It isn't just Jared that delivers the laughs. There are more hilarious moments from this emotionally devastating play than you think.
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Musical
- This exchange between Murphys.Cynthia: It's your senior year, Connor, you are not missing the first day.
Connor: I already said I'd go tomorrow. I'm trying to find a compromise here.
Cynthia: Are you going to get involved here or are you too busy on your email, Larry?
Larry: You have to go to school, Connor.
Cynthia: That's all you're going to say?
Larry: What do you want me to say? He doesn't listen. Look at him. He's probably high.
Zoe: He's definitely high.
Connor: Fuck you.
Zoe: Fuck you.
Cynthia: I don't need you picking on your brother right now. That is not constructive.
Zoe: Are you kidding?
Cynthia: Besides, he’s not high.
[Connor can only lift his head up slowly, with a look that screams that he took drugs]
Cynthia: Are you high?! We have talked about this, Connor. You are not going to school high!
Connor: Perfect, so then I won't go. Thanks, Mom! - Jared thinks Evan broke his arm because of masturbation."Paint me the picture: you're in your bedroom, you've got Zoe Murphy's Instagram up on your weird, off-brand cell phone..."
- During the Murphys' dinner, Cynthia remembers ski trips together with nearby neighbours the Harrisons.Evan: Connor loved skiing.
Zoe: Connor hated skiing.
Evan: Well, right. That's what I meant. Connor loved... talking about how much he hated skiing. - When Evan lies about Connor shoving him at school...Evan: He didn't really want people to know we were friends. I guess he was embarrassed. A little.
Zoe: Why would he be embarrassed?
Evan: Um... I guess because he thought I was sort of, you know...
Zoe: A nerd?
Larry: Zoe!
Zoe: Isn't that what you meant?
Evan: Loser, I was going to say, actually. But nerd works, too. - Jared isn't convinced by Evan's secret email account plan.Jared: Oh, right, one of those secret email accounts! Sure! For sending pictures of your penises to each other!
- This exchange between Evan and Jared, when Jared makes an offer to make fake emails from Connor.Jared: For two grand.
Evan: Two thousand dollars?
Jared: Five hundred.
Evan: I can give you twenty.
Jared: Fine, but you're a dick. - "Sincerely, Me" from beginning to end is hilarious.
- Jared's first draft of an email.Connor: Dear Evan Hansen, we've been way too out of touch
Things have been crazy and it sucks that we don't talk that much
But I should tell you that I think of you each night
I rub my nipples and start moaning with delight!
Evan: (to Jared) Why would you write that?!
Jared: [gives a wicked laugh to what he's just typed] I’m just trying to tell the truth!- Arguably funnier in the live production, as Connor is standing frozen on the side of the stage mid-nipple rub while Evan and Jared argue.
- Even funnier in this animatic
:Connor: I rub my—
[Evan slams Jared's laptop shut. Cue awkward silence.]
Jared: What?
Evan: Why would you write that?!
- Evan editing the email.Connor: "I gotta tell you life without you has been hard—"
Jared: "Hard?"
Connor: "—has been bad—"
Jared: "Bad?"
Connor: "—has been rough!"
Jared: "Kinky!" - Evan writes that Connor wishes his parents would stop fighting and everything might be OK if he stopped "smoking drugs." He clearly has no idea how to phrase it, and hands the laptop to Jared when Jared points out how nonsensical it seems:Jared: (clearly holding back laughter) "'Smoking drugs'?"
Evan: "Just fix it!"
Connor: "If I stop smoking crack-"
Evan: "CRACK?!"
Connor: "If I stop smoking pot then everything might be alright."- Even better, when Connor sings the “crack” line, it sounds like he's tweaking only for the line to change to “pot” where he sounds much more laid back.
- This gem, if only for the fact that It Makes Sense in Context.Connor: "My sister's hot!"
Evan: What the hell?
Jared: My bad. - Evan and Connor stopping their declarations of friendship to hastily remind/assure people that they aren't gay.
- The alternate universe take in this animatic makes it even funnier. In it, Evan, Jared, and Connor are all good friends, and they appear to be putting on a play together. Jared is writing the script and Connor good-naturedly goes along with everything Jared wrote for him to say. Including Jared holding up a sign to "TALK ABOUT YOUR HOT SISTER", to which Evan glares at Jared once Connor says the "My sister's hot" line.
- Jared's first draft of an email.
- Zoe pointing out Evan's Apologizes a Lot tendencies.
- Jared’s reaction to finding out that Evan kissed Zoe at the end of "If I Could Tell Her":Jared: (Laughing) YOU WHAT?!
Evan: I didn’t mean to, okay? It just HAPPENED!
Jared: I can’t believe you tried to kiss Zoe Murphy, on her brother’s bed, after he DIED. - Alana recounting her being partners with Connor in English. She recounts that they did the book "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", and that Connor was laughing so hard, because he called the protagonist something other than "Huck Finn"note .
- And what does Alana say in a futile attempt to make Cynthia feel better? "...Nobody else in our class thought of that."
- When Evan suggests to Zoe that she, along with the Jazz band, could perform at the school assembly commemorating Connor, and Zoe half-heartedly agrees, Jared suddenly yells, "GREAT IDEA, EVAN!".
- Larry and Evan are hanging out at the Murphys' garage. Zoe arrives, and we can say that the following exchange clearly shows her Deadpan Snarker side.Evan: Your dad had a good idea for the orchard. To do an auction.
Larry: Evan's helping me go through my collection here.
Zoe: Dad, are you torturing him?
Larry: What?
Zoe: Evan, is he torturing you?
Evan: No. What?
Zoe: You can tell him he's being boring and you want to leave. He won't be upset.
Larry: He can leave whenever he wants.
Evan: I don't want to leave.
Zoe: Evan, do you want to leave?
Larry: If you want to leave...
Evan: I don't want to leave.
Zoe: Okay. Well. Don't say I didn't warn you...
[After Zoe leaves...]
Larry: Women. Right? - When Evan reveals his part-time job to Zoe in the Distant Finale:"In the meantime, though, I can get you a friends and family discount at Pottery Barn, if you're looking for...overpriced home decor."
- At the 2017 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS "Easter Bonnets" concert, "You Will Be Found" was performed in the context of an Easter egg that nobody found. See it here.
- Jared's Cut Song, "Going Viral", is almost 3-and-a-half straight minutes of laughs. And a Call-Back or two to several memes from the early days of the Internet.
Film
- Jared and Evan speaking on the first day of school, where Jared insists on calling Evan's self-help letters "sex letters".
- Evan and Jared speaking during the pep rally, with Jared sarcastically saying Evan should go say hello to Zoe. Evan then goes into a loooooong tangent about why he shouldn't do that, before Jared clarifies he was kidding.
- When Evan is confiding in Jared about how terrified he is about what Connor might do with his letter, Jared doesn't help matters at all. Cue the school announcement saying...PA: Evan Hansen, please report to Mr. Howard's office.
Jared: Oh, damn. - As Jared and Evan jog around the track and discuss the latter's story told to the Murphys, the coach orders the two to jog faster. Then, Jared fires back with his trademark humor.Jared: NO, THANK YOU!
PE Teacher: WHAT WAS THAT?
Jared: I SAID THANK YOU, FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT! (To Evan) Fascist. - Jared realizes that Evan will ask him to make fake emails between him and Connor. He chalks it up to simple coding, only for Evan to remind him that he failed that subject. Cue Jared clarifying Evan on that point.Jared: If you consider a D-minus failing.
- "Sincerely, Me" is just as hilarious as it was onstage. A ton of great visual gags help with the laughs.
- "I like my parents" is delivered with Connor sporting a completely dead-eyed look while giving a double thumbs-up to the camera.
- The lyrics "If I stop smoking crack" no longer sound so tweaked out. Connor makes up for this by giving a huge, approving smile and a thumbs-up to the camera. And when Evan says "CRACK?!", his voice, well... cracks!
- Connor reeeeeaally hammering it in by giving an apple to the librarian.
- During Evan's verse, he's picking up trash in the park with a trash grabber, but it gets better when Connor shows up and pulls out his own trash grabber, seemingly from nowhere. And they both do a dance when the chorus plays, tapping their trash grabbers together!
- Of course, this line had to stay.
- Evan and Connor are shown racing go-karts, just to hammer it in. Cue Jared slamming into them with his own go-kart, saying...Jared: ♫ But not because they're gay, no, not because- ♫
[Evan and Connor slam into Jared, moving everyone offscreen.]
Connor and Evan: ♫ Well, anywaaaaay! ♫ - The final chorus has Evan and Connor absolutely annihilating a game of DanceDanceRevolution, before Jared joins in and the three are basically fighting for screen space. It ends with the three giving incredibly goofy smiles to the camera.
- During "If I Could Tell Her", Evan sings about how Connor would notice her completing quizzes in teen magazines. She corrects him on that, claiming that she does that ironically.
- As the Murphys prepare to serve Evan a gluten-free apple pie, Larry has this to say:Larry: We asked if they had any soy ice cream, but the guy at the store said there was just no... "whey", so...
Zoe: When are you gonna give up that joke?
Larry: I think never, actually.
Cynthia: You don't have to laugh at that. Please don't.
[Larry laughs.]
Cynthia: Oh, I'm sorry, but there's no... "whey"... you'd be able to tell in a million years that this was gluten-free. - During the tribute assembly where Evan is supposed to read his speech (which is mostly a mix of brutal Tear Jerker and amazing Heartwarming Moments), Jared can only mutter the following at Evan's incredibly bad stage presence.Jared: Holy shit.
- At one of the meetings for The Connor Project, it's shown that Jared is helping out. While this is sweet of him, he makes up for it by drawing way too much attention to the emails that he secretly wrote, telling everyone that they should totally read them with tissues at the ready.
- Near the end of the film, it's shown that Evan and Jared are still on good terms when their mothers are getting pictures of them in their graduation uniforms. Evan puts his arm around Jared's shoulders, but Jared doesn't.Jared: (A little uncomfortable) I think we got it.
[Evan laughs.]
