Funny / The Undertaker

Despite being an Undead representation of death and darkness, everyone's favorite zombie/part-time biker wrestler can be funny. Laugh In Peace.

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• His Casket match with Mabel (Viscera) at In Your House 5: Seasons Beatings:
  • Mabel and Mo (his manager)'s sheer Suicidal Overconfidence ^note E.g., Mabel doing some kind of pimp strut. mid-match, followed by Mabel's priceless Oh, Crap! when Undertaker predictably comes back for more.
  • Mo's Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... when trying to stop Undertaker from closing the casket on Mabel. And Undertaker visibly being like, '...Really?'
• Both Undertaker and Kane get one for this. (As an explanation: in the weeks prior to No Mercy, Undertaker had been assaulted, been accused of infidelity, and had his hand broken by Brock Lesnar, and Kane had to deal with the Katie Vick situation.)
• See the Celebrity Deathmatch example on the main page under Do Not Call Me Mark.
• During the early part of the InVasion storyline, Undertaker, as the most over of the faces, would spend a lot of time playing straight man to Enemy Mine heels "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Kurt Angle.
  • And speaking of Kurt Angle, this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kDsF8aJsZI shows a footage on the ring in which he and Undertaker hug, then, he suddenly kisses him right on the lips.
• Undertaker, clearly frustrated and up to here with the fans crapping over promos, responded to the WHAT chants thusly: "I'll tell you what, why don't you say "what" if you like to sleep with your own sister." Half the fans chanted "WHAT" again, the other half cracked up.
  • Undertaker tells off a fan during a match:
  Fan: You suck, Undertaker!
  The Undertaker: Your Momma sucks!
• There was also the time JBL brought in a midget version of the Undertaker. The unfortunate midget ended up being lifted up and chokeslammed by the real Undertaker after trying to join The Undertaker in a post-match darkness salute.
• An early funny moment happened during a Christmas 1993 broadcast in which Paul Bearer and The Undertaker were taunting Yokozuna by showing him the extra-large casket they were building for him:
  Undertaker: Merry Christmas, Yokozuna... ho... ho... ho.
• "Next time, KNOCK!"
• During Vince McMahon's feud with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, McMahon arranged a match with Undertaker and Kane. He then proceeds to insult them, calling them handicapped. Taker was not happy.
  Taker: You need to watch your ass. Because the next time you get out of line with either one of us, you're gonna be the one handicapped. (turns his back)
  Vince: Fuck...
  (Undertaker turns and catches him out)
  Vince: ...you...
  (Cue ass-kicking, ending with Taker and Kane breaking Vince's leg, paving the way for a couple more CMOF involving Austin and Mick Foley)
  • A funny moment occurs within that moment, where Undertaker starts pummeling Vince ground-and-pound style, all while Kane just looks on with a slight quizzical tilt, as if saying "Well, okay, I guess we're doing this...", before joining the beatdown.
• What does Bikertaker do after Hulk Hogan defaces his prized motorcycle? Hog-ties him to his own motorcycle and takes him for a little ride backstage. Which even got interrupted by a commercial break, and was still going when they came back, with Hogan sliding along the ground behind Taker on the motorcycle, until crashing into a deadly pile of empty cardboard boxes while Jim Ross screamed about Hogan being a human being.
• Undertaker and Paul Bearer give gaming tips for the WWF Raw video game for Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. Undertaker just had to be laughing behind all that hair. Quite possibly the narmiest thing Undertaker has ever been involved in, largely due to Paul Bearer's enthusiastic delivery. Though it's also incredibly funny hearing the mid-90's Undertaker say "Super Nintendo" and "Segaaaah...".
  • Paul Bearer often went out of his way to get Undertaker to corpse during his promos. Sometimes it backfired, as seen in this Royal Rumble promo.
• This moment, where Bikertaker hands Tommy Dreamer a cup of his tobacco spit and dares him to drink it. Taker is not known for showing much emotion, which makes his expression at 8:16 that much funnier.
• During his casket match with Shawn Michaels at the 1998 Royal Rumble, Shawn stood over the casket with Undertaker inside just before closing the lid to do a D-X "Suck It" taunt. Cue Undertaker's arm suddenly shooting up from the casket and grabbing Shawn's crotch. The suddenness of it coupled with Shawn's facial expression makes it hilarious.
• An off-air moment occurs when The Rock asks Taker what his favorite pie is, guessing flavors like Apple & Peach, which Taker shakes his head at before answering.
  Taker: There ain't but one kinda pie Kane & I both eat. Kane loves pie. POOOONTANG PIE! (Kane nods in agreement)
• When The Undertaker first appeared on the scene back in 1990, Brother Love briefly served as his manager before being replaced with Paul Bearer. Thirteen years later, Bikertaker receives an unexpected gift from The Big Show...
  • You can actively see Undertaker trying his best not to laugh as Brother Love does his promo.
  • He also got something else in one of those giant gift boxes...a puppy!
  The whole crowd: Awwwwww...
  • The Big Show delivers The Undertaker an "apology" by way of Brian Kendrick doing a singing telegram. Epic Fail.
• When an intern suffers an, erm, "accident" at the 1997 Slammy Awards, even Taker has trouble maintaining his composure.
  • After making his epic speech, he calmly makes his way to a table in full entrance attire, as if nothing happened.
  • From the same award ceremony, Undertaker responded to the chants of "Kill the clown!" directed at Doink with "That clown is going to need an undertaker real soon."
• As stated before, The Undertaker is well-known for being The Stoic on-camera. But apparently, with house shows, it's a different story...
  • And even with the live shows, he still sometimes gets an opportunity to mouth off.
• It's always funny when a wrestler messes up their lines, but when the Undertaker does it? Priceless, as seen in this infamous Ministry of Darkness promo. Bonus points to him for not Corpsing in the process (no pun intended, of course).
• Bikertaker engages in a hardcore pillow fight (and later, a hardcore food fight) on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. No, really.
• "HELLO, BOYS!!!"
• The Undertaker doing his best impression of a trap-door spider.
• Northeastern folks might be familiar with radio and television personality Uncle Vito aka Ranger Danger and his comedic mishaps. In these sketches, Ranger Danger effectively demonstrates what not to say or do in front of The Undertaker.
  • In particular, mentioning the effects of steroids on testicles didn't please Undertaker at all.
• During this interview with Regis and Kathie Lee, Taker seems unusually friendly; not only does he actually shake hands with the hosts, he also gives probably one of the most out-of-character responses of his entire career:
  Regis: And how are you, Undertaker?
  The Undertaker: (little voice) Fine...
  • In this earlier interview, he does a better job of remaining in character, but that doesn't stop Regis from poking at him.
  Regis: (singsong voice) I see you! Come out, come out, wherever you are!
  • Taker later gets back at Regis by measuring him up for a casket during this WrestleMania 7 promo.
• Apparently, back in in 1992, Simon Cowell thought it would be a good idea for Undertaker to sing a song for the latest WrestleMania album. Oh, dear... Before you ask, yes, WrestleMania: The Album, also featuring Bret Hart, Randy Savage and others, has been inducted into WrestleCrap.
• During this 1993 match, Johnny Polo keeps referring to The Undertaker as "The Underwear Taker". Pray no one ever tries that as a gimmick...
• During NBC's WrestleMania 27 "special highlights" re-cut, the Triple H vs. Undertaker match comes out. Triple H makes his entrance to Metallica and Motörhead just like at the event. Then it's time for Taker to make his entrance, the lights dim, the gong sounds and then... this Katy Perry tune starts playing.
• In this 1996 Buried Alive promo, The Undertaker seems to have, erm...gone into Rigor Mortis...
• What starts out as a rather somber anti-drug PSA essay reading by a little girl...is suddenly turned narmtastically hilarious when The Undertaker appears from the shadows and says "There's no hope...with dope..."
  • "If you drink and drive...sooner or later, you're going to meet the Undertaker." Oh really, you don't say? I've always wanted to meet him, that would be so awesome! Unless you're scared of him.
  • Take note of the fact that he never verbally says to NOT drink and drive... or what condition you'll be in upon meeting him.
• The Deadman says, "Nice ass".
• Taker pulls a Right Behind Me on Booker T and Eddie Guerrero.
• Taker and Paul show up on the review panel, scaring the crap out of Bobby Heenan and making the rest uncomfortable.
• Undertaker referees a tennis game and delivers a flying clothesline to Andy Roddick.
• Taker and Paul sing "Happy Birthday" to Helen Hart. What.
• Taker owning a fan during his WWE title ladder match against Jeff Hardy.
  Fan: Give him a piledriver!
  Taker: Shut up, stupid!
• Undertaker's debut involved some humor. Not from the Deadman himself but the announcers: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Gorilla Monsoon. Yes, you just heard Piper call Undertaker a ham hock.
  Monsoon: Look at the look on the face.
  Piper: I don't... You think it's his coffee?
• Taker poses with Billy Gunn and X-Pac, complete with DX shirt◊.
• A fairly epic backhanded compliment and Take That! to Shawn Michaels on the off-air portion of "Shawn Michaels Appreciation Night":
  If the wrestling industry had a Mount Rushmore, yours would be the biggest head on it. Take that any way you like.
• At Elimination Chamber 2010, after smashing John Morrison headfirst into a chamber pod that Chris Jericho tried to hide in, Taker took Morrison by the head, looked at Jericho... And knocked on the chamber pod.
• Speaking of Jericho, shortly after another of his classic insults against Stephanie McMahon calling her a tramp, she accuses Taker of running over "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Undertaker says it's true... but he is really just agreeing with Jericho, and calls her a sleazy tramp.
• On Steve Austin's podcast, Bruce "Brother Love" Prichard told a story from way back in 1991 that's definitely this. He and Undertaker leave the arena after a show with Taker still wearing full creepy make-up and dark coat. They drive to the next town, getting themselves lost in a bad neighborhood. Bruce rolls down a window and asks some guy at a gas station for directions, who responds by hassling him. Then the guy freezes mid-sentence once Undertaker sits up like he does in the ring, looks him straight in the eye, and scares the hell out of him so bad that he immediately changes his tone. "WHOA MAN! You wanna go two blocks that way, then go through the light! I'm getting the fuck out of here!"
• On the last Monday Night RAW before his match against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania XXX, Undertaker made this quote during his promo. It can be seen here:
  (...) Three things that can't be beat – Death, Taxes, and The Streak.
  • Which becomes Harsher in Hindsight when Lesnar proceeded to break the Streak.
• He nicknamed Scott Hall "Eeyore" because he complained so much.
• A promo building up to a match with Goldust at an In Your House PPV, Vince McMahon asks Undertaker how he & Paul Bearer are gonna deal with "the single most bizarre individual in the WWF". 'Taker replies with "Bizarre? You're asking us about bizarre?"
• While Undertaker's return at Battleground 2015 is a Moment of Awesome, there is something absolutely hilarious about Undertaker just laying down Lesnar with a low blow after the latter attempted to F-5 him.
  • Undertaker does it again in the final RAW episode before SummerSlam.◊
  • The ensuing match at SummerSlam has a funny yet badass moment as well. Taker and Lesnar are both down on the mat, Lesnar groggily sits up, looks over just as Taker does his classic bolt upright sit up, and starts laughing that sort of incredulous "What the hell do I have to do?" laugh of exasperation. Taker responds with a ''gigantic'', sarcastic mocking "Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" and slugs Lesnar in the face without even standing up.
• The Undertaker doing the Tombstone on Brad Maddox dressed as a turkey. No, seriously.
• This hilarious off-air segment during a Smackdown taping where Undertaker, Brock Lesnar and Rikishi played a birthday prank on one of the camera crew.
• Hearing the Undertaker curse is nothing new, especially back during his American Badass/Big Evil days. However, hearing him call Shane a "bitch" on the Raw before Wrestlemania 32 in his Deadman gimmick? Unexpected but also hilarious.
• His appearance in the 03/20/2017 Raw match with Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman features an absolutely hilarious moment, where in order to chokeslam Strowman he turns his back on Roman Reigns. Cue a very hammy Oh, Crap! expression from the Deadman himself as he realizes how much this is gonna suck, and a reluctant and resigned turn right into a predicable spear.
• On an hilarious segment after a Raw show, we learn that there is only one thing that the Undertaker don't have the balls to do: That is, he won't do a spinaroonie.
  • To elaborate, Undertaker reminds Booker T to do the spinaroonie, which kinda backfired after Booker T challenged the Undertaker to do it too. Then the Rock, Triple H (who were feuding at that time), Goldust and Booker T team up just to see Taker embarrass himself while Undertaker (or Mark in this case) is very adamant not to do it. So Triple H says that he will do it too, then the Rock, and Vince comes out and says he will do it too. The Undertaker escapes by chokeslamming Trips and hightailing it out, leaving the others standing awkwardly. But the audience get to see the Rock, Vince and Trips do the spinnaroonie as consolation.
  • This is a rare time where we can see the Undertaker laughing the whole time, breaking kayfabe. You can watch the whole segment here
  • Made funnier when Taker brings it up 13 years later during a Roast Session for Booker T.
  “What do you do to the guy that stuck his hand out to you and said, ‘Grab hold and I’ll bring you along’? You turned on me, you turned on me in Tacoma, Washington, and I’ll never forget it. We’d been doing the same thing we’d done for weeks and weeks, and then you turned on me, Book. You got the mic, and you told all those people, ‘Y’all have seen me do the spinaroonie, I think y’all would like to see a Takeroonie. A Takeroonie? Seriously? You stabbed me right in the back, and it turned into the biggest hit since Kennedy. Oh yeah, everybody was in on it, and you thought it was funny, you were sitting there in the corner, laughing, while the fans were all screaming, ‘Takeroonie, Takeroonie.’ You ought to be ashamed of yourself, man. Now you’re sitting there, and everybody’ throwing this big roast for you, and the guy that helps you, you just stabbed him in the back. Tell you what, that was pretty damn funny. When I look back, that’s one of the things that I always think of when I think of you, Book.
• Just the fact that in real life, of all things to dislike, Undertaker absolutely hates cucumbers. Yeah.
• Speaking of fear, during the aforementioned Booker T. roast, Taker talks about a mysterious Red Bull Incident. He only notes that Booker T. lost his mind over it and took it to another level he'd never seen before. He shares that he used to like Red Bull until said incident, and even to that day he's still scarred from the experience.
  • It's also the roast where we hear Taker's nickname for Booker T. which some found funny. "B. Teazy."
• During an Interview, Chris Jericho talked about during a live show, someone managed to sneak in a large battery and chuck it at Jericho's head. This infuriated Jericho and wanted to call of the main event of the show and stormed off to the back. When confronted, he told everyone he wasn't going back out there, and around the corner, Undertaker got in his face and said "Say what?", Jericho repeated his statement, and Taker calmly replied "Are you sure?". Jericho paused for a minute, realize who he's talking to, and sheepishly said "I'm going to go back to ring".
• This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC1Ru3MPVjY. In a public appearance where Undertaker interacted with his fans, a female fan was so carried away by the experience that she kissed him on his cheek. Afterwards, the girl was a bit overwhelmed by this experience.
• While Brock Lesnar was calling out Kurt Angle on having the guts to reclaim his WWE Championship on the August 28, 2003 episode of SmackDown, 'Taker instead came out and confronted Lesnar. After some words from the Deadman, including telling Brock to go to the back of the line after losing the title match, The Big Show arrives and, tired of the two's bantering on who should be the number one contender for the title, this occurred:
  Big Show: You (Lesnar), Mr. "Here Comes the Pain"; and you ('Taker), "This Is My Yard"; how about trying this one on for size? "I'm 7-foot 2, I'm 500 pounds!"
  Michael Cole: Largest athlete in the world today.
  Undertaker: (mouthing) ...of crap.
• A funny story from his pre-Undertaker days in the territories comes from the time he and Charles Wright drove from Nashville to Memphis for a show with a couple of friends. They come to find out the show’s been cancelled due to a massive blizzard and they decide to drive back home in said blizzard. Taker drives at about 5-10 mph to avoid an accident and they only stop when someone in the back needs to stop to pee on the side of the interstate. When they get back in, Wright insists he drives the last 60 miles back to Nashville. After a lot of arguing, Taker relents and lets him drive since it’s Wright’s car. They proceed another 10 feet before Wright ends up sliding the car off the interstate and into a ditch with the car teetering about 8 feet off the ground. Taker then looks at Wright who can only say in response, “I don’t want to hear it.”
• In an interview with Kevin Hart at LOL Network (while they're in an ice bath), Undertaker recalls a time during his squash match against John Cena at Wrestlemania 34 where he recounts that his daughter was a fan of Cena and when Cena lost, she gave her father a thumbs down. Backstage, Undertaker then starts wondering what's wrong and his daughter tells him that while she's happy her father's won, she's also sad that Cena lost.
• On the 25th Anniversary retrospective of Undertaker's infamous King of the Ring match with Mick Foley, Mick recounts how he wants to keep the match going and his attempts to clear his head. Meanwhile, Taker...
  The only thing you can hear from me is "Mick, let's go home. Mick, let's go home. Can we go home, Mick? Mick, let's go." "No, no, no! We gotta get to the tacks!"
  • In the same retrospective, Mick is quick to highlight the point where he tries to suplex Taker on the top of the cage right before the first fall off the cage and how quickly Taker nixed that idea. Taker then confirms this by pointing out they were ripping the fencing just by standing on it and it’d be crazy to do a suplex on it. Becomes a bit Harsher in Hindsight given what happens later in the match…
  • Both men are also quick to point out the absurdity of Mick somehow being able to go out and intervene in the Austin v Kane First Blood match after all of the suffering that Mick had taken in the Hell in the Cell.
    Foley: When I walked out, you just got the feeling people were like "Haven't you had enough?!?"
    Undertaker: Can we have an intervention here? Can somebody lock him backstage? He's got Kane and Austin...
• During his feud with Rick Flair in his American Badass persona, the Undertaker ambushes Flair's son David and both wind up in the men's showers. While mostly nightmare fuel, there is one funny exchange:
  David Flair: What are you doing?
  The Undertaker: What am I doing? I'm kicking your ass, what do you think I'm doing?!

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