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Fozzie Bear's standup isn't very funny, but he had some great lines in "The Muppets."
I saw a lot of movies this year. Some were great, some were horrible, many were in the middle. But a movie doesn't have to be Oscar quality to provide a line or exchange that makes you laugh. Here are a few of my favorite funny movie lines from 2011.
'Bridesmaids'
Brynn: At first I did not know it was your diary, I thought it was a very sad handwritten book.
'Muppets'
Fozzie Bear: Wow, that was such an expensive looking explosion! I can't believe we had that in the budget.
'Arthur Christmas'
Grand Santa to his son, Santa Claus: You're a postman with a spaceship! During World War II, I did the whole thing with six reindeer and a drunken elf!
'Young Adult'
Matt: I'm a fat geek, OK? I know what a zombie is!
'War Horse'
Colin, a British soldier: You speak good English!
Peter, a German soldier: I speak English well.
'Moneyball'
Billy Beane: There are rich teams and there are poor teams, then there's fifty feet of crap, and then there's us.
'Rango'
Priscilla: Oh he's talking about Rattlesnake Jake, Mr. Rango. He usually doesn't come to town because of that hawk, but he might come now. Can I have your boots when you're dead?
'The Smurfs'
Patrick: None of you find that song just the tiniest bit annoying?
'A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas'
Kumar: No can do man. I have to stay here and smoke this weed, otherwise I won't get high.
'Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol'
Brandt, after barely surviving a giant fan: That's it. Next time, I get to seduce the rich guy.
'Captain America: The First Avenger'
Col. Phillips: If you have anything to say, now would be a perfect time to keep it to yourself.
'Thor'
Darcy, upon seeing Thor: You know, for a crazy homeless person, he's pretty cut.
'Scream 4'
Trevor: Why is Sidney Prescott staying with you? I mean, that's like being on 'Top Chef' with Jeffrey Dahmer.
'Cars 2'
Finn: My apologies, I haven't properly introduced myself. Finn McMissile, British intelligence.
Mater: Tow Mater, average intelligence.
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Billy Beane: "I hate to lose even more than I want to win."
from Moneyball
Kimmy: You're in Bangkok, there's a reason they don't call it Bang@!$%#!
From Hangover II
Horrible Bosses:
Detective: "You wanna explain why you were speeding?"
Nick: "I was drag racing."
Detective: "In a Prius?"
Nick: "I don't win a lot."
Sure " Mission Impossible ( ghost ) "
Not one of these lines are funny.
Yours is LMAO
Swaz22,
No, but three were.
Can we get a Fozzie bear laugh??
Swaz22, you have no sense of humor. The one from War Horse was hilarious.
It might have been funny when a slightly reworded version of it was used in a number of 90s TV sitcoms and maybe even when it appeared in a couple of Disney Channel shows in the 2000s, but now it seems pretty tired and unoriginal. Perhaps the delivery makes it work, perhaps the charisma of the actor pulls it off? But as a joke, by itself? It's pretty basic and quite simple in structure. But I guess these really are the best of the year.
It's a decent joke, but it goes back at least to the 60's, when TV shows would have white men reaching natives somewhere (wild west, Africa, Borneo, etc.) and being upstaged by the natives having impeccable British enunciation.
David Tennant as Peter Vincent in "Fright Night " (2011), stuck in the middle of a vampire attack with a malfunctioning stake gun - "F**kin' eBAY!"
In "Midnight In Paris", one among many hilarious moments: Gil (Owen Wilson) is sitting with Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, and Man Ray, and making small talk he says, "I come from another time, you know." His acquaintances, surrealists all, nod in agreement.
arrow in the knee jokes are funnier than this crap.
I was needing a good laugh today..........forget it.
not movie, TV series White Collar:
Peter Burke: "'All of your quotes are getting on my nerves.' - Peter Burke"
Ironic that the joke from Moneyball with Brad Pitt was stolen from a line spoken by Jennifer Aniston in Friends.
Good pick! I spotted that also. Lots of recycled jokes in movies now. Just standard gags repeated by new faces. In fact the last 10 years has been very ordinary, comedy-wise. The Hangover was just awful...
Idella: I'm leaving Miss Daisy
Miss Daisy: All right good night Idella.
Hoke: I'm goin' too Miss Daisy!
Miss Daisy: Good!
Doesn't seem like much, but it made me laugh.