What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever seen?

[lunababymoonchild]

Further to the scariest thing you’ve ever seen, what is the funniest? 
 

For me the funniest man ever would be Billy Connolly, but the funniest thing I think I’ve ever seen was a sketch on a long ago TV show called Not The Nine O’clock News (anybody remember that?).
 

It was a spoof advertisement for a product for deaf people. Rowan Atkinson was playing the deaf person and the product was a headband with a thing coming from the back of it, over the head, with a light on it. The light flashed to indicate that the phone was ringing. I was just young enough at the time to wonder what the punchline was. Atkinson was moving about the room ‘proving that he was deaf’ and then the phone rang. Naturally he couldn’t hear it and then the light flashed. He didn’t see it at first then he did. He picked up the phone and the audience heard the other person talking but Atkinson didn’t. I was completely taken in and laughed long and loud.

 

So, what’s the funniest thing you’ve ever seen?

[KEV67]

Not the Nine O' Clock News was great, so many great sketches. I liked the Guy the Gorilla sketch in which Mel Smith is interviewed about a gorilla he has brought back from the jungle and educated. Then there was another with Griff Rhys Jones as the racist Constable Savage, getting told off by the superintendent about a citizen of African extraction he keeps arresting. Then there is a spoof on the famous television argument about the Life of Brian, but rejigged as the Life of Monty Python.  Then there was the 'Failed in Wales' advert.

 

One of the funniest things I ever saw was an episode from Catchphrase. The way the panels were revealed made the animation obscene. Extremely funny, particularly as one of the panellists was none-too-bright and couldn't work out why people were laughing.

[Madeleine]

I remember Not the Nine O'Clock News, I wonder how much of that they'd get away with today, not much probably! Victoria Wood was also very funny, watch the soup sketch with Julie Walters,and the Acorn Antiques sketches were great too, which parodied certain soap operas.

 

Monty Python were also funny, the fish slapping sketch is one that comes to mind.