Things That Are ALWAYS Funny

[Jockice]

A person throwing something small into the air and then getting hit by a much bigger version of it coming down.

Oh goodie, a new page.

[non capisco]

A waterfowl pecking someone on the dick.

[Cold Meat Platter]

Bob Mortimer

[bgmnts]

Basically everything Wile E Coyote does

[JamesTC]

Del Boy falling through the bar.

[phantom_power]

Mocking dead rich people and centenarian national treasures

[jobotic]

A person throwing something small into the air and then getting hit by a much bigger version of it coming down.

That sounds great but have you any examples please?

[the science eel]

Someone throwing something off screen, following by the sound of glass smashing

or someone walking into a room followed by the sound of a load of things breaking

I'm sure I saw a Morecambe and Wise sketch with this once

[Gurke and Hare]

When the camera pans out into a wider shot, revealing another person. 'It's always sunny...' are kings of this.

The opening of the first LoG episode is my favourite example of this. Such a great joke and so simple.

[sutin]

Cats doing something out of character. Truly the funniest of all God's creatures.

[Huxleys Babkins]

A person throwing something small into the air and then getting hit by a much bigger version of it coming down.

Also, throwing something up and it not coming back down for aaaaaages. Like Chris Bell's Stars In Their Eyes mic stand.

Can also be done with a boomerang.

[Butchers Blind]

Having stuff tattooed on your forehead while sleeping. N2B.

[Norton Canes]

Stalin (just ask Jive Bunny)

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Any non-fatal accident involving a plank.

[dr beat]

Another R&M one, but dicking about wearing slightly oversized masks of celebrities faces.

[mikeyg27]

People panicking and completely overreacting by jumping away in fear. The best version of this is through windows, and preferably through the pane rather than just an open window - it needs the sound of shattering glass for full comic effect..

[BeardFaceMan]

Phone conversations you only hear one side of.

[Captain Z]

People talking on the phone as if they're having a conversation, then the reveal that they're leaving an answerphone message.

[dissolute ocelot]

Anything involving a urinal (including urinal cakes, pissing on shoes, etc).

Cats failing to successfully execute elementary cat manoeuvres.

Neckbeards, muttonchops, soul patches, etc. EDIT: terms for facial hair are funny even if the facial hair itself is not, e.g Van Dykes, goatees.

[bgmnts]

Children falling over then crying.

[badaids]

The opening of the first LoG episode is my favourite example of this. Such a great joke and so simple.

Or the opposite when they go from a wide shot to a detail close up. Theres one of those, also in the LoG first episode I think when the female vicar is rattling a collection tin and it zooms in so you can read it says 'bring back the slave trade appeal' on it or something.

[Thosworth]

• Something extraordinary happens in a public space.
• An onlooker is shocked, and looks alternately at their hands holding [innocuous foodstuff] and [bottle of spirits].
• Throws away [innocuous foodstuff] and takes a drink.

(Also, while Look To Camera is the laziest, easiest punchline ever, I both love and hate how it will never not make me laugh)

[bakabaka]

Neckbeards, muttonchops, soul patches, etc. EDIT: terms for facial hair are funny even if the facial hair itself is not, e.g Van Dykes, goatees.

Facial pubes.

[bakabaka]

Phone conversations you only hear one side of.

You must love Bob Newhart[nb]and rightly so.[/nb] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ZLb4afIJw.

[Cuellar]

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

bleeped out swearing

[Former]

People talking about products that don't exist any more as if they still did.

[Gulftastic]

Phone conversations you only hear one side of.

Needs a skilled comic to really make it work. Roy Barraclough, during his first stint as Alec Gilroy in Corrie, was a master. He was supposed to be a theatrical agent and his one sided chats with his acts were always an episode highlight.

[phes]

smash cut to ambulance lights and sirens

[DrGreggles]

smash cut to ambulance lights and sirens

https://youtu.be/6DIii1kljoA?t=63

[Catalogue Trousers]

That sounds great but have you any examples please?

More of a variation, but that Gilliam bit in an episode of Python where the 2001 ape hurls the bone into the sky, it smash-cuts to the spaceship, then back to the ape who looks up in shock as the enormous spaceship lands on top of him and squashes him flat.