Otherwise Maladroit

11 May 2004

11 May 2004

My Five Comic Kings (and why)

1. Christopher Guest (as a self-possessed but fading rockstar in "This is Spinal Tap" and as a staid Bloodhound Man in "Best in Show", which he co-wrote with Eugene Levy and directed)

2. Terry Jones (in drag as a long suffering wife and mother in the hilarious skit that turned blue collar and white collar politics upside-down, playing opposite Graham Chapman and Eric Idle)

3. Michael Palin (especially memorable in The Spanish Inquisition Skit and The Lumberjack Song)

4. John Lithgow (Third Rock from the Sun; particularly in the episodes where his evil doppelganger trapped him in an invisible prison and when he performed his salute for the first time)

5. Jack Black (in all his movies, notably in High Fidelity)

posted by Otherwise Maladroit @ 5:59 PM