Comedians who are good in acting roles Posted Tue Aug 15 09:10:54 BST 2000 by Jon

Steve Martin in David Mamet's "The Spanish Prisoner". Great because neither Mamet or Martin put any comedy in the role.

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Posted By Jon on Tue Aug 15 12:33:38 BST 2000:

Speaking of David Mamet...

In the film version of "Glengarry Glen Ross", on the morning after the robbery at the office, in the bit where Al Pacino's character is yelling at Kevin Spacey's character for blowing out his deal with Jonathan Pryce's character, I'm absolutely certain that for a split second you can see Pacino smirking amidst his stream of expletives, almost as if he's going to break into laughter - but, being a pro, he pulls himself together after the ever-so-momentary lapse. Anyone else think so?

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Posted By Jon on Tue Aug 15 12:36:03 BST 2000:

Speaking of "Glengarry Glen Ross"...

It wasn't till I saw it that I realised that Armstrong&Miller had done a sketch based on it, the one where the scientist shouts at the researchers for being useless. Which shows what a waste of time film-reference sketches are.

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Posted By Pod on Tue Aug 15 12:36:56 BST 2000:

Jack Dee was good in Art....

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Posted By Jon on Tue Aug 15 12:37:39 BST 2000:

Speaking of Armstrong & Miller...

Are they getting a new series, or carrying on at all? I'm not that fussed about them, but they have their moments. Can't stand those TV critics sketches though.

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Posted By Jon on Tue Aug 15 12:38:28 BST 2000:

Speaking of Tv critics...

Do any of them read SOTCAA?

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Posted By Alan on Tue Aug 15 23:52:05 BST 2000:

Robbie Coltrane. No-one else has managed the transition from comic to serious actor so successfully.

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Posted By Lord Lopper on Wed Aug 16 13:21:22 BST 2000:

What about David Jason & Billy Connelly

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Posted By Barney on Wed Aug 16 16:54:34 BST 2000:

Jerry Lewis - brilliant in King of Comedy, shite in everything else.

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