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  • Any time there was Corpsing in a skit. Most noticeably within the "Men On..." skits, particularly "Men on Television" after Blaine got hit in the head and was knocked out, where both David Alan Grier and Damon Wayans couldn't hold in their laughter or crack a smile.
    • Ed O'Neill appearing as himself on The Dirty Dozens was a particularly funny Corpsing incident where after saying his line, they cut to Jamie Foxx smiling a bit and moving his hand to his mouth, then back to Ed who is visibly trying to hold back himself from laughing!
    Ed: Your mama is so stupid, she gave your uncle a blowjob, cuz he said it would help his unemployment!
    • Also, the reactions of Jim Carrey, David and Tommy Davidson to seeing Jamie Foxx as Wanda for the first time, with Grier's reaction in particular making Carrey break character.
      Host: Holy crap!
  • Whenever the audience helps to enhance a scene, such as during the Pee Wee Herman doll skit and the part with him "beating his drum", one woman's screaming with laughter makes it all the more memorable.
    • Another was the part two of "What Happened to Blaine?" and Antoine talks out Oliver from Paris is Burning, or as he put it, "the Negroid with Blond hair". This joke went over well with about half the audience, where some scant boos and a loud shout of "Hated it!" is heard.
  • One episode started off with an offer for a Bloopers-style tape of In Living Color, which only includes "outtakes" of Jim Carrey doing pratfalls as a clumsy waiter who keeps dropping his tray of water glasses...including in the middle of the Fly Girls dancing. (Even funnier in hindsight as they eventually did a real Hilarious Outtakes episode that devoted a whole segment to Carrey Corpsing.)
  • In the Late Night Show with Mike Tyson, he runs down the top five questions that he's asked:
    5. "Would you please step out of the car, sir?"
    4. "You wanna take your hands off my ass?"
    3. "Will the defendant please rise?"
    2. "You wanna take your hands off my ass?"
    1. "Do you do the voice for Tweety bird?"
    • The spoof also showcases his Hair-Trigger Temper and him getting mad at his guests to the point of punching them out. He does this to Sinbad for his "lousy" jokes about women with big butts (which he himself likes) and he also does this to a cockatoo for being "greedy" for a cracker.
  • The "Tester's Choice" coffee commercial, which quickly morphs into a spoof of Fatal Attraction, complete with the woman's remark of "You've got responsibilities, Dan!", the flickering the lamp on and off as she clutches her coffee pot and her emerging from the man's bathtub with the whole tea set shouting "Did somebody say Tester's Choice?!" as he then attempts to drown her in the end.
  • Magenta Thompson's entire "career", which consists of her in bit roles with people saying "Outta my way, bitch!" to her. The funniest parts for her were of her as an unconscious patient in the '70s film Mother, Jugs and Speed being brought in only for the doctor to tell "Will somebody get this bitch out of my way?"note  and in one of the Friday the 13th films where she's in Jason's sights, only for him to growl at her, "Outta of my way, bitch!" and kill another girl behind her.
  • Anton Jackson's first appearance on the subway train with him "entertaining" the patrons by singing Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" ("Just a friend, not a cousin!") and when they gave him change to get him to stop, someone belts him with a quarter to which he replies, "Ow! That hit me in my head!"
    • In a later skit, where he's in a parody of The People's Court, he used the judge's (played by Jim Carey) gavel to pick his nose.
  • The parody of Boyz II Men's "End of the Road" featuring David Alan Grier's role as the long-suffering and disturbed soloist who begs his girlfriend for another chance. His dialogue is increasingly harried (and made even better by his background singers mocking the couple in the song with phrases like "Two-timed again!", "He's a loser!" and even Jamie Foxx's character at one point crying out, "She's a freak! She's a freak!" and The Reveal that her recent infidelity was with one of the singers, leading to a public Freak Out and for David's character to be hauled off by the police):
    "Can I finish talking?"
    "Oh, did I escape? No, I'm free to come and go as I please as long as I sign in. Look, don't worry about my medication, a'ight?!"
    "What?! Ooh, ooh! I wasn't trying to choke you; I was trying to hug your little—!"
    "Imma write your name all over the precinct wall! I hate you! I HATE YOU!!"
  • The Exxxon Family. A clumsy sea captain (played by Jim Carrey) is about to head to work and even having breakfast with his wife is still a challenge for him: he rips off the spout from the coffee container, he spills the rest of it on the floor, he uses curtains to clean up the mess, he uses flour to absorb that mess and finally sets the kitchen on fire, all while his unknowing wife cheerfully washes dishes and tries to downplay the oil spill he made. At the end of the segment, we see the reason why he crashed the tanker: his "lunch" is a bottle of sherry.
    Announcer: The Exxxon Family! Nobody's perfect!
  • "Richard Pryor is Scared For No Reason!"
  • Blaine and Antoine's various opinions on the "Men on..." sketches:
  • Benita Buttrell's sketches are hilarious, complete with great one-liners and disses against her neighbors and acquaintances. Her best indults were reserved for Miss Jenkins, who she claims to idolize, love like a mother, and gets so angry at anyone else insults her, but was extra harsh on her:
    "...just don't go near her house. House so dusty, even the roaches are ridin' around in dune buggies!"
    "...just don't let her take her shoes off. Feet smell just like a dill pickle!"
    "...just don't let her get too close. Her funk's so bad, they'll put that wall back up in Germany!"
    "...and speaking of shaves, she could use one! That woman's so hairy, she looks like Chewbacca with a weave!"

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