WORDS BY ADAM LEE DAVIES ILLUSTRATION BY LAURÈNE BOGLIOhen you’re hot, you’re hot. When you’re not, you’re not.
It is what it is and it was ever so. The moneycombed
ventricles of the eternally-moribund Hollywood
dreadnought constantly thirsts for young blood: starlets; hunks;
film school rejects; wackadoo YouTube ninjas; and the downright
delusional. If you happen to rock up with a fully-formed stand-up act,
you get to skip to the front of the queue. ‘But I can’t act!’ Fuck that.
‘I’m not sure my comedy will translate to the big screen!’ Translate?Look, just turn up on time and do your schtick. We’ll take care of
the rest... That’s how we get Good Morning, Vietnam. It’s also how
Get Him to the Greek is born. It’s a system that usually works 100
per cent of the time. But for every Will Ferrell there’s a Tom Green.
For every Jim Carrey an Andy Kaufman. In homage to the Sandman
himself, we take a look at nine stand-ups who have either been
swallowed whole, bled dry or shat out by the dream factory’s foul
and Promethean desperation to die another day.W
What happens when our most
cherished stand-up comedians dip
their toes into the world of movies?
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