Funniest Scene in a King Book? (minor spoiler)

[smerdyakov]

Did anyone think this about the scene after the poetry reading, at the after party? When that guy started mouthing off about how great nuclear energy is, I thought, 'oh snapppp!' And the areba areba umbrella part :laugh: Maybe not king's best book on the whole, but I would like to cast the first vote for it containing the most hilarious scene in a King book to date.

[wally wonder]

i thought it was funny, from roadwork, when the protag...what was his name?....runs the blender all night long on puree...something about the oil embargo, energy, that sorta thing...and he does his part! funniest from tommyknockers maybe is when gardener, gardner? is thinking about anderson's sister, she's not there, and he has that jingle running in his head, and that's the way, oh ho uh huh, i like it

[smerdyakov]

argg, I haven't made my way through all the bachman books, so don't know the scene from roadwork you're talking about. I remember that from tommyknockers, though, and agree it was quite funny. But I still think the afterparty takes the cake :biggrin2: There's just so many hilarious things that happen while he's boozing. I wonder if any of that was biographical? Maybe adapted in a loose way from one of King's own experiences at a stuffy literary party? Probably not -- it's too outrageous -- but that kept running through my head while I was reading.

BTW, how is roadwork?

[smerdyakov]

arggg, I haven't read all of the bachman books, so don't know the scene from roadwork you're talking about. I do remember the one from tommyknockers, though, and agree it was very funny. The whole book was humorous at times, but I still think the scene at the afterparty takes the cake :biggrin2: There's just so much there that I found hilarious. I wonder if any of it was semi-autobiographical? Probably not -- it's so outrageous -- but that thought kept coming to mind while I was reading.

btw, How is Roadwork?

[xMonicax]

Did anyone think this about the scene after the poetry reading, at the after party? When that guy started mouthing off about how great nuclear energy is, I thought, 'oh snapppp!' And the areba areba umbrella part :laugh: Maybe not king's best book on the whole, but I would like to cast the first vote for it containing the most hilarious scene in a King book to date.

Actually, i thought that the part when - the two cops get attacked by a Coke machine, shoot it, and then joke about not reading it it's civil rights or firing a warning shot - was hilarious! That part was funny too though, lol.

[fromTull]

Funniest from W&G: when Jake is about to put the botties on Oy, the Wizard of Oz part. Eddie watches and then the ex-junkie says "I left the world I knew to watch a kid try to put booties on a f___ed up weasel. Shoot me Roland before I breed." I just about DIED the first time I came across that.

[Pucker]

It never fails to make me chuckle, in Here There Be Tygers, when Charles tells Kenny there's a tiger in the "basement," and Kenny says, "What's he doing, takin' a piss?"

[jc818]

I just started reading the book, only 130 pages into it, and I thought that part was hilarious. I kept picturing Gard standing in a bullfighter's stance smacking the guy with an umbrella yelling ariba ariba! Priceless!

[Jack Roman]

I have to agree, that part was funny even though the rest of the book was that great.

[blunthead]

In Under the Dome, the chapter where the Corgi is behind the sofa "hoovering" the popcorn. Inho, that chapter was written perfectly.

[bobledrew]

And nobody discusses the Revenge of Lardass Hogan? I love Vern's interjections in that story and the boys' insistence that he shaddap!

[popsqueak]

I thought the umbrella scene was great too! Imagine if you really saw someone chasing another with an umbrella, priceless!!!

[Randall Fagg]

I really liked the line in Tommyknockers (LOL'ed for sure) "Also, she wrote good old western stories that you could really sink your teeth into, not all full of make-believe monsters and a bunch of dirty words, like the books that fellow who lived up Bangor way wrote."

Also, Roland, to Stuttering Bill, ""My first suggestion is that you fix that ****ing stutter."

King has a great sense of humor, which pairs great with his imaginative storytelling, and can always keep me wanting more.

[momone53]

When I first read the quote from Roland regarding Stuttering Bill, I laughed out loud. But the funniest thing I read, the thing that made me laugh until I cried, was in On Writing; the story of his brother's science project had me laughing until I about fell on the floor.

[larchi]

the after part scene from tommyknockers really was too funny...took me an age to finally get through it cause of the tears-lol, also when paul is thinking he might get one whack in with the o'ceder mop before anne throttles him like a chicken tickled me :) strange-whenever someone 'roars' something, i get set off o.0

[CarrieJo]

There are SO many moments where I'll be reading and a crack up line will come out of nowhere and get me laughing so hard I end up waking up the boyfriend or at least getting a weird look. Then whenever I explain he looks at me like I'm even crazier. I would have to say that the first thing that comes to mind for me is from the story "I Am the Doorway" from the Night Shift collection. I mean the scene where the main character (I can't remember his name) is running at full speed after some kid with his arms stretched straight up above his head kills me every time. You just don't see that.