Noah, how long can you tread water?" and one of my favorites...George Gobel is commenting on the prediction of the National Safety Council about how many people will die on Labor Day weekend...(they don't do this anymore) "Well, the prediction is that 374 people will die in traffic accidents between Friday noon and Sunday midnight. It is now Saturday night and 127 have died"............long pause, then looking into the camera with furrowed brow..."....now, some of you folks just aren't trying!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Gareth Date: 23 Nov 02 - 06:43 PM Cricket commenty on BBC radio (That rules out most US of A Catters) The Batsmans Holding, the Bowler's Willy Gareth |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,Barney McCool Date: 24 Nov 02 - 03:22 PM Olly-What did he die off?, Stan-He died of a Tuesday. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: lady penelope Date: 24 Nov 02 - 05:56 PM Fletcher from Porridge ( played by the glorious Ronnie Barker ) in a cell, singing whilst preparing to shave " Born free, till somebody caught me, now I'm doing solitary........." Here, I thought the Phantom Rasberry Blower of Old London Town was the Two Ronnies. Or did they nick it from the Goons? I deffinately saw it on the telly though. TTFN M'Lady P. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Merritt Date: 25 Nov 02 - 12:47 AM Agree that Slow Talkers of America routine is first rate. "I'd horsewhip you, if I had a horse." – G. Marx In Pick Panther movie - Sellers to Blind Man: "I thought you said your dog doesn't bite." Blind Man: "It's not my dog." From Dagwood cartoon; excuse punctuation – Dagwood and his boss, Mr. Smithers are at an airport ticket window. "Give me two round-trip tickets!" Smithers barks at the ticket lady. "To where?" She asks. "Well, back to here, of course!" He yells, completely disgusted. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: GUEST,Ordinary Average Guy Date: 25 Nov 02 - 11:41 AM Madeline Khan (easily the funniest woman in movie history) as the mother of a pirate's kid in Yellowbeard: "Do you remember the last time we had a cuddle?" Yellowbeard: "You mean I raped ya." "It was a little rough." |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: JulieF Date: 25 Nov 02 - 11:51 AM Eric Morcame to Andre Previn. I'm playing all the right notes just not necessarily in the right order. |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Declan Date: 25 Nov 02 - 01:05 PM From Get Smart Max (Agent 86) to 99 : "99 I think you think you like Agent 43 better than me" 99 : "Nonsense, you're worth 2 43s, 86" |
Subject: RE: BS: Best comedy lines From: Leadfingers Date: 25 Nov 02 - 02:46 PM Almost any thing from the wonderful Les Barker. |