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For Sale Mar 30, 2026 at 7:46 PM

What are your favorite examples of comedic timing in film?

Posted by ViewAskewed

Timing most often gets brought up when talking about live performance, but sometimes something catches me perfectly in a movie and I always love when it does. I was re-watching The Jerk for the first time in decades and Bernadette Peters' cornet out of nowhere strikes me as a perfectly timed joke. There is also a tiny bit from William H. Macy in State and Main that I love. Someone says in reference to Alec Baldwin's character "What does he like?" and the response is "14 year old girls". Macy says "Well, get him something else. Get him half a 28 year old girl." and then there is a brief pause before he continues, quietly, off camera with "How's my math?". The time that passes is just long enough for the audience member to do the quick math. It is an almost surreal joke. Anyone have any other examples?
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GoldStarGranny Mar 30, 2026 +91
Clue in general but especially I. Am. Your singing telegram BANG 
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lewisb42 Mar 30, 2026 +22
My wife and I randomly shout 1+2+1+1 at least once every couple months.
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DonutHolschteinn Mar 30, 2026 +18
"His head had been cut off and so had his...well you KNOW." *all the men cross their legs*
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ScreenTricky4257 Mar 30, 2026 +21
"He had threatened to kill me in public." "Why would he want to kill you in public?" "I think she means he threatened, in public, to kill her."
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LadyCoru Mar 31, 2026 +11
That entire movie is comedic timing perfection
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mariojlanza Mar 30, 2026 +87
In Airplane, the amount of time between when Ted Striker says he has a drinking problem, and when he pours the drink on the side of his face. There has to be a perfect pause in between those two things or the joke won't land. The ZAZ guys were masters at this kind of comic timing.
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logicalconflict Mar 30, 2026 +64
"Why don't you just make 10 louder and make 10 be the top number and make that a little louder?" \[pause\] "These go to 11."
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SurpriseMiraluka Mar 31, 2026 +14
From the same movie: Rob Reiner (sorry I forget the character’s names) talking musical philosophy with Christopher Guest’s character while listening to him play a genuinely beautiful melody on the piano. Reiner: That’s beautiful, what do you call it? Guest: Suck my love pump.
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leonardo_dicapabitch Mar 30, 2026 +12
Well, that’s one more, innit?
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cgaston Mar 30, 2026 +108
Clevon littles "where the white women at?" In blazing saddles . Or gene wilders line from the same movie  "Y'know... Morons" 
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Annual-Ad-9442 Mar 30, 2026 +23
he was holding in the laugh the hold time
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tsrich Mar 31, 2026 +9
That was ad libbed. He was laughing for real
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itsforafriend22 Mar 30, 2026 +19
There could be an entire class dedicated to the beat Gene takes after “A man drink like that and doesn’t eat is going to die” … “when?”
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sistercacao Mar 31, 2026 +3
Underrated one from Blazing Saddles is when Mongo comes through the saloon doors and a guy just goes “Gotenyu!”
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wherethewhitewomenat Mar 31, 2026 +2
Yes.
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latenightnerd Mar 31, 2026 +1
Also Mel Brooks’ “can’t you see that that man is a ni-… sorry wrong person”.
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Timmah73 Mar 30, 2026 +90
Dan Akroyds deadpan delivery of "It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man." followed by an immediate cut to Mr Stay Puft roaring and coming into full view.
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tommytraddles Mar 30, 2026 +41
Ghostbusters is *the* master class. It's one of the most insane scripts ever written, held together entirely by comedic timing and charisma.
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saidthewhale64 Mar 30, 2026 +37
It’s true, this man has no d***
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matthumph Mar 31, 2026 +2
This scene / line just popped into my head randomly yesterday, the timing on it is amazing.
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pikpikcarrotmon Mar 30, 2026 +18
Venkman is a character that could practically be the villain in a different version of the story and yet Bill Murray manages to make him so infectiously likeable despite being such a massive a****** and dirtbag. He's a fraud, a huckster, a sleazeball, and one of the greatest scrappy movie heroes
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miffy495 Mar 30, 2026 +16
Honestly, in real life the heroes and villains of the movie would be reversed. "Dickless here" is a diligent government employee trying to stop a group of washouts who claim to see ghosts from running an unlicensed nuclear device. Our heroes are said washouts. The only thing that makes the movie work is that the washouts are just so damned likeable and the guy trying to stop New York from being destroyed by a nuclear accident is kinda a prick about it.
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pikpikcarrotmon Mar 30, 2026 +9
Maybe that's why in real life we're being ravaged by a giant marshmallow monster who manifested in New York, and by his ghoulish compatriots.
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SomethingAboutUsers Mar 30, 2026 +5
>The only thing that makes the movie work is that the washouts are just so damned likeable Well, *that*, and we know they're not making shit up. Peck has no reason to believe what they're doing is real and has valid concerns about whatever the hell they're doing in the old firehouse. He hasn't seen what we (the audience) have.
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MumpsyDaisy Mar 30, 2026 +4
That's how I feel about Paul Newman's character in slapshot. Objectively he's pretty much a piece of shit but I mean, he's Paul Newman laying on the charm through all the lying, cheating, womanizing, how could you not like him?
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HalveMaen81 Mar 30, 2026 +3
> Ray: "Hey where do these stairs go?" > Peter: "They go up"
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No_Application_8698 Mar 30, 2026 +13
I love Spengler’s line “Sorry Venkman. I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.”
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ViewAskewed Mar 30, 2026 +3
"Does this pole still work?"
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BlackwoodBear79 Mar 31, 2026 +2
It's not just the lines. It's the facial expressions and gestures, too. When Egon is trying to convince Venkman not to buy the fire house. When Ray's proton pack is first switched on. When Egon displays how much to charge the hotel for trapping the first ghost.
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mc_it Mar 31, 2026 +3
Harold Ramis used facial expressions quite extensively. The doctor in Groundhog Day, or As Good as It Gets Ziskey in Stripes The dad in Knocked Up You don't see a lot of expressive acting like that anymore.
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TelstarMan Mar 31, 2026 +1
In the jail cell, when Spengler says that Evo Shandor believed society was too sick to be allowed to survive, and then looks around the cell with *absolute loathing* before going back to the exposition.
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MarkOfTheDragon12 Mar 30, 2026 +44
Pretty much all of Young Frankenstein. So many jokes setup a serious comment only to be broken into a joke afterwards. "Would you like to go for a roll in ze hay?...... ROooolll roollll Roll in ze hay!" "oh! Warewolves!...... there. Wolf. There. Castle...." "What knockers.............. oh zhank you dr." "I'll never forget what my father told me.......get out of the bathroom!" "...with dignity and grace." "(monster breaks down cottage door)... but I was going to make espreso"
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terra_cascadia Mar 30, 2026 +33
“Put! The candle! Back!”
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DonutHolschteinn Mar 30, 2026 +18
Frau Blucher!! *horses whinny in distance*
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Buddha1812 Mar 31, 2026 +3
I heard it was just a random thing brooks added for no reason.
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Coffee_And_Bikes Mar 31, 2026 +7
The pause between Gene Hackman’s hermit lighting the monster’s thumb and the monster freaking out is *perfect* comedic timing. I laugh my ass off each and every time.
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ScreenTricky4257 Mar 30, 2026 +5
You haven't touched your food.
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Locknautt Mar 30, 2026 +110
Scott Pilgrim out of the window
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theFields97 Mar 30, 2026 +38
He just left
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Ebolatastic Mar 30, 2026 +2
Vegone?
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thirtyseven1337 Apr 1, 2026 +1
![gif](giphy|SyaBhVWwYe4DK)
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Signal_Low3017 Mar 30, 2026 +82
Gosling in the Nice Guys
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ThreeLeggedMare Mar 30, 2026 +32
He was so funny in that! The toilet stall scene had me cryin
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Finvy Mar 30, 2026 +18
"I'm done. Put a fork in me."
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hoopstick Mar 30, 2026 +14
Nobody on earth screams as well as Ryan Gosling
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MmmmmmmmNoodleSoup Mar 30, 2026 +9
Gosling in the Barbie movie as well has amazing timing and delivery.
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ViewAskewed Mar 30, 2026 +15
Shit, did I dream that?
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sleepdeprivedtechie Mar 30, 2026 +3
Gosling... "Crazy. STUPID. LOVE."
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Tr4il Apr 1, 2026 +1
"That.... that's a lot of blood"
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Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 30, 2026 +97
The "ding" sound leading up to Jenko realizing Schmidt slept with their captain's daughter in 22 Jump Street
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dumdumdudum Mar 30, 2026 +28
Schmidt f%$@ed the captain's dauuuughter!
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a_likely_story Mar 31, 2026 +1
OH SHIT
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superdupermensch Mar 30, 2026 +29
Men in Black: "Did he say anything to you?" "Yeah, that the world was coming to an end." "Did he say when?"
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damnShitsPurple Mar 30, 2026 +18
Victor crashing into the tree in Wet Hot American Summer happens out of absolutely nowhere and the joyful singing turned to sheer panic in his voice as he swerves the car is hysterical
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ShaunTrek Mar 30, 2026 +10
When David Hyde Pearce yells "I SAID NO!" after being asked about talking to the kids. Kills me every time.
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Daovin Mar 30, 2026 +18
**Jack**: You wanna beer? **Ron**: It's 7 o'clock in the morning. **Jack**: ... Scotch?
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TastyBrainMeats Mar 30, 2026 +2
Barbarian! That early, you have an Irish coffee.
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fuxoft Mar 30, 2026 +16
Steve Martin's "Thank you!" in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by8E95ht-q0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by8E95ht-q0)
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Ihadsumthin4this Mar 31, 2026 +1
"Lawrence Fellllls....Lawrence Lorenson." "Lau-*renz* Jam-isohhn?" "Yes! We're like THIS!🤞"
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itsathrowawayduhhhhh Mar 30, 2026 +35
Zoolander. Sooooo many examples, but my favorite has to be: Zoolander: oh, I thought you were gonna tell me I was a bad eugoogalizer Matilda: a what? Zoolander: a eugoogalizer? One who speaks at funerals? Christ it’s so funny 🤣
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Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 30, 2026 +19
There's a subtle moment I love right after the "What is this... A center for ants?!" quote where Mugatu briefly broke out of his persona & was about to point out that it's a miniature building model
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itsathrowawayduhhhhh Mar 30, 2026 +5
Oh dude. I use that all the time in my life for anything that’s smaller than it should be!
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asymbioticturtlecrys Mar 30, 2026 +25
But why male models?
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ErixWorxMemes Mar 30, 2026 +2
https://imgur.com/a/YyaThA3
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gamersecret2 Mar 30, 2026 +51
The Naked Gun. Leslie Nielsen can say something completely absurd with a straight face, pause for half a second, and it somehow gets even funnier.
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Wuktrio Mar 30, 2026 +7
Surely you can't be serious
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Kurt_Vonnegabe Mar 30, 2026 +46
Anything that was said by Walter or The Dude in The Big Lebowski.
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Timidhobgoblin Mar 30, 2026 +35
"Smokey this is not Nam this is bowling, there are rules" This line ruins me every single time I see it.
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udat42 Mar 30, 2026 +30
Every line is delivered masterfully, but one that is sorta timing dependant that I love is when the police chief guy in Malibu finishes his rant at The Dude, and The Dude pauses for a moment before replying "I'm sorry, I wasn't listening" and the pause is just so f****** perfectly calibrated.
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MuffinMatrix Mar 30, 2026 +16
Clearly you are not a golfer
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Cosmic_Surgery Mar 30, 2026 +4
8 year olds, Dude
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joeyecho101 Mar 31, 2026 +1
When The Dude nails a board to the floor for a chair to hold his door shut, then a moment later the door opens outwards.
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brickiex2 Mar 30, 2026 +47
near the end of Ferris Bueller when he is madly dashing home... He runs past 2 girls sunbathing and right off the screen... 1.8 seconds later he comes strolling back in scene to introduce himself ... I laugh everytime
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DoctorBocker Mar 30, 2026 +33
Elaine Dickinson: "A hospital? What is it?" Dr. Rumack (Nielsen): "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now". The delivery is perfect.
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TeddyBearRoosevelt Mar 30, 2026 +6
“Yes, I remember. I had lasagna.”
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mpersand02 Mar 30, 2026 +27
Sam Rockwell in Galaxy Quest. When get transported to the ship the first time. The aliens don't have their image generators. His pause before screaming.
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Buffaluffasaurus Mar 30, 2026 +34
My personal choice is Alan Rickman’s extraordinary pause… “By Grabthar’s hammer… … …what a savings.” You can literally see a man’s ego die in the middle of that sentence.
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Calamity-Gin Mar 30, 2026 +11
The moment when Taggart and Gwen see the gauntlet of smash-stabby things they're about to run. \*beat\* "Well, screw that!" (except she very clearly said "f***," but it was dubbed over, which somehow makes it even funnier.)
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FeedMeACat Mar 31, 2026 +2
Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!
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sofacouchmoviefilms Mar 31, 2026 +6
Immediately followed by Fred's "That was a helluva thing."
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down2daground Mar 31, 2026 +1
Fred has so much to teach us.
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logicalconflict Mar 30, 2026 +23
This is a subtle one, but, "They've done studies you know. 60% of the time, it works every time." Paul Rudd's delivery is perfect, but it's the tiny hesitation between "works" and "every" that I think makes that joke 10x funnier.
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MaxxDelusional Mar 30, 2026 +28
On TV, Nate Bargatze has amazing comedic timing in his Washington's Dream sketches on SNL.
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Leygrock Mar 30, 2026 +15
"What of the slaves?" 'You asked about the temperature"
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N8CCRG Mar 30, 2026 +11
"Football sir?" "Yes, it's a sport where you throw a ball with your hands." "So in football, there is no kicking?" "There's a little kicking."
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smellyelderberries Mar 30, 2026 +28
The Ringer: "When tf did we get ice cream?" It was an ad lib and you can see Knoxville break character and start laughing before the camera pans away
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SomethingAboutUsers Mar 30, 2026 +5
Knoxville cracking up at Willie Nelson's jokes as he hucks flaming moonshine out the back of the car in *Dukes Of Hazzard* had to be literally just Nelson cracking jokes for 30 straight minutes while Knoxville tried not to pee himself and they just used the best ones.
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ChasingTheRush Mar 31, 2026 +10
Not a comedy film, but the telephone call in John Wick will never not be f****** hilarious. Viggo Tarasov: I heard you struck my son. Aurelio: Yes, sir, I did. Viggo Tarasov: And may I ask why? Aurelio: Yeah, well, because he stole John Wick's car, sir, and, uh, killed his dog. Viggo Tarasov: [pause] Oh. That brief pause followed by the “Oh” is pure gold.
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football2106 Mar 30, 2026 +17
John Candy with the “unbreakable” plate in Uncle Buck
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Toby_Forrester Mar 30, 2026 +13
In Death Becomes Her when Isabella Rosselini stabs Meryl Streep on the finger, [Streep screams "Aaaargh what are you nuts!!"](https://youtu.be/L_2cKWHXF8o?is=2MwUTJfEwVh34Qps). It's such a silly scream in the middle of a mysterious scene.
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ScreenTricky4257 Mar 30, 2026 +13
Also my favorite exchange: Streep: *drinks the questionable magic potion* Rosselini: "Now a warning." Streep: "*NOW* a warning?!"
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Reasonable_Cod_487 Mar 30, 2026 +11
"You threw off my groove!" "I'm sorry, but you've thrown off the emperor's groove" *beat* "SORRRRRYYYYYY"
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SomethingAboutUsers Mar 30, 2026 +12
"How did you get here before us?" *Kronk pulls the map down with the dots we were literally just shown* Kronk: "I have no idea, by all accounts it doesn't make sense" Yzma: "Oh well!" That movie is *loaded* with that kind of gold.
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SuppleLobster Mar 30, 2026 +20
The Other Guys, after the "aim for the bushes" incident, it immediately cuts to the funeral.
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Leygrock Mar 30, 2026 +6
The note of mournful bagpipe music honestly nearly killed me
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whatisscoobydone Mar 31, 2026 +5
Cheating by using television instead: in Community, when Troy admits that Abed is a better athlete than him and they very slowly say how good friends they are with each other before the dean interrupts one of them to say "FOR GOD'S SAKE, RUN" Or the Community where Troy asks Abed how short the one armed man's arm is amputated and he moves his hand up his arm in stages while making more more horrified faces at the idea and when he gets up the shoulder Abed says it's the opposite arm.
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EnderofThings Mar 30, 2026 +10
"Y'know...morons'
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jaxonfairfield Mar 30, 2026 +7
I died the first time I saw The Whole Nine Yards when Bruce Willis' character throws the beer at Matthew Perry's character on the boat.
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Burn3d0ut89 Mar 30, 2026 +7
Blazing Saddles: "if a Man drinks like that, and he don't eat, he is going to die!" ".....When?"
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logicalconflict Mar 30, 2026 +3
Basically the entirety of Airplane!
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nowhereman136 Mar 31, 2026 +3
Was rewatching Ace Ventura recently. Jim Carrey timing the Mission Impossible scene in as great
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ViewAskewed Mar 31, 2026 +1
The fan/propeller killed 12 year old me in the theater.
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sofacouchmoviefilms Mar 31, 2026 +3
"Do you reject Satan and all his evils?" "... Sure." "Ed Wood"
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Bailey6486 Mar 31, 2026 +3
"I'll have what she's having." (When Harry Met Sally.)
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PaulsRedditUsername Mar 30, 2026 +5
The shark coming out of the water just before "You're going to need a bigger boat."
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Powkoa Mar 30, 2026 +4
Midnight Run. Basically Charles Groden throughout the film, but especially when they are being chased by a helicopter with a shooter, they drive through a tunnel and obviously the shooting stops, the driver looks around after the tunnel and asks “is he gone, is he gone?” Groden replies, “Oh I’m sure we’re completely safe” then more shooting from the helicopter. Gets me every time
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MmmmmmmmNoodleSoup Mar 30, 2026 +6
Empire Strikes Back, when 3PO is in pieces on the table and Lando says "Trouble with your droid?" Harrison Ford's delivery where he just goes "...no."
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The_Goatface Mar 30, 2026 +5
Basically all of Burn After Reading. Especially the last 30 mins or so.
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Ihadsumthin4this Mar 30, 2026 +3
That whole thing is sheer textbook. "Manolo---you *did not* find this!" "I find it, they on the floorrr. Just lying there!" "Well, yeah, but...."
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Aggressive-Method622 Mar 30, 2026 +2
I enjoyed Heaven Can Wait , 4 Oscar nominations
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GuiltyLawyer Mar 31, 2026 +2
MASH the movie is an absolute masterclass in comedic timing. All the background and foreground conversations and cross talk - all delivered by stellar actors.
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throwawaybutitdid Mar 31, 2026 +2
Leo crawling to the car in Wolf of Wall Street
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latenightnerd Mar 31, 2026 +2
“When we get home, I’m gonna punch your mama in the mouth.” - Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit.
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SpunkyBlah Mar 31, 2026 +2
Zoe Bell jumping up saying, "I'm okay" in Death Proof.
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ViewAskewed Mar 31, 2026 +2
I love this example. My favorite part of the movie.
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VerilyShelly Mar 30, 2026 +3
A few that popped to mind: The "this one goes to 11" scene from Spinal Tap In Donnie Darko when his friends are watching "Grandma Death" check and re-check her mailbox while providing commentary — the timing between their lines when the box is empty is a tiny little perfect second The Big Lebowski, all over the place, but in particular Walter talking to Dude about his rug getting peed on and interrupting his own diatribe to give the Dude a lesson in political correct terminology and Dude exploding, with a little nod to his own knowledge of American history in the West
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No_Application_8698 Mar 30, 2026 +3
Ned’s spin & fall after being punched by Phil in Groundhog Day. He manages to do a full rotation whilst performing a perfect spike (is that the correct term?) at the camera. I have to rewind that part a couple of times on every rewatch. Stephen Tobolowsky is perfect in that role.
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Constant_Research_96 Mar 30, 2026 +3
Munson throwing the coffee in the guys face in Kingpin.  "You crazy b******! How the hell did you get in here?!"
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HC-E Mar 30, 2026 +4
Physical timing, anything from the silent era from one of the comedic greats. Keaton's work in Sherlock Jr is riddled with amazing comedic timing. My all time favourite might be the fight for the shotgun in The Gold Rush.  In modern times, basically any comedy Edgar Wright does. 
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Olofahere Mar 30, 2026 +2
In *The Princess Bride*, when Inigo Montoya confronts Count Rugen. Rugen pauses the perfect amount of time, then buggers off in a panic.
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Nizamark Mar 30, 2026 +2
nearly all of Zelig, but esp when he’s a Native American
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JesseT127 Mar 30, 2026 +2
Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise crashing the Porsche in the ditch in Cannonball Run. Kills me every time.
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EvilTwinGhost Mar 30, 2026 +2
In The Other Guys when Mark Wahlberg opens the gift of the FBI mug, straight out the window, so funny!
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Dogbin005 Mar 30, 2026 +2
Monty Python have quite a few. But one of their best has to be in Life of Brian, when "Loretta" talks about wanting to have babies. John Cleese's immaculate pause before "...Symbolic of his struggle against reality" is amazing.
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haysoos2 Mar 31, 2026 +5
"She turned me into a NEWT" "..." "I got better"
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ErixWorxMemes Mar 30, 2026 +4
What about “YOU’RE ALL DIFFERENT!!” “I’m not.”
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ZorroMeansFox Mar 30, 2026 +2
I love the three-way comedic take in **The Three Amigos** when Martin, Chase, and Short, standing together at the bar in a Mexican saloon, all drink tequila for the first time, then suddenly, in unison, are hit with a goofy, twisted reaction to how strong it is.
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DFWdawg Mar 30, 2026 +2
Although not a comedy, In Bruges had many of these moments…
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tauntonlake Mar 31, 2026 +2
Tropic Thunder “This m*********** ‘s dead!!” — wayyy off in the background while everyone else is talking :D :D
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YoLoDrScientist Mar 31, 2026 +2
The majority of… Tucker and Dale vs. Evil Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar
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Reality_Defiant Mar 30, 2026 +1
Jeffery at the precinct in Beverly Hills Cop. "This is not my locker.". Actually, the whole movie is perfect comedic timing.
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croutonboy Mar 30, 2026 +1
It has been a while, but Bill Murray in “Tootsie” steals every scene and it’s all timing.
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leonardo_dicapabitch Mar 30, 2026 +1
That is one nutty hospital
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Ihadsumthin4this Mar 30, 2026 +1
> Bill Murray His effortless portrayal of thoroughly clueless in "The Man Who Knew Too Little" may never be topped.
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thosmarvin Mar 31, 2026 +1
In the movie Ghost Town with Ricky Gervais, Kristen Wiig plays a surgeon who is telling RG’s character that he died, temporarily, during surgery and their back and forth about it is absolutely perfect comic timing….rest of the movie, eh, but i remember that from that far back.
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calguy1955 Mar 31, 2026 +1
I love when facial expressions are timed perfectly. Sometimes it’s almost the actor breaking the fourth wall and looking in to the camera. There’s a scene in Secondhand Lions where the guy is beating up Haley Joel Osmont and the lion starts sprinting at him and he briefly sees it, and he turns and pauses in disbelief and looks directly at the camera before he’s attacked. Another is Eddie Murphy in Trading Places who hears one of the brothers explaining that bacon might be found on a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, and Eddie just looks at the camera with a blank stare.
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mango_boom Mar 31, 2026 +1
“Ah yes, it’s all coming back to me now..” - pink panther parallel bars scene.
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OkDistribution6931 Mar 31, 2026 +1
In the first Deadpool, Reynolds’s insistence that “nobody’s getting hurt,” followed by the sound of the corpse plastered to the freeway sign in the background finally sliding off the sign and hitting the ground.
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Deeeeeeeeehn Mar 31, 2026 +1
“What of the R.O.U.S.’s?” “Rodents Of Unusual Sizes? I don’t believe they exist.”
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Quirky_Amphibian2925 Mar 31, 2026 +1
Bringing Up Baby is a lesson in comic timing start to finish.
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AGooDone Mar 31, 2026 +1
Monte Python and the Holy Grail. I love the bridge scene. What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color? Blue, no Red! Aiiiiiiiieeee!
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SourArmoredHero Mar 31, 2026 +1
Dennis Farina in Snatch and Get Shorty
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GreyGriffin_h Mar 31, 2026 +1
In the fifth element, the absolutely perfect timing of Dallas entering the elevator and Zorg exiting the one right next to it just as they disappear from view creates a hilarious anticlimax as they dodge a confrontation that had been foreshadowed for like fifteen minutes by that point.
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bukbukbuklao Mar 31, 2026 +1
Cheech and Chong’s second movie. Michael Winslow scene in the office was hilarious.
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Natural-Run-5213 Mar 31, 2026 +1
The stoning is scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian has pitch perfect timing from everyone, but Cleese in particular shines.
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MtnHotspring Mar 31, 2026 +1
It Happened One Night (Clark Gable) The Lady Eve (Fonda/Barbara Stanwyck) Old classics but really good. I also love This is Spinal Tap.
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BigNasty417 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Rushmore MAX: I like your nurse's uniform, guy  Dr Flynn: There are OR scrubs. Max: Oh, are they?
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GooseGeese01 Apr 1, 2026 +1
“Now go home and get your fuckin’ shinebox!” - Goodfellas
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HoneyBucketsOfOats Apr 1, 2026 +1
Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
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Sea_Leadership_6968 Mar 30, 2026 +1
So many Jim Carey moments come to mind but my favorite is in Ace Ventura - “Like a Glove”
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SharpManner9480 Mar 30, 2026 +1
The entire boxing scene in **City Lights (1931)**
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duffeldorf Mar 30, 2026 +1
[What the hell is that smell?!!](https://youtu.be/YjVwf5R5N6E?si=u5KLQMrzKQeWMgqg)
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Zombie_John_Strachan Mar 30, 2026 +1
Blues Brothers when they get out of the car for the last time.
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TeddyBearRoosevelt Mar 30, 2026 +1
The car chase in the third act of What’s Up, Doc, followed by the courtroom scene. Comic perfection. Timed within an inch of its life.
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Ihadsumthin4this Mar 30, 2026 +3
My #2 film of all time. "Who're they gonna believe, the lady in the tub or the grown man with his shirt around his ankles?"
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TeddyBearRoosevelt Mar 31, 2026 +2
What’s your #1?
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Ihadsumthin4this Mar 31, 2026 +1
Arthur (1981) Dudley Moore, John Gielgud, Liza Minnelli
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TeddyBearRoosevelt Mar 31, 2026 +2
Nice to know. Terrific choice.
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Ihadsumthin4this Mar 31, 2026 +1
What're your top 3?
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TeddyBearRoosevelt Mar 31, 2026 +1
Not genre specific. What’s Up, Doc? Close Encounters. The Sting. But good heavens. There are so many more I want to include. Three is just too damn few.
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prolix Mar 30, 2026 -1
Ghost Busters. "Its true, this man has a tiny p****."
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pantstoaknifefight2 Mar 30, 2026 +12
Has no d***
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mpersand02 Mar 30, 2026 +2
Is this true!?
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ScreenTricky4257 Mar 30, 2026 +6
For some reason everyone messes up quoting this. You need the full exchange: Ray: "Everything was fine until the power was cut off by dickless here." Peck: "They caused an explosion!" Mayor: "Is this true?" Venkman: "Yes it's true. This man has no d***." The reason it's so funny is that the mayor's line is ambiguous; it's unclear if he's referring to Ray's assertion or Peck's, and he's not looking directly at either of him. So the humor comes when Venkman pauses after "Yes it's true." You either expect him to say, "Yes it's true that everything was fine until the power was shut off," or "Yes it's true that an explosion happened," and he says something completely different.
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ExcellentFishing2506 Mar 30, 2026 +3
Botched the line
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