most laughter you've heard from an audience at the movies

you know, watching a comedy. curious which ones got the biggest laughs. for me the reigning champion is still airplane! i'd never heard anything like that and i'd seen a lot of laff riot audiences before that (mel brooks, richard pryor, etc) and since then, but airplane! was just non-stop from beginning to end. people were kind of freaking out they were laughing so much. it was cool! it definitely made an impression on me. i don't think people thought they were gonna act like that. they knew it was a comedy but everyone got overwhelmed by it. i know i did.

probably "borat"

Seeing Tootsie in a full theater when I was about 10.

And, for something live, a few productions of Noises Off by far.

Duplicate of this thread: What was the hardest you've ever laughed in a movie theater?

However I can repost this again

June 1980. Empire Strikes Back had been out for a month and by then everyone had seen it and for me there wasn't much in the way of other must-see summer movies. I really wanted to go see The Blues Brothers but I couldn't convince my dad to drive me up to Newport Beach to see it. There was this mysterious movie called Airplane! that had just opened that Friday and it was playing at the local Laguna theater. Supposed to be a comedy of some sort.

Complete uninterrupted pandemonium for all 88 minutes. I'd never seen anything like it (and haven't since)... I laughed so hard I couldn't eat afterward because my stomach hurt so much. People in the audience (the theater was about three-quarters full) were sobbing from laughing so hard.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, April 3, 2008 5:55 PM

airplane makes sense, there are no non-joke lines in the whole movie you've got no chance to catch your breath & it just keeps piling up. weirdly enough mine is

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went to see this at a theater in florida while visiting my grandma one year winter break, and if a character so much as farted or slipped on a banana peel the whole audience would erupt & it was like nothing you've ever heard. movie wasn't too funny but we were dying up at how extreme the reaction was, it was surreal & definitely enhanced the experience. maybe all audiences are like that in america, though. here you only get a big, full participation laugh once or twice a movie

borat might've been the biggest i've ever seen here though

borat, people rolling around the isles just loosing their shit, unreal

yeah, Borat pretty easily here.

my parents have spoken fondly of their Airplane! theater experience (not to make y'all feel old).

so airplane and borat are the two funniest movies, glad we settled that

And, for something live, a few productions of Noises Off by far.

oh my word this was funny

I saw Superbad in a theater absolutely packed with drunken college students the weekend before school started and the reaction to the dick drawing montage was insane, everyone was totally losing their shit.

Lost In America, particularly the line, "A bird lives in a round stick!"

As for live, a Second City performance where Stephen Colbert said to Steve Carell, "You don't know shit about fuck."

i remember south park when uncle fucker started ppl kind of lost it

borat or jackass 2

I remember the audience erupting with laughter at There's Something About Mary, though the reason it made an impression on me is probably because my own reaction was so out of step with theirs. Like, I was turning around and watching people lose their shit and thinking, "Really?"

I was gonna say, I saw Something About Mary on like opening weekend before it was a thing. And no one knew what the cum thing was yet. And the audience just lost their shit.

Saw American Pie in a very full preview screening. It was probably either that or Naked Gun.

borat

We had a screening of "Red" at work & coworkers around me were borderline-screaming with laughter at almost everything. It was weird...I mean it was funny & kinda corny but you'd have thought it was the Three Stooges or something.

Knocked Up.

"The Room". Seriously, the cinema was complete chaos with screaming laughter and cheering. Insanity.

South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut when Saddam pulled out the dildo in bed with Satan.

Most memorable one was Little Miss Sunshine, because all these middle-class mums and dads sitting around us found it hysterical for some reason. I feel like all the comedy films I ever see are on DVD :(

Yeah the majority of fave bust-a-gut comedies I've seen and loved (Airplane, Grosse Pointe Blank, So I married an Axe Murderer, Withnail & I) its mostly been a home dvd experience. Withnail gets great audience lols, but also a lot of people shouting "SCRUBBERRS!" and "FORK IT!"

interesting how Borat is such a favourit, i felt mostly ashamed and wanted to hide my face behind my sweater.

loudest i ever laughed in the cinema was at Goodbye Lenin, characters desperately searching for old DDR jars and bottles.

^^^weirdo

jk

def borat. then the room. then, idk, the apple?

most recent movie i saw that got a REALLY gd response from the audience was Four Lions

I saw Superbad in a cinema and I was the only one there. Laughing into the emptiness.

Thats what happened the first time I saw Withnail! Which is when it came out, in the late 80s. Went to see it at arthouse cinema with a bff, we were the only ones at the matinee. The ushers were bored and bringing us coffees. I loved it.

saw superbad in a cinema and yeah it was uproarious, rightly so - v good and funny movie

in the loop is the most i have laughed at a movie fwiw and the audience weren't far behind. shit was real.

borat is crashingly unfunny and i do not understand any of you

most recent movie i saw that got a REALLY gd response from the audience was Four Lions

― Ward Fowler, Monday, December 13, 2010 9:23 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah. really fuckin' superior laughter. awful.

the most laughter i think i've experienced is possibly 'the hangover'. remember everyone absolutely dying at 'lebowski' but it was a pretty empty cinema whereas 'the hangover' was packed.

I saw Lebowski at an arthouse and the only time people laughed was at David Thewlis. Not a great crowd.

xps - I was extremely self conscious to begin with but I did enjoy it. Only thing was that half way through I became convinced someone else was hiding in the room somewhere so I walked around a bit - anyone watching the "audience" from the foyer (as you can do in this cinema) must have thought I was losing it.

Prob'ly not the "most" laughter...but I saw "Cannonball Run" in '81, and EVERY TIME the film cut to Jackie Chan's character (at least a half-dozen times, or so it seemed), the soundtrack played that little 9-note generic faux-"oriental" tune, the audience apparently loved it. (Me, I reacted like Ludo did at "Borat".)

oddly enough the opening week of Trainspotting in what was then (95) probably the UK's most fancy-ass cinema; the Empire, Leicester Square, London. insane screamings of riotous laughter at the Sunday morning/bedsheets incident like i could never have imagined. it was like the reaction of the audience onscreen in Eddie Murphy Raw.

Anchorman maybe, during the rainbow sexual fantasy sequence. Talk about a movie that works wonderfully with a group and is sort of terrible to watch alone.

for me the reigning champion is still airplane!

Was going to say that, seeing this question.

American audiences, at least in my experience, are way more animated than British ones. I was killing time in New York before a flight home and went to see Meet the Fockers (I know, I know) and people were roaring with laughter like I've rarely heard. I kept looking at the screen and then at the people next to me and then at the screen again, thinking, "Really, guys?" Seeing a genuinely funny film in a New York cinema must be a trip.

The Simpsons Movie, but they were mostly laughing at the "Homer is stupid" jokes and cartoon violence. I felt odd to be the only one in the theater laughing at the cultural references and film homages.

Notorious

the trailer for Piranha 3D before Predators this year

was a similar reaction in the cinema to the trailer for 'cracks' when I first saw it

it was a unanimous looooool at how stupid rather than how funny tho

actual answer might be austin powers 2 :(

This old dude sitting by himself in the middle of a row kept chuckling through Schindler's List.

austin powers is a good call :) <------- that film is hilares wtf

borat, people rolling around the isles just loosing their shit, unreal

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 13, 2010 12:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Probably Borat, but a close runner up was when M. Night Shyamalan's name popped up during the Devil trailer before something I saw earleir this year.

dont know if it was the MOST but the best, in terms of sheer joyous audience communion, have been:

- lubitsch's to be or not to be in a paris theater full of frenchmen losing their shit
- harold lloyd's safety last at my university's screening room for the silent film class i was in, a bunch of bored jaded students totally captivated and thrilled and cracking up

Def Jackass 2.

Close runner-up: Waiting, the restaurant movie with Ryan Reynolds and whatsherface. I think the theater was full of food service people who'd just gotten off a shift.

Anchorman maybe, during the rainbow sexual fantasy sequence. Talk about a movie that works wonderfully with a group and is sort of terrible to watch alone.

took my mum to see this movie...

in ref to dorian - meet the parents is hilarious, i hated meet the fockers

in ref to slocki - saw the shop around the corner at the national film theatre on saturday night and the communal guffaws at the Lubitschian magic were wonderful

yeah i think the first american pie movie.

Borat, definitely. Massive screen, best atmosphere I've experienced at the cinema. It was like a proper night out.

I saw Airplane! at the theater with my family but I was only 10, so really don't remember the audience reaction at the time. So, among things I remembers, I'd almost certainly have to say it was South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut. The only thing that cut through the nearly continuous laughter was the gasps of shock.

yeah, given everything, I'm gonna have to say prolly,

1. Something About Mary cum scene
2. Borat puts his ass in that dude's face
3. Uncle Fucker

I can't recall a particularly uproarious audience at any of the comedies I've seen in a movie theater, just average lols. The only incident that sticks out in my mind is the entire theater completely losing it and laughing hysterically when Trinity dies in the Matrix 3, because it was so insanely drawn out and melodramatic.

in ref to slocki - saw the shop around the corner at the national film theatre on saturday night and the communal guffaws at the Lubitschian magic were wonderful

― Babylon and zing (stevie), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 2:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i saw 'trouble in paradise' at the nft back in the day and same, even think we applauded at the end

The only incident that sticks out in my mind is the entire theater completely losing it and laughing hysterically when Trinity dies in the Matrix 3, because it was so insanely drawn out and melodramatic

this has in turn reminded me of the huge lols at Darth Vader's "noooooooooo" in ROTS

Also there was a wave of tittering every time a new ending started in Return of the King.

When I saw a preview of The Postman (Kevin Costner post-Waterworld attempt) the audience laughed as loud as any audience I've ever heard in a theater.

yeah i remember seeing that trailer before starship troopers and the audience losing their shit over the line "you have a gift, postman."

my answer remains:

'high fidelity', when todd louiso hit tim robbins across the face with a phone and his teeth broke apart and went flying and they all started beating on robbins, billy batts style.

― omar little

Jackass
South Park movie
Borat
Dumber & Dumber

The Happening @ "WHAT KIND OF TERRORISTS ARE THESE?" (that was mostly just me laughing, but still)

Almost none of these movies are funny. Why do people like this shit? I fell asleep halfway through Something About Mary in self-defense and I hate the rest.

Goodbye, Lenin was wonderfully wry, esp all the scenes with them filming fake East German news, with sheets of paper badly taped up as backdrops, and men coming out of buildings to shoo them off company property and etc.

first five minutes of pootie tang, followed by an hour of deafening silence

some guy screamed out OH SHIT and literally fell out of his seat into the aisle when the kid with the afro rolled out on the little bike. only time i've ever seen anybody literally rolling in the aisles.

borat, people rolling around the isles just loosing their shit, unreal

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 13, 2010 12:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

― ˙❤‿❤˙˙❤‿❤˙ (ENBB), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:59 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

I wish I could go back in time and see Young Frankenstein in 1974, in a theater with an audience. Everyone knows it line-for-line now.

what would you say if i told you that you CAN

I'd say you're talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind.

Every movie I would list has already been named. The biggest examples for me were South Park and There's Something About Mary; the only reason I know any of the dialogue to either is because I watched them again later at home (and I still don't know exactly what the prosaic dialogue immediately after the hair gel bit is because I am incapacitated with laughter by that scene for about five minutes every time I see it).

apart from the stuff already listed, i can remember ppl really going apeshit for arachnaphobia. remember that? i basically don't.

Beavis & Butthead Do America

Maybe Team America?

i made a campmate barf with fear during a screening of arachnaphobia

Bit of a pathetic choice this, but I'll never forget the audience reaction to when the naked guy chases Thomas Hayden Church out his house in Sideways.

oh yeah, I'd forgotten that

wedding crashers, packed theater opening weekend, pretty raucous

Kung Fu Hustle, probably.

the first Austin Powers movie

Borat for me too.

I didn't contribute much to the laughter though. Except for the bear thing.

'high fidelity', when todd louiso hit tim robbins across the face with a phone and his teeth broke apart and went flying and they all started beating on robbins, billy batts style.

― omar little

this is a great one

Bit of a pathetic choice this, but I'll never forget the audience reaction to when the naked guy chases Thomas Hayden Church out his house in Sideways.

― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 21:30 (Yesterday)

'controlled smash into tree' scene in this film is one of my top 10 bellylaughs ever iirc

the high fidelity one is also amazing, it's the way it builds

High Fidelity was funny? Who knew...

I sacked it when bloke shouted "yeah, FUCK YOU Bitch" at CathZet's window while she takes her new lover to bed.

It's corny, cliched, and new bf would be kind of put off by all this...

i love how it ends with them smashing an air conditioner on his face... perfect scene

Borat would be my answer too. I've gone to the cinema regularly for the last 15-20 years, and I can't remember ever hearing the audience laugh as hard as they did with the nude wrestling scene.

When I saw Blow in the theater, there was this bearded Vietnam vet-lookin guy who was in front of us at the ticket line. He told the cashier "I'll take one kilo of BLOW hahahaha!". During the film, whenever Penelope Cruz would yell at Depp or whatever, bearded dude would clap his hands and say some variation of "BAM! That's what I'd do! Right on!" which entailed a good deal of audience laughter.

lmfao

Steve Carrell as the news reader in Bruce Almighty - several people had already left the theatre by then, but they missed this fantastic moment.

kung fu hustle looney tunes chase scene

Hi fidelity robbins-beating

Borat ass-face

Interview with the vampire, cruise takes corpse for a dance. Nobody had any idea how to react to the movie til that point, the entire audience went into paroxysms, collected ourselved en masse and then left in relief

Opening scene of super troopers

As I recall the biggest moment of laughter in Borat was when he brought that lady his shit in a bag.

he did that so he wouldnt lose it at the assface scene

I remember people n Leicester Square Odeon laughing pretty hard to every joke in Fight Club. I hadn't seen a crowd so ready to love a film since Pulp Fiction - there was this lightheaded eagerness which meant that every funny but just exploded.

For other reasons, the Outbreak trailer for big lols when Dustin Hoffman said, "We have to find that monkey!"

Actually come to think of it I recall both Home Alone movies getting huuuuuuge laughs from the audience. Granted, those are kid movies.

I've just remembered, there was a group at the back laughing uproariously the whole way through The Wind That Shakes the Barley, for reasons I cannot fathom.

Yeah I pretty much have to agree with Borat. I'm a little embarassed to say I laughed pretty hard too, in retrospect that movie was pretty manipulative and awful. But yeah that scene in the hotel pretty much killed it.

Funniest movie I've seen in a theater - Super Troopers. There were only a few other people out there but we all laughed so hard. God, I can't even imagine what it would be like to be 15 again and to see that movie for the first time.

Best theater experience - Snakes on a Plane...really!! I saw it while visiting Chicago with a few buddies. This was right at the height of the internet hype so it was actually kind of a big deal for like a week. It was a huge theater with like two floors, this movie covered both and the seats were packed, mostly with people who had already seen the movie before. Everyone was yelling at the screen, yelling out the lines before they came, throwing rubber snakes at the screen, making hissing noises during the quieter parts. When Jackson said his famous line (that was pretty much all we came to hear), the place absolutely exploded. The best part is that there really is no build up to that line. It's just kind of a regular, quiet scene, and he just randomly says it. BOOM. Nobody sees it coming.

I do recall seeing it once as a rental or something, was only maybe 20% as fun. I mean, looking back, they could have made it a lot more fun than they did. But I'm telling you, seeing that in the theater was the best movie experience of my life.

One more vote for Borat. The audience I saw it with actually applauded after assface; first time I'd ever heard applause mid-movie.

A close second would the The Aristocrats. Old dude beside me was bent over with laughter through the whole thing. Bob Saget nearly gave him a stroke.

hmm wedding crashers as well as Superbad too.

Yeah, Borat...and Little Miss Sunshine (which I hated) for some reason. That was a lonely movie experience.

And Anaconda, although I was so hiiiiiii it may actually only have been me laughing

Funniest movie I've seen in a theater - Super Troopers. There were only a few other people out there but we all laughed so hard. God, I can't even imagine what it would be like to be 15 again and to see that movie for the first time.

super troopers might have been one that's elicited the most laughter from a living room full of stoners. i picked it up at the video store in college w/absolutely zero idea of what it was. hadn't heard of it at all. me and my buddies popped it in and were just zomg, mana from heaven

"We apologise for running reel two twice. We hope it didn't spoil your enjoyment of the film too much"