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Extremely small moments in comedy that make you laugh way more than intended

Started by Tikwid, May 01, 2018, 01:28:40 AM

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Sebastian Cobb

Cheggers in Life's too Short on why it took half an hour for Barry to dry his crotch with a hairdryer.

QuoteBecause I was pissing while he was drying, because he was annoying me.
Every time he thought it was dry, I topped it up a bit.

alan nagsworth

I'm rewatching South Park from the very beginning at the moment, and even though the first seasons are patchy (but by no means unwatchable) I've found that mostly it's the tiny little bits in these ones that have me cracking up. Two that spring to mind:

Prehistoric Ice Man (season 2): When the government officials accidentally let slip that they plan to use the 1996 guy as some sort of military weapon and Mephisto overhears it and questions them, one of the guys waves his arms and screams like a turkey to try and distract him.

Pink Eye (season 1): When Kenny is taken to the morgue and there's a moonlit exterior shot of the building with creepy music, which immediately halts when a a bird with angry looking eyebrows lands on the sign and shits on it.

fucking ponderous

Quote from: kalowski on February 18, 2019, 10:28:58 PM
The Louis Armstrong voice that says, "Justice" in the Day Today routine about the reanimated man executing his killer. The Martin Sheen one is great, and Coogan's, "I want a tower" is very funny, but the Armstrong "Juhss-tisss" is wonderful.
Just rewatched bc of this post, love the Louis Armstrong voice being used in the soda commercial. The fact that these hypothetical commercial makers would for some reason use Armstrong's voice instead of the generic one is very funny to me.

kalowski

Quote from: fucking ponderous on February 19, 2019, 09:45:21 AM
Just rewatched bc of this post, love the Louis Armstrong voice being used in the soda commercial. The fact that these hypothetical commercial makers would for some reason use Armstrong's voice instead of the generic one is very funny to me.
Oh God, I'd forgotten about that bit. Makes it even better. I need to watch this now.

kalowski

Quote from: kalowski on February 19, 2019, 10:00:56 AM
Oh God, I'd forgotten about that bit. Makes it even better. I need to watch this now.
Which I did. That is a great sketch. Rebecca Front is brilliant, the script is perfect. Could be my favourite moment from TDT.

alan nagsworth

All of that is indeed brilliant, but I'm gonna go even smaller on the moment in that scene which really makes me laugh: it's the way Coogan says "corpses".

Coogan as Reverend Alvin Holler in the other Chapman Baxter sketch about the Elvis execution is similarly fantastic in every little bit of his delivery. His face which almost looks like he's had a stroke delivering the line "you could be right there". It's so good.

I can't nominate the actual banger of a line "King did that himself when he died on the john wearing a big nappy" because it's not small enough, but I want to mention it anyway. Steve Coogan dominates the fuck out of TDT.

græskar

Rewatched Paedogeddon yesterday and I still love the bit in the closing number when Doon Mackichan screams in the girl's face.

QDRPHNC

Quote from: alan nagsworth on February 19, 2019, 04:19:36 PM
Coogan as Reverend Alvin Holler in the other Chapman Baxter sketch about the Elvis execution is similarly fantastic in every little bit of his delivery. His face which almost looks like he's had a stroke delivering the line "you could be right there". It's so good.

Similarly, "She's gonna die like a dawg."

McChesney Duntz

Quote from: alan nagsworth on February 19, 2019, 04:19:36 PM
I can't nominate the actual banger of a line "King did that himself when he died on the john wearing a big nappy" because it's not small enough, but I want to mention it anyway. Steve Coogan dominates the fuck out of TDT.

Great, laugh-aloud line, but disqualified on a technicality - no American knows what a "nappy" is.

Solid Jim

Quote from: McChesney Duntz on February 19, 2019, 08:36:52 PM
Great, laugh-aloud line, but disqualified on a technicality - no American knows what a "nappy" is.

See also Fur-Q's "I set them on fire with petroleum," which has always bothered me. Gasoline, surely?

Ferris

Quote from: alan nagsworth on February 19, 2019, 04:19:36 PM
Coogan as Reverend Alvin Holler in the other Chapman Baxter sketch about the Elvis execution is similarly fantastic in every little bit of his delivery. His face which almost looks like he's had a stroke delivering the line "you could be right there". It's so good.

I was going to nominate that very line earlier in the thread. It pops into my head all the time. The little chuckle before the line always gets me.

Quote from: alan nagsworth on February 19, 2019, 04:19:36 PM
I can't nominate the actual banger of a line "King did that himself when he died on the john wearing a big nappy" because it's not small enough, but I want to mention it anyway. Steve Coogan dominates the fuck out of TDT.

This is making me laugh just thinking about it.

To contribute to the thread - the little touches in the sketch are excellent. The military choir that just sings Elvis song titles to the tune of The Star Spangled Banner during the execution, the quick camera shot of the very utilitarian-looking electric toilet, and Rebecca Front delivering tasteless lines in her gaudy American accent. Terrific.

Chriddof

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on February 20, 2019, 05:23:29 AM
The military choir that just sings Elvis song titles to the tune of The Star Spangled Banner during the execution

Apparently the original broadcast version, which I believe cropped up on cable/Sky years later, had the choir bloke singing "Are You Lonesome Tonight" in full. It got re-dubbed for home video releases - very cleverly done as well when you look at how it's edited. For similar rights reasons, the RokTV sketch either ends with a clip of Madonna or Cher depending on which version you're watching.

I must also add that while "nappy" may indeed be an incorrect word for an American character to use, that line doesn't sound as funny with "diaper" mentally substituted. Something about that word choice fits perfectly despite the inaccuracy.

kalowski

Quote from: Solid Jim on February 19, 2019, 11:17:42 PM
See also Fur-Q's "I set them on fire with petroleum," which has always bothered me. Gasoline, surely?
Funkadelic: "Nappy Dugout"
Stevie Wonder: "Looking back on when I was a little nappy headed boy"
A favourite:
Prince: "You turn on the telly and every other story is tellin' you somebody died" does anyone say telly in America?


Cuellar

Quote from: kalowski on February 20, 2019, 09:23:52 AM
Funkadelic: "Nappy Dugout"
Stevie Wonder: "Looking back on when I was a little nappy headed boy"

But those don't mean 'nappy' in the UK sense, do they?

Needless to say, 'big nappy' is funnier than 'big diaper' regardless of accuracy.

thraxx

Isn't there a TDT bit about the rise of medieval medicine, there's a fantastic bitwhere Coogan plays a doctor benignly talking through cutting off a patients foot. Something like 'we'll just do a little incision round... here... and then here and then we'll remove this foot off!'

"I'm going to make an incision here... and make the incision all the way round here, to the other side... and then cut through... and then remove this... this foot... remove that... and take it away, and bury it with some, er, gooseberries-"

One of my favourite bits.

Emma Raducanu

Season 6 Ep 9 - The Therapist - Curb your Enthusiasm. 8:40

On the advice of his therapist (played by Steve Coogan), Larry David gives his estranged wife, Cheryl an ultimatum:

LD: "Listen [pause] I want you to move back in with me [pause] (stuttering) you have until Monday to decide."

Cheryl:" Monday?"

LD: Yep, then the offer's off the table.


Had me howling.

thraxx

Quote from: Darles Chickens on February 20, 2019, 09:43:37 AM
"I'm going to make an incision here... and make the incision all the way round here, to the other side... and then cut through... and then remove this... this foot... remove that... and take it away, and bury it with some, er, gooseberries-"

One of my favourite bits.

And the bit at the beginning of the piece when he is very dryly and earnestly doing the chanting from the book to drive out the spirits from the patient. 

Coogan really is excellent at embodying and bringing a character isn't he, even when given a few lines and a few seconds of screen time.  I mean just with those two bits you can imagine everything about that doctor; where he lives, what he likes to eat, what car he drives.  I mean, that's the definition of good acting isn't it?  And with something like TDT he doesn that with dozens of characters.

McChesney Duntz

Quote from: Cuellar on February 20, 2019, 09:32:02 AM
But those don't mean 'nappy' in the UK sense, do they?
No, they don't.

Quote from: Cuellar on February 20, 2019, 09:32:02 AM
Needless to say, 'big nappy' is funnier than 'big diaper' regardless of accuracy.
Agreed. It's way funnier. Just like "The Tab" audio pullout from On the Hour is one of the funniest such segments from the run of the show, and it gets so many Americanisms wrong. Not a comedy killer in either case, but I'm sure you Brits do similar double-takes when Americans get your slang and colloquialisms wrong.


Dex Sawash

Cheech Marin's Born in East LA is pretty bad but I laugh a lot about the name of the band whenever I make eggs or hear new wave music


amputeeporn

A million in Xavier Renegade Angel, but right now:

'BUT WHAT DOES AN EXPLOSION WANT?'

He says it as an aside, into a megaphone, while standing on a car I think. And I guess it's a joke about bad exposition, but also just an amazingly stupid and funny line - and delivered with his absolutley  ridiculous California bro lilt, it's just one of those things that's too good to be true, like the whole very clever and very stupid show.

The Josh Fenderman sketch on Mr Show - at the very beginning when he comes out to do a song Jay Johnston is in his backing band with a saxophone. The song plays and he realises there's no sax in the song so immediately drops it and starts clapping lamely.

SteveDave

There's one episode of "Futureman" where Wolf (a time traveller from a desolate future) is being taught how to cook by Ed Begley Jr (who plays the main characters dad) and they've got a pan of pasta sauce on the go.

EBJ "Now add some salt"
Wolf tips a whole bag of salt in the pan
EBJ (as he turns off the hob) "Well, let's not waste anymore gas"

For some reason this had me and my wife screaming with laughter last night. In the cold light of Monday though it's hard to explain.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand post.

petril


Twit 2

Always Sunny - Frank having Charlie's mum as his 'bang maid' - he is ordering her around coldly and when asked about it, the way he switches to a kind of bemused glee as he explains the arrangement really gets me.

https://youtu.be/l02sUGVZlgk

Fronty Prongs

On the Hour - "Thank you Barry, now you can go and have a shave."

DrGreggles

Quote from: Fronty Prongs on March 08, 2019, 07:21:40 AM
On the Hour - "Thank you Barry, now you can go and have a shave."

Also OTH, the woman reading a complaint about yogurt pots and signing off as "Brian Sell".
Not sure what tickles me so much about that.

fucking ponderous

Quote from: amputeeporn on February 22, 2019, 02:04:37 PM
A million in Xavier Renegade Angel, but right now:

'BUT WHAT DOES AN EXPLOSION WANT?'

He says it as an aside, into a megaphone, while standing on a car I think. And I guess it's a joke about bad exposition, but also just an amazingly stupid and funny line - and delivered with his absolutley  ridiculous California bro lilt, it's just one of those things that's too good to be true, like the whole very clever and very stupid show.
From the first episode:
Soldier: "(sighs) I shouldn't do this, but here. Someone left this in the lost and found."
(The soldier hands Xavier a plastic milk jug labeled "AIDS".)

Puce Moment

The way the female singers in Glenn Ponder's house band sing 'Ah-haaah' in the show's theme tune. It really makes me laugh a lot.