What’s your favourite visual gag in a film?

[Orang Utan]

Will accept TV too
Mine is Dan Akroyd, in Trading Places, in a filthy Santa suit, getting a whole smoked salmon that he’s stolen entangled in his beard

 

[cupid_stunt]

Off the top of my head...

 

[kittyP]

Steve Martin in The Man With Two Brains pop popping along the wall using his bare hands as suction cups.
I think there are probably more in that film.

 

[maomao]

 

[stavros]

 

[stavros]

 

[UrbaneFox]

I like the scene where he works in the prison laundry, but in the meantime, here is another from the same film

 

[Orang Utan]

I like the scene where he works in the prison laundry, but in the meantime, here is another from the same film

Which films?

 

[andysays]

Which films?

They're both from 'Take the money and run', one of his earlier funny ones

 

[strung out]

This one from Airplane 2. Not a very good film, but this scene cracks me up every time

 

[UrbaneFox]

Not a very good film, but this scene cracks me up every time

"I've considered that",

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[D'wards]

The whole scene from about 5:20 but especially when he gets in the wheelchair
.

 

[D'wards]

 

[Indeliblelink]

We could have a whole thread of great Buster Keaton gags, this is a classic and rightly so - from "One Week"

 

[Indeliblelink]

The cow in Top Secret

 

[Aladdin]

 

[belboid]

Pickman's model is correct

I always like Steve martin cleaning his gun too

 

[blairsh]

Will accept TV too
Mine is Dan Akroyd, in Trading Places, in a filthy Santa suit, getting a whole smoked salmon that he’s stolen entangled in his beard

A truly excellent film

 

[Aladdin]

And

 

[discokermit]

the shin kicking scene.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This one from Airplane 2. Not a very good film, but this scene cracks me up every time

Agreed. Hopeless film, but I will never forget the first time I saw this gag.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Depends how you're defining 'visual gag', but Monty Python's coconuts-instead-of-horses gag is brilliant.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This is what immediately sprung to my mind. Quite a few good ones in Duck Soup. I think boringly for me the one that really cracks me up is when Groucho gets the vase stuck on his head and they can't get it off so just draw his face on it.

 

[UrbaneFox]

What am I, a schmuck on wheels? Gimme the fuck money, AAaaarrrr

 

[The Octagon]

One from TV, the whole sequence is brilliant, but topped off with the final gag -

 

[krtek a houby]

The reaction and look on Dr Doug Ross' face when his patient explains he's in love with a sheep called Daisy.

 

[Orang Utan]

The breaking of the fourth wall in this:

 

[Knotted]

We could have a whole thread of great Buster Keaton gags, this is a classic and rightly so - from "One Week"

My first thought. Looking at it again, it was so damn dangerous!

 

[DaveCinzano]

The reaction and look on Dr Doug Ross' face when his patient explains he's in love with a sheep called Daisy.

I had to Google that because I definitely did not remember George Clooney doing that