Keep Your Clips Up #13: Comedy Special

Ian Greenwood is on vacation this week, lucky dog. While he's out, I am doing a guest column, if you will. All things considered, I can't say I'm suffering either. I'm in Costa Rica, surfing my brains out when I'm not writing.

But we're not here to talk surfing. We're here to talk skiing, be it July or not. Speaking of things being, well, currently snowless, Ian, the walking-freeski-encyclopedia, rounded up the best ski throwback clips last week . Naturally, this week we are doing a spin-off: the best comedy clips from ski history.

Bunny Gaffney Shreds Harder Than You

Starting off with a Tahoe classic, remember when the Gaffney brothers convinced us all that their grandmother, Bunny Gaffney, shreds harder than anyone? I do, because I really fell for it. Grandmas are usually, what, over sixty? No matter "her" exact age, this grandma rips.

"Bunny" was later revealed to be Dr. Robb Gaffney, dressed up as his grandma, doing gnarly stuff. That only adds to the humor, if you ask me.

Saucerboy- "McConkey's Evil Twin"

Speaking of Dr. Robb Gaffney, his longtime friend Shane McConkey can be credited with perhaps the funniest ski comedy bit of all time: the character "Saucerboy".

Saucerboy doesn't technically ski. The character was invented as Shane's alter ego when he became injured in the midst of filming Sick Sense in Alaska. Determined to find a way to have a good time, McConkey instead designed a rowdy character to poke fun at professional skiers who take skiing too seriously.

Through hucking cliffs on snowblades and making a scene in the parking lot après ski, Saucer Boy became one of McConkey's lasting pillars of fame.

Ski Patrol is better than...

Ski comedy may be a small field, but the 1990 comedy Ski Patrol covers at least a yard of it. The film follows a small ski lodge and its rag-tag Ski Patrol crew as they fight to save their lodge from development into a massive resort. It's full of hijinks and heckling, the makings of any good ski comedy.

This particular clip starts--and ends--in absurdity, with a sprinkling of actual ski humor to boot. Viewers who have found themselves entangled in a "slow" sign on the hill, perhaps even ripping it out of the ground, may find this particularly hilarious. I won't spoil any more.

Hot Dog Hans

We'll finish it up with a good old--literally, old--Hot Dog Hans clip. Bridging the two genres of ski movie comedy and comedy that happens when real skiers get bored, Hot Dog Hans is the middle ground solution.

"Hot Dog Hans," is an elderly character that heckles kids and then shocks everyone by throwing progressive tricks in the park, was created by real-life-pro (and nowhere near old) Alex Ferreira.

The theory is better than the execution, in my opinion, but it's still funny enough to rack up thousands of likes and views online, so someone is watching this and chuckling, right?

Related: Keep Your Clips Up #12: Best Ski Videos of the Week

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