Revisiting Some of the Best and Funniest Film Moments

14 movies scenes that will make you laugh every single time

I’m pretty sure we all have those specific, golden funny movie moments that we return to whenever we need a pick-me-up: those where the writing, the acting, and the comedic timing come together perfectly to make us have a giggle or, if you’re lucky, burst out laughing uncontrollably.

So I thought it would be cool to share some of my absolute favourite funniest film scenes that, to me, never get old.

As with all my listicles and fun round-ups, these are just what I personally love. Please feel free to share in the comments your own favourites!

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Best in Show (2000)

• Director: Christopher Guest

• Starring: Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Christopher Guest, Parker Posey, Fred Willard

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll be zero percent surprised I’ve started with Best in Show.

Fred Willard was a comedic genius and is sorely missed. Here, he plays Buck Laughlin, an ex-football commentator who has been hired to cover the dog show, alongside a legit, knowledgeable co-commentator.

Buck pipes up constantly with completely inappropriate questions and wildly irrelevant anecdotes, and the utter nonsense he chats gets funnier and funnier as it goes on.

Now tell me, which one of these dogs would you want to have as your wide receiver on your football team?

What I would give to watch this scene again for the very first time, but even when you know it inside out, it’s still as hilarious as it ever is.

Watch the clip here:

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We’re the Millers (2013)

• Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber

• Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Kathryn Hahn, Nick Offerman

I know most people will gravitate towards the:

Wait, you guys are getting paid?

And that is an absolutely hilarious scene, I concur.

But I have to give a spotlight to another scene that’s my favourite.

It’s when Rose (Jennifer Aniston) is holding the blanket made to look like a baby, and Edie (Kathryn Hahn) is trying to take the “baby” for a cuddle (not knowing that it’s just a bag full of weed). So Rose gets all flustered and ends up throwing the “baby” into the middle of the road, and then these big lorries come by and pulverise it to pieces. All while, Kathryn Hahn is hysterical, screaming oh my god, oh my god.

All the reactions of the cast are just next level, and I was laughing for days.

Watch the clip here:

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Bridesmaids (2011)

• Director: Paul Feig

• Starring: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy

There are heaps and heaps of amazing moments in Bridesmaids, and, similar to We’re the Millers, I’m sure this probably wouldn’t be considered to be the funniest by most people, but I had to go with it because my stomach literally hurts from laughing whenever I watch it.

“Sorry, is this your husband?”

“Oh, no, no, I don’t know him.”

You know when something really tickles you, and you’re not even sure why it gets you so much? This is it for me.

And then when it happens again in the next scene with Melissa McCarthy’s character, it just makes me laugh even more.

Watch the clip here:

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Bridget Jones’ Baby (2016)

• Director: Sharon Maguire

• Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Sarah Solemani

This scene is near the beginning, when Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is supposed to be helping Miranda (Sarah Solemani) with questions to ask during the interview about the death of this evil dictator who killed all these people, but Bridget’s actually on the phone with Tom (James Callis) at the time talking about Daniel (Hugh Grant) being dead.

So Miranda ends up saying half of what Bridget is telling Tom, like:

“It’s just sad, I can’t believe he’s gone actually.”

“Well at least he was never boring”

I was cracking up, it was absolutely hilarious. The guy she’s interviewing has the best reactions too; so British in trying to be polite, but equally like what the fk are you talking about.

Watch the clip here:

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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

• Director: Rob Reiner

• Starring: Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby

Of course, it had to be this scene.

Everyone’s faces around the diner are incredible, and then the deadpan reaction from the older lady at the end delivering the iconic line, “I’ll have what she’s having”, is legendary.

As a fun fact: You might have seen Katz’s Deli on food bloggers’ TikToks, and this New York restaurant is the place where this particular scene was filmed. There’s a plaque at the table there apparently that reads, “Where Harry met Sally...hope you have what she had!”

Watch the clip here:

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Young Frankenstein (1974)

• Director: Mel Brooks

• Starring: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman

I simply adore this film, and, like a lot of them on this list, there are multiple scenes that could have made it as the funniest. But the whole interaction of Igor (Marty Feldman) and Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder)’s first meeting is just too good to bypass.

You’ve got the whole “Fronkensteen” pronunciation, the walk this way bit, and, of course, Igor’s “What hump?” line that never fails to make me fall apart laughing.

Gene Wilder shows off comedic timing at its finest, and this film is just the best.

Watch the clip here:

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School of Rock (2003)

• Director: Richard Linklater

• Starring: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman

This film is a total comfort movie, and Jack Black is always a joy to watch, but the kids often steal the show, just like in this scene.

Dewey (Jack Black) is trying to teach them about the spirit of rock and roll by getting them to focus on what makes them angry, so he asks the class what ticks them off, and Lawrence (Robert Tsai) delivers this absolute gem of a line, completely deadpan:

“You’re a fat loser and you have body odour.”

The way Dewey’s face drops as he realises he’s walked straight into that one is pure comedy gold.

Watch the clip here:

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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

• Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber

• Starring: Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball

This line, then Justin Long’s character proceeds to get smacked right in the face. It’s proper sort of slapstick humour, but, oh boy, it’s hilarious.

And as a fun behind-the-scenes bit: Justin Long actually ended up with a cut eyebrow from that very first throw. The crew were using rubber wrenches, but that first one happened to be much harder than the rest.

I guess we have to thank him for suffering so that we can have a good laugh!

Watch the clip here:

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Superbad (2007)

• Director: Greg Mottola

• Starring: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse

McLovin birthed one of the biggest pop culture jokes of the 2000s, so it has to be included on this list.

This line kills me every time:

This guy is either gonna think ‘Here’s another kid with a fake ID’ or ‘Here’s McLovin, a 25 year-old Hawaiian organ donor’.

And it’s just the total confidence Fogell has in his rubbish plan against the others’ complete disbelief that immortalises its fate as one of the funniest film scenes ever, hands down.

Watch the clip here:

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

• Director: Nicholas Stoller

• Starring: Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis

Peter (Jason Segel) has been working on a Dracula musical puppet show, and in this scene he finally performs a bit of it for Rachel (Mila Kunis) at this bar they’re at for the night.

And it’s Mila Kunis’ face when Jason Segel starts singing in his Dracula puppet voice that makes me burst out laughing every time I watch it.

It’s getting kind of hard to believe things are going to get better

She’s like what the fk did I just commission here lol. It is a fantastic first response to a wonderfully bizarre creative performance that she actually ends up kinda digging.

Watch the clip here:

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White Chicks (2004)

• Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans

• Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Terry Crews

The most memorable scene of White Chicks belongs to Terry Crews, of course.

Apparently, because Crews already knew the rhythm and lyrics of the song perfectly, he managed to nail the entire sing-along performance on the very first take. That is incredibly impressive!

Now, none of us can listen to Vanessa Carlton’s A Thousand Miles without thinking of this scene. With the head shakes and the lip syncing, it’s just so good, and we all know it.

Watch the clip here:

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Johnny English (2003)

• Director: Peter Howitt

• Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imbruglia, Ben Miller, John Malkovich

Throughout this film, Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) is trying so hard to be this suave, sophisticated secret agent, but he fails spectacularly at every single turn.

When he walks in saying, “I’m here to see Pegasus” and then throws his coat out of the window, I was in absolute hysterics. Then the scene just descends into more ridiculousness as Johnny double clicks the pen and accidentally shoots the secretary with a tranquilliser dart.

Rowan Atkinson doing physical comedy is basically a masterclass, and I love this scene so much. I actually didn’t realise this film had such bad reviews, because I think it’s fantastic!

Watch the clip here:

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22 Jump Street (2014)

• Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

• Starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube

  

Sometimes the funniest thing a person can do is fully commit to something completely stupid, and that’s what happens here.

Jenko (Channing Tatum) is supposed to be undercover, but when the bad guys start pressing him, he completely falls apart and pulls out this bizarre, high-pitched accent from absolutely nowhere:

“My name is Jeff.”

It’s so panicked and utterly ridiculous, and the way it’s delivered is perfect. Then he starts chatting on about Dora The Explorer, and you just can’t catch your breath from laughing.

Watch the clip here:

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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

• Director: Rob Reiner

• Starring: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer

Started with a Christopher Guest movie, so I had to finish with one too. And if you’ve seen this mockumentary, you won’t be surprised when I say the Stonehenge scene.

The band commissions a stage prop for their tour. The only issue is a tiny miscalculation in the planning, and what gets lowered onto the stage is... not quite what they had in mind.

I couldn’t hold it together when I first saw it; it was the funniest thing in the world. It brings tears to my eyes now, just thinking about it.

But you’re not as confused as him are you. I mean, it’s not your job to be as confused as Nigel.

Thank you, This is Spinal Tap - you never fail to put me in a good mood.

Watch the clip here:

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So there we go! That’s my list of funny movie moments. What are the ones on your list? Let me know in the comments!