History ActuallyPrettyFunny / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/AlexRider'':

* Creator/BillOReilly is actually a huge fan of Creator/StephenColbert, whose ''entire show'' is a half-hour long parody of O'Reilly's.

* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'': After two Marines are kidnapped near the US-Mexico border, Kensi and Deeks are assigned to follow their trail across the desert. City boy Deeks demurs and suggests they send Sam instead of him. When asked ''why''--with Sam giving him a DeathGlare[[note]]Note that Sam is [[ScaryBlackMan a very large former Navy SEAL]] played by Creator/LLCoolJ[[/note]]--Deeks mumbles something about Africa being a very hot place. Sam retorts, "I'm from Brooklyn, Huckleberry," and Deeks realizes he's [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging himself deeper]] and goes off with Kensi. Once they're out of earshot, Sam chuckles to Callen and goes, "One of these days, I'm gonna kill him."

* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'': After two Marines are kidnapped near the US-Mexico border, Kensi and Deeks are assigned to follow their trail across the desert. City boy Deeks demurs and suggests they send Sam instead of him. When asked ''why''--with Sam giving him a DeathGlare[[note]]Note that Sam is [[ScaryBlackMan a very large former Navy SEAL]] played by Creator/LLCoolJ[[/note]]--Deeks mumbles something about Africa being a very hot place. Sam retorts, "I'm from Brooklyn, Huckleberry," and Deeks realizes he's [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging himself deeper]] and goes off with Kensi. Once they're out of earshot, Deeks chuckles to Callen and goes, "One of these days, I'm gonna kill him."

* ''Series/{{Nuremberg}}'': While being questioned on the stand, Herman Goering is asked who came up with the idea to make Hitler both head of government and head of state. Goering claims that the Nazis modelled it after the similar dual roles of the U.S. President. The American prosecutors are visibly annoyed by this, but the chief British prosecutor can't resist a chuckle at his allies' expense.

** when Milton Berle reacts to JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf by saying he has a good mind to punch him in the nose. Waldorf says, "Please, not while I'm holding it." When Berle admits, "That's pretty funny," Waldorf says he can use it. Which is funny too because part of Milton Berle's stage persona was he stole all his material (similar to Jack Benny's persona of being a miser).

-->'''Sarah:''' Oh, here's one you forgot - Sarah-no de Bergerac[[note]]Franchise/CyranoDeBergerac, a French writer famed in fiction for having a massive nose[[/note]]\\

* On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', when Milton Berle reacts to JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf by saying he has a good mind to punch him in the nose. Waldorf says, "Please, not while I'm holding it." When Berle admits, "That's pretty funny," Waldorf says he can use it. Which is funny too because part of Milton Berle's stage persona was he stole all his material (similar to Jack Benny's persona of being a miser).

** Season 1 features a huge conflict between the commander of the Homicide Unit, [[DaChief Bill Rawls]] (who believes in doing anything to makes his unit look good statistically speaking, even if it comes at the expense of actual criminal investigations) and Jimmy [=McNulty=], whose personal motto is [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight "fuck the brass"]]. After all the headaches [=McNulty=] causes him, Rawls responds by transferring [=McNulty=] to what [=McNulty=] himself said would be the worst possible police duty for him: riding a boat in the harbor unit. In season 2 though, [=McNulty=] strikes back when he proves that a floating body found in the harbor, (and a totally unsolvable murder) falls under the territorial jurisdiction of the Homicide Unit rather than the Coast Guard or the County Police, a process that Jimmy admits took hours of calculating the tides to see where the body would have first hit the water. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aftHQdRKvts When Rawls gets the news he's enraged but also slightly amused despite himself.]]

** Rawls is also amused at the news that [=McNulty=] has called the First Deputy of the FBI "an empty suit" to the Deputy's face during a bit of JurisdictionFriction between the special unit of the Baltimore PD [=McNulty=] was working with at the time and the FBI.
** During the third season, the Major Crimes Unit comes up with a plan to try to bring down Proposition Joe by busting one of Joe's lieutenants in the hopes that the lieutenant's incompetent underling (who happens to be Prop Joe's nephew) will be promoted to take over the position, and thus will speak too much on the wiretap the unit has going on this syndicate. When Cedric presents the plan to Commissioner Burrell, Burrell asks why Daniels thinks the wrong man will be promoted. Daniels quips "Well, we do it all the time." After a brief pause, Burrell laughs rather heartily at the joke.
** Jimmy [=McNulty=] frequently chuckles or smirks at the various WhatTheHellHero speeches he gets when the other person makes a particularly good point, most notably when [[GreatDetective Lester Freamon]] (one of the few detectives on the force [=McNulty=] genuinely respects) gives him a speech that amounts to saying "you need to get a life".
** In the second season, Bunk and Lester have a frustrating time trying to interview the crew of an international freighter, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrzpoUjJ_0g all of whom are claiming to not speak any English]]. Eventually the two snap and start trying to get one of the crew to react while they say things like "[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Yabba dabba doo]]". Bunk can be seen cracking up just before Lester resorts to shouting "[[Film/PulpFiction English, motherfucker!]]" in one guy's face.

--->''Large:''' You got a problem with that, [[InterserviceRivalry flyboy?!]]\\

[[BeatPanel [beat]]]\\

---> '''Large''': You got a problem with that, [[InterserviceRivalry flyboy?!]]
---> '''Keffer''': ...Yeah... as a matter of fact I do. I'm going to find a ladder, and then we can discuss it face-to-face.
---> [[BeatPanel [beat]]]
---> '''Large''': HAHAHAHAHA! You're alright, flyboy!

-->'''Sheldon''': I'm not going to pay a fine, that would imply I'm guilty.\\
'''Howard''': You are guilty.\\

'''Howard''': That one I liked.

--->'''Buffy''': I'm not joking.\\

---> '''Angel:''' You ever try finishing a sentence when Buffy's all worked up?\\

--->'''Ross''': Actually... it kind of ''is''.

--> '''Gibby''': What kind of food do you have at a revenge party?
--> '''Freddie''': Just desserts.

-->'''Louis''': Do you know the secret to immortality?\\
'''Tom''': Never get married.\\
'''Louis''': ''(chuckles)'' That's a good joke.

-->'''Randy''': It's funny, isn't it? Is it funny?\\
'''Earl''': Yeah, it's funny.\\
'''Randy''': I told you. [[CaptainObvious It's because I'm a man, but I'm dressed like a woman.]]

--> '''Police Officer:''' Ma'am, as I've said before this is a police matter--
--> '''Leslie: '''WELL IT DOESN'T SEEM TO MATTER TO THE POLICE!
--> ({{Beat}})
--> '''Police Officer:''' Okay, nice job with that.

* In Series/{{Psych}}, Father Westley is amused by Shawn's suggestions for a jingle (bum bum bum... muffins/wafers/Holy Ghost)

---> "I know I'm not supposed to like that guy, but damn that was funny! The President elect just called CNN fake news live on CNN! And the only thing CNN could do back is say, "Sir? Sir!""

-->'''Clarkson''': "This is the fastest car..." [''pauses for a good fifteen seconds, prompting mass laughter from the audience''] "...in the ''world''."

--->'''Bernard''': Sun readers don't care who runs the country [[PageThreeStunna as long as she's got big tits]].

* Whenever a left-wing pundit or comedian puts on a satirical sketch of Radio/GlennBeck (from Creator/JonStewart to Creator/KeithOlbermann) Beck will promptly replay it on his show and then follow up by admitting it's funny, if it is. He spent almost a half-hour of his radio show gushing about the parody of him in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode ''Dances with Smurfs''.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}: Post-plane crash, the girls sit around a fire as they wait for help to come. Laura Lee tears up and insists the crash is her fault, since she thought a bad word against one of her teachers in class, and now believes God is punishing her for it. Upon hearing what [[CountryMatters the word]] in question was, the girls all crack up despite their situation, and eventually even Laura Lee giggles at the absurdity of it.