Stephen King/Funny
Surprisingly, there are more than a few hilarious moments in Stephen King's works. In fact, he has been known to say that he can always get a few laughs when reading his works aloud.
- The nonsense spewed by Guy the Demon Waiter in Lunch at the Gotham Cafe
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- The stuff about the Turnpike Wolves in 1408 is disturbing, but also pretty funny.
- In IT, several families skip town to avoid the horrors of the monster. The description of this is from Bill Denbrough's point of view:...some kids went to one of those high-class sports camps, where you learned to say "Hey, nice one" instead of "Fuck you" when someone got a killer serve past you in tennis..."
- Tak from Desperation, despite being an insane, body-snatching extradimensional horror, has some genuinely funny lines. For instance. Tak inhabits people's bodies and in turn makes them taller and stronger--but the intensity of its presence makes them literally fall apart, starting at the source of potential illness or infection. So Tak has to buy some 'new clothes,' and as it snatches a guy, he asks how in the name of god he got so tall... Tak replies, "Wheaties!"
- He/it also has a penchant for quoting movie and book lines and spouting Non Sequiturs, as well as that creepy-ass language.
- In the Doorstopper Under the Dome, a character considering writing a novel wonders to herself, ""What if you wrote a thousand-pager, and it sucked?"
- In The Stand, when Larry becomes successful, a guy calls him and tries to talk him into making a remake of "Hang On, Sloopy". Larry eventually loses his patience, and tells him that given a choice between recording "Hang On, Sloopy" and being tied down and receiving a Coca-Cola enema, he would pick the latter.
- Later, Ralph Brentner makes a similar joke: "If it came down to a choice between drinking Za-Rex and bullpiss, I'd have to sit down and think her over."
- In Pet Sematary, after his son dies, Louis, (as he's near to losing his sanity from grief) can't help but think of dark jokes.
- When he buys the coffin, in his mind "an announcer suddenly spoke up cheerfully: I got my kid's coffin free, for Raleigh coupons!"
- When his friend says that they should meet for lunch, the idea seems so alien to him that it reminds him of sci-fi novels: "The natives here on Planet Quark have an odd custom when one of their children dies, Lieutenant Abelson: they meet for lunch. I know how grotesque and barbaric that sounds, but remember, this planet has not been terraformed yet."
- The scene in Needful Things where Keaton finds the hundreds of parking tickets in his living room accusing him of embezzlement is initially a creepy Freak-Out, but Keaton is such a tool and the messages on the pink slips start getting so creatively insulting, you can't help but laugh at the very Black Comedy.
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- If you want to go Meta, the Family Guy parody of him, where he proposes a couple being menaced by a scary lamp. The Youtube comments both laugh at the clip, and say that Stephen King could very well make a lamp terrifying. This is the man who made a horror story out of a Polaroid camera, after all.
- Another meta example would be any of his columns, interviews, or comments on writing. The man is very self-aware and has a good sense of humor-- he just likes freaking you out a little more.