Funny / Music and Lyrics

• Honestly, most of Hugh Grant's lines and delivery will make many people (and their mothers) at least chuckling a bit, if not laughing full-out.
  Alex: (about his failed solo album effort) Yes, it sold only 50,000 copies. Most of those to my mother. ...Rolling Stone called it, "a crass, contrived effort, not even good enough for a dentist's chair".
  Sophie: (reassuringly) Well, I'm sure there were other reviews.
  Alex: (nods) There were, there were, but none as good as that one.
• Anything that comes out of Greg The Rhyming Psychopath's mouth.
  Greg: (in response to Sophie's more upbeat lyrical suggestions): What's next? "Feelings? Nothing more than feelings?" You people disgust me.
  • Alex's attempts to put Greg's extremely bleak, bitter lyrics to a pretty piano pop tune during their meeting. It works just as poorly as you'd think.
  • When Greg leaves in a huff, Alex reassures Sophie that he's just going back to his day job at Hallmark.
  • At the end, he's shown in the audience at Cora's show, where he mimes shooting himself in the head.
• Alex's gig at a high school reunion. All the women love him. Their husbands, not so much.
• A deleted scene has Sophie telling off Colin on the phone...only for it to be a Best Buy employee named Colin.
• Sophie's terrified, barely whispered first take of the "Way Back Into Love" demo.
  Alex: Just a little bit louder, 'cuz this song is intended for humans.
• Alex waking up underneath his piano next to Sophie and promptly banging his head against the cabinet when his cell phone rings. Moments later, as he's taking the call, he hears a similar bang, implying that Sophie's woken up too.
  • Before that happens, Chris's line over the phone to Alex: "You slept with Sophie?!" Bear in mind he's saying this in earshot of kids. Alex tries to calm him down by reminding him to watch his blood pressure.
    Alex: You're a tall man, you need all the pressure you can get.
• Sophie referring to Cora's hyper-sexualized take on hers and Alex's song as "that orgasm set to the soundtrack from Gandhi."
• The expression on Sophie's sister's face as she slowly realizes exactly what kind of concert she's taken her prepubescent children to, along with the reaction of her previously bored husband.
• This exchange after Sophie explains her history with Sloan Cates:
  Sophie: What if one of your heroes came up to you and said—you know, Smokey, what if he said: "Alex Fletcher, you are a horrible songwriter"? How would you react?
  Alex: I do know Smokey a little bit. He's far too nice a gentleman ever to say such a thing. Uh, Dylan might. Dylan would, actually. In fact, Dylan did.