Comedy that leaves you unable to breathe ...

[PpPete]

We were given a box set of Yes Minister DVDs for Crimbo.
Been watching an episode or two a night when nothing else of interest.

Sheer brilliance - don't think we have anyone of the calibre of Nigel Hawthorne any more.

 

[yashicamat]

Phoenix Nights: The "baldy bouncer" scene when he falls off the stepladder through a window

Dad's Army, I forget the episode name but the one where the german parachutist is trapped on the town hall clock, the crew go up there to try and get him down and manage to set off the ancient clock mechanism with these gargoyles, knights etc. running around this track chasing poor Jones. The whole scene is hilarious!

 

[trj977]

Watching a video, remember them, of Billy Connolly - Billy & Albert. He started talking about a Linoleum factory in Scotland. I was laughing so much I was begging my wife to turn it off. I was lying on the floor with tears pouring down my face gasping for breadth conviced I was going pass out.

 

[Alien8]

Dad's Army, I forget the episode name but the one where the german parachutist is trapped on the town hall clock, the crew go up there to try and get him down and manage to set off the ancient clock mechanism with these gargoyles, knights etc. running around this track chasing poor Jones. The whole scene is hilarious!

Time on My Hands.

 

[theclaud]

Delboy falling through the bar

I was hoping no-one would say that! There's a Stewart Lee routine you should see...

 

[theclaud]

Found it (Stewart Lee, that is):
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H4sWNPUGNc
. It's brilliant, but agonising.

I haven't seen many things funnier than the "Drugs" episode of Brass Eye. The Noel Edmonds bit might be the best bit.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I was hoping no-one would say that! There's a Stewart Lee routine you should see...

...and then Trigger made a face...

 

[Cubist]

For me it's the fire drill sequence in Fawlty Towers "Germans".

 

[Foghat]

Try THIS if you can cope with slightly more robust humour.

Hilarious, but careful if at work.....and parental guidance possibly also required!

 

[Kirstie]

Watching a video, remember them, of Billy Connolly - Billy & Albert. He started talking about a Linoleum factory in Scotland. I was laughing so much I was begging my wife to turn it off. I was lying on the floor with tears pouring down my face gasping for breadth conviced I was going pass out.

Ditto! The first time I heard that I was a dribbling wreck - literally rolling around on the floor, my sides aching from laughing.

 

[Spinney]

Brian Blessed on HIGNFY (unexpurgated ) the You Tube copy now seems to be in 8 parts -first one here


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5__VFxOI99E&feature=PlayList&p=0CB9E172BB69C5DC&index=0&playnext=1

I've never seen that one before - absolutely brilliant!
(I'm rationing myself to one chunk each tea break, or I'll never get any work done).
Have they ever had him back?

 

[swee'pea99]

The most helpless I've ever been was watching Richard Pryor 'Live in Concert' - a film, sadly - at the Westbourne Grove Odeon. He was in his prime then - before he set light to himself freebasing - and does this for about 90 mins. The pace never lets up. Not quite the same watching it on-screen as in a packed cinema, but still.

 

[justAl]

Father Ted - "Little cow, far away cow"

 

[Gasman]

A bit of background needed, please bear with me.

Aged 15 I stuck on the telly one evening not knowing what was on just as the BBC2 logo faded out and a program started.

The scene showed a rocky beach late at night, not a sound except waves breaking. Out of the darkness came a small boat rowed by an authentic looking motley crew of smugglers who pulled the boat onto the beach and stood gazing up the beach in a state of tension. After a few moments a light shone from up the beach and, in total silence, the men set about unloading their cargo. As they carried barrels and boxes up the beach they passed behind a large rock on top of which was a large mahogany desk seated behind which was John Cleese in pin-stripe suit and brylcreem. He shuffled his papers, looked up and said, "And now for something completely different!"

I was so helpless with laughter that my mum and sisters came running in to see what the matter was.

 

[Arch]

I can't remember the last time I was actually breathless - it might have been Robert Webb's Flashdance routine. But I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue usually has me in fits, especially one song to the tune of another.