Please recommend quality humour concerning Halloween.

October 18, 2012 7:15 AM

What are some of the best Halloween sketches/standup/longform jokes that you know?

I'm going to be in a Halloween theatre restaurant and there are many gaps in the script. I'm not planning on plagiarising but I would like some inspiration. There are far too many Dad jokes and puns on ghouls so far.

posted by h00py to Media & Arts (7 answers total)

Monster Parties: Fact or Fiction? from Mr. Show!
posted by yellowbinder at 7:33 AM on October 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

A much favorited Halloween-related comment on askme about funny & clever "trick-or-treaters."
posted by neda at 7:59 AM on October 18, 2012

Jerry Seinfeld on Halloween
posted by alchemist at 8:49 AM on October 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

Lewis Black on Candy Corn
posted by chiefthe at 10:37 AM on October 18, 2012

Bill cosby's chicken heart.

There is also the classic shaggy dog story that ends with "tag, you're it!" Which I think is a fun one to tell to kids.
posted by empath at 12:02 PM on October 18, 2012

Stuff that comes to mind for potential inspiration:

Linus and his story about "the great pumpkin" on Charlie Brown.

Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Beetlejuice, both the cartoon and the movie.
posted by Michele in California at 2:25 PM on October 18, 2012

More inspiration: the Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror episodes, particularly the ones involving Halloween parties. Favorite moment:

Marge: Oh, Homer, you're not going as a hobo again are you?

Homer: Going where?
posted by ShutterBun at 7:01 PM on October 18, 2012