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to still be smiling at this ages after I heard it?

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Baileyscheesecake · 09/12/2017 14:47

A trailer for the tv comedy Gameface had the line which went something like "Don't pick up the cat. He's just eaten a kebab." This was on tv weeks ago and I still break into a smile when I think of it. AIBU to ask this or just slightly doolally but what other one liners from comedy programmes do people still find funny no matter how many times they hear it or how long ago it was last on tv? Another one that springs to my crazy mind is Basil Fawlty saying "Is this a piece of your brain" to the annoying woman who wouldn't turn her hearing aid on because it used up the batteries. Smile

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Ratonastick · 09/12/2017 16:00

From Not the Nine o Clock News. Gerald is a gorilla being interviewed on TV with a naturalist.

Naturalist: Of course Gerald was wild when we captured him.
Gerald: wild? I was livid.

I think it is Gerald’s elegant sitting position that does it.

magicstar1 · 09/12/2017 16:03

@Mollie85 I love the Bottom Christmas special. Every year my brother and I would wake up mad early and ask "Has HE been?". Now we don't live together, one of us rings the other in the middle of the night and says it Grin

My brother also wrapped 30 Brussels sprouts one year and did the whole "another Brussels sprout" scene.

OhForFrigSake · 09/12/2017 16:03

The spirit of Jazz from Mighty Boosh...

'How did you know my name?' 'Its written on your trumpet case asshole'

That whole scene makes me laugh like a loon

Hobbes8 · 09/12/2017 16:06

There's a line from Arthur Christmas that cracks me up every time-
Arthur: it's impossible
Grand-santa: they used to think it was impossible to teach women to read

And one from the IT Crowd when Roy is morning at Douglas - "oh dry your eyes, Bono"

Loads from Alan Partridge:
It's Tuesday I have to cut the carrot cake
And they say nurses have it tough

And superhans from peep show going "blimey this crack's a bit moreish"

CercoCasa · 09/12/2017 16:07

White Gold ans Fleabag are totally hilarious and quite rude, u have been warned

RoseRuby26 · 09/12/2017 16:11

Peep show:

When Mark is looking at modern lighting in a coffee shop and comments negatively about it, then says in his head:

'Hello, Dad, you're living inside me now, are you?'

Walkingtowork · 09/12/2017 16:12

When Mrs Doyle tries to remember the priests name:

Fr. Andy Riley
Fr. Desmond Coyle
Fr. George Byrne
Fr. David Nicholson
Fr. Declan Lynch
Fr. Ken Sweeney
Fr. Neil Hannon
Fr. Keith Cullen
Fr. Ciaran Donnelly
Fr. Mick McEvoy
Fr. Jack White
Fr. Henry Bigbigging
Fr. Hank Tree
Fr. Hiroshima Twinkie
Fr. Stig Bubblecard
Fr. Johnny Hellzapoppin
Fr. Luke Duke
Fr. Billy Ferry
Fr. Chewy Louie
Fr. John Hoop
Fr. Hairycake Linehan
Fr. Rebulah Conundrum
Fr. Peewee Stairmaster
Fr. Jemima Racktool
Fr. Jerry Twig
Fr. Spodo Komodo
Fr. Cannabranna Lammer
Fr. Todd Unctious

Lovemusic33 · 09/12/2017 16:14

Op, gameface has to be one of the funniest things I have watched in a long time, if you haven’t watched it you must. I laughed to myself through all the episodes and I still smile when I think about it.

Sailorjerrycherry · 09/12/2017 16:16

I can’t believe nobody has said The Thick Of It yet! There’s so many Malcolm Tucker quotes that make me howl laughing but the best has to be “"No, he's useless. He's absolutely useless. He's as useless as a marzipan dildo."Grin

Vq1970 · 09/12/2017 16:20

There's a trailer on at the moment and I don't know what it's for or the actors names although I recognise them.

One of them is holding a hedgehog and says 'It's a hedgehog' and the other one replies 'I thought hedgehogs were flat'

Always makes me smile.

BeanyPastry · 09/12/2017 16:20

For me it's a certain Eureka episode, that sees a scientist running round with a 'T.I.R.D. meter' causing havoc. Favourite line: my TIRD meter is going wild'. Sometimes my humour is as sophisticated as a seagull's dinner party.

whifflesqueak · 09/12/2017 16:21

sailorjerry also The Thick Of It I think?

“It’ll be easy peasy lemon squeezy.”
“It won’t. It will be difficult difficult lemon difficult.”

Difficult difficult lemon difficult has entered into our family lexicon.

StarWarsFanatic · 09/12/2017 16:22

Game face is hillarious.

Armstrong & Miller: "It's kicking off, Pru"

That Mitchell & Webb Look: The humming he does in the Sir Digby Chicken Cesar sketches (and anything he says about Ginger)

Anything from Monty Python.

Black Books: "Well, to be honest, after years of smoking and drinking, you do sometimes look at yourself and think. You know, just sometimes in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that 400th glass of cornershop piss at 3AM, you do sometimes look at yourself and think: 'This is fantastic! I'm in heaven!'"

MonumentalAlabaster · 09/12/2017 16:24

The toad funeral in League of Gentleman with Aunty Val playing the cello

CigarsofthePharoahs · 09/12/2017 16:26

My lovely horse, I want to shower you with sugar lumps and take you to the horse dentist...
Hang on, I can get this!

Bobbins43 · 09/12/2017 16:35

"We've got to lose that sax solo"

This is properly cheering me up. My own personal favourite is Ronnie Barker as Fletch in Porridge. He's lying down on his bunk in his cell and he sings "Born free... till somebody caught me"

The one and only time I saw it, I wept with laughter for FORTY. STRAIGHT. MINUTES. My friend just has to look at me and say it and I am in fits

Also, loving the Bottom ones

"Do we have any distress flares?"
"Like the ones Suzi Quattro used to wear?"
"WILL YOU STOP IT WITH THE CRAP FLARES JOKES?!"

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 09/12/2017 16:37

When Rodney meets Cassandra in Only Fools and Horses after a night school they've attended together. He wants to see her again and he asks her for a drink but she's meeting a friend so in desperation he instead asks if he can walk her to her car, she agrees and they take three or four steps and Cassandra says 'well, here we are - thank you for getting me here so safely' - tickles me every time.

And another vote for the Black Adder scene when Robbie Coltrane as Samuel Johnson says he's finished the book containing every word in the English language and Black Adder offers him his confibularities.

RupertBear15 · 09/12/2017 16:38

I seem to ape Blackaddder Father Ted all the time depending on the situation- go on go on go on go on" so many one liners from these shows we have as family catch phrases almost! And the Pink Panther films too- various lines. We recently moved from London to a very weird, small and insular town in Kent. Every thing shuts at 4pm as if the war was still on and it's such a odd place; I often find myself saying that "this is a local shop for local people" in my head or to my family in that League of Gentleman high pitch tone!

IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 09/12/2017 16:43

Vicar of Dibley, the joke at the end about a chick that gets caught in a lawnmower (Shredded tweet!) had me on the floor howling.

Alice’s “he didn’t know death was just around the corner” made me weep with laughter for days when I thought about it

And Gavin and Stacey, Bryn is getting ready and spots Pam and Mick so he runs out, Pam says “ooh that was quick!” And he says “Ooh no, I’m not even talcumed!”

Fuck me i ^howled^

I’m very well known for crying with laughter at things people don’t find funny probably shouldn’t talk about when I was dragged to Derek Acora and nearly keeled over laughing in a very small auditorium

RemainOptimistic · 09/12/2017 16:44

These are all fab!

"Are those MY feet?"

Father Jack has a moment of sobriety that I feel summarises the whole tragicomic experience of my life. I will often just mutter it when the mood arises. DH is used to it and shouts "Are you still on that fecking island'"

Thhhhhh....DRINK

I love that scene. Beautiful.

RupertBear15 · 09/12/2017 16:46

Bottom- " oh cripes it's the gas man"! and when the boiler man says " how do you keep warm then?" "We make love "!!! Haha! That's my fav episode of Bottom.

affectionincoldclimate · 09/12/2017 16:46

Thick of It. Pretty much everything in it.

There are so many there but I have my favourite scenes that are sort of "mine" as in, I always remember these when the topic or even lose word association comes up.

Description of Tory party by Glenn having a rant:
"Six toed born to rule pony fuckers"

Olly bursts into hotel room at a party conference unaware that Malcolm and Glenn just had a bust up and says in an exaggerated Northern accent:
"Put the tiny kettle on lad! I'm gaspin'!"

Same episode: A member of public who was meant to accompany Nicola in her speech and policy launch at a party conference in Eastbourne gets bundled into a car by a very reluctant Terri while Nicola and Olly are watching from the hotel window.
Nicola: It’s Eastbourne Ultimatum
Olly: Yeah, the shittest spy film ever.

I say that every time Eastbourne is mentioned Grin

Malcolm interrogating Hugh Abbot about current trends:
Malcolm: Come on Hugh! Who is the only gay in the village?
Hugh: Eddie Grundy?

Malcolm describing Jeremy Paxman: The death mask of Shergar

Malcolm texting Nicola about her meeting Peter Mannion
“I know you’ve been meeting with that ageing flamenco guitarist”

And for something completely different: Curb your enthusiasm when Larry comes to visit Jeff and Suzy’s new house and refuses the “tour of the house”. Suzy loses it and says “What is wrong with you!? Nobody refuses a tour of the house you freak! Get out of my house you four-eyed fuck!”

When we bought the new house and people came to visit for the first time I’d laugh out loud when asking if they wanted tour of the house as a result.

bananamonkey · 09/12/2017 16:51

“He named his baby Linda!”

MummyFoxy · 09/12/2017 16:51

Father Ted Grin
Mrs Doyle offering Father Jack a cup of tea: 'And what do you say to a cup?'
Father Jack: 'Feck off, cup!'

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 09/12/2017 16:57

From Dinnerladies:

“Who’s pregnant?”
“You are”
“Only if sperm can get through a sash window.”