Downton Abbey/Funny

""What is a week-end?""
 * The Dowager Countess has some of the funniest lines in the show.

"Lady Grantham: Good heavens, what am I sitting on!?
 * And, of course, nearly falling over in the swivel-chair:

Matthew Crawley: A swivel-chair.

Lady Grantham: Another modern brainwave?

Matthew Crawley: Hardly. They were invented by Thomas Jefferson.

Lady Grantham: Why does every day involve a fight with an American?"

"Lady Grantham: Do you promise?"
 * Right after :

"Lady Grantham: Of course it would happen to a foreigner. It's typical. No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else's house - especially somebody they didn't even know."
 * Let's not forget this gem, after Pamuk's death:

"Violet: You are quite wonderful the way you see room for improvement wherever you look. I never knew such reforming zeal.
 * The Dowager Countess' mini-rivalry with Mrs. Crawley is almost too much fun to watch. Their constant one-upping of each other often provides much-needed comic relief in an otherwise very dramatic series.

Isobel: I take that as a compliment.

Violet: I must have said it wrong."


 * Mr. Carson's reveal of his shameful past as a stage performer, which to him seems to be on the same level as murdering someone.
 * That said, Carson's stuffy nature can become so hilarious that it's an inside joke among some of Downton's residents. Among one of his more memorable moments is his epic rivalry with the new telephone.
 * O'Brien hazing Ethel.
 * YMMV on that.