What is the funniest slapstick moment you've seen IRL?
Posted by CobaltBlue389@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 69 comments
Seeing my father slip on ice from a kitchen window, for me. I could only see the top half of his body, so he sort of just disappeared at terminal velocity. The back door was open so the wooooaaaaahhhh could be heard, allbeit muffled.
He was absolutely fine, fortunately.
apeliott@reddit
I punched a guy in the face during a karate tournament and his ear flew off.
CobaltBlue389@reddit (OP)
Thats why we have two. Incase karate tournaments.
Gingerpett@reddit
I was jogging in a park, looked to my right over at a group of four or five yoot. Looked back straight ahead in time to see the lamppost but not enough time to do. Bonged my face off it and farted loudly in shock almost simultaneously.
It was like my body diverted all functions to being hit in the face and lost control of everything else.
Quite the enjoyable performance for the gang of scallys who laughed themselves stupid. As did I because it was bloody hilarious.
Additional-Bell3432@reddit
Years ago I was in a Convent school where the head and deputy head were nuns. One day our class was misbehaving in a lesson and the deputy head nun, Sister Brigid, heard us bring noisy,came running up the stairs, burst through the door and slipped, her legs flew up in the air and she fell flat on her back. We were all stunned into silence. A flying nun
FCSadsquatch@reddit
A friend on a skateboard next to me. I was talking to friends to my left, I hear a commotion to my right and at the exact moment I look, his face is planted on the concrete with the rest of his body curled over him making a perfect circle.
dermsUK@reddit
Riding a downhill tarmac curved road in a woodland on road bikes. Mate is in front. Going about 18-20mph. Hits his rear brake a little too hard, rear wheel skrrrts for a fraction of a second, causing him to fish tail wildly and his feet coming unclipped from the pedals. Now he’s running around the bend with the bike between his legs as fast as he can, goes off the tarmac between 2 trees missing his handlebars by centimetres, and snapping a log in half with his front tyre. Stops mere inches before flying down an embankment into a river.
We’re both shitting ourselves laughing, we sit down on the bench on the roadside. About 8 seconds later another cyclist comes flying down and does basically the exact same thing in front of us, except his bike does a complete 180 and he goes skidding across the wet tarmac on his back into a bush 😭
Ecstatic_Hamster_765@reddit
Older gentleman walking down the street with their grandchild. Big gust of wind blew, lifting his toupee so it flapped up and down a few times, looking like it was holding on for dear life.
If that wasn’t cause enough to giggle, the toupee finally gave up it’s death grip, came flying off and landed on the pavement.
'What’s that Grampy? Is it a rat?’ 'That’s my hair! Quick, catch it’
As they ran after it, the wind would move it again. Thankfully the little girl was fairly quick and managed to jump on it.
I was late catching my train that day but worth stopping to watch. Before anyone says anything, they were on a bridge above me so I wasn’t able to go and help.
clickyclicky456@reddit
When I was a teenager my rather snooty friend managed to fall down the gap between the train and the platform while getting off the train. Her long flowy skirt blew up over her head and she was stuck there with one leg straight out in front of her on the platform and one leg down the gap, knickers on display to everyone 🤣🤣
As an adult, skiing with my Dad, I was a little way behind him. He suddenly disappeared off over the side of the piste and when I caught up with him, found him literally upside down in a snowdrift waving his legs in the air with skis still attached... just like a cartoon.
Ysabo13@reddit
At a waterpark in Florida, about 20+ years ago. Young cocky guy in front of me on the very, very steep slide decided he didn’t want to go and made a very determined attempt to avoid the ‘drop’. Somehow his fingertips and toes managed to slow, but not stop, his inevitable drop.
He was scrabbling around madly flailing, desperately shouting ‘no’ and then whoosh, he was gone.
Saw him later and he was bragging how easy it was :)
BraveLordWilloughby@reddit
At a party in a mates field. Two. Ates play wrestling whilst drunk and high. The one lad managed to fall in the most hilarious way, and he somehow fell to the ground at suchba slow speed
Turned out her actually broke his leg. He was a known bullshitter so we (By We I mean I) ignored his initial complaints of pain. Ended up on crutches and morphine for 6 months
Ramtamtama@reddit
Your mate is a farmer?
BraveLordWilloughby@reddit
Mates dads field, I should say. No, he just owned a field
hdhxuxufxufufiffif@reddit
I saw a lad on roller blades cross the road and try to jump up the kerb on the other side. He lost his footing but stayed on his feet for about 50 metres. With each stride, his legs went up higher, his back tilted backwards, and his arse got closer to the ground. He ended up doing a cossack dance for a few steps till he unbalanced completely and landed in a heap.
TheFortyFourthSunset@reddit
Outstanding imagery here.
Push-the-pink-button@reddit
Saw an old geezer on a mobility scootay going at some pace, he swung it into the door of the bookies, clearly not looking as the roller shutter was half down - at perfect head hight (for someone sitting down) the thunk as his head jolted back was a thing of beauty, my daughter and I made it about 6ft before we erupted laughing. Never too old for a life lesson!
HooverBeingAMan@reddit
I sideshow bob-ed myself last year. Not quite as dramatically, the rake was leaning against the wall and the handle hit me in the face when I accidentally trod on the bottom.
Not sure what I was more outraged at: the fact it actually happened or that my family were too busy laughing at me to show any sympathy.
I also witnessed someone dismount from a Segway without switching it off. They stepped down and the Segway sped off without them. They chased it down, shouting the whole time, while everyone in the vicinity was pointing and laughing.
Supahpossum@reddit
Years ago, a group of friends and I would hang out on the beach after pub closing time during the summer months. Typical seaside town, streets and shops on the seafront. We see a guy walking down the road with a portion of food from the nearby chippy and drunkenly shout at him to give us some of his chips.
He turned to look at us and walked into a lamp post. We couldn't have timed it better if we tried. He and his chips remained upright and he walked off but the timing was so perfect!
Harlzter@reddit
Me in my 20s slipping on ice in public and landing flat on my back, the worse part was the little old biddy who doddered across to me with her zimmer to offer me a hand up, at the time I was about 17 stone and should must have been 5 stone soaking wet.
Namerakable@reddit
2 examples, both falls.
My dad fell and broke his kneecap at work when there was an emergency. We got given a CD of the CCTV and found it really funny, because it was the type of camera with a low framerate, so we had 3 frames of him running and then a frame of him face down on the ground. He found it funny as well, for what it's worth.
The second was a friend at school slipping on mud and running in place trying not to overbalance for at least 3 or 4 seconds.
turkboy@reddit
My dad, despite several repeated warnings to not do so, standing on my son's skateboard and assuming it would just basically work for him. He put both feet on one end, it fired out from under him, and he basically turned 90 degrees in mid air and fell flat on his face. Then, he spent the next two weeks trying to hide the pain. He was lucky he wasn't more injured, although on the up side... it was hilarious.
trustmeimabuilder@reddit
Many years ago, I had a wart on my finger, and the doctor gave me a bottle of acid crystals (this was the early seventies, and, no, not that kind of acid). I was supposed to hold a crystal with tweezers on the affected bit of finger and somehow keep it from touching the rest of me. Incidentally, this actually worked really well and didn't take long to eat away the offending wart, but I digress.
On this particular day, I'd been doing the wart treatment, and then decided to go for a pee. While we did have indoor facilities, the nearest loo was just outside in the garden, so that's where I went. Of course I managed to somehow get acid on my willy and leapt screaming from the loo. My wife, being a scientific sort, remembered that an alkali neutralises an acid and leapt to my defence by liberally squirting Fairy liquid at my knob. That was the moment we first met our neighbours, Mr and Mrs Pritchard, who were leaning over our fence, aghast.
TwoLucid@reddit
Reminds me when my Dad did the same disappearing act in a car park, fell over those very low chain link thingies with the metal diamonds between the links? Don't see them anymore. All you hear is "Wumphh" and he was gone behind a car. I thought it was hilarious, my Mum and Dad did not.
Quality_Cabbage@reddit
A pal fell over one of those, during a night out in Manchester in the early 90s. A friendly passer-by helped him up (we were too busy laughing). Said passer-by happened to be Blackburn Rovers player Paul Warhurst, who was out with a lady friend and another couple.
TwoLucid@reddit
Yeah it was in town as well! 😆 Blimey, of all the times to fall over
reddog_72@reddit
Me, I was substitute during a Sunday league football match some years ago. The pitch was very muddy, and the game was getting a little heated. As yet another mistimed tackle went in a scuffle broke out in the middle of the pitch, everyone from both teams including the subs went rushing in to get involved. As I sprinted onto the field I slipped in the mud and went flying before I fell face first quite heavily to the floor, I was covered in mud, all over my face. Those who saw it were pissing themselves, I gave up on the scuffle as did most of the rest of both teams as they all laughed at the sight of me absolutely covered from head to toe in thick mud.
porksandrecreation@reddit
The first time my brother introduced his now wife to our family, my mum tripped, fell and then rolled down a hill for what seemed like forever.
Ok-Set-5829@reddit
My neighbour's cat was chilling in my kitchen. For whatever ever reason she starts chasing her tail. Then she caught it and for a split second she looked like when comic strips show a fight - a blurry cloud with random limbs sticking out. The best part was before slinking off in embarrassment, she glanced up at me to see if I was watching. Oh yeah buddy, i saw the whole thing.
Aromatic_Pea_4249@reddit
I was having a lunchtime drink with friends and we'd sat at a table which was up on a little platform. We joked about it being a trap for the unprepared as we sat down. When we got up to go, I had forgotten about the step up and just walked off the end. My friends absolutely pissed themselves laughing as I did a huge step down, lost my balance and ended up laying on the floor.
Alert_Mine7067@reddit
Back in 2012 if my memory serves me right, me and a couple of friends from that era were out one Saturday night. One in particular couldn't hold his drink, and he was blitzed after one vodka, I think he'd probably had about 5 drinks that evening, him and another one were messing around and chasing after eachother.
The lightweight then lost his balance and everything was suddenly in slow motion as he fell forward pretty badly (to a point where I genuinely thought he was breaking his neck) he was still trying to run as his head hit the ground, he hit the ground and before I could even flinch, he'd rolled 360° back on to his feet like sonic the hedgehog, and without pausing, continued running down the street after the other one.
Even to this day I still can't understand how the fuck he managed it and he couldn't explain either.
starsandshards@reddit
I am crying actual tears reading this, holy shit.
Aromatic_Pea_4249@reddit
You are not the only one!
ClericalRogue@reddit
In an old building with large pillars spaced in the middle of the floor plan, manager who always had a stick up her ass was on a roll, berating her team for poor performance. Someone on my team made a comment she overheard, and she marched over, had a go at them, and became all animated. She was still ranting as she turned abruptly to walk away, and face-planted right into a pillar with a loud "thunk." It was just one of those perfect moments when the place just got quiet at the exact moment of impact, so everyone heard and turned to look. I laughed so hard i literally cried.
FantasticWeasel@reddit
Was holding a large cardboard tube, the sort posters are shipped in. Tripped and smacked myself on the head with it as I fell.
It made a really good echoing boink noise and I got to watch my own stupidity play out in the mirrored wardrobe doors.
bopeepsheep@reddit
Toddler [not mine] in padded snowsuit kept trying to let go of parent's hand and run, on snowy/icy ground. Reached the park, so parent let go. Toddler got about 3 feet before falling and sliding, ended up on her back spinning in an apparently unstoppable circle at the bottom of a slight slope. The best bit was that, after being put back on her feet, she was asked if she wanted to run now. Said yes, exact same thing happened. All adults in the vicinity now laughing uncontrollably. (Some toddlers now attempting to spin on the ground - but none of them could replicate it.)
Sleepyllama23@reddit
Years ago I was on the school bus looking out the window. The bus rounded a corner very quickly and it startled an old lady who was standing on the pavement on the corner and she fell backwards over a garden wall, legs in the air. The whole bus (whoever saw it anyway) erupted with laughter. I hope she was ok but it was hilarious to see at the time (sorry!)
On another note, my son slipped on a banana skin when he was about seven.
djfnejdijRandom@reddit
At a social event with 20+ people, it was someone’s birthday and we wanted to surprise them with a cake. One of the crowd entered the room carrying a birthday cake with lit candles, everyone started singing Happy Birthday. Then the person carrying the cake tripped and dropped it, and the cake flipped and fell perfectly face down on the floor, with all the candles getting squished in a straight line into the cake itself.
It was a glorious moment, the best laugh of my life, and yes we scooped the cake up, scraped the top off, fished the candles out and at it anyway.
Madwife2009@reddit
In IKEA with my teenager and husband. A man decided that we weren't walking fast enough for him and dodged through one of the displays, smacking his head into an overhead sign as he rushed past. There was a horrible slapping noise.
My daughter and I both sniggered, then openly laughed, it was so funny. The man in question definitely knew why we were laughing.
SgtTaco18@reddit
Wife and I saw a collie dog being walked as we were stopped at a traffic light. The collie noticed us and therefore didnt see one of the big yellow roadworks signs on the path.
Even through closed car windows, we heard an audible "thunk" as its head made contact.
I had to pull over once the lights turned green because we were both laughing so hard at the absolute shame the collie was showing afterwards.
Kinx__x@reddit
My sister had made herself a sandwich and was planning to eat it in the garden, on the swing settee.
She put her drink down next to the seat, sat down and her bum went straight through it. The sandwich went flying and she was just wedged in the hole.
I was looking out of the kitchen window so I managed to see the whole thing.
RabidBadgerFarts@reddit
On the edge of the village where I grew up was a bit of a lane/grassy area with some benches and stuff where the local youths would congregate.
I was driving past and saw a few of my mates sitting on one of the benches so I drove my car onto the footpath and parked right in front of them for a chat.
A bit later as I was leaving I drove to the end of the path to rejoin the road and a cop car pulled up in front of me blocking my exit, I didn't realise it but I had stopped right next to a ditch and as I stepped out of the car I just dropped about 2 feet, stumbled about a bit but managed to keep my footing before going over to speak to cops, the driver tried his hardest to keep a straight face while he had a go at me but his mate in the passenger seat was absolutely pissing himself laughing.
Sufficient_Return653@reddit
My friend slipped down some stairs (top to bottom on her bum) but had her hands completely full so she couldn’t really do a lot but on like the second to last step she managed to grab the bannister with only her pinky finger 🤣🤣 still cracks me up thinking about it today lol
Tested-Trio-Father@reddit
Watching my brother run straight into a neck height wire as I was shooting him in the arse with a paintball gun.
Ch4rl13_P3pp3r@reddit
Stood outside Clinton's in The Trafford Centre around 2007. Someone had been sick on the floor and a security guard was diverting people around the sick whilst he waited for cleanup. Snooty woman in expensive looking trouser suit and heels pushed the security guard out of the way with a “how dare you get in my way” wave of her hand. She promptly slipped over and landed full on in the vomit.
I may have laughed. 🤣
CharieRarie@reddit
Me and my husband saw neighbour walking home with a pizza (pizza place was across the road).
The wind blew the box out of his hands, pizza all fell out in the snow. He just stood there for a good minute, then put up his hands like “what the actual fuck”and walked in to his house.
It doesn’t sound as funny writing it down, but we were absolutely dying. Poor guy, the defeat on his face was soul destroying.
janner_womble@reddit
The wallies I've seen trying to fight the fall after tripping on kerbs.
'No Brian, you've invited an opportunity for gravity to fuck your shit up - go and eat some floor!'
Taucher1979@reddit
About twenty years ago during there was a lot of snow. I was out for a walk with my (then) girlfriend and waking down a hill I held back a bit. As she walked under a snowy tree I threw a snowball into it and it and it shedded all of its snow onto her. It all descended with a satisfying ‘thwump’ and she was completely covered. Loved ever minute of it.
beatsshootsandleaves@reddit
I didn't see it but lived the moment myself.
Whilst backpacking in Europe we were at the train station in Budapest and I spotted some other people we'd seen earlier in our trip. Turned round to point them out to my girlfriend but the massive backpack on my back shifted my balance and I fell off the train platform. Luckily there was a train in at the time so one leg was down between the train and the platform and the other was still up on the platform.
InEachHomeAHeartache@reddit
I was customer facing in a small retail space and someone came up to pay, opened her purse and it was empty, and an actual, literal, moth flew out like it was a panel in the Beano! No one laughed!
PedanticRedhead@reddit
Seen? Eh. Experienced? Oh yeah. I was doing fire safety rounds in my last job, and there was this one outer door whose latch caught the wire of my radio (attached to me via earpiece) and yoinked me backwards like a cartoon character. I went halfway to the floor with one leg to the sky before catching myself. When I came back inside the CCTV footage was already lined up for me, accompanied by the inevitable hyena crackles from my colleagues 😂
CobaltBlue389@reddit (OP)
These wireless kids dont know how lucky they are 😆
bababababoos@reddit
Brother running at top speed into the (closed) patio doors.
CumGuzlinGutterSluts@reddit
I hit a jump on my bike as a kid and somehow launched myself after I crashed and my friends said I just disappeared over the jump and then they saw my fly back up without my bike, exploded into gear, shoes flew off, starfishing in the air like a shuriken spinny gracefully.
LadyInAllPower@reddit
A model stepped backwards in an audition, knocked over a rail or clothes. In the panic of trying to stop them falling, managed to knock over three more rails of clothes!
Queen_of_London@reddit
Me, walking along chatting animatedly. Walk straight into a lamp-post with a surprisingly loud DONG!
Laugh it off, continue walking, do it again. DONG!
Move to the side, saying that I'm not going to do that again, and promptly step onto a broken manhole with no signs around it, and discover that your arms do spread out to protect you even if you're so unaware that you walk into a hole.
If it had happened more recently (this was mid-90s) I'm sure there'd be videos of me chest-high in a hole begging my friends to stop laughing and help me get out. They did, but it felt like forever, and my elbows and forearms were painfully pebbledashed!
Reesy@reddit
My number one was when 4 of us went on a girls holiday to Edinburgh for one of the girls 18th. Cardiff to Scotland on like a 7am plane, we were all bloody shattered getting off, walking through the streets dragging out suitcases towards this hotel, not talking just walking in zombie mode.
We were just about to walk past a Dominos pizza place, and this pretty buff guy comes out carrying this pizza, and literally out of nowhere, this guy riding a bicycle comes screaming down the pavement, full on crashes into this guy, the pizza goes flying in the air, opens, splats on the pavement.
Both guys get up, the cyclist gets up and starts to ride off, and the buff guy starts legging it after him shouting in the most aggressive Scottish accent you ever would hear ''OI OII ACHH COME BACK ERE YA BASTARD COME YERRRR''. Just ditched the pizza in pursuit of this guy.
We were having kittens. Absolute kittens. I think we all sat down for 5 minutes solid and coloudn't breathe because we were laughing so hard. And all the way to the walk to the hotel one of us would start giggling and all the rest of us would just erupt. It was biblical :) Never forget it.
Jung-And-A-Menace@reddit
This happened to me when I was at high school. I was walking across the car park, towards the main doors, one winter morning. There was a large but shallow icy puddle in my path, lurking in the early morning gloom.
Naturally, I slipped.
Somehow, I managed to get both of my feet to leave the ground at the same time; for a single, shining second, I was basically sitting in mid-air with my legs out in front of me. I was a living cartoon. I was Wile Coyote.
Then I fell down and landed perfectly on my backside, legs still out in front of me. I was stunned for a moment, not sure what the fuck had just happened, before my brain started working again. It was so stupid I actually started laughing and thanked whoever it is out there that nobody saw me. They'd never let me forget it.
CobaltBlue389@reddit (OP)
Haha I reckon 50% of these will be ice themed!
Traditional-Seesaw-5@reddit
Was making a cup of tea with the back door open to the garden. Sparrow flew into the house and hit the living room window. It quickly left. Cat was just as confused as I was.
Terry__Tibbs@reddit
I saw an Uber Eats driver standing next to his moped and he was holding the handlebars and accelerated so he was getting dragged along with his legs flapping behind him
ClevelandWomble@reddit
Well, I was up a ladder pruning a tree in our garden when the rung I was standing on snapped, dumping me onto the lawn. I didn't see it myself as such but it must have been funny because my wife was too busy pissing herself laughing to come and see if I'd survived.
Jazzlike-Basil1355@reddit
The birth of digital cameras. Two blokes on a pub bench with full pints. Owner of the camera hands it to his mate, they fumble it and it goes lengthwise into the beer without touching the sides.
I had to walk away.
maybenomaybe@reddit
I was brushing my teeth a little too vigorously, and the toothbrush flew out of my hand, hit the bathroom mirror, bounced off, hit the bathroom door behind me, bounced off that, and hit me in the back of the head.
EveryChemistry9163@reddit
That thing I associate with American holiday films where someone slams the front door and all the snow slides off the roof in an avalanche. I saw it happen to a neighbour across the street. We were both like ‘That actually happened!’
ImpressiveStorm8914@reddit
That happened to me as a kid walking out my covered entryway. No door slam, I shouted my mate who was down the street and it all came down.
newtonbase@reddit
A bar I frequented had a set of stairs up to it that then leveled off and then one more step at the door. I saw a woman leaving and she didn't see the first step, stumbled across the level bit with arms flailing and high heels wobbling, she kept on her feet all the way down the stairs while trying to catch up with her centre of gravity and even managed a couple of steps across the pavement until she face planted on the road and slid a foot or two. She sat up laughing but I'm sure the alcohol was delaying the pain.
pokebabe2015@reddit
When myself and siblings were younger, we used to get a coach from home to school and back. If your familiar with UK school bus etiquette back in ths 2010s; "cool kids" at the back (brother), gothy/emo/outcasts in the middle (me), then like, rejects/nerds etc at the front. I remember, not long before our stop, my younger brother was running down the bus trying to pick on his friend before he got off. I just randomly stuck my foot out, I didn't think he'd actually catch it. He absolutely caught my foot and stacked it! It was the funniest moment because I remember his whole body dropping and just his arms flying after him. I laughed and apologised, he laughed, everyone laughed. Until we got off the bus, he screamed at me and shouted "I'm telling mum!" and ran off up our lane. Safe to say I got a telling off when I got home 😂😭
AkraStar@reddit
My dad cut a tree down in our garden - thankfully it wasn't a huge one, but it wasn't the smallest either.
Mum tried to tell him that he was cutting it in a way that it would fall on him - but he always got himself in a mood whenever he's doing something so he hushed her and told her (read shouted) "I know what I'm fucking doing, fucking hell why are you distracting me" - We all just stood in the window watching him cut down this tree and then it falling on my dad and him hurling abuse for help lying under it in the garden. Hysterical.
GeggingIn@reddit
Grandad shouting “Bloody seagulls” followed by a big splatty jobby exploding on his shoulder.
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