Funniest Scenes in SK Works.

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Walter Oobleck

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Some of Scott's...young Scott's interactions w/his old man are a hoot...there's that one, the old man gets up off the couch where he'd been lying, scissor-walks across the floor to hide behind the door that Scott will open. That scene is not only funny...it is also frightening...horrifying, because the reader knows what will happen next...if only. Tom, reciting his prayer is funny...and who was it, Ace?...some other...picking up Christine..."anyone in there want to look at some Tupperware?" Heh! Kurtz's exclamation in Dreamcatcher is a hoot...when those arrested and detained use the group-think to escape..."the salad-eating, Evian-drinking Goths had reached their objective!" Probably best in context, if you catch the ole driftola.
I'm remembering a scene in Gray Matter...when a couple sent to investigate or whatever...they get a hint of what might be behind the door... and they boogey down the steps. Boogey a word? Boogey-fever?
 

Grandpa

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I struggled when I saw this, because I don't think of "funny" in Stephen King books any more than I think of "horrific" in Dave Barry articles. They're both talented writers, and they can put the spin on a scene that they need to, I'm sure, but they just don't attract an antithetical label in my mind.

I think the biggest chuckle I got out of our benefactor's stories was some of the dialogue in Firestarter. One phrase jumps out that I can't repeat here, but someone asked about someone else's location, and the reply came back, "... in Winnipeg, for all I know."
 

Lets Rock

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I have a terrible memory for specific details but his intros make me laugh and there is usually some interaction or scene in each book that makes me laugh. Often a character responds to a normal situation in an unusual way and imagining someone's reaction if it actually happened is funny enough to make me loose my place in the book.
Hated My Gray in the book but the British accent and change in demeanour in the movie crack us up every time
 

AchtungBaby

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Another one:

When Dick Hallorann is trying to get to the Overlook and gets caught in traffic (or something?) and curses-but-doesn't-curse at a guy using the shine. I can't remember the passage right off but the way King wrote it is deliciously funny. I hope someone knows what I'm talking about.