Ah, a quick moment to post after lunch.
Thanks for all the welcome backs. Makes me feel good to be on-line again.
Had a difficult night of sleep also. First, they changed the locks on the front door of our building. They said it would happen sometime this morning (January 5th). For some reason, they did it late last night so at midnight our next door neighbor buzzed our flat repeatedly because he was locked out! He hadn't taken his new key with him because we all expected the change to happen this morning. At least the keys work! Then we went back to bed. One hour later, at 1am our crazy neighbor (most New York apartment buildings have at least one crazy neighbor, not crazy like Lucy, but certifiable crazy) slammed her apartment door (she's on 3 and we're on 4 and it's a walk-up). It sounded like a gun shot. Then she began shrieking and screaming for the police. Our first thought was that her also mentally unstable son (I'm trying to be nice here, I've used crazy too many times) had done something either to himself or to her. She screamed and screamed but by the time we picked up the phone the police and an ambulance had arrived. One of the other tenants had called 911. We still don't know what happened except that we saw out the window that V and F (they shall remain nameless) were led out of the building by the police and escorted into the ambulance. We finally got back to bed and sleep about 1:45am and I got up at 6 to go back to work!
That said, now responding to the QOTD, the first part of The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole (when he thought he was Jesus) had me screaming with laughter. The second part when he turns into a Jack the Ripper kind of character gets spooky and dark and not funny but scary. I also remember peeing over Airplane. None of the Airplane sequels have hit me quite the way the first one did, I think because it was so unexpected. Other movies and plays have been mentioned already, such as Auntie Mame, Hairspray (the movie), which I saw in Paris. We were the only Americans in the theatre and we were rolling in the aisles. Some of the others were laughing and giggling but nothing like those two crazy Americans! Waiting for Guffman and What's Up Doc? also made me laugh.
My most recent theatrical laugh fest came from Avenue Q. I still have to go back to see it again because I laughed and missed so many jokes.
This is turning into a rather long post (I'm making up for the past month of errantness and truantness) and I must get back to work.
Don't know if I'll be at chat tonight. I'll try, but we are getting together with friends to share our stories of England so if I'm there it will be late.