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15 Greatest Royal Rumble Comedy Spots | partsFUNknown The Royal Rumble is serious business, except when it's not. These are the times that it's not. These are the 15 greatest Royal Rumble comedy spots.  00:00 - Start 01:06 - Honourable Mention 01:19 - 15 01:42 - 14 02:10 - 13 02:46 - 12 03:23 - 11 03:59 - 10 04:44 - 9 05:16 - 8 05:58 - 7 06:46 - 6 07:15 - 5 07:57 - 4 08:28 - 3 09:06 - 2 09:50 - 1  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: https://www.wrestleshop.com/ Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/

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00:00 When people think of the very best Royal Rumble moments in history, they may think of the

00:04 returns of John Cena in Edge, or Paul London's flip-bump in '05, or the tear in Ric Flair's

00:09 eye, but many of the greatest moments to ever take place in the countdown-rundown showdown

00:13 have been the funnies.

00:15 Lots of WWE comedy spots fall flat on their beak, mostly because Vince McMahon has the

00:19 worst sense of humor known to man, but thankfully comedy writing is very, very, very easy with

00:24 zero stress involved whatsoever, or at least that's what Sullivan tells me.

00:28 Go watch Grubby Little Mitts.

00:29 For clarity, this is going to be a list of pre-planned comedy spots rather than spontaneous

00:33 moments of hilarity like Rusev becoming TV champion in 2016, Brock's dancing and overall

00:39 presence in 2020, Johnny Knoxville getting his brains bashed in by AJ Styles in 2022,

00:44 or Vince McMahon selling his knees to Saudi Arabia.

00:46 I'm Tempest, hailing from PartsFunknown, and these are the 15 greatest Royal Rumble

00:50 comedy spots ever.

00:51 And before we get on with our list, make sure of course that you're subscribed to PartsFunknown

00:54 so you don't miss any of the Royal Rumble content that has been filling up the recommendations

00:59 of all of our fine subscribers this month.

01:01 You can hit that subscribe button and enable notifications and you won't miss a single

01:04 one or else I'm going to throw you out of the ring.

01:06 Honorable mention, Titus.

01:07 Yeah, I know what I just said, but come on now, look at him trip.

01:10 Who's to say this wasn't an elaborate spot pulled off to perfection by Titus, one of

01:15 WWE's most finesse performers?

01:17 Look at him trip.

01:19 15.

01:20 The Warlord.

01:21 For 20 long years, the Warlord held the record for the shortest time spent in the Royal Rumble

01:26 match.

01:27 He takes a few steps, beats his chest, out he goes, his legacy defined forever, holding

01:31 one of the worst Rumble records.

01:33 The original Rumble comedy spot, and probably how most Ruthless Aggression era children

01:37 were introduced to the Warlord, because where would we be without the By The Numbers video?

01:42 14.

01:43 The Bushwhacker Walk.

01:44 You won't find many Bushwhacker fans here at PFK Labs, maybe just Dave Bradshaw, they

01:48 licked his head once, but the moment in the 1991 Royal Rumble match where Bushwhacker

01:52 Luke walks to the ring like he's trying to air dry his soaking wet arms, is walked across

01:56 the ring by Earthquake, is deposited on the outside, and returns to the back all in one

02:00 motion is a job well done.

02:02 It's pro-wrestling ridiculousness to a T. Also, Bushwhacker Luke has more 5 star matches

02:07 than Kurt Angle.

02:08 Don't know why I felt compelled to share that fact, I just felt chaotic today.

02:11 13.

02:12 Scaredy Too Hotty.

02:13 Scotty Too Hotty is a wrestler blessed with an extremely expressive face.

02:17 It's the eyes, Chico, they never lie.

02:19 Usually, Scotty's eyes would be screaming excitement about doing everyone's favorite

02:24 1920's funk dance, but in the 2001 Royal Rumble, those eyes told a very different story.

02:29 If you were to draw number 26 in the Rumble, you'd probably like those odds.

02:33 But when you're Scotty Too Hotty and the only people waiting to greet you are Kane

02:36 and The Undertaker, well then you get this slow, terrified entrance as Scotty slowly

02:41 accepts his fate while still dancing.

02:44 The look, the dance, superb.

02:46 12.

02:47 Help?

02:48 Hell no.

02:49 Kane and Daniel Bryan had tremendous comedic chemistry together during their run as a team,

02:52 and at the 2013 Royal Rumble, they had another of their best frenemies moments.

02:56 Bryan dumps Kane out of the ring because he was always the little bastard of the duo,

03:00 but immediately afterwards, Bryan himself was ejected from the ring, landing in the

03:04 waiting arms of his recently betrayed partner.

03:06 They stare longingly into each other's eyes as the crowd becomes a frenzy, Bryan demands

03:10 to be put back in the ring, and for a moment it looked like Kane would comply, only to

03:14 drop Bryan, resulting in this perfect reaction shot.

03:17 Daniel Bryan, still one of the funniest wrestlers of all time.

03:20 You hear him talk about bears?

03:22 F*cking crazy.

03:23 11.

03:24 Vicky Guerrero is excused

03:26 You know who people really hated in 2008?

03:28 Vicky Guerrero.

03:29 You know what people really hated hearing in 2008?

03:32 Vicky Guerrero screeching "Excuse me!"

03:34 In 2018, for the first ever Women's Royal Rumble, the one that was 50% surprises, all

03:39 of the women involved decided that they just weren't going to tolerate Vicky's fury,

03:43 and all ganged up to eliminate her in the safest way possible.

03:46 There aren't a lot of expertly planned spots in the first Women's Royal Rumble, but this

03:49 was certainly one of them, giving the crowd the biggest laugh of the match.

03:53 What a way to come in and get paid.

03:55 Walk out, scream, walk back, check please.

03:58 What a genius.

03:59 10.

04:00 Announcers pretending

04:01 And now here we have a moment so funny they had to do it twice.

04:04 WWE's commentary has not been its strong suit for a long time.

04:07 Other commentary highlights from Rumble's past have included Matt Stryker alerting us

04:10 all that Booker T's return was a "mark out" moment, "I'm marking out, bro,"

04:14 and "Well, they'll never be able to get the big show over the top, bro."

04:19 While we often spend time wishing we could forget what the commentators say, this is

04:22 an example of the commentators wishing we could forget what we saw.

04:25 In 1997, Jerry Lawler entered the Rumble from the commentary position, only to be promptly

04:29 eliminated by Bret Hart, landing on his face and returning to the desk pretending the whole

04:34 way that nothing had happened.

04:35 While 15 years later, JBL did precisely the same thing in 2012, with both men practicing

04:39 the philosophy of "If you pretend it didn't happen, maybe everyone will just forget."

04:44 9.

04:45 CM Punk saves the Royal Rumble

04:46 CM Punk's run as the Straight Edge Savior on SmackDown was superb, but the most fun

04:50 times we got were when Punk would interrupt a match's scheduled proceedings to provide

04:54 a sermon to try and save the filthy masses watching, and in this case, wrestling him.

04:58 Punk enters third and eliminates Evan Bourne and Dolph Ziggler, grabbing a microphone and

05:02 being his Charles Manson Punk self.

05:04 Then Zack Ryder made his entrance, only for Punk to tell him that he could be saved before

05:08 bopping him on the head.

05:09 The whole sermon was a ton of fun, but Zack Ryder getting bopped on the head like a field

05:13 mouse was peak slapstick comedy in a great Rumble.

05:16 8.

05:17 Otis saves Mandy

05:18 If anything is going to save you in a Royal Rumble match, it might as well be true love.

05:22 It is still wild to believe that the best storyline going into WrestleMania 36 was the

05:26 Otis-Mandy-Dolph love triangle.

05:28 Along the way, that Shakespearean romance took a number of turns, with one such moment

05:32 coming in the 2020 Royal Rumble.

05:34 The Women's Rumble, that is.

05:35 Mandy was booted off the apron and appeared for all the world that she'd been eliminated,

05:39 only for the camera to reveal that Otis had slid out from under the ring to use his wide

05:43 base to save Mandy from hitting the floor.

05:46 Otis is an entertaining fellow, and even though I'm sure he could manage it if put to the

05:49 real test, he couldn't save Mandy and Sonya from elimination shortly thereafter.

05:54 Maybe it wasn't meant to be at all.

05:55 We did just kinda never hear about them again after a while.

05:59 7.

06:00 Ambrose and Ellsworth

06:01 For just a bump, this is far from funny.

06:03 But as a payoff to a months-long story, yeah, this is pretty great.

06:06 Dean Ambrose had taken Smackdown's homeless turtle, James Ellsworth, under his wing in

06:10 2016, helping Ellsworth to get a few cheap wins over AJ Styles, only for Ellsworth to

06:14 turn on Dean because Ellsworth actually thought that he could actually beat AJ Clean.

06:19 He didn't, and by the time the Royal Rumble came, it was time for Dean to get some payback.

06:24 Ellsworth enters to face Braun Strowman, the man that squashed him in the first place,

06:27 making his chinless face go viral, and then Ambrose entered behind him as Ellsworth had

06:31 yet to enter the ring.

06:33 Dean said "let's go in on three" and proceeded to watch Ellsworth be fed to a grizzly bear.

06:36 A grizzly bear not content with just tearing him to shreds, but chokeslamming him over

06:41 the top rope to the floor.

06:42 That's a murder.

06:43 He's dead.

06:44 He's killed him.

06:45 Hehe.

06:46 6.

06:47 Billie Kay for hire After the ill-advised breakup of the IIconics,

06:50 Billie Kay tried to offer her services to anyone who would listen to her.

06:53 One such time, perhaps also ill-advised considering the stakes involved Billie, was during the

06:57 2021 Royal Rumble match.

07:00 Rather than entering the ring, Billie Kay, another very entertaining individual, elected

07:03 to instead hand out resumes to all the entrants as they passed her.

07:06 None of them took her up on it, but maybe Mickie James saved one and gave it to Impact

07:10 later that year.

07:11 I don't know if he'll mean, I didn't like that.

07:13 Don't fire people during a pandemic, y'all.

07:16 5.

07:17 There's a light breeze coming through Triple H's return for the 2002 Royal Rumble

07:20 match was pretty legendary.

07:22 His Madison Square Garden return on Raw remains the best denim on denim look in WWE history,

07:26 but when he walked to the ring to stand face to face with former frenemy Steve Austin,

07:30 it didn't feel like things could get any better.

07:32 Then we got one of the best comedy spots in Rumble history.

07:35 Rather than following Triple H with someone like a Kurt Angle, The Hurricane made his

07:39 Royal Rumble debut, sizing up the game and the rattlesnake, and trying to chokeslam both

07:43 of them at the same time.

07:45 He totally succeeded, totally won, and totally beat Chris Jericho at WrestleMania.

07:49 But also in this timeline, Trips and Steve no-sell being goozled, and immediately eliminate

07:54 the tropical storm like it was a light breeze.

07:56 4.

07:57 Where's the briefcase?!

07:59 Adam Blampied's favorite wrestler R-Truth has been hit and miss as a comedian in WWE.

08:03 I know Adam won't like to hear that his favorite wrestler R-Truth has had misses, but it is

08:06 true.

08:07 Adam's favorite wrestler R-Truth had one of his best moments in the Royal Rumble match

08:11 in 2016.

08:12 Having never recovered from being mentally shattered by losing to John Morrison in 2011,

08:17 Adam's favorite wrestler R-Truth pulled a ladder from under the ring, climbed it, looked

08:21 up and loudly asked, "Where's the briefcase?!"

08:24 I also get Money in the Bank and the Royal Rumble confused.

08:26 The matches are very similar.

08:28 3.

08:29 Poor Heath Slater No one likes a sore loser, especially when

08:32 it's Baron Corbin.

08:33 Corbin did not take well to being eliminated within minutes of the start of the 2018 Royal

08:37 Rumble and took that frustration out on poor Heath Slater, making his entrance just trying

08:41 to earn a way to WrestleMania to feed all 19,000 of his kids.

08:44 I wrote 19.

08:45 I don't know why I said 19,000.

08:46 But hey, maybe by now.

08:47 All the heels give Heath a boot or something on their way to the ring.

08:50 Big E helps Heath carb load for the match.

08:52 What a lovely man he is.

08:53 The spot lasted like a third of the match and then finally, Sheamus took the initiative

08:57 to get Heath into the match properly, only for the spot to be paid off perfectly, with

09:02 Heath eliminating the White Warrior in seconds.

09:05 On his birthday!

09:06 2.

09:07 Santino wasn't ready For 20 long years, the Warlord held the record

09:11 for the shortest time spent in a Royal Rumble match.

09:15 That was until 2009.

09:17 Santino Morella has a pretty interesting track record in Royal Rumble matches.

09:20 2008 he goes face to face with Taker and HBK before posing and eating a superkick.

09:24 2011 he almost won the thing.

09:26 2012 he had a sock puppet duel with Mick Foley that was long listed for this one.

09:30 He is awful in the 2020 Women's Rumble.

09:32 And then there is this.

09:33 This perfection.

09:34 From the precision required to actually be eliminated in just one second, to the impeccable

09:39 camera work capturing Santino's face immediately after, to the classic "I wasn't ready!"

09:43 This is one of the best Royal Rumble moments, full stop.

09:46 However, if you want pure comedy, who better to look to than a true comedian?

09:51 1.

09:52 Drew Carey The 2001 Royal Rumble is a perfect piece of

09:55 Attitude Era Wrestling.

09:56 This match from start to finish is a joy, and it has a number of great comedic moments

10:00 peppered throughout, including one we've already mentioned, but nothing compares to

10:03 the payoff of the night's show-long angle, Drew Carey competing in the Royal Rumble match.

10:08 Both of the hardies find themselves eliminated from the match as Drew Carey makes his entrance,

10:11 and you can isolate any bit of this.

10:13 Drew's reaction to seeing Kane, Drew hopping the top rope to escape, but watching Drew

10:18 Carey try to pay off the biggest and reddest of monsters in the middle of the ring in a

10:23 Royal Rumble match is a Royal Rumble funny that has yet to be topped.

10:26 And that's our list.

10:27 Make sure of course that you like this video, subscribe and enable notifications to always

10:30 on for all of the Royal Rumble content we've got coming your way, and make sure of course

10:34 that you watch the 10 best championship matches from the Royal Rumble pay-per-view.

10:37 And until next time, I'm JamesBl0nde… see ya out there gamers!

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