Henry, Jimmy and Tommy are digging up Billy Batts' decomposed corpse. Henry is coughing from the stench, while the others don't appear to be bothered.
Tommy DeVito: Hey, Henry, Henry, hurry up, will ya? My mother's gonna make some fried peppers and sausage for us.
Jimmy and Tommy laugh while Henry coughs.
Jimmy Conway: Oh, hey, Henry, Henry! Here's an arm!
Henry Hill: Very funny, guys.
Jimmy Conway: Here's a leg!
Tommy DeVito: Here's a wing! [laughs] Hey, what do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or ya still go for the old hearts and lungs?
Henry Hill: [Vomiting] Oh, that's so bad!
– Tommy (Joe Pesci), Jimmy (Robert De Niro), Henry (Ray Liotta), Goodfellas (1990), screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese, based on the novel by Nicholas Pileggi
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is gallows humor suggested by churnage. Today's suggestion by JasperLamarCrab.
Trivia: The "You think I'm funny?" scene was based on a story that Joe Pesci acted out for Martin Scorsese. While working in a restaurant as a young man, Pesci once told a mobster that he was funny and the mobster became very angry. Scorsese allowed Pesci and Ray Liotta to improvise the scene. He did not tell the other actors in the scene what would happen because he wanted their genuine surprised reactions.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Dealing with corpses, another source of gallows humor. Cops, morticians, mobsters…
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