Not said as in, so stupid it's sad tosee it, but so sad as in emotional... and somehow funny at the same time. I'll bet a lot of us have seen movie moments when you're laughing at something funny/emotional that you know you shouldn't be laughing at. Post those moments here.
The blind boy with the dead bird in Dumb and Dumber. That was horrible.
Comedy movies feel too empty unless you empathize with the characters, so I feel the best comedies have sad moments at some point or another.
The ending to Withnail and I is very poignant despite the rest of the movie being very flamboyant.
The Castle is one of my favourite comedies, and there's something very heartwarming/sad about the family's passion for their home, even though most of the comedy is derived from that passion.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is another favourite of mine, and that also has a very wistful ending.
A lot of recent Hollywood comedies seem to lack that human element. Great comedy is possibly the hardest thing to write.
A TV series that did this amazingly was League Of Gentlemen. Every now and then they'd drop the comic lens and just deliver some pure unfiltered misery. Usually involving Mark Gatiss.
Also, the Mitchell and Webb finale ended on this "sketch".
Post subject: Re: Saddest moments in comedy movies.
denmarkman wrote:
I think you and I have very different definitions of the word "sad".
I'm talking about scenes that are funny but kind of depressing, because one know's it's not something they should laugh at but they do anyway. I mean, come on. The kids was so gullible and so adorable that he kept stroking a bird he didn't know was dead. It's just sad not only to think of that, but how this sweet little kid's going to take it when he learns it's dead. It was both funny and depressing at the same time, and that's what I'm going for in this thread.
"I have of late, (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition; that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er hanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire: why, it appeareth no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. 'What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither."
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