27 TV Drama Scenes That Are Literally Funnier Than Anything From A Sitcom Or Comedy

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A while back, we asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us their favorite funny scene in a dramatic show. Here are some of their submissions, along with a few of my own!

1.On Yellowjackets, when Jeff realized there was never any book club:

Screen shots from "Yellowjackets"

Jeff's shocked reaction is so great here, and it comes in the middle of a really tense moment to provide some much-needed catharsis. My roommate and I burst out laughing at his delivery.

STARZ

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2.On Stranger Things, when Max was confused on how El had gotten into her mind, and her explanation really didn't make things any clearer:

Screen shots from "Stranger Things"

It's just such a wonderfully nonsensical line delivered completely deadpan by El, and it's perfect. More scenes of these two, please!!!

Netflix

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3.On The Boys, when M.M. was attacked by a supernatural penis, and Frenchie told him not to be closed-minded:

Screen shots from "The Boys"

Maybe this is cheating because The Boys is often comedic, but this came during a very intense moment and was genuinely a laugh-out-loud scene. I love Frenchie and MM's interactions.

Amazon

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4.And also when The Deep and his gills sang, "You Are So Beautiful to Me":

The Deep

I just binge-watched Season 2 of The Boys, and besides the giant elongated dick moment, this was the other funniest moment of the season to me. Chace Crawford has really surprised me with his comedic chops and his ability to play such an unbelievably stupid and insecure character with earnest.

Amazon Prime

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5.In Big Little Lies, when Renata lost it on Gordon in the car:

Screen shots from "Big Little Lies"
HBO

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6.And also her iconic "I will NOT not be rich!" line:

renata saying "i will not not be rich then slamming the phone down
HBO

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7.In Better Call Saul, when Saul explained the made-up term "squat cobbler" to the policemen:

Better Call Saul is extremely dark, but it has its small moments of humor in every season, and this is probably the best-known. I truly want to know how the writers and Jimmy himself came up with this wacky story. I also love the way the cops just keep looking over at Pryce, who's just wandering around blissfully unaware of what Jimmy's saying in the background.

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8.And also the talking toilet scene:

Screen shots from "Better Call Saul"

This is another absolutely absurd scene that shows just how creative the writers are, and it's played so completely deadpan, slow, and straight that it works perfectly.

AMC

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9.On Lost, when Arzt blew himself up with dynamite and Hurley later told Jack he had "some Arzt on [him]":

Screen shots from "Lost"

Was Arzt blowing up funny? Not at all. But Hurley awkwardly informing Jack afterwards that a piece of his body is stuck on him? Comedy gold.

ABC

Watch the scene here (at 2:23):

10.On Euphoria, when Rue interrogated a boy who was hanging out with her sister and just started naming people from rehab (who were actually characters from The Wire), all while Lexi helped out in a Bob Ross costume:

Screen shots from "Euphoria"

Lexi really makes this scene, tbh.

HBO

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11.On Peaky Blinders, when Tommy gave a whole lecture about how there was to be no fighting, then he fought a server who bumped into him:

Tommy points at everyone and says "no fighting, no fucking fighting" but then a server bumps into him and he pushes him

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12.On You, when Joe and Love fought about how to cover up the murder after she killed Natalie:

Love suggests saying that Natalie killed herself, but Joe points out "with an axe?" Joe also talks about putting a different body in a meat grinder (from the season prior) and Love says "are you fucking kidding me? I used that thing all the time!"
Netflix

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13.On The Sopranos, when Bobby mixed up Nostradamus, Notre Dame, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame:

Bobby says Quasimodo predicted everything with the middle east, and Tony says he means Nostradamus, but Bobby says Notre-Dame-us, and talks about how he mixes up the three things

"The Sopranos is the funniest show ever."

—umrawk85

HBO

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14.And when Chris tried to pitch a terrible script to Jon Favreau, who was playing himself:

Chris asks Jon if he's read his script and Jon says the main character is contradictory — Chris asks if he should keep the part about how the character wears taps on his shoes and Jon says "now see, that's the question I was going to ask you"

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15.On Angel, when Angel was turned into a puppet for an episode and Spike couldn't stop laughing at him, so we got this great scene of Spike and puppet Angel fighting:

The WB

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16.On Succession, when Tom interviewed a neo-Nazi journalist:

Tom asks if the man has read Mein Kampf and the man says a couple times, and Tom replies "couple times? were there easter eggs in there you didn't get the first time?"

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HBO

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17.And basically any interaction between Tom and Greg, but especially when Tom told Greg the story of Nero and Sporus and said, "I would castrate you and marry you in a heartbeat":

HBO

Suggested by ashleigh19

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18.On Outlander, when Claire surprised Jamie by getting waxed:

Jaime asks Claire what she's done to herself, calling her "honey pot" bare, and Claire raises her legs and says she knows and she did her legs too — Jaime says "that's bad enough, but to rid yourself of such a lovely forest, I..."

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19.On Orphan Black, when Donnie accidentally killed Dr. Leekie:

Donnie says he won't participate anymore and he quits, then slams his hands against the steering wheel, causing the gun to go off and hit Dr. Leekie

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20.On Mare of Easttown, when Mr. Carroll told everyone at his wife's funeral about sleeping with Helen, and Mare thought it was hilarious:

Mr. Carroll says he had an affair with Helen and Mare covers her mouth, then later laughs in the car as Helen tries to explain that they only slept together a few times

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HBO

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21.And when Helen was being a typical mom when Mare was going on a date:

Helen tells the man that Mare has told her all about him, and he says "really?" as Mare says "that's a lie, I literally told her about you 30 seconds ago, mom!"

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22.On Mad Men, when Mrs. Blankenship died at her desk and the other secretaries dragged her away as Don was in a meeting, and you could see the entire thing going on in the background:

Don looks down as the man next to him notices Joan and a man dragging Mrs. Blankenship's blanket-covered corpse away in a desk chair behind the clients

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AMC

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23.On Criminal Minds, when Reid and Morgan got in a prank war, and Morgan gave Reid's number out to reporters:

Morgan tells reporters his name is spencer reid and then gives out spencer's number and says to call him with questions, and later Reid picks up yet another phone call and says he has a "very special message that your mother is a –" before he's stopped

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CBS

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24.And when Morgan made Spencer and Penelope do a rigorous fitness test, even though he'd already waived it:

Morgan says he had the tests waived and this was just for fun, and Garcia says she'll kill him, with Reid saying if he can lift his arms, he'll hold Morgan down

"Criminal Minds is great at having little moments of humor to break up the dark."

—chelseatheenchanted

CBS

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25.On Breaking Bad, when Skyler confronted Jesse about selling Walt weed as he was trying to get rid of a body:

Skyler tells Jesse her name is Skyler white, "yo" and that she's walt's wife, and tells Jesse not to sell marijuana to Walt, and Jesse, confused, just says "okay"
AMC

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26.And when Jesse has dinner with Skyler and Walt, and tries desperately to make it less awkward:

Jesse complains about frozen meals, saying there's no truth in advertising and that the cheese on frozen lasagna cooks into something that feels like a scab
ABC

Especially when he makes this face:

AMC

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27.And finally, this wasn't necessarily funny in the show, but it was funny for all the audience members who grew up with this memed line...when Obi-Wan greeted Luke with "hello there" in Obi-Wan Kenobi:

Screen shots from "Obi-Wan Kenobi"

I mean, come on. Just these two words alone, said by Ewan McGregor, are laugh-worthy.

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Did we miss any? Let us know in the comments below!

Submissions have been edited for length/clarity.

Jul. 31, 2022, at 05:05 AM