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Live-Action TV
Do you know what happens when a comedian grows old and loses their audience? They get offered serious roles. Do you want to see me playing Arthur Ashe?!
— Tracy Jordan, 30 Rock
Film — Live-Action
Sandy Bates: But shouldn't I stop making movies and do something that counts, like... like helping blind people or becoming a missionary or something?
Martian: Let me tell you, you're not the missionary type. You'd never last. And incidentally, you're also not Superman; you're a comedian. You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes.
Martian: Let me tell you, you're not the missionary type. You'd never last. And incidentally, you're also not Superman; you're a comedian. You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes.
Web Original
"In the 30s, Walt Disney caught the respect bug. He wanted to be up there with the bigshot Hollywood celebrities, not down here with the lowly cartoonists. That's why Walt Disney kept trying to imitate live action and why he continually toned down the cartoony impossible stuff. The real magic. By the way, I didn't make this up. Lots of people thought that even at the time. He made Fantasia to try to get high brow critical respect. (Or maybe to convince his low brow audience that he was above them?) He figured if he did classical music in cartoons, real critics would consider him high class and hoity toity. It backfired. He couldn't stop himself from inserting naked babies’ butts, cutesy pie fish with sexpot girl eyes and hippos in tutus into the classics. This outraged serious music critics, which is OK with me. But it also bored the general audience who wanted cartoons to be funny - and that's the real shame. Alas, Walt's method of gaining artistic respect didn't really work."
They let the guy from Speed play HAMLET? "Um, whoa...alas poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. A most excellent fellow of infinite jest!
If you were suddenly ripped from your old life in the 1990s and dropped into the present day, you would probably pine for the more innocent time of colorful pants and Roller Blades...you might also be very surprised to learn that Jamie Foxx, the guy who played cross-eyed, buck-toothed Wanda from In Living Color!, turned out to be a hardcore method actor.
Critics are the only people who profess to be surprised when a talented movie star does something a talented movie star ought to be able to do. Just be a funny guy playing serious or a normal actor singing, and you can clear off your trophy shelf.
—Drew Magary
, "The Hater's Guide to the 2015 Oscars"
, "The Hater's Guide to the 2015 Oscars"It’s the damnedest thing but John Barrowman seems to get worse as a performer as this show continues, concentrating on his entertainment roots rather than a dramatic background to bring the character of Jack Harkness to life... He should stick to lip locking and trading insults with Marsters because that’s where he looks most comfortable.
Only the creators of Uncharted could do something this fucked up.
—Evan Goldberg watching his friend Seth Rogen play the The Last of Us's notoriously Tear Jerker of a prologue.
watching his friend Seth Rogen play the The Last of Us's notoriously Tear Jerker of a prologue. Web Video
We got an emergency, Joey. This review needs a Deep Space Nine reference STAT! (But I think the reviewer's only gonna reference Back to School.)
Western Animation
Peter: I got it. That's the guy from Big. Tom Hanks! That's it, aw, funny guy. Tom Hanks! Everything he says is a stitch.
Tom Hanks: I have AIDS.
Peter: BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!
Tom Hanks: I have AIDS.
Peter: BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!
Real Life
Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them.
I remember on Saturday Night Live hosts would come in. You know, like handsome hosts. They'd be dramatic actors generally. And the publicist would always be like, 'This is a big chance for this guy because he's really a funny guy and people don't know it. He's hilarious!' And then he'd just suck, you know?...To me, if you've got a guy like Steve Martin or Jim Carrey or something, who are unbelievably funny, I don't know why they'd want to be dramatic actors when they have no chance. They're completely outclassed by actual dramatic actors. How many funny comedy actors are there? There's like a million great dramatic actors. I don't know why they'd want to switch. I guess to get respect or something.
