15 Funny Lines From Beloved Comedies
Everyone loves a great comedy — apart, it would seem, from the people who get to vote at awards ceremonies. Comedies don’t tend to fare well when it comes to Oscars and the like.
Only a handful have ever won Best Picture, and even those weren’t what most people would consider out-and-out comedies, but rather romantic comedies or comedy-dramas such as “It Happened One Night,” “Annie Hall,” and “Shakespeare in Love.”
But who needs awards, anyway? Making people laugh is its own prize, and the following comedy movies have certainly achieved that. Here are some of their funniest lines, delivered by some of the greatest comedic characters ever, including Dr. Evil, Derek Zoolander, and more.
Dr. Evil is totally out of touch with modern finances in this 1997 comedy classic.
It’s pretty clear why Wade Wilson is known as the “Merc With a Mouth” in the relentlessly acerbic Deadpool movie.
Damian is a cult-favorite character in the eminently quotable pop-culture phenomenon that is Mean Girls.
Picking the funniest lines from Monty Python and the Holy Grail is no easy task, but John Cleese’s “taunting French guard” definitely has some of the best of them.
Derek Zoolander is perhaps the least intelligent character in cinema history, a trait fully displayed when he mistakes a small architectural model of a school for an actual school.
In the wake of an epic news team street fight, Ron Burgundy reflects on the brawl — and Brick confirms that he “killed a guy with a trident” — in Anchorman.
After Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) loudly fakes an orgasm in a deli, a female customer delivers this now-iconic line from When Harry Met Sally.
President Merkin Muffley reprimands his squabbling staff in Dr. Strangelove, one of the blackest black comedies of all time.
Alan Garner is genuinely curious as to whether the actual Caesar lived at Caesars Palace when the hapless group checks in in The Hangover.
Nigel Tufnel explains how the dials on his guitar amplifier go all the way up to 11, and therefore one louder than the normal 10. (Incidentally, the BBC’s online volume controls still go up to 11 in tribute to the movie.)
Greg Focker finds himself in many awkward situations in Meet the Parents, none more so than when he has to elaborate on his lie about growing up on a cat-milking farm in Detroit.
Cameron Frye is the hypochondriac best friend of the eponymous Ferris in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and the two of them couldn’t be much more unalike.
Anyone who’s ever worked in retail can probably relate to this comment from wisecracking slacker Randal Graves.
Dale Doback finally shows some respect to his new stepbrother Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) when the two bond over music, in the bizarre but hilarious man-child double-act at the heart of Step Brothers.
If anyone can rival Derek Zoolander as cinema’s least intelligent character, it could well be Harry of Dumb and Dumber. 
