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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 ''[[
* 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..."
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** He/it also has a penchant for quoting movie and book lines and spouting [[Non Sequitur|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?"
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** 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 [[Berserk Button|embezzlement]] is initially a creepy [[Freak
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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.
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