The 5: Funny Being Serious
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THIS WEEK ON THE THE FIVE: CRITICS LOVE SERIOUS COMEDIANS
Albert Brooks in Drive and Jonah Hill in Moneyball have Oscar Buzz . Why!? They stopped playing grab ass and got serious. Critics love nothing better than when a funny person stops getting chuckles and starts getting real.
- Jackie Gleason in The Hustler: Jackie quit threatening his wife with an uppercut to the moon and got real… with a pool cue. Looking at this scene it seems that Paul Newman had a man crush on him . That’s worth an Academy award nomination right there.
- Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting: No more nano nano and Popeye arms for Big Rob. Time to focus. Time to grow a beard and help Matt Damon cry. Hollywood rewarded Robin with an Oscar because he was a bearded shrink with a Boston accent and a dead wife and we never laughed once.
- Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls: Eddie took off the fat suit, dropped the fart jokes and got Oscar nomination for Dream Girls. He didn’t get the Oscar so he left the ceremony midway through awards. Best exit ever.
- Mike Myers in Studio 54: Yeaaaaaaaaaahhhhh Baby. Stop being funny, start snorting coke and screaming and as the 54 movie told us…Mike Myers gave an Oscar worthly performance ..oh but no Oscar and sadly no one saw the film . Ah well, he tried back to Austin Powers the next year.
- Jim Carrey in I Love You Philip Morris: America’s Favorite Pet Detective stopped talking out of his ass and started spreading his cheeks for a different reason. Jim played a lying con man ( great!) who enjoyed man on man sex with Ewan McGregor. ( oh oh!) Hollywood left this one in the closet for awhile before giving it a limited release.
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