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* '''RowanAtkinson''', famous for his role as {{Mr Bean}}, among [[{{Blackadder}} other things]], finds it difficult to be witty spontaneously. As a result, interviews are kind of dull. He is also a maddening perfectionist.

* Inverted with '''Kitananx''', who is a bit of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] in real life, but makes serious songs about horrible suicides, a man with a girlfriend who was ran over by a car, and [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking meatheads]]

* Inverted with '''Kitananx''', who is a bit of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] in real life, but makes serious songs about horrible suicides, a man with a girlfriend who was ran over by a car, and [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking Meatheads]]

* '''JensenAckles'''. Dean Winchester is more often than not eccentric and extremely charismatic. Jensen on the other hand has always been reserved and mellow in interviews, and he takes his work very seriously. In fact, Jared Padalecki, who plays the more subdued Sam, comes across as much funnier in interviews. When Jensen is funny and/or sarcastic in interviews and/or conventions, it's usually because Jared is right there with him. Although, as of 2010, he seems to be coming out of his shell a little bit.

** '''Misha Collins''', who plays the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]] Castiel, is at least a partial inversion because he is the completely and utterly deadpan StraightMan, but is really funny and happy in interviews and at conventions. Fans are often surprised when they meet him because he smiles, blinks, and has a very dry sense of humor (with a strangely gentle delivery).

* '''Doug Walker''' has admitted in an interview that people find him really boring when he's not playing [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses any of his characters]], and tries to avoid being naturally funny all the time in his private life. He doubles as a MeanCharacterNiceActor.

* '''Bhargav "Bargo" Dronamraju''' from is perhaps the [[LargeHam largest ham]] out of all the contributors on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com, particularly in his performance as [[CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Ma-Ti]]. Outside of his acting, he's pretty laconic, and barely says a word during Doug and Rob's commentary for TheNostalgiaCritic's review of TheGarbagePailKidsMovie, even though he's there for the majority of the recording. He's also pretty serious during his Transmission Awesome interview.

* '''Doug Walker''' has admitted in an interview that people find him really boring when he's not playing TheNostalgiaCritic, and tries to avoid being naturally funny all the time in his private life. He doubles as a MeanCharacterNiceActor.

* '''Woody Allen''', while he wrote many hilarious movies, is apparently unable to tell jokes in RealLife. He admitted himself that he's a pretty boring person and many of his colleagues confirmed that.

** In his ''MuppetShow'' appearance, he's told by Kermit the Frog that he can relax and act like himself when he's not onstage. He replies with the page quote above. This was put in after explaining to the writers that he can't "be himself".

* '''John Cho''' and '''Kal Penn''', who play uptight, repressed Harold and loose, freewheeling Kumar in the HaroldAndKumar movies, respectively, have stated their real-life personalities are almost exactly the reverse.

* '''RodneyDangerfield's''' wife was always a little annoyed that people assumed her husband was a wacky, boorish slob all the time. In person, he was a well-mannered gentleman.

* '''JensenAckles'''. Dean Winchester is more often than not eccentric and extremely charismatic. Jensen on the other hand has always been reserved and mellow in interviews, and he takes his work very seriously. In fact, Jared Padalecki, who plays the more subdued Sam, comes across as much funnier in interviews. When Jensen is funny and/or sarcastic in interviews and/or conventions, it's usually because Jared is right there with him.

* '''Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding''', ''aka'' [[BobAndRay Bob & Ray]], were so renowned for their ability to improvise -- or, more often, make it sound like they were improvising -- hilariously subversive radio skits, that eager interviewers/fans were often startled to discover that in real life they were awkwardly shy and average. "By the time we realised we were introverts," Bob is supposed to have once claimed, "it was too late to do anything about it."

* Much like Peter Sellers, Zero Mostel was said by his family to usually be very quiet and shy, only to explode into the life of the party when given a character to play.

* '''Bhargav "Bargo" Dronamraju''' from ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com is perhaps the [[LargeHam largest ham]] out of all the contributors, particularly in his performance as [[CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Ma-Ti]]. Outside of his acting, he's pretty laconic, and barely says a word during Doug and Rob's commentary for TheGarbagePailKidsMovie, even though he's there for the majority of the commentary. He's also pretty serious during his Transmission Awesome interview.

* '''Paul Reubens''' is this when he's not playing Pee-Wee Herman. During a promotional interview for Mystery Men, he managed to get through the first few minutes of the interview without saying a word.

* '''Bhargav "Bargo" Dronamraju''' from ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com is perhaps the [[LargeHam largest ham]] out of all the contributors, particularly in his performance as [[CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Ma-Ti]]. Outside of his acting, he's pretty laconic, and barely says a word during the Doug and Rob's commentary for TheGarbagePailKidsMovie, even though he's there for the majority of the commentary. He's also pretty serious during his Transmission Awesome interview.

->"There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed."
--> -- '''Peter Sellers'''

->Q: "Are you hilarious offscreen?"
->A: "Definitely not, as this interview is probably proving."
--> -- '''Rowan Atkinson'''

->"People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living."
--> -- '''Christopher Guest'''

* '''{{Rowan Atkinson}}''', famous for his role as {{Mr Bean}}, among [[{{Blackadder}} other things]], finds it difficult to be witty spontaneously. As a result, interviews are kind of dull.

* '''Bhargav "Bargo" Dronamraju''' from ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com is perhaps the [[LargeHam largest ham]] out of all the contributors, particularly in his performance as [[CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Ma-Ti]]. Outside of his acting, he's pretty laconic, and barely says a word during the Doug and Rob's commentary for TheGarbagePailKidsMovie, and is pretty serious during his Transmission Awesome interview.