Entertainment For Lively Minds
Corpsing
Posted by TIAL on 6 August 2010 - 4:42pm.
What are your favourite examples of people in entertainment being caught by the giggles?
I'll start off with George Dawes aka Matt Lucas singing the 'Peanuts' song on Shooting Stars. They were meant to reshoot the song after he essentially messed it up, but it was soon concluded that the first take was funnier than anything planned could be.
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Can't get much better that these two
I love gag reels
on films. I find other people laughing when they shouldn't highly infectious and very very life-affirming.
Exceptions?
I agree for the most part; however, the sight of Billy Connolly in fits of laughter at a joke he's just told/is in the process of telling/is about to tell - makes me reach for my revolver.
A more positive recent example that worked for me was on Clare Blading's excellent "Britain By Bike", when she couldn't keep a straight face while informing us that there is a rock formation somewhere on the Devon Coast called "The Devil's Cheesering".
Yes - it's got to be genuine
I saw it done falsely in Panto a few years ago - and it just got annoying. Every exchange between the main comedian and the other characters involved cod-corpsing. Tiresome.
Unfortunately, politicians do it in reverse when something tragic happens. They will pause - as if bravely fighting back tears - before carrying on. The giveaway is the closed fist against the mouth.
Greta Garbo
It seems to have been Pete's main goal in these sketches
Michael Palin ...
...in Life of Brian, where he's talking about Biggus Dickus. He almost loses it.
I cannot find it on Youtube
but the best blooper I have ever seen involved an Australian TV host named Sandy Roberts interviewing a beauty contestant with an unfortunate name. He mispoke at the very beginning of the segment but realised what he had said and for the rest of their chat he struggled to stop laughing, a struggle he lost terribly.
It went for a couple of minutes and the interview started like this...
"I'm talking to Leanne Cock... Leanne Dick I should say"
Does this count?
And your bird can sing...
Monty Python
From Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Do The Chairs In Your Parlour...?
I'm no Elvis fan but this always gets a grin.
Withnail and I
The scene in the cake shop where Withnail says he'll "But this place and install a fucking jukebox" Richard E Grant simply couldn't deliver the line without laughing...
Les Dawson's candle joke
(Joke starts a minute in)
I know Gervais isn't popular with many of the massive
but hey
Still my favourite..
At 2:28 David Baddiel loses it, big-style. And wouldn't you? Still one of the funniest bits, ever. My sister actually weed herself laughing at this when we watched it on the telly. I wasn't far off it.