Although not a natural comedy player, DiCaprio has a great comic moment when a cheesy infomercial he's shooting is horribly interrupted by the forces of the law.
He had varying success as a comedy player: he was hilarious as a hectoring rural shopkeeper in Simon Gray's Femme Fatale (1993), but the brickie sitcom Cowboys (1981) hasn't aged as well.
This straight-faced stand-up comedian became nationally known as the dour, intellectual cop Detective Sergeant Dietrich on Barney Miller, and went on to a long career as a popular supporting comedy player, most recently seen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Here are some of the topics Miriam proposes: 1. Elaine May 2. Ginger Rogers 3. The Jerry Lewis/Joaquin Phoenix connection 4. "The Ladies Man" 4. "I Love You, Man" vs. "Funny People" I'm also interested in reading about: Whit Stillman, Larry David, wise-cracking bit players, comedy in drama or experimental film, early Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy of any era, or anything relevant that's on your mind.
CBS News Sunday Morning The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson J.M.W. Turnerr exhibit in San Francisco; league for blind baseball players; comedy duo Key & Peele.
It's been great to see comedy's major players bemoan the fact that C.K. has a long history of masturbating in front of women without their consent and then using his position of power to silence their stories.
Mr. Greenberg has become increasingly prolific since he won a Tony Award for the gay-baseball-player comedy "Take Me Out," churning out plays that always receive first-class productions but increasingly fail to merit them.
This 1996 low-budget independent comedy with "The Player" aspirations was produced during the 1995 festival.
He's also one of comedy's hardest working players: "There's rarely a night that I'm sitting at home not working".
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are now significant late-night players on Comedy Central, and ABC has a show and host, Jimmy Kimmel, that the network believes in.
