Large cut out of the budget??

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I have to wonder how much of that bit was Peter Sellers ad-libbing, and how the rest of the cast managed not to ruin every take by busting out laughing.

Almost all of it, actually. Sellers was given the basic structure and outcome of the scene, and carried on as he does
Lionel Mandrake's story about his false leg was totally ad-libbed too, apparently the cast and crew had trouble staying quiet during filming