Ranking the top 10 funniest segments in modern-day WWE

WWE offers comedy too.

WWE is not only a place for quality wrestling but also a place for entertainment. Humour is inevitable in the field of entertainment. Normally, the WWE creative team writes some silly segments which do not reach among the hardcore fans. But there are some moments where WWE pulled the bunny out of the hat. Its mainly due to the individual performances of the men and women involved. They have nailed it. Some people can make a normal segment to an epic one. That’s how legends differ from normal superstars.

Ok, Now lets get down to it and take a look back at the funny segments put out by the WWE, over the years.

Honourable Mention:

Rock’s History Lessons

During the road to Wrestlemania 28, heated verbal attacks between Rock and Cena had reached its peak. In Cena’s hometown Boston, Rock declared that he was going to start “The Rock’s Revolution” against John Cena. He would tour around the city of Boston and gave ‘History’ lessons to John Cena. He threw John Cena’s merchandise in Charles river and humiliated John Cena with his trademark dialogues.

His insults were so funny that even Cena’s hometown crowd were behind the Great One and enjoyed his promo. Later that night Rock and Cena came face to face and discussed about their match at Wrestlemania. It was sad that even at his hometown, Cena couldn’t get a positive reaction. That’s why he is the most polarizing superstar in the history of WWE.

10. Stone Cold and Kurt Angle playing guitar for Vince McMahon

During his run as a narcissistic heel, the character of Stone Cold developed to include a lot of laughs. Teaming up with Debra backstage in Vince’s office, Austin tried to chill up his Boss during an episode of Smackdown, playing him a little song.

Soon, Kurt Angle showed up and boasted that he was a better singer than Austin. Angle sang “Jimmy Crack Corn” in his guitar and went off track. He sang about his Olympic gold medal long after McMahon left the place. Austin busted Angle for being such a nutcase.

9. Chris Jericho urinates in William Regal’s tea

Back in 2001, when Jericho was red-hot as the upper midcard babyface, he ignited a feud with William Regal. Jericho was well over with his fans at that time with his timely, signature comedies and insults. Leading up to their match at Wrestlemania 17, they used some excellent skits to set the pieces up in a very humorous way.

Jericho was seen backstage alone in Regal’s office when he spotted his tea pot. He took it behind the curtain, then we could hear some dripping noise, Jericho zipped up and then he placed it back where it was. Later that night, Regal sat down in his chair, and tried to relax with cup of tea. Harvey Whippleman tried to warn him but Regal shooed him away. Regal took a sip and his expression tells it all.

8. Dudley Boys humiliating Y2J and Christian

Christian and Chris Jericho won the World Tag Team Championship in 2002. The Number 1 contenders for their titles, The Dudley Boys played out a prank on the champions when they took Christian and Jericho’s luggage bags while they were in the shower. Wearing only towels, Christian and Jericho stood on the ramp, demanding their bags back.

The Dudleys started to examine the contents of the bag and dished out insults at the champs. They eventually threw the bags to the crowd. They summoned Spike who removed the towels of Christian and Jericho. The Dudleys celebrated with Spike as the champs scurried backstage naked.

7. Rock sings For Vickie Guerrero

The Rock is head and shoulders above everybody else with a microphone in his hand, showing that even the most perfectly-scripted promos can’t really top natural charisma. In 2013, Johnson was in top form, dedicating a song during one of his ‘Rock Concert’ segments to Vickie Guerrero. Vickie Guerrero was the Raw GM at that time. Rock called her out to the ring.

He began to sing song for which started off good for Vickie as she jumped in delight. But the real fun begin when Rock sang she looked horrible. Fans quickly got behind the song and the night turned to be a bad one for Vickie. At least the fans had a good time!

6. Dean Ambrose embarrassing Seth Rollins

This segment was funny at the cost of poor Seth Rollins. When Seth Rollins won the Money in the Bank briefcase with the help of Kane, Ambrose decided to make a go for it. He stole the briefcase which made Rollins mad. Finally that day Ambrose returned the briefcase to Rollins by leaving it in the middle of the ring.

Rollins opened the case and found green slime sprayed at him. What made this segment so great is that not only the audience where laughing even J&J security coudn’t resist laughing. Rollins became mad and cried “I look like a jerk” and left the ring with disgust. The facial expression of Ambrose standing in the crowd was priceless.

5. Edge And Christian Playing Themes

Back in the time considered as the Golden Age of Tag Teams, when high-quality tag teams like Dudley Boys, Hardy Boys where tearing each other apart, one team stood out from the pack. It was E&C (Edge & Christian). They clearly enjoyed their characters and their antics were a treat to watch. Backstage antics were very much their home ground. E&C were well over in their roles as the fabulous dorks.

Apparently that day was Edge’s birthday and the ‘brothers’ decided to celebrate the day. Christian bought kazoos and streamers to Edge who thought them as amusing. With Christian playing kazoos and Edge singing the lyrics, they sang a lot of WWE superstars’ themes which is considered as a highlight of E&C’s run. Even though their characters were silly, it had great entertainment value.

Edge & Christian provided a lot of laughs during their tag team run. Their performance with the kazoos seems to be their best work, singing the themes of Triple H, Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit.

4. Edge makes fun of Kurt Angle

Early in his career, Edge was well known for his antics often accompanied by his buddy, Christian. In this backstage segment, Edge appears solo to interact with his opponent for that night, Kurt Angle. Angle tells him to go away, but Edge reminds him how close they were as friends.

Then he shows some pictures of Angle winning his first WWF Championship and various other highlights of his career. But behind every picture he had written insults to make fun of Angle. This was a funny segment and the crowd burst into laughter more as the segment went on. The reaction Angle gave when he found that Edge insulted him was pretty awesome.

3. Daniel Bryan and Kane’s Anger Management sessions

Sometimes, the best storylines are born out of the most unlikely circumstances. When WWE shoved Kane and Daniel Bryan together as a tag-team, a lot of fans didn’t care much. This move resembled the scenario where the creative team had nothing for both men individually, so they simply made them a team. The team was named “Hell No” and the team became popular and successful among the fans.

Especially, the Anger Mangement skits pulled of by Hell No accompanied by Dr.Shelby spawned several memorable, funny moments which has become scarce these days. Kane and Daniel Bryan deserve all the credit for making such a lame idea solid gold, they really entered each skit with gusto. This was a breakthrough in Bryan’s career and boosted him a lot during his babyface run in the “Yes Movement” storyline.

2. Kane imitates Rock and Hulk Hogan

Kane may be the most versatile performer in the history of WWE. When he was asked to play the Demon character, he delivered. When he played as the unmasked monster, he delivered. Well, now he plays as a corporate icon and he still delivers. He has delivered in every gimmick he played for the last two decades. When I mentioned him early in the Anger Management skits, it was not the first time he flourished in comedy either.

During a backstage segment with Rock and Hollywood Hogan on Smackdown, The Rock was trying to convince Hulk Hogan that the ‘Big Red Machine’ can be trusted to fight off the nWo later that night.

Bursting into the room, Kane took a page from The Rock and Hogan’s respective playbooks, and delivered their famous, electrifying catchphrases much to the surprise of the live crowd who were laughing in glee at his speech. The segment ended with Kane doing Hulk Hogan’s signature poses, as the Hulkster and the Great One stood there completely baffled, leaving the crowd something to talk about for years to come.

1. DX messes with McMahon’s mic

It was the time when DX’s rivalry with Vince McMahon himself began. DX were known at that time for their antics, slang and funny approach. DX had humiliated Vince the week before and McMahon came out to address the fans about DX. DX went creative that day and changed the voice of output from Vince’s mic. The arena filled with laughs and Vince again became the butt of all jokes. That didn’t end there and DX proceeded to dish out Vince with some of their trademark insults. Watch this video fully and you can’t help yourself but laugh out loud.