Comedic Showstoppers

Often its the funniest numbers that prove to be the biggest crowd pleasers. What are some songs that often result in big laughs and huge applause?

Some (actually quite a lot) off the top of my head are:

Agony and its reprise from Into the Woods

Friendship and Gypsy in Me from Anything Goes

Not Getting Married Today from Company

You’ll Be Back and What’d I Miss from Hamilton

A Little Priest from Sweeney Todd

Everybody Ought to Have a Maid from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

The Smell of Rebellion, Telly, Loud, and The Hammer from Matilda

A Musical from Something Rotten

Friend Like Me from Aladdin

Never Ever Getting Rid of Me from Waitress

Sincerely Me from Dear Evan Hansen

Gaston from Beauty and the Beast

Brush Up Your Shakespeare from Kiss Me, Kate

Adelaide’s Lament from Guys and Dolls

The Lees of Old Virginia from 1776

No Time at All from Pippin

Mr. Cellophane from Chicago

Master of the House from Les Miserables

I’m Not a Loser from Spongebob Squarepants

And practically everything from Urinetown, Spamalot, and Book of Mormon

Obviously that was a lot, but I’d love to hear some other examples

Updated On: 6/22/19 at 12:28 PM

Sutton Foster making herself a sandwich in Vittorio Vittale’s apartment in the 2016 Off-Broadway revival of SWEET CHARITY. The entire show literally stopped as Foster hilariously held the entire audience transfixed on what seemed like 5 minutes. Sheer theatrical brilliance on every level. Speaks volumes about her magic on the live stage.

Gee Officer Krupke from West Side Story. Never realized what a show stopper it is until I saw it on stage.

C.Jack said: "Moon and Me from Addams Family. Quite possibly the only thing in that show that could even be considered “show stopping”."

I’ve always thought that, aside from Lurch, Fester is the only well written part of that entire show.

The OP is seriously comparing "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" (which stops FORUM regardless of the quality of the cast) with "Sincerely Me" (I have no axe to grind with DEH)? SMH

Everybody's Girl, Steel Pier.

Class and I Didn’t Do It from Chicago

Did you mean “Cell Block Tango”?

I wouldn't call them "showstoppers," but I would think You'll Be Back from Hamilton and Sincerely, Me from DEH would count. They both get pretty major applause every night.

Sexy from Mean Girls