Desert Island comedy

I decided to post some comedy video clips I like (or at least funny videos), again courtesy of Youtube.

Laurel & Hardy, Dirty Work.  Classic comedy duo at their considerable funniest! "Somewhere an electric chair is waiting..."

A "Trailers From Hell" discussion of the trailer for the Warner Brothers musical Footlight Parade.  As I've said before, if you removed the musical numbers from that film, you'd still have a great comedy!  Joan Blondell was one of my favorite '30s actresses, and Ruby Keeler was a cutie!

W.C. Fields' It's a Gift, the "blind man in the grocery store" scene. (It wouldn't be considered "sensitive" today.)

Bugs Bunny's square dance from Robert McKimson's Hillbilly Hare. "Whomp him low and whomp him high, stick your finger in his eye!"

Part of the climactic "Girl Hunt" ballet number from Vincente Minnelli's The Band Wagon.  Hollywood dance at its funniest in this Mickey Spillane spoof, choreographed by the genius Michael Kidd. How can anyone think that twerking is sexy?

Bill Cosby, "Go Carts." Sure, I understand that to a lot of people Cosby no longer seems funny.  But this routine is still a classic!

SCTV, "Sunrise Semester with Norman Gorman." A lesson in speaking New Yorkese! IMHO, Joe Flaherty was the funniest SCTV comic of all. (Shame he didn't have as big a later career as most of the others.)

South Park, "Fat Abbot." True, this cartoon show is very uneven, and it started wearing thin after the first couple of years. (Didn't care for the movie, though I liked the "Blame Canada" song's line, "They aren't a real country anyway." Touche!) But this gangsta spoof of Cosby's Fat Albert makes me laugh!

Cinema Sins, "Everything Wrong With Titanic in 9 Minutes or So." This Youtube channel goes through movies and picks out everything wrong with them! In the case of the cheesy, overrated Titanic, that's well deserved. (He spent about 20 minutes on Batman and Robin...)

George Carlin, "The American Dream." Carlin at his most cynical!