Smoking In Comedy

[alan nagsworth]

Yeah I came here to post this. Fucking amazing performance (as is pretty much everything Matt Johnson has done), just completely stupid. The closing scene of that episode where he's on about torturing the varnish guy by shoving a red hot poker up his ass, the way he simulates it with the cigarette absolutely slays me. God I love that show so much.

[Jittlebags]

[Petey Pate]

Conor O'Malley's smokes 500 cigarettes to raise awareness for 5G.

https://youtu.be/87_4nHEPHyU

[dissolute ocelot]

In classic Hollywood they taught a man how to smoke. Tony Curtis (here assisting Janet Leigh).

[Brundle-Fly]

There was an Edinburgh Fringe poster I really liked from about fifteen years ago. I can't remember the comedian but the image was of him looking smoulderingly into the lense, maybe adjusting a cufflink and he has a cigarette balanced neatly on his bottom lip, like a hard-boiled detective. It's saying "I'm cool and edgy, deal with it." until on closer inspection you notice he's got the cigarette the wrong way round.

[Sebastian Cobb]

[Brundle-Fly]

He hadn't, but Robinson made him get drunk before they started shooting so he knew how it felt. Made him terribly sick but I guess it was worth it.

The other contributing factor to his iconic performance that made him such a convincing desperate miserabilist was that he tragically lost his first child, his father and father-in-law during the making of Withnail & I. It must be extremely tough for an actor to have that big career break and arguably the role that has defined him to be tainted so. He will always associate it with the bleakest time of his life.

[Marner and Me]

God, Leary was terrible.

Are American comedians actually funny?

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There was an Edinburgh Fringe poster I really liked from about fifteen years ago. I can't remember the comedian but the image was of him looking smoulderingly into the lense, maybe adjusting a cufflink and he has a cigarette balanced neatly on his bottom lip, like a hard-boiled detective. It's saying "I'm cool and edgy, deal with it." until on closer inspection you notice he's got the cigarette the wrong way round.

It's an effect that doesn't really work when you're someone who ordinarily thinks that smoking looks as dunderheaded as all fuck.

[Brundle-Fly]

It's an effect that doesn't really work when you're someone who ordinarily thinks that smoking looks as dunderheaded as all fuck.

Maybe, that comedian did as well? Everybody wins.