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July 29, 2009
The 10 Funniest People Working in Film Today
With Funny People hitting theaters this weekend, it got us thinking about the title of Judd Apatow's highly anticipated new comedy. Who are the real funny people in the movie world? Let’s start with perspective. Trying to make a list of funny writers or actors in the entire history of film would be impossible. How do you compare Charlie Chaplin to Mel Brooks to Judd Apatow? It's impossible. So, we decided to stick to the ten funniest people working today. They could be writers, actors, or directors. The only requirement is a consistent delivery of bringing the funny.
And therein lays the rub. Who's really consistent? It’s easier to point out how many big names truly are not. Owen Wilson has the potential to be very funny but if you think he's consistent then you didn't see You, Me, & Dupree or Drillbit Taylor. Vince Vaughn would have made the list a few years ago but Owen's partner in Wedding Crashers has had an even more drastic slide into crap movie oblivion with the abysmal Fred Claus and Four Christmases (two of the LEAST funny movies of the last five years). Do we need to get started on Eddie Murphy? Dan Aykroyd? Chevy Chase? Bill Murray? They all would have made the list if it was produced in different years, but have either moved to TV (Chase), drama (Murray), disappeared (Akyroyd), or have just generally sucked lately (Murphy). And if you think Matthew McConaughey, Dane Cook, or Ashton Kutcher should make the list, your funny bone is in a different place than ours.
The point is that the list is always-changing. Any number of these actors could allow their schtick to grow stale like Vaughn has done (as runner-up Jack Black is seriously on the road to doing) or simply make a series of bad decisions. These are the most reliably funny actors and writer/directors as of July 2009.
Considering how often we moan about the sorry state of comedy, there were a surprising number of choices that we wished could make the list but just missed the cut….
If Christopher Guest had a movie recently then he, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, and Parker Posey would all be on the list but they're not in Waiting For Guffman or Best in Show form any more. Hopefully, they will be again.
There are regular collaborators of Will Ferrell who were strongly considered including Adam McKay, Danny McBride, and John C. Reilly and all three would probably have made the list if there were twenty slots to fill.
One of the stars of the inspiration for this feature, Adam Sandler, CAN be very, very funny, but he's far-from-consistent unless you think You Don't Mess With the Zohan was consistent (and, if so, you're probably wondering why David Spade, Nick Swardsen, Jon Lovitz, and Rob Schneider aren't on the list – keep wondering).
If Ben Stiller hadn't made Tropic Thunder, he wouldn't even be a runner-up and if he hadn't made Night at the Museum 2, then just Thunder alone might have earned him a spot. For every Tropic Thunder, Stiller makes four or five stinkers. Deliver a Thunder even every OTHER year and Stiller makes the cut.
Other major actors sliding down the list include Chris Rock (never as funny as he was on stage), Jim Carrey (clearly still talented enough but not consistent), Michael Cera (same-old-schtick getting old), Ryan Reynolds (funnier in-person than in the scripts he chooses), Sacha Baron Cohen (funnier in small roles like Talladega Nights or Sweeney Todd than Bruno), and Steve Carell (has never found the part to capitalize on his TV brilliance).
As for new faces moving UP the list, Jason Segal could easily make it with just one more knockout film, Craig Robinson is funny in everything he does, and Jonah Hill always delivers. If we were to do this feature again in July of 2010, I wouldn't be surprised to see all three in the top ten.
What about the ladies? It's a sad scene out there. I love Tina Fey and Amy Poehler too, but Baby Mama? And it's been too long since Mean Girls for that to really count. Fellow SNL alum Maya Rudolph rules but she doesn't act nearly enough and has earned more deserved praise for the dramatic beats of Away We Go than the comedic ones. As for character actresses, there's hardly anyone as funny as Jane Lynch and Leslie Mann and both would have made the list with twenty choices. As for the romantic comedy queens, only Drew Barrymore and Elizabeth Banks can be truly funny with the right material. You can keep Cameron Diaz and Sandra Bullock.
Finally, there are a few writer/directors that should be mentioned as runner-ups. When they do comedy, Joel & Ethan Coen are a force to be reckoned with. David Gordon Green displayed perfect comic timing with Pineapple Express. Kevin Smith made one of his best comedies last year in Zack and Miri Make a Porno. And we can't wait to see what Mike Judge delivers with Extract. On to the top ten....
A lot of Saturday Night Live actors lay low during their years at the TV staple, choosing to try and break into the movie world when their time is done. Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell didn't do much of importance until they were SNL alums. In the last few years, we've seen a select few begin to dip their toes in the comedy pool before leaving the NBC show and find massive success as comedy character actors. Bill Hader is one and he’s a great comedy supporting actor. He adds to the fabric of what he does without stealing the film. Superbad, Adventureland, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder – he's been a part of an amazing string of great comedies without stealing the spotlight from the stars.
I know that a lot of you, especially the ones nodding your adoration for Alexander Payne, are shaking your head at the inclusion of Kevin James. Stick with me. The man was the best thing about Hitch, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop – all films that made over a $100 million. He does something very difficult – physical, lovable humor – and makes it look incredibly easy. He's the John Candy of the 2000s. And I mean that as a compliment.
Our love for The Office and Extras may be clouding our opinion of Mr. Gervais, but a case can be made for his inclusion based on film alone even if one of them hasn't been released yet. The preview for The Invention of Lying is funnier than the entire filmography of Dane Cook. As for what has been produced, Gervais is absolutely pitch-perfect in Ghost Town and stole scenes in For Your Consideration, Stardust, and both Night at the Museum flicks. Very few people have EVER had the comic timing of Ricky Gervais. The only question mark is the consistency. If he delivers a Ghost Town every fall for the next few years, he'll easily move to number one.
The funniest woman in film. We said it. She's also arguably the funniest woman on television (if you take Fey out of the equation) and her recent Emmy nod for Best Supporting Actress makes that opinion not just ours. Wiig stole her scenes in Knocked Up and continued to be a perfect comic supporting actress in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Semi-Pro, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Ghost Town, and Adventureland. Every time we see that Wiig is in even the extended supporting cast of a comedy, we smile because everyone knows that she'll deliver. With films in the future with Mike Judge (Extract), Drew Barrymore (Whip It), Ryan Gosling (All Good Things), James Franco (Date Night), Simon Pegg (Paul) and the otherwise questionable MacGruber movie, we're going to be smiling a lot in the next few years.
...and, by extension, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Yes, it has only been two movies – Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz – and a great fake trailer in Grindhouse, but what an amazing two comedies. Both Shaun and Fuzz are perfectly timed, perfectly cast, wonderful pieces of comedy, two of the best of the genre of the last five years. And when you add in Spaced, the great TV series that brought the trio together, Wright is a slam dunk choice. We wish we could give Pegg more props on his own, but when he strays from Ed and Nick (with the exception of Star Trek), he often falters - How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Run Fatboy Run, Big Nothing. But when they're together? Comedy genius.
Is Rogen one of the funniest actors or one of the actors with the best agents? We’re honestly a bit conflicted. We definitely like Rogen but he places this high on the list largely due to the overall quality of the films he chooses more than what he directly brings to them himself. He's good in Zach and Miri Make a Porno and Knocked Up and he's damn-near brilliant in Observe and Report (his best performance to date) but has he just picked the right parts? Does it matter? The fact is that the track record speaks for itself - The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Kung Fu Panda, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri, Observe and Report, even Monsters vs. Aliens and now Funny People. He's at the top of his game whether he got there based on his talent or his agent doesn’t really matter. We'll see what happens when The Green Hornet comes out.
Very few people hated Land of the Lost with the passion that we hated Land of the Lost. It's a horrible film, the worst thing that anyone in it has ever done, but it's a speed bump and not a pattern in the career of Ferrell, an actor who is consistently funny even when the film around him isn't necessarily. Ferrell is one of the few actors out there and arguably the only one who changes the film he's in. Imagine Semi-Pro without him. Try Talladega Nights. Anchorman. These films are built around what Ferrell brings to them. Old School, Elf, Anchorman, his cameo in Wedding Crashers, The Producers, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, Semi-Pro, and Step Brothers – it is EASILY one of the most beloved comedy resumes of the 2000s and makes missteps like Land of the Lost and Bewitched forgivable. Just don't make a pattern of it.
The jury may still be out on Funny People, but as a director, Judd Apatow has knocked it out of the park the two times he's been up to bat – Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin, two of the best comedies of the 2000s, hands down. But look beyond his role as director. He was involved as a writer and/or producer Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Pineapple Express, The Cable Guy, Zero Effect, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Step Brothers. It's an insane lineup. Yes, there are some missteps, but every comedy writer/director has a few and hardly anyone works as often as Apatow. We know that TV is not supposed to count but when you factor the genius of Undeclared, Freaks and Geeks, The Larry Sanders Show, and The Ben Stiller Show into the equation, Apatow becomes one of the most important comedy voices of the 2000s. If those DID count, he would be number one without possible argument.
How good is Paul Rudd? We can forgive one of the worst films of the last few years – Over Her Dead Body – and still place him at the top of the list. If Kevin James is the John Candy of the 2000s, Paul Rudd is the Bill Murray. He has the same perfect, deadpan comic timing and he is good in everything he does. If this was merely a quantity argument, Rudd has been kicking comedy ass for fifteen years, starting with his scene-stealing work in 1995's Clueless. Since then, he has starred in The Object of My Affection; Wet Hot American Summer; Anchorman; The 40 Year Old Virgin; Diggers; The Ten; Knocked Up; Walk Hard; Forgetting Sarah Marshall; Role Models; I Love You, Man; Monsters vs. Aliens; and Year One. And in at least a few of those – Virgin; Knocked Up; Role Models; I Love You, Man – he delivered in every single scene, helping make the films what they are. The premise of this feature is the most consistently funny people and no one is more consistent than Paul Rudd.
And therein lays the rub. Who's really consistent? It’s easier to point out how many big names truly are not. Owen Wilson has the potential to be very funny but if you think he's consistent then you didn't see You, Me, & Dupree or Drillbit Taylor. Vince Vaughn would have made the list a few years ago but Owen's partner in Wedding Crashers has had an even more drastic slide into crap movie oblivion with the abysmal Fred Claus and Four Christmases (two of the LEAST funny movies of the last five years). Do we need to get started on Eddie Murphy? Dan Aykroyd? Chevy Chase? Bill Murray? They all would have made the list if it was produced in different years, but have either moved to TV (Chase), drama (Murray), disappeared (Akyroyd), or have just generally sucked lately (Murphy). And if you think Matthew McConaughey, Dane Cook, or Ashton Kutcher should make the list, your funny bone is in a different place than ours.
The point is that the list is always-changing. Any number of these actors could allow their schtick to grow stale like Vaughn has done (as runner-up Jack Black is seriously on the road to doing) or simply make a series of bad decisions. These are the most reliably funny actors and writer/directors as of July 2009.
Considering how often we moan about the sorry state of comedy, there were a surprising number of choices that we wished could make the list but just missed the cut….
If Christopher Guest had a movie recently then he, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, and Parker Posey would all be on the list but they're not in Waiting For Guffman or Best in Show form any more. Hopefully, they will be again.
There are regular collaborators of Will Ferrell who were strongly considered including Adam McKay, Danny McBride, and John C. Reilly and all three would probably have made the list if there were twenty slots to fill.
One of the stars of the inspiration for this feature, Adam Sandler, CAN be very, very funny, but he's far-from-consistent unless you think You Don't Mess With the Zohan was consistent (and, if so, you're probably wondering why David Spade, Nick Swardsen, Jon Lovitz, and Rob Schneider aren't on the list – keep wondering).
If Ben Stiller hadn't made Tropic Thunder, he wouldn't even be a runner-up and if he hadn't made Night at the Museum 2, then just Thunder alone might have earned him a spot. For every Tropic Thunder, Stiller makes four or five stinkers. Deliver a Thunder even every OTHER year and Stiller makes the cut.
Other major actors sliding down the list include Chris Rock (never as funny as he was on stage), Jim Carrey (clearly still talented enough but not consistent), Michael Cera (same-old-schtick getting old), Ryan Reynolds (funnier in-person than in the scripts he chooses), Sacha Baron Cohen (funnier in small roles like Talladega Nights or Sweeney Todd than Bruno), and Steve Carell (has never found the part to capitalize on his TV brilliance).
As for new faces moving UP the list, Jason Segal could easily make it with just one more knockout film, Craig Robinson is funny in everything he does, and Jonah Hill always delivers. If we were to do this feature again in July of 2010, I wouldn't be surprised to see all three in the top ten.
What about the ladies? It's a sad scene out there. I love Tina Fey and Amy Poehler too, but Baby Mama? And it's been too long since Mean Girls for that to really count. Fellow SNL alum Maya Rudolph rules but she doesn't act nearly enough and has earned more deserved praise for the dramatic beats of Away We Go than the comedic ones. As for character actresses, there's hardly anyone as funny as Jane Lynch and Leslie Mann and both would have made the list with twenty choices. As for the romantic comedy queens, only Drew Barrymore and Elizabeth Banks can be truly funny with the right material. You can keep Cameron Diaz and Sandra Bullock.
Finally, there are a few writer/directors that should be mentioned as runner-ups. When they do comedy, Joel & Ethan Coen are a force to be reckoned with. David Gordon Green displayed perfect comic timing with Pineapple Express. Kevin Smith made one of his best comedies last year in Zack and Miri Make a Porno. And we can't wait to see what Mike Judge delivers with Extract. On to the top ten....
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10. Bill Hader
Bill Hader (right) and Seth Rogen (left)
with Christopher Mintz-Plasse in Superbad (2007).
A lot of Saturday Night Live actors lay low during their years at the TV staple, choosing to try and break into the movie world when their time is done. Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell didn't do much of importance until they were SNL alums. In the last few years, we've seen a select few begin to dip their toes in the comedy pool before leaving the NBC show and find massive success as comedy character actors. Bill Hader is one and he’s a great comedy supporting actor. He adds to the fabric of what he does without stealing the film. Superbad, Adventureland, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder – he's been a part of an amazing string of great comedies without stealing the spotlight from the stars.
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Alexander Payne on the set of Citizen Ruth (1996)
© 1996 - Miramax Films - All Rights Reserved.
It's been WAY too long since he produced anything longer than an hour (he did a segment in 2006's Paris, je t'aime and directed the series premiere of HBO's Hung), but Alexander Payne is quite simply one of the best comedy writer/directors of the last twenty years. Let's leave the Best Picture-nominated Sideways out of the equation. Just the brilliant Election, About Schmidt, and Citizen Ruth would merit the man consideration on any list of funny movie people. Add in one of the best comedies of the 2000s in Sideways and even five years off keep him barely hanging on the top ten. Make something new Alexander and you'll probably move right back near the top.
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8. Kevin James
Kevin James in Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009).
I know that a lot of you, especially the ones nodding your adoration for Alexander Payne, are shaking your head at the inclusion of Kevin James. Stick with me. The man was the best thing about Hitch, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop – all films that made over a $100 million. He does something very difficult – physical, lovable humor – and makes it look incredibly easy. He's the John Candy of the 2000s. And I mean that as a compliment.
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Ricky Gervais (left) and Greg Kinnear in Ghost Town (2008).
Our love for The Office and Extras may be clouding our opinion of Mr. Gervais, but a case can be made for his inclusion based on film alone even if one of them hasn't been released yet. The preview for The Invention of Lying is funnier than the entire filmography of Dane Cook. As for what has been produced, Gervais is absolutely pitch-perfect in Ghost Town and stole scenes in For Your Consideration, Stardust, and both Night at the Museum flicks. Very few people have EVER had the comic timing of Ricky Gervais. The only question mark is the consistency. If he delivers a Ghost Town every fall for the next few years, he'll easily move to number one.
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6. Kristen Wiig
Kristin Wiig and John C. Reilly in
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007).
The funniest woman in film. We said it. She's also arguably the funniest woman on television (if you take Fey out of the equation) and her recent Emmy nod for Best Supporting Actress makes that opinion not just ours. Wiig stole her scenes in Knocked Up and continued to be a perfect comic supporting actress in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Semi-Pro, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Ghost Town, and Adventureland. Every time we see that Wiig is in even the extended supporting cast of a comedy, we smile because everyone knows that she'll deliver. With films in the future with Mike Judge (Extract), Drew Barrymore (Whip It), Ryan Gosling (All Good Things), James Franco (Date Night), Simon Pegg (Paul) and the otherwise questionable MacGruber movie, we're going to be smiling a lot in the next few years.
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5. Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright on the set of Hot Fuzz (2007).
...and, by extension, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Yes, it has only been two movies – Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz – and a great fake trailer in Grindhouse, but what an amazing two comedies. Both Shaun and Fuzz are perfectly timed, perfectly cast, wonderful pieces of comedy, two of the best of the genre of the last five years. And when you add in Spaced, the great TV series that brought the trio together, Wright is a slam dunk choice. We wish we could give Pegg more props on his own, but when he strays from Ed and Nick (with the exception of Star Trek), he often falters - How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Run Fatboy Run, Big Nothing. But when they're together? Comedy genius.
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4. Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen in Funny People (2009).
Is Rogen one of the funniest actors or one of the actors with the best agents? We’re honestly a bit conflicted. We definitely like Rogen but he places this high on the list largely due to the overall quality of the films he chooses more than what he directly brings to them himself. He's good in Zach and Miri Make a Porno and Knocked Up and he's damn-near brilliant in Observe and Report (his best performance to date) but has he just picked the right parts? Does it matter? The fact is that the track record speaks for itself - The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Kung Fu Panda, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri, Observe and Report, even Monsters vs. Aliens and now Funny People. He's at the top of his game whether he got there based on his talent or his agent doesn’t really matter. We'll see what happens when The Green Hornet comes out.
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3. Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell (center) and Woody Harrelson (left) in Semi-Pro (2008).
Very few people hated Land of the Lost with the passion that we hated Land of the Lost. It's a horrible film, the worst thing that anyone in it has ever done, but it's a speed bump and not a pattern in the career of Ferrell, an actor who is consistently funny even when the film around him isn't necessarily. Ferrell is one of the few actors out there and arguably the only one who changes the film he's in. Imagine Semi-Pro without him. Try Talladega Nights. Anchorman. These films are built around what Ferrell brings to them. Old School, Elf, Anchorman, his cameo in Wedding Crashers, The Producers, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, Semi-Pro, and Step Brothers – it is EASILY one of the most beloved comedy resumes of the 2000s and makes missteps like Land of the Lost and Bewitched forgivable. Just don't make a pattern of it.
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2. Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow on the set of The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005).
The jury may still be out on Funny People, but as a director, Judd Apatow has knocked it out of the park the two times he's been up to bat – Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin, two of the best comedies of the 2000s, hands down. But look beyond his role as director. He was involved as a writer and/or producer Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Pineapple Express, The Cable Guy, Zero Effect, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Step Brothers. It's an insane lineup. Yes, there are some missteps, but every comedy writer/director has a few and hardly anyone works as often as Apatow. We know that TV is not supposed to count but when you factor the genius of Undeclared, Freaks and Geeks, The Larry Sanders Show, and The Ben Stiller Show into the equation, Apatow becomes one of the most important comedy voices of the 2000s. If those DID count, he would be number one without possible argument.
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1. Paul Rudd
Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man (2009).
How good is Paul Rudd? We can forgive one of the worst films of the last few years – Over Her Dead Body – and still place him at the top of the list. If Kevin James is the John Candy of the 2000s, Paul Rudd is the Bill Murray. He has the same perfect, deadpan comic timing and he is good in everything he does. If this was merely a quantity argument, Rudd has been kicking comedy ass for fifteen years, starting with his scene-stealing work in 1995's Clueless. Since then, he has starred in The Object of My Affection; Wet Hot American Summer; Anchorman; The 40 Year Old Virgin; Diggers; The Ten; Knocked Up; Walk Hard; Forgetting Sarah Marshall; Role Models; I Love You, Man; Monsters vs. Aliens; and Year One. And in at least a few of those – Virgin; Knocked Up; Role Models; I Love You, Man – he delivered in every single scene, helping make the films what they are. The premise of this feature is the most consistently funny people and no one is more consistent than Paul Rudd.
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How could Danny McBride be left off this list? He stole Pineapple Express & Eastbound & Down is the funniest #!@%*# show on T.V. right now.
period.
Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Judd Apatow, Ben Stiller, Seth Rogen, John C. Reilly, Adam Sandler and their minions should all take a 10-year sabbatical. They have helped to set the bar a million times lower than it was even at its worst. Yes, I liked "Tropic Thunder" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", but I loathe so many of these other films. John C. Reilly should be ashamed of himself. He makes a lot more money than Philip Seymour Hoffmann, I'm sure, but he's flushing his talent. Paul Rudd, please get another agent!
I expected Anna Faris to be the lone woman on the list. She's anchored a few solid movies and was even funny in Brokeback Mountain.
And it's hard to chalk Seth Rogen's success up to having a good agent as he did write his two biggest movies...unless there's some big conspiracy that I don't know about in which Seth Rogen takes some talented writer(s) glory for work he only claims to do.
Over Her Dead Body is a GREAT movie! Well ok.. the movie isnt great.. but Paul Rudd is so funny in it.. he is like Paul Rudd but depressed but still just being hella funny and goofy.. Also 'I Could Never Be Your Woman' is a great movie because of him.. he has some great lines.. he really is the person I most like to see in a movie.
Yes, yes, 100 times yes. Paul Rudd is absolutely the funniest guy out there right now. Since his ridiculous attempts to woo Claire Danes in 1996's Romeo + Juliet, and of course Clueless the year before, I've been watching him rise consistently and hilariously, stealing his scenes in practically every film he's in and generally dominating the comedy genre. I Love You, Man was the best of its kind in a long time. Well done.
Candy must be rolling in his grave after that asinine statement. And for Seth Rogen, I'd have to go with "best agent" not funniest actor...he's coasting on Judd Apatow's coattails. Also, I'm glad to see you included one woman on your roster...way to go.
I don't care what you say... Steve Carell & Tina Fey deserve a place on this list. And what about Christopher Walken, Alec Baldwin, Robert Downey Jr., J.K. Simmons, Alison Janney, Anna Farris,& Isla Fisher to name a few?
Robert Downey Jr? The man literally brings his career back from the dead with a top-10 all time comedy performance in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," then turns in the funniest action movie in years with "Iron Man" and tops it all off by playing the funniest role in the funniest movie of last year, "Tropic Thunder." What else does he have to do?
I think it is beyond a travesty that Kevin James would be included even in the Top 100 list! He is one of the worst actors around today, and his "comedic talent" is non-existent. To think that you would rank him above such comedy icons as Kevin Smith, Wes Anderson (although his films are more "dramedies") and Alec Baldwin is absolutely ridiculous!
Alexander Payne has essentially sucked since Election. Sideways was the worst! How old are you? 60
Shouldn't even take the time to comment. Paul Rudd is genius, but number one. And if you didn't think land of the lost was funny, you really don't like will ferrell. Nice try though.
By the way, the "funniest" working actor today is Danny McBride, heard of him?
Seriously? There is NO way that Paul Rudd is funnier than Will Ferrell or Judd Apatow. You should change the title of your list to the most consistant, not funniest.
Ricky Gervais should definitely be #1. The Office, Extras, The Ricky Gervais Show, and whatever else he does with Stephen Merchant is guaranteed comedy gold. Wes Anderson Should have also made the list. Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and the Darjeeling Limited more than earn his place on the list.
You really have Kevin James, but no Kevin Smith? Shows what you guys know about funny. Last time I ever read something from you guys again. Terrible taste with that choice. What has he done that is funny? Exactly. Nothing.
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