Brief Encounter

Even though it isn't a comedy film per se, it has some great witty dialogue. When I saw it at the BFI, it got plenty of laughs. In The Wicked Lady, I think the best comedy moment is when Lady Kingsclere gets back from being done over by the 'highwayman'.

LK: Barbara, are you trying to make a fool of me?
B: Oh no. I don't need to.

Marky B

I agree,but all of their films are funny.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

kezzy

Charters and Caldicott reading 'Mein Kampf' in 'Night Train to Munich':

Charters: I bought a copy of Mein Kampf. Occurred to me it might shed a spot of light on all this... how d'ye do. Ever read it?
Caldicott: Never had the time.
Charters: I understand they give a copy to all the bridal couples over here.
Caldicott: Oh, I don't think it's that sort of book, old man.

CaptainWaggett

Also Night Train to Munich

German Officer - I will let you crawl back to London on your fat bellies, no doubt to find yourself safe jobs
Caldicott - Fat bellies, indeed
Charters - Safe jobs!
Caldicott - Besides, they'll all be taken by now.

Steve Crook

I love that one. That's why I added it to the IMDb

Steve

kezzy

Good on you! When I was trying to remember the exact words, I thought, 'Hmm, bet they're on the imdb' - and there they were. It's a small internet.

Brief Encounter

also: 'You're on a sticky wicket'

Amethyst_Isle

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

This is quite a long scene but to me a very funny one and has me in stiches of laughter everytime I watch it.


[after Clouseau accidentally reducing a piano to a pile of splinters]

Mrs. Leverlilly: You've ruined that piano!
Clouseau: What is the price of one piano compared to the terrible crime that's been committed here?
Mrs. Leverlilly: But that's a priceless Steinway!
Clouseau: Not anymore!
Clouseau: There is someone in this room who knows more about the murder than he is telling.
Mrs. Japonica: Murder?
Clouseau: What was that you said?
Mrs. Japonica: I said "murder".
Clouseau: What murder?
Mrs. Japonica: I-I-I don't know, y-you said "murder".
Clouseau: I said murder? *You* said murder!
Mrs. Japonica: No, I said murder because *You* said murder.
Clouseau: *I* said murder?
Mr. Shork: You said there is someone in this room who knows more about the murder than he is telling.
Clouseau: You're the cook?
Mr. Shork: No, I'm the gardener!
Clouseau: Ah, now we're getting somewhere!
[points to the beekeeper who has a sore throat and has lost his voice]
Clouseau: You!
Clouseau: Look, there is no need for you to speak unless I ask you a question. What is your name?
Mr. Shork: I'm Shork, the gardener.
Clouseau: What is it you do?
Mr. Shork: I'm the gardener.
Clouseau: Then why didn't you say that to me in the first place?
Mr. Shork: I did.
Clouseau: Don't try to be funny with me, monsieur!
Clouseau: This is a very serious matter, and everyone is this reum is under the suspicions.
Cook: Reum?
Clouseau: What was that?
Cook: You said 'reum'?
Clouseau: Yes, I know that!
Clouseau: A beekeeper who has lost his voice, a cook who thinks he's a gardiner, and a witness to a murder. Oh, yes. It is obvious to my trained eye, that there is much more going on here than meets the ear.

Here Hare Here

Thanks for the fab Clouseau - wonderful stuff.

Can I also add ANYTHING from Withnail? I particularly like Marwood's classic rebuke:
"You fool, you should never mix your drinks," when Withnail demands antifreeze having just downed a can of lighter fuel.....but the whole film is awash with classic comic lines. Genius.

dremble wedge

"We've gone on holiday by mistake" and anything from Uncle Monty...

Here Hare Here

My boys, my boys!

BruIrn

The football scene in Kes. Brian Glover is superb in it.

hankoler

From GENEVIEVE, "Four large pink and whites", If they were large icecreams I would hate to see the little ones !

Steve Crook

Things were still tough in 1953. Sweets had only come off the ration in February 1953. Sugar rationing didn't end until September 1953.

Such is the price of victory in a war where everything was put on the line

Steve

scholes

Peter Sellers has me in stitches all the time as Clouseau!