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The funniest scene ever seen in a movie is....

..the speech of John Cleese in "Life of Brian". 4000 customers of the video-tape library "Blockbuster" chose the "what have the Romans ever done for us?"-scene to the funniest scene ever made.
REG: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
LORETTA: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
REG: Yeah.
LORETTA: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
REG: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
XERXES: The aqueduct?
REG: What?
XERXES: The aqueduct.
REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3: And the sanitation.
LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?
REG: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.
MATTHIAS: And the roads.
REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--
COMMANDO: Irrigation.
XERXES: Medicine.
COMMANDO #2: Education.
COMMANDOS: Ohh... yes.
REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
COMMANDO #1: And the wine.
COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah...
FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.
COMMANDO: Public baths.
LORETTA: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
FRANCIS: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.
COMMANDOS: Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
XERXES: Brought peace.
REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!

Comments

  • My fave scene isnt in a movie, but a sit-com..

    In Only fools and horses where del says' play it cool trig' and falls through the bar in the trendy wine bar.
  • Meaning of life
    ...And spotteth twice they the camels before the third hour, and so, the Midianites went forth to Ram Gilead in Kadesh Bilgemath, by Shor Ethra Regalion, to the house of Gash-Bil-Bethuel-Bazda, he who brought the butter dish to Balshazar and the tent peg to the house of Rashomon, and there slew they the goats, yea, and placed they the bits in little pots. Here endeth the lesson.

    Prayer
    Now, two boys have been found rubbing linseed oil into the school cormorant. Now, some of you may feel that the cormorant does not play an important part in the life of the school, but I would remind you that it was presented to us by the Corporation of the town of Sudbury to commemorate Empire Day, when we try to remember the names of all those from the Sudbury area who so gallantly gave their lives to keep China British. So, from now on, the cormorant is strictly out of bounds! Oh, and Jenkins, apparently your mother died this morning.
    I die of laughter when I see that scene but many people don't find it funny at all.

    There are some hilarious bits in Southpark as well.
  • How can anything top the Holy Grail?

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    'Bloody peasant!'

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    [thud]
    [King Arthur music]
    [thud thud thud]
    [King Arthur music stops]
    ARTHUR:
    Old woman!
    DENNIS:
    Man!
    ARTHUR:
    Man. Sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
    DENNIS:
    I'm thirty-seven.
    ARTHUR:
    I-- what?
    DENNIS:
    I'm thirty-seven. I'm not old.
    ARTHUR:
    Well, I can't just call you 'Man'.
    DENNIS:
    Well, you could say 'Dennis'.
    ARTHUR:
    Well, I didn't know you were called 'Dennis'.
    DENNIS:
    Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
    ARTHUR:
    I did say 'sorry' about the 'old woman', but from the behind you looked--
    DENNIS:
    What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior!
    ARTHUR:
    Well, I am King!
    DENNIS:
    Oh, King, eh, very nice. And how d'you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! By 'anging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress with the--
    WOMAN:
    Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh! How d'you do?

    ARTHUR:
    How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?
    WOMAN:
    King of the who?
    ARTHUR:
    The Britons.
    WOMAN:
    Who are the Britons?
    ARTHUR:
    Well, we all are. We are all Britons, and I am your king.
    WOMAN:
    I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
    DENNIS:
    You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship: a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
    WOMAN:
    Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.
    DENNIS:
    That's what it's all about. If only people would hear of--
    ARTHUR:
    Please! Please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
    WOMAN:
    No one lives there.
    ARTHUR:
    Then who is your lord?
    WOMAN:
    We don't have a lord.
    ARTHUR:
    What?
    DENNIS:
    I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,...
    ARTHUR:
    Yes.
    DENNIS:
    ...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...
    ARTHUR:
    Yes, I see.
    DENNIS:
    ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,...
    ARTHUR:
    Be quiet!
    DENNIS:
    ...but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--
    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!
    ARTHUR:
    Shut up, will you? Shut up!

    DENNIS:
    Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
    ARTHUR:
    Shut up!
    DENNIS:
    Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
    ARTHUR:
    Bloody peasant!
    DENNIS:
    Oh, what a give-away. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
  • Damn you - beat me to it!
  • ..........and from the same movie;

    The rabbit of Caerbannog

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    [clop clop clop]
    [whinny whinny]
    GALAHAD:
    They're nervous, sire.
    ARTHUR:
    Then we'd best leave them here and carry on on foot. Dis-mount!
    TIM:
    Behold the cave of Caerbannog!

    ARTHUR:
    Right! Keep me covered.
    GALAHAD:
    What with?
    ARTHUR:
    W-- just keep me covered.
    TIM:
    Too late!
    [dramatic chord]
    ARTHUR:
    What?
    TIM:
    There he is!
    ARTHUR:
    Where?
    TIM:
    There!
    ARTHUR:
    What, behind the rabbit?
    TIM:
    It is the rabbit.
    ARTHUR:
    You silly sod!
    TIM:
    What?
    ARTHUR:
    You got us all worked up!
    TIM:
    Well, that's no ordinary rabbit!
    ARTHUR:
    Ohh.
    TIM:
    That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
    ROBIN:
    You tit! I soiled my armour I was so scared!
    TIM:
    Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
    GALAHAD:
    Get stuffed!
    TIM:
    He'll do you up a treat, mate.
    GALAHAD:
    Oh, yeah?
    ROBIN:
    You mangy Scots git!
    TIM:
    I'm warning you!
    ROBIN:
    What's he do, nibble your bum?
    TIM:
    He's got huge, sharp-- eh-- he can leap about-- look at the bones!
    ARTHUR:
    Go on, Bors. Chop his head off!
    BORS:
    Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up!
    TIM:
    Look!
    [squeak]
    BORS:
    Aaaugh!

    [dramatic chord]
    [clunk]
    ARTHUR:
    Jesus Christ!
    TIM:
    I warned you!
    ROBIN:
    I done it again!
    TIM:
    I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Well, it's always the same. I always tell them--
    ARTHUR:
    Oh, shut up!
    TIM:
    Do they listen to me?
    ARTHUR:
    Right!
    TIM:
    Oh, no...
    KNIGHTS:
    Charge!
    [squeak squeak squeak]

    KNIGHTS:
    Aaaaugh!, Aaaugh!, etc.
    ARTHUR:
    Run away! Run away!
    KNIGHTS:
    Run away! Run away!...
    TIM:
    Ha ha ha ha! Ha haw haw! Ha! Ha ha!
    ARTHUR:
    Right. How many did we lose?

    LAUNCELOT:
    Gawain.
    GALAHAD:
    Ector.
    ARTHUR:
    And Bors. That's five.
    GALAHAD:
    Three, sir.
    ARTHUR:
    Three. Three. And we'd better not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite.
    ROBIN:
    Would it help to confuse it if we run away more?
    ARTHUR:
    Oh, shut up and go and change your armour.
    GALAHAD:
    Let us taunt it! It may become so cross that it will make a mistake.
    ARTHUR:
    Like what?
    GALAHAD:
    Well... ooh.
    LAUNCELOT:
    Have we got bows?
    ARTHUR:
    No.
    LAUNCELOT:
    We have the Holy Hand Grenade.
    ARTHUR:
    Yes, of course! The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch! 'Tis one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries with him. Brother Maynard! Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade!
    MONKS: [chanting]
    Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem.

    Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem. Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem. Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem.
    ARTHUR:
    How does it, um-- how does it work?
    LAUNCELOT:
    I know not, my liege.
    ARTHUR:
    Consult the Book of Armaments!
    BROTHER MAYNARD:
    Armaments, chapter two, verses nine to twenty-one.
    SECOND BROTHER:
    And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy.'

    And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu--
    MAYNARD:
    Skip a bit, Brother.
    SECOND BROTHER:
    And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'
    MAYNARD:
    Amen.
    KNIGHTS:
    Amen.
    ARTHUR:
    Right!

    One!... Two!... Five!
    GALAHAD:
    Three, sir!
    ARTHUR:
    Three!
    [angels sing]
    [boom]
  • The Brave Sir Robin songt in that film is also a cracker!
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