The hardest I ever laughed was ...

"Blazing Saddles" was the hardest I ever laughed in a movie theater. First time I took myself to a movie premiere based on a review. It was by a writer under the pen name "Cyclops" in Life magazine. Yeah, that was a couple of years back.

Rodney Dangerfield live. The laughs came in waves, about every 15-20 seconds. He'd wait for the noise of the previous laugh to die enough to be heard, then spring another one-liner. The delivery, migawd he could make you laugh at the oldest, hoariest old jokes imaginable. "I went to the dentist and said "Doc, my teeth are yellow" and he said "Wear a brown tie."

A couple of jokes still stick with me, and again this show was in maybe 1980 or so. "So, you seen my Lite Beer commercials? Since I been drinking Lite Beer, my wife says I'm less filling but I taste better!".

End of the show, they bring up the house lights and he takes questions from the audience. They'd throw straight lines or try to play the dozens with Rodney. One guy hollers, "Yeah, what do you do for a living?" and quick as a shot he gets back, "I find men for your mother."

Good times.

 

It doesn't hold up to rewatching as much as I thought it would, but when I saw There's Something About Mary in the theater the laughter was so loud we all probably missed about a third of the dialogue.

I'm also on board with whoever said Cartman singing to Congress. Chris Farley's Chippendales audition made me hysterical. I saw Jim Gaffigan doing his Hot Pockets bit in Richmond and was rolling.

 

Not anything to do with movies or shows, but I laugh at inappropriate times, like when someone gets hurt.

 

"My real passion is my hobby." "What's that?" "I work with retards."

Basically anything Matt Dillon says in that cracks me up.

 

I echo the comments on There's Something About Mary, probably the hardest I have laughed in a theater.

Sort of unrelated but I like to try to get to theatre for comedies rather than the big visual movies like Gravity. There is something really fun about the shared laughter experience.

The thing I have watched within the last year or so has been 3 minutes of goats that sound like humans yelling.

I watched it circulate through our open concept office as people cracked themselves up.

 

The hardest I've ever laughed in a theater was a double feature of "Up in Smoke" and "Kentucky Fried Movie."

 

Kentucky Fried Movie was another great one, right from the start ... "The popcorn you are eating has been pissed in. Film at 11."

I was about 16 or 17 when I saw a double feature of Kentucky Fried Movie and The Groove Tube.

 

Chevy Chase, hands down, had a memorable "Groove Tube" moment:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QdnnBwBWiGc

 

Lately it's been John Oliver. Dude cuts straight to the heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4NRJoCNHIs#t=599

 

Carrot Top concert at my college, circa 1993.

Most of Stuart MacKenzie's lines in So I Married An Axe Murderer
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
Sledgehammer (the TV show)
Happy Gilmore (I lost it when he fought Bob Barker)


South Park ... Lots of early South Park episodes ...
Chicken Fucker episode.
The Clones ... Stan's Clone - My golf buddy and I will mimic "Me Bad, Chewwy Chomp." and lose it.
Kyle's Mom's a Bitch

 

Weeeeelllll ..... Kyle's mom's a bitch she's a big fat bitch she's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world.

One of the most memorable re-watchable scenes I have seen.

 

First 10 times I listened to Dice Clay's nursery rhymes.