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Top "LOL" Moments in Classic TV Shows?

sack said:
Sammy Davis Jr. kissing Archie Bunker.
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I remember my whole family was watching that episode on first airing, and we were screaming with laughter at that one -- one of the Top Ten classic sitcom moments!
 
I tell you, from across the pond, one show that for me has several LOL moments in almost every episode is Fawlty Towers, invariably involving John Cleese's schtick. There are so many of them that I could not list them all, but think of him thrashing his car with a tree branch in "Gourmet Night," doing the half-crazed goose step in "The Germans," examining the bricks in the confidence man "Lord Melbury's" briefcase in "A Touch of Class," and pretty much all his encounters with the deaf woman guest ("Excuse me...is this a piece of your brain?") in "Communication Problems," up to and including that perfectly and rapidly choreographed final scene involving the vase and the money Fawlty had won on the horse race.....god, I could go on forever. I don't think there has ever been a more perfectly crafted and executed sitcom -- there is not a wasted second in any of the twelve episodes.
 
If you go to the Lucy-Desi Museum in Jamestown, New York, There is a replica of the "Vitameatavegamin" set with the dialogue set up on cue cards and a vintage TV..You can do the "commercial" yourself with your friends watching on TV..

Stanislav:
The Jack Benny Christmas Special is easily available on a number of Public Domain DVSs..
 
Tim L said:
If you go to the Lucy-Desi Museum in Jamestown, New York, There is a replica of the "Vitameatavegamin" set with the dialogue set up on cue cards and a vintage TV..You can do the "commercial" yourself with your friends watching on TV..

Stanislav:
The Jack Benny Christmas Special is easily available on a number of Public Domain DVSs..
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Or if you can't find that DVD:

Part I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBqwBb9W6Fc

Part II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Kkyns3TK4&feature=related
 
Braves2005 said:
The Jack Benny Christmas show in 1960 comes to mind when Jack and Rochester go Christmas shopping at the department store and the hilarity begins when Jack wants to get Don Wilson a $40 wallet and then he decides to go to the clerk played by Mel Blanc to gift wrap the gift and Jack's note to Don and then Jack changes his mind about the note he wants to put in the wallet and then Mel Blanc gets all flustered at Jack and then when Jack decides on the $1.98 wallet and that's when Mel has had it and shoots himself.

Also in between when Jack wants to give Mary a watch and the lady salesman gives Jack a hammer to test out its nonbreakableness and then the watch turns out to be breakable and then Jack wants his money back.
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Wasn't this, along with many other skits on the Benny program, recycled from the radio show? I'm not discounting this skit at all, cause both are great in their own medium. It just show the fact that Benny and his writers were ahead of their time, writing a brilliant comedic skit for the radio, which fortunately played well on television.
 
Lkeller said:
Tim L said:
If you go to the Lucy-Desi Museum in Jamestown, New York, There is a replica of the "Vitameatavegamin" set with the dialogue set up on cue cards and a vintage TV..You can do the "commercial" yourself with your friends watching on TV..

Stanislav:
The Jack Benny Christmas Special is easily available on a number of Public Domain DVSs..
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Or if you can't find that DVD:

Part I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBqwBb9W6Fc

Part II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Kkyns3TK4&feature=related
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Much obliged for the links! :)
 
KyDXIn said:
Braves2005 said:
The Jack Benny Christmas show in 1960 comes to mind when Jack and Rochester go Christmas shopping at the department store and the hilarity begins when Jack wants to get Don Wilson a $40 wallet and then he decides to go to the clerk played by Mel Blanc to gift wrap the gift and Jack's note to Don and then Jack changes his mind about the note he wants to put in the wallet and then Mel Blanc gets all flustered at Jack and then when Jack decides on the $1.98 wallet and that's when Mel has had it and shoots himself.

Also in between when Jack wants to give Mary a watch and the lady salesman gives Jack a hammer to test out its nonbreakableness and then the watch turns out to be breakable and then Jack wants his money back.
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Wasn't this, along with many other skits on the Benny program, recycled from the radio show? I'm not discounting this skit at all, cause both are great in their own medium. It just show the fact that Benny and his writers were ahead of their time, writing a brilliant comedic skit for the radio, which fortunately played well on television.
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Yes, including Benny's most famous skit, 'Your money or your life,"
which aired on radio in 1948 and was repeated on television in 1956.
You know the bit: a holdup demands "your money or your life." LOOOONG
pause as the eternally 39-year-old skinflint Benny has to decide. The
laughter bills and finally the holdup man says, "Well?" Benny: "I'm thinking
it over!"
 
Chris Farley dancing & dressed up like & keeping up with the Chipendale dancer.

Also when Chris Elliot did the disgusting dance for the women...it was supposed to be a hunk dancing, but he does all kinds of disgusting things & apalls the women...Can't remember if that was on Mad TV or SNL.
 
How about anytime someone made Johnny Carson lose it? Best example might be Rodney Dangerfield (who by that time was big enough to skip the stage and go straight to the couch) ripping through his set next to Johnny, starting with "I'm doin' all right now, but I was in rough shape last week" and going all the way to the end, and just when Johnny gains some semblance of self control, looks at him and asks, "And how was YOUR week?", causing Johnny to lose it all over again.

Another one that I'm not sure ever aired in its entirety (kind of similar to the Tim Conway Siamese Elephants incident), was one of Richard Lewis' appearances on "Later With Bob Costas". The story always went that NBC wouldn't air it not because of any inappropriate material, but because Costas is nearly hysterical with laughter throughout the show.
 
There were several Carson bits that I thought were hilarious.

In addition to the previously mentioned bit about him portraying Reagan, there was another time that Carson portrayed Reagan, this time on an episode in which Richard Dawson was a guest. They did a Family Feud sketch in which Carson, as Reagan, was a contestant on the show. Dawson asked, "name something you find on a farm!" Carson/Reagan buzzed in and said, "well...." and before he could say anything else, Dawson interrupted him, looked at the board behind him, and said, "is there a well?" DING!!! Number one answer! ;D 8)

Another one that was absolutely hilarious was when Carson portrayed Walter Cronkite in a skit commemorating Cronkite's retirement from CBS news. I would hope that all these skits are on the Carson DVD.
 
Here are some newer classic entries that always made me laugh. I loved the music parodies on "In Living Color". I hope you enjoy.

Vanilla Ice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A7tLVIsuNw&feature=related

MC Hammer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crb7VQiI72k&feature=related (truly a wardrobe malfunction)!

Sir Mix-a-lot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRgAgJJY2B0&feature=related

Michael Jackson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_118mHPTVW8&feature=related

Paula Abdul:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQ-XDKKRcA

Whitney Houston, or is it Janet Jackson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Yj1rnKzeg&feature=related

Crystal Waters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTykohWAPRg&feature=related

LL Cool J, or is it Jimmie Walker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWToxPni6Ic&feature=related

We are the World:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQLhOXlGnRE&feature=related

and Little Richard and Della Reese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk7C3pyAUfw


This in my opinion should be a future classic funny moment: Cledus T. Judd's parody of "Breathe". Judd is a comic genius!

http://www.cmt.com/videos/cledus-t-judd/26284/breath.jhtml
 
Not from a TV show, but from the 1980 comedy movie used cars starring Kurt Russell. There is a scene where Kurt Russell and the other guys that work at the car lot along with Lenny and Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley do a commercial claiming the competition's car prices are too high, and to prove it they shoot up two cars and then blow up a third car. claiming that their dealership blows the "crap" out of high prices. The funniest part is that they break into President Carter's TV address. I laugh my butt off every time.

Donny G ;D
 
Tim L said:
Talking about Carson moments:

How about the one with Dragnet's Jack Webb, who did all HE could to keep from breaking up during the "Copper Clapper Caper" sketch?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pWBJiW0Xpo

While Jack Webb was serious about his shows, he never seemed to mind parodies or takeoffs on them..
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...in fact, Webb's first network radio show was an ABC comedy variety half-hour (not all that different from Henry Morgan's ABC show of a year or two later) originating from San Francisco. Webb also loaned Stan Freberg the orchestra and theme music charts to Dragnet when Freberg cut all those spoofs for Capitol Records in the mid-'50s...

...and while we're on the subject of Carson crack-ups, there's always George Gobel's observation about a tuxedo and brown shoes ;D ...
 
Other "In Living Color" lmao moments:
skits like:
"Gump Fiction"
"The O.J Outtakes"
...and a favorite..."The Best of Men On Films".
 
Here's a clip from a local guy who most people over the age of 20 may not know. His name is Foster Brooks and worked in local radio and television many years before going to Hollywood in the early 1960s and became a fantastic comedian. He usually appeared on the Dean Martin roasts as a friend of the Roastee, or is it Roaster??

Jackie Gleason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkx-ZMDFFUc

Jimmy Stewart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnOhNHYcfZI Mess of what???

Jack Benny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cEx5yLibVw&feature=related

Johnny Carson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkHjnA6myl4&feature=related

Don Rickles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i1snPQ6Hlw&feature=related

Lucille Ball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SDxzIFpniI&NR=1


I think his funniest bit was as an airline pilot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjoZ_R6h7rA&feature=related

Are you sure you're not a pilot??
 
Three from "You Bet Your Life":

Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, the show's most
famous contestant: at the conclusion of the
interview Groucho says they'd make a great
team and should hit the vaudeville circuit together.
GROUCHO: What would we call ourselves?
GONZALEZ-GONZALEZ: Gonzalez-Gonzalez and Marx.
GROUCHO: That's great billing. Two people in the act
and I get third place.

Anna Badovnic, a Yugoslavian divorcee from a town
where everyone is named Badovnic. She has come to
the U.S. looking for another Badovnic. The interview
winds down:

GROUCHO: Go to see your DeSoto-Plymouth dealer,
Joe Badovnic. Now let's play "You Bet Your Life."

ANNA: I don't know how to play "You Bet Your Life."

GROUCHO: Then let's play "You Bet Your Badovnic."

Another female contestant, whose name I don't know,
is trying to tell her story and Groucho--as usual--starts
to interrupt.

WOMAN: Groucho! You're stepping on my lines!

Groucho looks out at the audience.

GROUCHO: The contestants are striking back!
 
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