Any particular passages that made you laugh??

[daffyrocks]

Hi All, I have just been reading the thread about the books that made us cry. While most of them are not designed to make us laugh, there must be certain passages that have made us laugh? My most memorable (for now - it's nearly middnight here in Melbourne!!) was from the Dark Half - I was on a train and literally laughed out loud when I read it - Thad was imagining a William and Wendy conversation, and it ended something like, "oh dear, I think I've **** in my pants". It was just hilarious!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Well, there are many but the most recent was from Duma Key - 'I think that ones got a lump in it!'.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Jax]

I was rereading something in Rose Madder not to long ago, and it was an area where Norman is looking for Rose, and everything that is going on is from his perspective. I can't remember exactly what it was but it was his own thought process, and he was such a whack job. I wasn't expecting it, it was so crazy and deranged, and that's what made me laugh. I remember reading it out loud to my husband. Who by the way just shook his head and told me I was sick. I guess I just have that dark humor.;)

[luvdthestand]

Hi,

Well, there are many but the most recent was from Duma Key - 'I think that ones got a lump in it!'.

Long days and pleasant nights

I just about fell off the couch with that one mahself!:rofl:

[wally wonder]

there's a whole pile of em. a few that come to mind is one from roadwork when the protagonist, bart i think his name is, ran an appliance, a blender i think, all night long until the motor burned up, something about the energy crisis. guess they had one at the time, 70s maybe. another one is when callahan gets on the bus and the driver tells him no cutting up and callahan thinks or says out loud, that's a big ten-four, no cutting up. none of em are funny out of context though, seems like, cept for a few, like the lump thing.

[mojomofo]

TONS. I can't think of any specific ones right now, but in every book there is something that just tickles me.

I just love that moment when I am reading, and am really into the story, and connected strongly with the characters. Something horrible, or scary or traumatic will happen, and then someone cracks wise, making me laugh. It is such a small but important reminder that there is sweet with the sour. For me, a small joy but a touching one.

Or maybe I am reading waaay to much into it. (pun definitely intended)

[Srbo]

On Writing has me made laugh countless times...:smile2:

[Drawn to Ka-tet]

How about from The Body, The Revenge of Lardass Hogan. Gawd, that whole tale cracks me up.

Long days and pleasant nights.

[nunu_chis]

When Eddie said to Roland, before they crossed the door to the beach, in DT2 "anyway, I had nothing better to do tonight". Almost everything that Eddie says in that book makes me laugh but this one was the best. Also from DT2, it is very fun when Roland doesn`t understand something from this world, or he can`t pronunce words... it is one of the books that made me laugh most.
In the green mile when Tuu plays the role of the prisoner when they are practising for an execution (in the movie it made me laugh much more than in the book)
And there are many mores.. but those are my favourites (or at least the ones I remember better)

[Presque Vu]

Hi All, I have just been reading the thread about the books that made us cry. While most of them are not designed to make us laugh, there must be certain passages that have made us laugh? My most memorable (for now - it's nearly middnight here in Melbourne!!) was from the Dark Half - I was on a train and literally laughed out loud when I read it - Thad was imagining a William and Wendy conversation, and it ended something like, "oh dear, I think I've **** in my pants". It was just hilarious!

You've just reminded me how I loved that part as well^^ the whole book is just amazing:love:

[PetroX]

The first that comes to mind is L.T.'s theory of Pets. Not sure which passage but I do recall the word "slippers" for some reason. :grinning:

[MadamMack]

Hi,

Well, there are many but the most recent was from Duma Key - 'I think that ones got a lump in it!'.

Long days and pleasant nights

One on my favorites John . . ."Rita, get me a towel I think that last fart had a lump in it!"

And another is from Lisey's Story . . .

I always was one of your whiter white men, but since I lost all that blood I'm now in the top ten!

[Prince of Darkness]

Hi,

From The Uncut and Complete Stand, "Can you dig that happy crappy?" :biggrin2:

Long days and pleasant nights.

[daffyrocks]

Hi,

From The Uncut and Complete Stand, "Can you dig that happy crappy?" :biggrin2:

Long days and pleasant nights.

It was months before I stopped saying "I know what you mean, jelly bean" - was that Lloyd??

[tak113454]

I was rereading something in Rose Madder not to long ago, and it was an area where Norman is looking for Rose, and everything that is going on is from his perspective. I can't remember exactly what it was but it was his own thought process, and he was such a whack job. I wasn't expecting it, it was so crazy and deranged, and that's what made me laugh. I remember reading it out loud to my husband. Who by the way just shook his head and told me I was sick. I guess I just have that dark humor.;)

That cracked me up too. When Norman is talking to then wearing "ze bull" mask I was laughing so hard. I called my BF and tried to recreate it for him without much luck. That was one of my funniest laugh out loud moments.

[MadamMack]

On Writing has me made laugh countless times...:smile2:

I know Srbo! I read it in a few hours and I loved On Writing a lot! I like the 'Push' part. Do you remember that part?

[ConstantReader1978]

King has such a morbid sense of humor that there aren't many of his books, if any, that haven't made me laugh at one point or another. The funniest though would have to be Dreamcatcher--Pretty much anything that Beaver says is hilarious.

[Srbo]

I know Srbo! I read it in a few hours and I loved On Writing a lot! I like the 'Push' part. Do you remember that part?

Sure do.:biggrin2:

Just read it again the other day...the book is a hoot.:biggrin2:

[Teddy Duchamp]

He he another great thread!:smile2:

Laughed out loud at Tom Cullen and "M O O N.......that spells..........."

Also at the end of the Body .........."he's got dibs".........

The section in the Body in the junkyard "sic balls Chopper"......

The brilliant writing in the Talisman where I can just "see" Wolf in his dungarees saying "Right here and now".........ooo thats got me all choked up now remembering what happened to him!:sad:

[danie]

I laughed a lot in Duma Key when Edgar's messed up brain wouldn't let him say things correctly:
“Bring the friend,” I said. “Sit in the friend.”

“What do you mean, Edgar?” she asked.

“The friend, the buddy!” I shouted. “Bring over the f***ing pal, you dump *itch!” My head was killing me and she was starting to cry. I hated her for that. She had no business crying, because she wasn’t the one in the cage, looking at everything through a red blur. She wasn’t the monkey in the cage. And then it came to me. “Bring over the chum and sick down!” It was the closest my rattled, f***ed-up brain could come to chair.
Also, “Yes, now just get that hamhock out of here and stick it up your face-powder. I can do this.”

[Agincourt Concierge]

Most of my favorite lines are uttered my Eddie Dean.....here is my hands-down all time favorite from Wizard and Glass.....
when Jake remembers he needs to put the red booties on Oy....Eddie says:

"Oh Christ, I left the world I knew to watch a kid try to put booties on a f*cked-up weasel....shoot me Roland before I breed"

This one still makes me ROFL....I LOVE EDDIE...!!!!

[Matt43]

The very end of Battleground. the last item on the contents lable. I finished the story on my lunch break and walked around giggling the rest of the day.

[Sweet One]

There was an incident of really gross humor in SK that made me laugh. One occurred in Eyes of the Dragon, when Thomas was spying on his father, Roland, whom he caught picking his nose "He rooted around until he found a plump green bogger, and popped it into his mouth."

Only SK could provide such a rich description.

[OhmyGod!]

How Anne Wilkes talks...so funny!!!

And how Vera Donovan is having her 'sh*t wars' with dolores. It is written so funny...and it's true...sometimes the sad things in life can be pretty funny.

[GravemakersAndGunslingers]

Richie Tozier from IT - 'Teach us to throw stones!'

[TBlack]

"Potentialy Destructive ****ery"
:smile2::smile2::smile2:What novel was that in?:smile2::smile2:

[MartinEden]

Duma Key had lots of really witty dialogue. Another line I recall is when Edgar and Wireman are at the abandoned house. When they fall over one another trying to get inside: "Moe, Curly and Larry!" I rolled laughing!

[EngravedinFleshBass]

I can't think of an exact passage, but my recent read through the Dark Tower series had me laughing whenever a character would try to mess with Roland, and you knew he was going to hurt the people, maybe that's odd, but I found those parts great.

[Speedy2]

I think it is when the jack russell craps in LTs slippers. I remember the part you are talking about there. That whole story makes me laugh though. That disturbs me.:eyebrow:

[bopropadop]

I laughed a lot in Duma Key when Edgar's messed up brain wouldn't let him say things correctly:
“Bring the friend,” I said. “Sit in the friend.”

“What do you mean, Edgar?” she asked.

“The friend, the buddy!” I shouted. “Bring over the f***ing pal, you dump *itch!” My head was killing me and she was starting to cry. I hated her for that. She had no business crying, because she wasn’t the one in the cage, looking at everything through a red blur. She wasn’t the monkey in the cage. And then it came to me. “Bring over the chum and sick down!” It was the closest my rattled, f***ed-up brain could come to chair.
Also, “Yes, now just get that hamhock out of here and stick it up your face-powder. I can do this.”

OMG! Yes. Too funny!!!!

[Poetrychic222]

Misery, just the whole book I cracked up. Anne was just amazing.:smile2:

[hemingway2z]

"the butt crack to nowhere"
"the new step mom killed the 'ole man and ditched the kids"

[LadyHitchhiker]

From Duma Key: "You naaaaaaasty nasty man"
From It: "We all float down here."
Dark tower series: The fight scene where Eddie's naked
Dreamcatcher: When Mr. Grey screams "Flesh! Sweet flesh!" after his first taste of bacon. This was absolutely hysterically funny to me and it shouldn't have been.

[JRoDDz]

Believe it or not, in "The Shining" there were a couple of very funny parts which made me laugh out loud. Although later on in the book, I don't remember being so terrified.

This one stands out though when Watson is explaining the boiler to Jack Torrance..

"She creeps", Watson said. "You tell that fat little peckerwood Ullman, he drags out the account books and spends three hours showing how he can't afford a new one until 1982. I tell you, this whole place is gonna go sky-high someday, and I just hope that fat f*ck's here to ride the rocket.

[tillyn]

Reading the DT books there are ton's of them, Eddie is a card.:biggrin2:

[FlakeNoir]

I laughed a lot in Duma Key when Edgar's messed up brain wouldn't let him say things correctly:
“Bring the friend,” I said. “Sit in the friend.”

“What do you mean, Edgar?” she asked.

“The friend, the buddy!” I shouted. “Bring over the f***ing pal, you dump *itch!” My head was killing me and she was starting to cry. I hated her for that. She had no business crying, because she wasn’t the one in the cage, looking at everything through a red blur. She wasn’t the monkey in the cage. And then it came to me. “Bring over the chum and sick down!” It was the closest my rattled, f***ed-up brain could come to chair.
Also, “Yes, now just get that hamhock out of here and stick it up your face-powder. I can do this.”
:biggrin2: Thanks for this, you've just reminded me that I need to go another time with Duma.

[FlakeNoir]

"Potentialy Destructive ****ery"
:smile2::smile2:What novel was that in?:smile2::smile2:

Potentially destructive piece of smuckery... The Green Mile :smile2:

[danie]

:biggrin2: Thanks for this, you've just reminded me that I need to go another time with Duma.

You're Welcome! After I posted that, it made me want to read it all over again too! :smile2:

[blunthead]

I was posting earlier about Misery, and remembered how the typewriter was losing keys, first one then another and another, and what the writer would look up and read after he'd written. Strictly hilarious.

Also, though not meant to be funny, per se (I assume), the scene in The Tommyknockers with the attack of the coke machine was so visually bizarre to me I had to laugh.

[agent4CK]

The funniest line I've read in a Stephen King book is from Duma Key:

"You think Miss Eastlake's getting on? I've seen Mexican mummies hauled through the streets of Guadalajara on the Day of the Dead who looked better than Gramma Mean Dog. She's got two basic lines of conversation. There's the inquisitive line--'Did you bring me a cookie?'--and the declarative--'Get me a towel, Rita, I think that last fart had a lump in it.' "

[blunthead]

I laughed a lot in Duma Key when Edgar's messed up brain wouldn't let him say things correctly:
“Bring the friend,” I said. “Sit in the friend.”

“What do you mean, Edgar?” she asked.

“The friend, the buddy!” I shouted. “Bring over the f***ing pal, you dump *itch!” My head was killing me and she was starting to cry. I hated her for that. She had no business crying, because she wasn’t the one in the cage, looking at everything through a red blur. She wasn’t the monkey in the cage. And then it came to me. “Bring over the chum and sick down!” It was the closest my rattled, f***ed-up brain could come to chair.
Also, “Yes, now just get that hamhock out of here and stick it up your face-powder. I can do this.”Thanx for this, danie. I'm in tears here:biggrin2:.

[TheHardcase]

ELFF -- Evil Little Fat Folk from Bag of Bones. Just hysterical. :laugh:

[md10pc]

How about from The Body, The Revenge of Lardass Hogan. Gawd, that whole tale cracks me up.

Long days and pleasant nights.

I just read that part of the story last night and I've never laughed so hard while reading a book. Tears were rolling out of my eyes.

[Wynter_21]

In the Stand "Lyod savored the silence as he had once savored a pipping hot Quarter Pounder from Mcdonalds"
Cracked me up

[TheHardcase]

Evil Little Fat Folk from Bag of Bones. :laugh: Just cracked me up.

[keto]

One that's just cracked me up is from 'Salem's Lot - Hank Peters: "I didn't see nothin' and I never want to see it again."
:biggrin2:

[jc818]

One of My favorite lines was in the Tommyknockes... "you're just a lonely turd floating in the toilet bowl of life..." took me about 5 minutes to compose myself so I could continue reading.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Something that stands out in this thread (and in his interviews) is what a genuinely funny writer (and man) Sai King actually is.

Those who've never read him and yet consider him to be a 'horror' writer don't understand that he's one of the best humourists writing nowadays IMO.

What was it his t-shirt said last night?

'You can't have manslaughter without laughter'? So true!

Long days and pleasant nights

[PatInTheHat]

TONS. I can't think of any specific ones right now, but in every book there is something that just tickles me.

I just love that moment when I am reading, and am really into the story, and connected strongly with the characters. Something horrible, or scary or traumatic will happen, and then someone cracks wise, making me laugh. It is such a small but important reminder that there is sweet with the sour. For me, a small joy but a touching one.

Or maybe I am reading waaay to much into it. (pun definitely intended)

Ditto!
He's got the funniest, wittiest, and some of the quirkiest & most intelligent, and maybe ya gotta think about it sometimes to fully appreciate it, stuff out there, at least for me.
Now while he still cracks me up big time, some of the lines in his earlier works just slayed me...me reading Christine for example >>----> :oops:...:rofl:...:oh:..:rofl:..:eek2:
His wild sense of humor was, and still is, a major part of the attraction for me.

[boogerb53]

When Roland calls tuna fish "Tooter Fish". I cracked up and I call it tooter fish to this day!

[riverdog]

Believe it or not, in "The Shining" there were a couple of very funny parts which made me laugh out loud. Although later on in the book, I don't remember being so terrified.

This one stands out though when Watson is explaining the boiler to Jack Torrance..

"She creeps", Watson said. "You tell that fat little peckerwood Ullman, he drags out the account books and spends three hours showing how he can't afford a new one until 1982. I tell you, this whole place is gonna go sky-high someday, and I just hope that fat f*ck's here to ride the rocket.

watson is funny that whole scene ... "Ain't he a crazyman? I hate that little ****er. Yap-yap-yap, all the livelong day, he's just like one a those little dogs that bites you on the ankle then run around an pee all over the rug. If brains was black powder he couldn't blow his own nose. It's a pity the things you see when you ain't got a gun."

[urrutiap]

SPOILERS in case

In It, Eddie is telling some wacky story abotu him being told from another classmate that girls get pregant when you jack off on their belly buttons LOL

[Jaydean]

The fire engines in DT: Wolves Of Calla when Roaldn and co are looking to stop the breakers. The fire engines actually do more harm than good, mowing down pedestrains and screaming 'FIRE DEPT'. I pretty much laughed through the whole thing, up until Eddie death that is.