Paddy1882 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 17, 2021 4:59 pm

Phoenix nights

“My grandads this, shot a German with this”
“What in the war?”
“No in Benidorm they had a row over a sun lounger”

Another one from Phoenix Nights, the Wild West episode:

Potter, “I know a p!ssed horse when I see one. Get it a kebab!”

Simpsons

Chief Whighum "Get me the number for 9 1 1".

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 18, 2021 12:43 pm

https://youtu.be/UAeqVGP-GPM

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here!

This is the war room!

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Possibly my personal favourite...great test Bosscat!!

Likely Lads the movie.
The guys with Thelma and Mary Tamm playing cards in a caravan. Terry goes out for a very loud wizz and Thelma says, “That’s the first time all night I’ve known what he has in his hand”

Don't know if it's been mentioned but Papa Lazarou's "your my wife now" always tickled my ribs...some brilliant characters in TLOG.

When a proud Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul) acknowledges his degree in law is via a correspondence course from the University of Western Samoa... His line ...."Yea, Go Landcrabs!"

Grimsdale wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 18, 2021 9:03 am

A couple of Frank Drebin quotes from Police Squad:

"We're sorry to bother you at a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then''

and

"Who are you and how did you get in here?"
"I'm a locksmith. And I'm a locksmith".

"I'm a locksmith. And I'm a locksmith" is one of the most perfectly crafted lines in the history of comedy, imo. There might have been funnier lines, but the way the set-up line is so natural, and the symmetry and economy of language used in the punchline (brevity being the soul of wit, and all that) has never been bettered.

Of course as the great Barry Cryer said, analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog - nobody laughs and the frog dies.