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29. It all depends on the setup

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Sun Jan 11, 2026, 09:54 AM

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Keeping that in mind, the funniest line in film history is, "I'll have what she's having," from When Harry Met Sally, IMHO. But I've always liked Ali MacGraw's response to Richard Benjamin's "I'm not a planner, I'm a liver" in Goodbye, Columbus. "I'm a pancreas," she says.

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