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* A gag in ''Film/RushHour3'' has Carter (and eventually Lee as well) trading insults with a French-speaking triad through a nun. Lee (at first) reminds Carter to watch his mouth: "Sister, you tell this piece of S-Word that I will personally F-word him up."
* ''Film/SisterAct.'' Everything the nuns do is hilarious, either because of a display of naivete resulting from their sheltered lives, or because it's a mundane thing that you just don't expect a nun to do (dancing to a jukebox), or both.

** Said nuns are dressed... interestingly, to say the least, and are rather impressive in their range. The synchronized-swimming team (of nuns), for example, ...

* The obscure film ''Film/GreasersPalace'' has a nun played by a man by no reason.
* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', mostly for its parody of NunsAreSpooky, and their habit of referring to her as "the Penguin" all the time.
* ''Film/RunningScared1986'' - Creator/BillyCrystal and Creator/GregoryHines play cops who arrest a priest and a nun who they think are smuggling drugs from Colombia. After they find out they aren't, the nun hits one of them with a ruler.
* ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'': Bystander calling the police on a cell phone? Whatever. Nun calling the police on a cell phone, getting put on hold, and letting out an exasperated "Oh for the love of God"? HilarityEnsues!
* ''Film/ShortCircuit'': "What if it goes and melts down a busload of nuns? How would you like to write the headline on that?" "'Nun Soup'?"
* The British film ''Film/NunsOnTheRun'' cranks the zany up to 11 by having two men [[DisguisedInDrag crossdress as nuns to escape criminals]].
* In the original version of ''Film/{{Bedazzled 1967}}'', The Devil tricks Stanley into using his final wish to be transformed into a nun.
--> A nun, moreover of the order of Leaping Beryllians who show their devotion by bouncing on trampolines while singing a silly song!
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' has a gag where a nun is seeing reading the magazine "Boy's Life,"[[note]]The official magazine of the Boy Scouts of America[[/note]] followed immediately by a boy reading "Nun's Life", with a cover featuring a nun riding a surfboard. Later, she's playing her guitar singing "Respect" to the two jive-talking black guys who are sick from eating fish. Also, when the passengers started panicking after learning no one's flying the plane, the nun is seen strangling a Hare Krishna.
* Even ''Film/AgnesOfGod'', an intensely serious film, has lighthearted moments: the novice Genevieve taking a few joyous minutes on the convent swing, and the entire sisterhood on a frozen pond, ice skating, badly. And let's not forget this:
--> '''Martha.''' What'd you have for dinner?
--> '''Agnes (hypnotized).''' Fish. Brussels sprouts. (wrinkles up her nose)
--> '''Martha.''' You don't like Brussels sprouts?
--> '''Agnes.''' I ''hate'' them.
* A scene in ''Film/SpyHard'' takes place in a convent, with various assassins working for the bad guy chasing Agent Dick Steele and Veronique Urkinsky through the place while a pastiche of ''Film/SisterAct'' plays out in the background. Steele and Veronique make an escape while the nuns, finally tired of the constant interruptions, push the bad guys down while one of them declares "Sisters, make 'em holy!" at which point, the nuns produce Tommy guns and ventilate the {{Mook}}s.
* The German and Hungarian nuns in ''Film/LiliesOfTheField'' are pretty badass, having come over the Berlin Wall and on to New Mexico, and living on nothing; but even the ironclad Mother Superior has her cute, funny moments and they have a lot of FunWithForeignLanguages.
* Sister Clotilde in ''Film/LeGendarmeDeSaintTropez'' series. Sister Clotilde is a very enthusiastic young nun who DrivesLikeCrazy a comically small [[TheAllegedCar Citroën 2CV]]. She's ''myopic'' and wears no glasses.

This could be because "nun" is an {{Inherently Funny Word|s}}, or that their outfits look silly. This trope mostly manifests as "normal" things being made inherently funny due to nuns doing them. Someone boarding a plane? Normal. A nun doing it in her religious habit? Hilarious! Of course, the majority of modern nuns ''do not'' wear habits anymore, preferring plain black or grey dresses instead, but...[[RuleOfFunny that's not as funny]]. Also, the ''[[JustForPun convent]]''ional stereotype of them is that they are very stern, severe and disapproving, thus making them either [[TheComicallySerious foils for wackiness going on around them]] or upping the humor value when ''they'' [[NunTooHoly do something wacky]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Sister Mary's surfing habit is [[JustForPun nun]] of your business.]]

-->"Nuns are so funny, they're ''[[IncrediblyLamePun nunny]]!'' Look at 'em, all penguiney."

* And what ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' fan can forget the immortal words of [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] on a runaway supercycle: "Oh no! Nuns in a station wagon loaded with high explosives! [[http://robintheunlikelykiller.ytmnd.com/ Just my luck!" (Warning: sound)]]

* Index of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' is technically a nun, but passes off her very un-nun like behavior such as indulging in sweets as the result of her only being in training.

* ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'': In the season 6 challenge "You Didn't See Me", the Jokers have to get a stranger to cover for them as they dodge someone they've been avoiding: a prostitute, a mob enforcer, a little girl with pigtails, and a nun.

* There was a gag in that theatrical short with the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' penguins where the penguins fell in behind a group of nuns to appear inconspicuous.

-->"Nuns are so funny, they're ''[[IncrediblyLamePun nunny]]!'' Look at 'em, all [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguiney]]."

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' has London and Mady go to a Catholic School. The nuns there always wear their hats, even when hiking through the woods in tracksuit or coaching the volleyball team.

* In ''[[Creator/MilestoneComics Xombi]]'', despite not being comedic figures, there was Nun of the Above who had clairvoyant abilities and Nun the Less who could shrink. The humor mainly came from their punny names, and there was a third nun whose task was to guard a door to an underground prison. When asked which nun she was, she replied "[[StealthPun None of your business.]]"

* ''Film/{{Airplane}}!'' has a gag where a nun is seeing reading the magazine "Boy's Life[[note]] The official magazine of the Boy Scouts of America[[/note]]", followed immediately by a boy reading "Nun's Life", with a cover featuring a nun riding a surfboard. Later, she's playing her guitar singing "Respect" to the two jive-talking black guys who are sick from eating fish. Also, when the passengers started panicking after learning no one's flying the plane, the nun is seen strangling a Hare Krishna.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking was formerly known as "Bus Full Of Nuns" because of this trope.
* There exists a calendar called "Nuns Having Fun", which depicts nuns on roller coasters, eating ice cream, etc.
* Music/BarenakedLadies:
-->"But how do you plan for a bank full of nuns?"
* A ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody of ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'' included a spoof of the song "Maria", detailing how religious movies become more accessible and marketable when they focus on nuns who-like Maria-spend more time goofing around than performing their duties.

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* [[https://twitter.com/hyxpk Diva]] in their Twitter account draws a new art about nuns' (and a priest's) daily life activities every day, it's hilarious...

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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Scuccia Sister Cristina Scuccia]], who won the 2014 version of ''The Voice of Italy''.

** Its sequel ''Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows'' addresses the trope when Sister George says she doesn't want to be patronized as a "darling little nun" who's "just like a real person." While both movies draw humor from nuns doing things in their bulky habits, the second one ends with the sisters changing to a modified version.

* The obscure film ''Greaser's Palace'' has a nun played by a man by no reason.

* ''Film/RunningScared1986'' - Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines play cops who arrest a priest and a nun who they think are smuggling drugs from Colombia. After they find out they aren't, the nun hits one of them with a ruler.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', has Misora Kasuga, who acts nothing like the traditional stern nun. In particular, there's the incident where she took over a {{Confessional}} as her classmates came to it for advice. It's also implied that she's on nun duty as punishment for disciplinary infractions...

* And what ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'' fan can forget the immortal words of [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] on a runaway supercycle: "Oh no! Nuns in a station wagon loaded with high explosives! [[http://robintheunlikelykiller.ytmnd.com/ Just my luck!" (Warning: sound)]]

This could be because "nun" is an {{Inherently Funny Word|s}}, or that their outfits look silly. This trope mostly manifests as "normal" things being made inherently funny due to nuns doing them. Someone boarding a plane? Normal. A nun doing it in her religious habit? Hilarious! Of course, the majority of modern nuns ''do not'' wear habits anymore, preferring plain black or grey dresses instead, maybe including the headdress, but...[[RuleOfFunny that's not as funny]].[[note]]Some of the more traditional orders still prefer religious members to stay in full habit all the time. [[/note]] Also, the ''[[JustForPun convent]]''ional stereotype of them is that they are very stern, severe and disapproving, thus making them either [[TheComicallySerious foils for wackiness going on around them]] or upping the humor value when ''they'' [[NunTooHoly do something wacky]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Sister Mary's surfing habit is [[ pun nun]] of your business.]]