The top 10... Funniest movie scenes!

All I based this list on were scenes that made me laugh out loud. Most of these scenes were from some of the funniest movies ever made. One scene was even from a movie that wasn't a comedy. I did not put any unintentionally funny scenes on this list, or "so bad they're funny" scenes from movies like "Road House" or "Superman IV: The Quest For Peace." For those of you looking for classic comedy like Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin, I will be honest and say I haven't seen their movies, although I hear they are very funny. Finally, most of these video clips are NSFW. In no particular order, here we go.

The sheriff is a n(ding!): Blazing Saddles (1974).

As I mentioned earlier, this is a scene from one of the funniest movies ever made. I could have picked a half-dozen scenes from Mel Brooks' western spoof. The sniveling bad guys, including Hedy, I mean Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman), want to build a railroad, but have to clear out a town to do it. In a movie that could never get made in politically correct 2016, Gov. LePetomane (Brooks) comes up with the idea of sending the town a black sheriff, hoping that the townspeople will abandon the town or hang the sheriff, allowing the state to take over. The sheriff comes to town for the first time. First of all, a man with a telescope is interrupted by chimes as he tells everyone the sheriff is African American (but not in those exact words). He then gets up to speak in front of the shocked townspeople, and, as he gets the governor's proclamation out of his pants, he says "excuse me while I whip this out," and everyone screams. The script, partially written by the late Richard Pryor, is racy and hilarious.


The Rumble: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

First of all, can you believe this movie is 12 years old? Sheesh. In this scene, dimwitted weatherman Brick (Steve Carell) gets the Channel 4 news team lost in one of San Diego's scarier neighborhoods. There they meet their rivals from other San Diego news channels, along with public television (No commercials, no mercy!) and the Spanish language channel (Como estas, bitches!). Things escalate quickly. There were horses, a man on fire, and Brick killed a guy with a trident. This parody of West Side Story, with some surprise cameos, is downright hilarious. They tried to one-up this scene in Anchorman 2, and didn't come close.

The Rabbit and the Holy Hand Grenade: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table must face a fearsome beast who is guarding the grail. It turns out the beast is a rabbit. This isn't just any rabbit though. It decapitates one person, and kills and severely wounds several others. To get rid of this foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent (Yes, I know. I am quoting the movie here), they use the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. To use the Holy Hand Grenade, you must pull the pin, count to three, no more, no less, and release it. Not four, definitely not five, but three. Again, I could have picked any number of uproarious scenes from this movie such as the Black Knight, The Knights Who Say "Nee", and the end of the movie. Even the first scene, when Arthur comes over the hill without a horse banging two coconut shells together, had me laughing for a good minute. (this happened because they couldn't afford horses with the movie's low budget). Still, to this day, my lovely wife just doesn't see the humor in this movie.

The opening credits: Deadpool (2016)

Even before any of Deadpool's famous fourth-wall breaks or pop-culture references ("I'm about to do to you what Limp Biskit did to music in the late 90s" comes to mind), this movie already had me rolling right from the beginning. The credits roll as the camera moves through a chaotic 3-D freeze frame of a car accident, where we see Deadpool teabagging a badguy, and yanking another villain's pants down. However, the credits are obviously written from Deadpool's point of view, because the movie is a film by "some douchebag," and stars "God's perfect idiot," "A hot chick," "A British villain" and "A CGI character," among others. The movie is produced by "asshats" and written by "the real heroes here." This is all set to the tune of Juice Newton's "Angel of the Morning." For the record, I am calling this movie a comedy.

The Golf Course Airhorn: Jackass: The Movie (2002)

This movie, with the Jackass guys doing real stupid stunts in real life, was so funny, that even many movie critics liked it despite the complete lack of a plot or script. I wasn't too much of a fan of the gross-out stuff that included bodily functions, but what did make me laugh was the gang harassing uptight golfers. One guy even go so angry that he started to throw a club and hit balls at the Jackass crew. When confronted by the irate duffers, Johnny Knoxville said he couldn't help it because he had bursitis.

MATT DAMON!: Team America: World Police (2004)

This movie, by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, featured marionettes. Many of these marionettes were impersonated celebrities including Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Tim Robbins, and George Clooney. Then, there is Matt Damon. The story is that the marionette of Matt Damon looked so goofy that they decided the only words Matt Damon would say were "Matt Damon!" The real Matt Damon wasn't offended at all, and thought this was hilarious.


The Naked Brawl: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev finds his producer Azamat, well, pleasuring himself to a book featuring Borat's dream girl, Pamela Anderson. The two men, neither of whom are in ideal physical shape, get into a somewhat homoerotic fight without any clothes on. They end up running through a hotel, and into a packed convention ballroom where the two naked men are finally subdued by police. You can't really appreciate this scene until you see it.

The Baby Ruth bar: Caddyshack (1980)

At the Bushwood Country Club pool, someone throws a Baby Ruth chocolate bar in the water. Most people think it's something much more disgusting, and the pool clears out quickly. The capper to this scene is when dimwitted greenskeeper Carl Spackler (Bill Murray) cleans out the pool, finds the candy bar and eats it while everyone else is revolted. This classic scene was based on a real incident at the high school of writer-actor Brian Doyle-Murray.

Pow!: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Here's the non-comedy I was talking about before. In this brief, but hilarious scene, Indiana Jones is confronted by a swordsman who is swinging his blade in all directions, ready for a fight. Indiana Jones pulls out a gun and shoots him. Some of you know the story, but I am going to tell it anyway. Much of the cast and crew, including star Harrison Ford, were stricken with dysentery while on the set. This was supposed to be an elaborate sword fight, but Ford was so sick, he said to director Steven Spielberg, "What if I just shoot the guy?" The rest, as they say, is history.
 
Enrico Pallazzo: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988)

A player under the influence of mind control is planning to shoot the Queen of England at an Angels game. Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) needs to get on the field and foil the assassin. To get on the field, he knocks out world famous opera singer Enrico Pallazzo. He then butchers the Star-Spangled Banner, calls the game as an umpire, and eventually saves the queen's life. There's a great payoff when Frank Drebin takes off his mask after saving the queen, and someone in the crowd yells, "Hey! It's Enrico Pallazzo!" and the crowd starts chanting his name.