This was improvised by the late great Charles Grodin. Martin Short claims that Charles never broke character or laughed during filming either. The guy is a legend.
Someone else mentioned this in a comment, but it’s totally unshocking that Nicolas Cage was obsessed with this scene. An excerpt from Martin Short’s memoir “I Must Say: My Life As A Humble Comedy Legend”: "Half an hour into the flight, I was lost in the New York Times when I noticed a figure hovering in the periphery of my vision: Nic Cage, crouched in the aisle beside me, his eyes locked on mine. "Can I just say something to you?" he said, a very Nic Cage-y intensity to his voice. "The dining room scene in Clifford, with you and Charles Grodin, where he's confronting you and you keep lying to him"-a sustained battle of wits, much of it improvised, in which Clifford drives Grodin's character to the edge (Look at me like a human boy!)-"well, I broke my VCR watching it. I watched that scene twenty-five times in a row, and I rewound it so much that the machine jammed and the tape broke."”
he was what made this movie so funny. martin short does well, but its nothing out of the ordinary, but what grodin did should've placed him on the pantheon of great comedians
I sometimes tell my male students, as needed, “Act like a human boy”. This tickles them and throws them off and consequently, most of them respond, “But Ms. Tucker, I am a real boy” which makes me lmao inside because they sound like Pinocchio.
It's really hard to describe this movie to other people. I just remember watching it when I was 7 years old and the humor was super dark, I even picked up on that at 7.
I remember this from when I was a kid. A classic. This is the funniest scene. Him and his dinosaur Stefan. Lol. "Stefan wanted to stand here." "God Almighty, boy!" Lol. Charles Grodin could be hilarious. Great movie and nostalgia.
if you havent seen clifford with your friends, you havent lived. Its not only the most hilarious movie ever made, and on this I won't accept disagreement, but its also the most quotable of all
In terms of his best quality movie and performance I would pick Father of the Bride. In terms of what I have the softest spot for it’s either Clifford or Pure Luck. But I think overall I have the softest spot for Clifford because of line delivery and he had amazing chemistry with Grodin.
With the way Charles Grodin delivers some of his lines in this movie I would have lost it from the very beginning. His rapport with Short and line delivery are fantastic. I would not have been able to keep a straight face.
Thumbs up if Smartless brought you here. Will Arnett told Martin Short he wished he had enough talent to make that face Short made when Grodin told him to look at him like a human boy.
My brother and I thought this scene was so hilarious when we were little. We would reenact the “can you just act like human boy for 1 sec?” (With weird faces) part so many times lol. We also reenacted a ton of other scenes, like when marty drove the Delorean with the hook on top to catch the wire when lightning struck. Fun times!!
I always feel bad for Uncle Martin, never going to Riverview! Probably the only kid in Chicago who didn't go there at least once. Unlike kids today, who hold season passes to amusement parks, we went just once each summer. That made it all the more special. I believe it was torn down in 1967. The summer before it closed was the first time I was allowed to go on the water Chute ride. What a wonderful place.
He turned off the power so he could get a closer look, he was gleefully prancing around looking for the Dinosaurs, he saw one sitting a hundred yards ahead of him, a Triceratops, as he looked at it excited a Velociraptor appeared from the Bush right next to him, "Uh ohhh". Were his last words as it and three others pounced on him, Sarah and a rescue team looked all over for Clifford, All that was found of him was a bloody toy Brontosaurus laying on the ground and a torn shirt.
@@62202ify Man imagine how Martin or Clifford’s parents would react to that? His parents would either be devastated and heartbroken, or happy that he’s gone so they don’t have to deal with his hazardous antics and behaviour anymore.
@@davidfiore4677 I think his Father would be hearing the song ding ding the witch is dead in his head, his Mother might grieve, I think it'd be a bittersweet reaction. They would be sad he's dead, but at the same time happy knowing his path of destruction is finally over. Martin would have mixed reactions too.
Martin Short deserved an Academy nomination.. Just for the simple fact that he somehowconvincingly portrayed a 9-10 year old boy as a 43 year old man! 😂😂
I can’t understand people who don’t get why this is funny. Sometimes I will play this scene for people and I’m literally crying laughing, almost rolling on the floor and they sit there with a polite smile and say “I don’t get it?”
I haven't watched the film, I just looked for this clip. I don't really get it. I guess I'm thinking about it too modernly, since it's just... he's autistic. Is that the joke? Him being autistic?
This is probably the best analogous of ppl that miss public places/bars/restaurants/bars/live music & don't want to wear masks during the pandemic that i've ever seen.
"Does it ever get easier?" is the funniest line to me. Fantastic line. So overly dramatic like he's talking about grief.
Just ,like with women doesn't get any easier as an example
😂😂😂
This was improvised by the late great Charles Grodin. Martin Short claims that Charles never broke character or laughed during filming either. The guy is a legend.
Comedy acting clinic. RIP Charles Grodin. What a legend.
I came here for the same reason =(
He left some gems behind. Respect.
Awe you JUST told me news thought he was still with us🙄🥺😏
Someone else mentioned this in a comment, but it’s totally unshocking that Nicolas Cage was obsessed with this scene. An excerpt from Martin Short’s memoir “I Must Say: My Life As A Humble Comedy Legend”: "Half an hour into the flight, I was lost in the New York Times when I noticed a figure hovering in the periphery of my vision: Nic Cage, crouched in the aisle beside me, his eyes locked on mine. "Can I just say something to you?" he said, a very Nic Cage-y intensity to his voice. "The dining room scene in Clifford, with you and Charles Grodin, where he's confronting you and you keep lying to him"-a sustained battle of wits, much of it improvised, in which Clifford drives Grodin's character to the edge (Look at me like a human boy!)-"well, I broke my VCR watching it. I watched that scene twenty-five times in a row, and I rewound it so much that the machine jammed and the tape broke."”
That's...high praise!
That's amazing!
That's awesome! It was that "look at me like a human boy" bit that made me fall for this film.
That face *looks* like Nicholas Cage 90% of the time.
RIP VHS
Charles Grodin was a great, straight man in this movie. The pure frustration and rage. Pure gold.
Unbelievable bit of acting too. To not break character in the face of Martin Short as a 10 year old boy
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he was what made this movie so funny. martin short does well, but its nothing out of the ordinary, but what grodin did should've placed him on the pantheon of great comedians
Put The Dinosaur In The Drawer
Just Put In The Drawer
" If you touch the dinosaur, I'm going to kill you" LMAO part gets me every time😂😂😂😂😂😂
Burn it
I Don’t Wanna Hear One Word Out Of You And Don’t Say Another Word Perfect
😂😂😂😂😂
Look at me like a human being OMG LMFAO 😂 😂😂 Clifford's faces, I'm dying laughing over here!!!
A human boy.
Human Being!!!! 😂
Your not
A human boy. You ruined it 🤪
Delete your comment it's highly disturbing and ruining the damn line
This is one of the best films ever made
they don't make comedy like they used to
One of my top 5. I can watch it over n over n over...I laugh through the entire movie. 😆 😂 like right now. Hi my names KAT and I'm a Short-aholic
I sometimes tell my male students, as needed, “Act like a human boy”. This tickles them and throws them off and consequently, most of them respond, “But Ms. Tucker, I am a real boy” which makes me lmao inside because they sound like Pinocchio.
That’s hilarious! 😁😁😁
Lol 😆
God almighty boy
What are you, 77 years old?
Uncle Martin: "look me a human boy!" This a funny scene!😄😍😶🙃
That's my wife's favorite. I can crack her up just making that face.
It's really hard to describe this movie to other people. I just remember watching it when I was 7 years old and the humor was super dark, I even picked up on that at 7.
He somehow looks like a wooden dummy on that second face, Martin is the funniest man to ever live
Martin Short is so funny!
Really a mask on?
Yes he is!
He was known for playing bizarre characters like this one.
Him and his stupid dinosaur world
Most underrated comedy of all time.
I remember this from when I was a kid. A classic. This is the funniest scene. Him and his dinosaur Stefan. Lol. "Stefan wanted to stand here." "God Almighty, boy!" Lol. Charles Grodin could be hilarious.
Great movie and nostalgia.
_LOOK AT ME LIKE A HUMAN BOY!!!_
An underrated performance by the now late Charles Grodin! RIP Genius!
I FINALLY FOUND THIS MOVIE, IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS!
Proucuro até hoje quero assistir o filme completo mais esqueci o nome do filme pra proucurar
One of the greatet movies ever made.
Martin Short is brilliant. He's almost partly Mad, as in "Mad" which makes him brilliant
Oh, I’m ROFL here!
RIP Charles Grodin. Thank you for the joy that you brought to me and so many others in this life.
How IN THE WORLD did he keep a straight face 😂😂😂
my relationship with my dad back in the day lol
A bond to cherish
@@adisabey11 hahaha yup 😂🤣
Sounds like fun
Honestly same for me but with Godzilla 😂
Genious!!! Martin short is so fricking funny...
2:21 Literally me when I was little when my parents would try to make me smile for the camera LMAO😂🤣
if you havent seen clifford with your friends, you havent lived. Its not only the most hilarious movie ever made, and on this I won't accept disagreement, but its also the most quotable of all
How this not the best Martin short movie ever???
It’s the bestest Martin Short movie in the whole wide world
In terms of his best quality movie and performance I would pick Father of the Bride. In terms of what I have the softest spot for it’s either Clifford or Pure Luck. But I think overall I have the softest spot for Clifford because of line delivery and he had amazing chemistry with Grodin.
Imagine Spielberg' film A.I. starring Martin Short instead of Haley Joel Osment.
Love it. They both are the best actors for those two different versions of A.I.
RIP Charles Grodin
Martin Short's book brought me here. This is the scene Nicolas Cage broke his VCR watching over and over again.
What?!?! I am DYING to know more about this. Why did Nic Cage watch it so many times?!
I can't find anything about this through Google and I'm sooooo curious!
Will Arnett said he and Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz have watched this scene1,000 times.
@@buddydave1 I wonder if they told Martin this when they cast him as Uncle Jack.
@@buddydave1 That is so awesome!
RIP Uncle Martin
Look at me like a human boy! Lol Omg I love this movie even now
Charles Grodin was a comic genius! RIP! 💚
Classic...one of funniest shorts I've ever seen. Thank u Jesus!
RIP Charles Grodin. Love this movie! 💖🙌
Best movie ever
Are u high lol
Go with a confession
Pretty sure Martin Short starts to lose it at 1:48
haha never noticed that before
With the way Charles Grodin delivers some of his lines in this movie I would have lost it from the very beginning. His rapport with Short and line delivery are fantastic. I would not have been able to keep a straight face.
Here because of Smartless podcast with Martin Short
Trying to look at him like a human boy...and he can't.
God almighty boy 👦
Thumbs up if Smartless brought you here.
Will Arnett told Martin Short he wished he had enough talent to make that face Short made when Grodin told him to look at him like a human boy.
Charles Grodin RIP!
RIP Charles Grodin, masterful acting!!!
My brother and I thought this scene was so hilarious when we were little. We would reenact the “can you just act like human boy for 1 sec?” (With weird faces) part so many times lol.
We also reenacted a ton of other scenes, like when marty drove the Delorean with the hook on top to catch the wire when lightning struck.
Fun times!!
This is how you get ahead in life 😂 by going to work and driving your boss crazy 🤣
Stephan walked back 🦕
RIP Charles...
Well it's about time I would assume that Movieclips should upload clips of Clifford
dude the face martin short makes after "i believe dinosaur world is the only place where a boy like me can be happy" absolutely destroys me
I always feel bad for Uncle Martin, never going to Riverview! Probably the only kid in Chicago who didn't go there at least once. Unlike kids today, who hold season passes to amusement parks, we went just once each summer. That made it all the more special. I believe it was torn down in 1967. The summer before it closed was the first time I was allowed to go on the water Chute ride. What a wonderful place.
One of my favorites all time !
Look at me like a human boy!
I feel like Step Brothers either consciously or unconsciously took a lot from the performances in this movie.
And coincidentally both star Mary Steenburgen.
Severely underrated comedy.
I’ll miss him!!
Comedy gold!
I love this so much
"you tell Sarah that you and I are the best of friends!"
"We are aren't we!
"Shut up!"
best lines for me 😅
Movie is such a classic.
0:57 I now know the struggle is real...... my 7yr old son's attention span!!
SAME 😂😂😭😭😂😂
Always cracks me up how I watched this as a very young kid and spaced that Martin Short was like 40 in it playing a kid😂😂
This movie is just great!!
Being such a dinosaur enthusiast, Clifford must have been one of the first visitors to Jurassic Park. What could go wrong?
He turned off the power so he could get a closer look, he was gleefully prancing around looking for the Dinosaurs, he saw one sitting a hundred yards ahead of him, a Triceratops, as he looked at it excited a Velociraptor appeared from the Bush right next to him, "Uh ohhh". Were his last words as it and three others pounced on him, Sarah and a rescue team looked all over for Clifford, All that was found of him was a bloody toy Brontosaurus laying on the ground and a torn shirt.
@@62202ify Man imagine how Martin or Clifford’s parents would react to that? His parents would either be devastated and heartbroken, or happy that he’s gone so they don’t have to deal with his hazardous antics and behaviour anymore.
@@davidfiore4677 I think his Father would be hearing the song ding ding the witch is dead in his head, his Mother might grieve, I think it'd be a bittersweet reaction. They would be sad he's dead, but at the same time happy knowing his path of destruction is finally over. Martin would have mixed reactions too.
"And you tell Sarah that we're the best of friends."
"And we are, aren't we?"
"Shut up."
Martin Short deserved an Academy nomination.. Just for the simple fact that he somehowconvincingly portrayed a 9-10 year old boy as a 43 year old man! 😂😂
My son has given me that look before.
I'm sorry but this made me laugh At 0:57 when martin said give it to me he sounded in a intimate way
A 10 year old with a 5 o clock shadow lolololol.
2:46 Martin looks like he’s about to punch Clifford in the face when he is doing that.
Does it ever get easier my uncle martin
Na not really
@Scary Uncle Martain yeah sorry realised that as I sent it
This scene is forever etched in my childhood memories lol. This movie and Drop Dead Fred.
2:06 - 2:28 🤣🤣🤣
George Newton? lolol★★★★★
2:27 when you try not to fall asleep while watching TH-cam/TV
Imagine this with Spongebob and Squidward.
This bit kills me so hard! lol
Thanks to Will Arnett for suggesting this clip!
02:05 reminds me of explaining ANYTHING to today's youth. 😂
PUT THAT DINOSAUR DOWN...
Crazy Clifford
YOU TELL SARAH WERE THE BEST OF FRIENDS WE ARE ARENT WE SHUT UP HAAAA HAAAAAAAAAA
I have to find this movie TODAY!!🤣🤣
Reminds me of early Tom Green
I have a son who is obsessed with dinosaurs, and when you get on him he literally stares at you like clifford did to martin lol.
I can’t understand people who don’t get why this is funny. Sometimes I will play this scene for people and I’m literally crying laughing, almost rolling on the floor and they sit there with a polite smile and say “I don’t get it?”
I haven't watched the film, I just looked for this clip. I don't really get it. I guess I'm thinking about it too modernly, since it's just... he's autistic. Is that the joke? Him being autistic?
Send him back to his parents? I don't think they want him back.
How does acting get any better than this.
RIP Charles Grodin. This scene always made me genuinely laugh.
Seen this scene 100 times and Im literally crying laughing over here 😂
"You touch the dinosaur and im gunna kill you" 😂😂😂
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When Martin Short got socked in the face with that purse, while wearing a dinosaur suit i was dying
Same😂🤣
@@emilypetsche1 so many classic scenes during this gem of a film
This is probably the best analogous of ppl that miss public places/bars/restaurants/bars/live music & don't want to wear masks during the pandemic that i've ever seen.
...how?
Please tell me there’s a blooper real of this movie
2:23 I’ve watched this 400,000 times
Rip uncle Martin
Stephen walked back
At 0:52 lol
“I’m gonna kill you”. 🤣😂🤣
Stephen wanted lol