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• The scene where Romeo is wangst-ing to Benvolio about his breakup with Rosaline, and his overdramatic soliloquy gets interrupted by the entrance of a Capulet servant. Particularly funny because it seems like something that would happen in a parody of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare wasn't above poking fun at his character's melodrama (although the real drama for Romeo hasn't set in yet at this point in the play).

Not mad, but bound more than a madman is, Shut in a prison, kept without my food, Whipped and tormented and...god-den, good fellow.

• The scene where the Nurse takes forever to get to the point, driving Juliet completely up the wall.
  • Pretty much any of her filthy jokes count too.
• Before that, Mercutio gleefully mocking the Nurse (in some productions, in tandem with Benvolio) and her reaction.

(Enter Nurse and PETER.) Mercutio: A sail, a sail! Benvolio: Two, two; a shirt and a smock. [...] Nurse: My fan, Peter. Mercutio: Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the fairer face.

• Mercutio has the distinction of being funny even when he's dying. "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
• Peter threatening to kill the musicians if they don't play him a song.