“Funny How? I Amuse You?” (Goodfellas)

While director Martin Scorsese gets most of the credit for his mobster classic Goodfellas, he needs to thank actors Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta for one of the movie’s most memorable scenes. Remember when Pesci’s character loses it at the restaurant after being called funny?

As it turns out, the moment was crafted off-camera by Pesci and Liotta and only added later to the script. The remarkable scene showed Pesci’s out-of-control character overreacting to an innocent comment made by one of his friends, who decided to call him funny. The whole situation escalated beautifully into a full-blown conflict and has remained one of Goodfellas’ most iconic moments.