History Funny / Hamlet

* Hamlet describing the jawless skull of Yorick as "[[IncrediblyLamePun quite chapfallen]]".

* Polonius exclaims "[[CaptainObvious O! I am slain!]]" when Hamlet stabs him through a curtain. This was in part so audiences knew what was happening, given the restricted theatre techniques of the time. But it also gives an air of comedy that this pompous nobleman feels the need to announce his own death.
* Polonius going on... and on... and on... and saying "brevity is the soul of wit"... and on...
** And Gertrude's reply to Polonius. [[HypocriticalHumor "More matter, with less art."]]

'''Hamlet:''' [[GetOut You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal.]]

'''Hamlet:''' What is the matter with ''what''?

-->"Good night, mother."
-->''Exeunt severally; Hamlet dragging in Polonius''

* Whenever Hamlet is messing with people, especially Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

'''Hamlet:''' [[GetOut You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal]]

* Hamlet's GentlemanSnarker moment here;

* Followed by Hamlet saying that if they don't find Polonius's body, by next month, going up the stairs to the lobby they'll "nose him". As the attendants run off to search for the corpse Hamlet shouts "He will stay till ye come."

* In that same scene:

** When he calls them sponges

* One thing that's often LostInTranslation is that in Early Modern English, "nunnery" was a common byword for a ''brothel.'' "Get thee to a nunnery" suddenly becomes very, very different... (and also kind of a TearJerker).
* In {{Music/SKE48}}'s production, when Polonius is reading one of Hamlet's love letters to Ophelia to Claudius and Gertrude, his actress reads it out in a high pitched voice, even stopping in the middle to gag over how bad it is. The letter is also written in Nagoya dialect, and includes a line saying he wants to ride on a bike to the beach with Ophelia. When Polonius asks Claudius if ''he'' has ever rode a bike, the latter can no longer contain her laughter.

* In one of his ramblins Polonius loses his train of thought.

*** "Do you think I mean CUNT... rrrrrrry matters" - David Tennant as Hamlet.

*** "Do you think I mean CUNT... rrrrrrry matters" - David Tennant as Hamlet
** These double entendres were definitely intended, and they just keep coming throughout the scene, culminating with Ophelia, in spite of herself, coming to ''like'' it, particularly when Hamlet insinuates having sex with her.
--->'''Ophelia:''' You are keen, my lord, you are keen.\\
'''Hamlet:''' It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge.\\
'''Ophelia:''' Still better and worse.

-->'''Polonius:''' "That he's mad 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity, and 'tis pity 'tis 'tis true. A foolish figure, but farewell it, for I will use no art."

-->'''Hamlet''': Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
-->'''Ophelia''': No, my lord.
-->'''Hamlet''': I mean, my head upon your lap?
-->'''Ophelia''': Ay, my lord.
-->'''Hamlet''': Do you think I meant country matters?

-->'''Ophelia:''' You are keen, my lord, you are keen.
-->'''Hamlet:''' It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge.
-->'''Ophelia:''' Still better and worse.

-->'''Ophelia:''' I think nothing, my lord.
-->'''Hamlet:''' That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
-->'''Ophelia:''' What is, my lord?
-->'''Hamlet:''' Nothing.

-->'''Hamlet''': I prithee take thy hand from off my throat,\\

---> '''Polonius:''' My honoured lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
---> '''Hamlet:''' [[GetOut You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal]]

--> '''Polonius:''' What are you reading, my lord?
--> '''Hamlet:''' Words, words, words.
--> '''Polonius:''' What is the ''matter''[[note]]i.e., "What is the book about?"[[/note]], my lord?
--> '''Hamlet:''' What is the matter with ''what''?

* Polonius' death. Upon being slain by Hamlet (read: stabbed through a window curtain), Polonius feels the need to exclaim "[[CaptainObvious O! I am slain!]]" Something that this made this troper reconsider the play's genre. It just feels like a comedy after that (in most adaptations, if not proven in the text) over-fed, noble man points out his own demise as it's happening. Although to be fair, he would not have been visible to the audience.

*** Plus, it's widely agreed that this was entirely intentional on Shakespeare's part. The man had an absolutely filthy mind.
*** His double entredes just keep coming throughout the scene, and it gets funnier when Ophelia, in spite of herself, gets to ''liking'' it, particularly when Hamlet insinuates having sex with her.

* One thing that's often LostInTranslation is that in Middle English, a "nunnery" wasn't a place where nuns lived. It was a ''brothel.'' "Get thee to a nunnery" suddenly becomes very, very different... (and also kind of a TearJerker).

* ''{{Hamlet}}'' is just generally underrated where humour is concerned. Hamlet spends much of the first half of the play and some of the second half gleefully and hilariously messing with Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Claudius.

* Followed by Hamlet saying that if they don't find Polonius's body, by next month, going up the stairs to the lobby they'll "nose him".

-->'''Hamlet''': I prithee take thy hand from off my throat,
--->For there is something in me dangerous\\

* Polonius' death. Upon being slain by Hamlet (read: stabbed through a window curtain), Polonius feels the need to exclaim "I am slain." Something that this made this troper reconsider the play's genre. It just feels like a comedy after that (in most adaptations, if not proven in the text) over-fed, noble man points out his own demise as it's happening.
** To be fair, he would not have been visible to the audience.

--> '''Polonius:''' What is the ''matter'', my lord?

* The First Quarto [[note]]Once considered to be the 'bad version' of Hamlet, but now seen as snappier and more logical in the scene order, as it's most likely a memorial reconstruction by one of the actors in Shakespeare's company. The accuracy of the text noticeably jumps up whenever Voltimand is onstage.[[/note]] has a variation on the graveyard scene. Only a few lines after "AlasPoorYorick", Hamlet jumps into Ophelia's grave after Leartes, who attacks him:

I loved Ophelia as dear\\

** The entire graveyard scene given that it is Hamlet and Leartes having what can only be described as an Emo-off.