The hardest I ever laughed was ...

Sam Kinison "Go Where the FOOOOD IS!!!!!

South Park The Movie

Team America World Police - particularly Kim Jong Il song "So Lonely"

Caddyshack - the Baby Ruth scene

The Longest Yard (original) the shot in the balls.



I had - and still have - the mind of a 12-year-old.

 

Georgie fucked that one-eyed slut!

 

I forgot "And Now For Something Completely Different". Freshman year of college, film series in the student center. The little blurb in the student newspaper said that it was the best of the Monty Python series, reworked with a little more budget as a movie. I was aware of the Pythons but had not watched the series. Any of it.

So I got The Best Of the first time I saw them. One giant megadose: Parrot Sketch, The Lumberjack Song, Ministry of Silly Walks, Penguin on the Television Set, you name it, one after another.

Friggin' awesome.

 

Kramer getting drunk on Hennigan's.

 

Watching the Royals game reminds me of the George Brett shitting his pants story.

 

Basil Fawlty vs. Manuel.

Every time.

 

I remember seeing Eddie Murphy's Delirious for the first time when I was about 13. Me and a bunch of friends just ended up over at this kid's house, and there were a few people watching it at, like, 2 in the afternoon. One of the best memories of childhood, just being in that room sharing an hourlong laughing jag like that.

Another stand up special that had me rolling was Chris Rock's Bring the Pain. Watched that one alone on HBO one night in college. Not as great a shared experience, but still one of the funniest damn routines I've ever seen.

 

Actually, this made me laugh harder than anything. Sound is moderately NSFW for language, but makes it way funnier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Rtzn-LQyA

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPUSBQDRQmM

Butt bottle rocket, slightly NSFW.

 

First time I heard Robin Williams. First time I heard Richard Pryor. First time I heard George Carlin. First time I heard Richard Jeni. Each of those, I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe and I thought I would pass out.

 

I laugh a lot. That said, these really stand out.

1, Sam Kinison at the Bayou in D.C. in 1986 or so. Had to get up and go to the can to collect myself, I couldn't catch my breath.
2, The "Jackass" where they shoot fireworks out of their butts. Watching that in the office late one night and somebody came down from the other end of the building to make sure I was okay.
3. Tom Weir of USA Today, telling me and Steve Woodward a story (the subject of which I shall not disclose) in an Olympic dorm room in Albertville, France in 1992.
4, The "Kenny Rogers' Jackass" sketch from MadTV. Will Sasso as Kenny. Just slays me every time.
5. The original "I'm Matt Foley ... and I live in a van down by the river." The look on everyone's faces when he smashes the coffee table is a wonderful little detail. But Phil Hartman never breaks character.
6, A lot of the stuff on "Ridiculousness." Big fan of nut shots and impacts that "put people to sleep."