History Funny / TheShining

* When Dick Hallorann arrives at the Overlook after moving Heaven and Earth to come to the rescue, he's struck down by Jack Torrance with an axe just moments after entering the hotel, screaming like Tarzan. This scene may come across as upsetting when watched with the rest of the movie,but watched seldom and it comes across as dark comedy.

* If you don’t find the movie very scary. Or you only started watching the film from when Wendy finds “no work and no play” on the typewriter. Than Jack Nicholson can admittedly be quite hilarious. First there’s his overly sarcastic response to Wendy saying Danny needs to go to doctor. And of coarse the “I’m not gonna hurt you, I’m just gonna bash your brains”.. And let’s not forget the bathroom scene..

* If you don’t find the movie very scary. Or you only started watching the film from when Wendy finds “no work and no play” on the typewriter. Than Jack Nickerson can admittedly be quite hilarious. First there’s his overly sarcastic response to Wendy saying Danny needs to go to doctor. And of coarse the “I’m not gonna hurt you, I’m just gonna bash your brains”.. And let’s not forget the bathroom scene..

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* Edgar Allen Poe's ''The Masque Of the Red Death'' is referenced several times in the novel. What makes this funny is that Jack absolutely ''hates'' Poe, who he considers to be "The Great American Hack".

* Edgar Allen Poe's ''The Masque Of the Red Death'' is referenced several times in the novel. What makes this funny is that Jack absolutely ''hates'' Poe, who he considers to be "The Great American Hack".
* If you end up only seeing the ending, or don't find it scary. Jack Nickelson can admittedly be kinda hilarous when he finally snaps. Espically the staircase scene.

* Edgar Allen Poe's ''The Masque Of the Red Death'' is referenced several times in the novel. What makes this funny is that Jack absolutely ''hates'' Poe, who he considers to be "The Great American Hack".

* The ending of Kubrick's version, with Jack hunting down Danny in the hedge maze, is quite chilling. But taken on its own merits, the last glimpse we get of Jack - frozen stiff with his eyes rolled upward in a "Well, ''shit''" expression - is downright comical.

* When Wendy,already nearly on the brink of losing it, spots a man in a bear suit "blowing" a well dressed gentleman. Again, watching the scene alone will probably leave you in stitches, but with the rest of the movie it'll make you feel bewildered.

* Stanley Kubrick's films are usually not very funny, but the film critic David Thomson has argued that ''The Shining'' is the funniest film Kubrick ever made. The sheer richness of Jack's insanity, and the gleeful relish with which Jack Nicholson tackles the role, especially after Wendy's discovered that Jack's "novel" consists of nothing but pages and pages of paper covered with "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", makes for something that manages to be both very frightening and ''freaking hilarious''. Come on, tell me you didn't laugh at "[[MemeticMutation Heeeeeeere's JOHNNY!]]"

* Just like most of the unintentionally funny moments in the film, this merits as one of them. [[spoiler: During the scene when Jack is trying to break the bathroom door to get to Wendy and says "Little Pigs, Little Pigs, Let me come in." Wendy, realizing she can't get out the window grabs the knife and cowers in the corner with an expression saying "Oh fuck this shit" as if she were too tired to deal with the situation.]]

* When Dick Halloran arrives at the Overlook after moving Heaven and Earth to come to the rescue, he's struck down by Jack Torrance with an axe just moments after entering the hotel, screaming like Tarzan. This scene may come across as upsetting when watched with the rest of the movie,but watched seldom and it comes across as dark comedy.

* Dick Halloran describing the problem they're having with the people that they hired to watch the hotel.

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* The ending of Kubrick's version, with Jack hunting down Danny in the hedge maze, is quite chilling. But taken on its own merits, the last glimpse we get of Jack - frozen stiff with his eyes rolled upward in a "Well, ''shit'" expression - is downright comical.

* Jack's brief little dance in the ballroom after his second encounter with Lloyd the Bartender.

-->"They turned out to be unreliable assholes."

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* As pointed out by BradJones, at one point during the famous stairwell confrontation with Wendy, Jack goes from acting like a slavering lunatic to acting exasperated and annoyed with Wendy for not giving him the bat, and the sudden, if brief, shift in his demeanor is pretty funny.

-->"Hi Lloyd. [''Glances around the empty bar''] A little slow tonight, isn't it?"

--> '''Danny:''' It would be like peeking into the bedroom and watching while they’re doing the thing that makes babies. Do you know that thing?”
--> '''Hallorann:''' I have had acquaintance with it.

* "Wendy, I'm home."

* Danny wondering why the woman who wants to get into the bellboy's pants doesn't just put on some pants of her own.

* In the novel, Jack and Wendy make a winking DoubleEntendre over the time Jack trimmed a woman's topiary for some extra cash. Danny innocently asks if the woman had "nice hedges," and has no idea why his parents are both sent into hysterics by it.

* Just like most of the unintentionally funny moments in the film, this merits as one of them. [[spoiler: During the scene when Jack is trying to break the bathroom door to get to Wendy and says "Little Pigs, Little Pigs, Let me come in." Wendy, realizing she can't get out the window grabs the knife and cowers in the corner with an expression saying "Oh fuck this shit" as if she were too tired to deal with the situation.]]

* Just like most of the unintentionally funny moments in tgis film, this merits as one of them. [[spoiler: During the scene when Jack is trying to break the bathroom door to get to Wendy and says "Little Pigs, Little Pigs, Let me come in." Wendy, realizing she can't get out the window grabs the knife and cowers in the corner with an expression saying "Oh fuck this shit" as if she had to retake an 'obstacle course test' rather than 'confronting a killer expression.']]

* During the party scene, when Grady spills advocaat onto Jack, Jack says, "Looks as though you might have got a spot of it on yourself, there, Jeevesy old boy" and slaps some advocaat onto his back.

-->"Hi Lloyd. [''Glances around the empty bar''] A little slow tonight, isn't it?"

* Stanley Kubrick's films are usually not very funny, but the film critic David Thomson has argued that ''The Shining'' is the funniest film Kubrick ever made. The sheer richness of Jack's insanity, and the gleeful relish with which Jack Nicholson tackles the role, especially after Wendy's discovered that Jack's "novel" consists of nothing but pages and pages of paper covered with "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", makes for something that manages to be both very frightening and ''freaking hilarious''. Come on, tell me you didn't laugh at "Heeeeeeere's JOHNNY!"

* As pointed out by BradJones, at one point during the famous stairwell confrontation with Wendy, Jack goes from acting like a slavering lunatic to acting exasperated and annoyed with Wendy for not giving him the bat, and the sudden, if brief, shift in his demeanor is pretty funny.

-->"They turned out to be unreliable assholes."

* Stanley Kubrick's films are usually not very funny, but the film critic David Thomson has argued that ''The Shining'' is the funniest film Kubrick ever made. The sheer richness of Jack's insanity, and the gleeful relish with which Jack Nicholson tackles the role, especially after Wendy's discovered that Jack's "novel" consists of nothing but pages and pages of paper covered with "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", makes for something that manages to be both very frightening and ''freaking hilarious''. Come on, tell me you didn't laugh at "Heeeeeeere's JOHNNY!"