Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?

[nomdeplume]

Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#0

Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:42pm

Which stage actor, On or Off Broadway, gives you the giggles?

[alliez92092]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#1

Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:43pm

Goodness. Uuummm, Norbert Leo Butz. And Julia Murney. When do I not list her?

[greeneyed_one]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#2

Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:43pm

Norbert Leo Butz
Patrick Wilson (Barefoot in the Park)

[gavrochegirl]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#3

Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:44pm

Donna Lynne Champlin, Donna Lynne Champlin, Donna Lynne Champlin!

What the puck?!

[nomdeplume]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#4

Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:46pm

And if you'd care to say why, is it the voice itself, style of delivery, comic timing, body language or something else that gets you giddy? Updated On: 8/16/06 at 05:46 PM

[NathanLaneStalker]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#5

Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:01pm

Nathan Lane, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Rob Bartlett

"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey

[Horton]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#6

Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:05pm

Nathan Lane!

[EponineAmneris]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#7

Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:11pm

Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Norbert Leo Butz and Bernadette Peters

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

[x_FedUp]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#8

Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:16pm

NORBERT!

[donna_darko_23]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#9

Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:23pm

Sherie Rene Scott

[peapod36]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#10

Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:41pm

Gary Beach, for all of those reasons. Also Nathan Lane for timing and delivery.

What if the hokey pokey really IS what it's all about?

[Anthony3]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#11

Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:51pm

Bob Martin

[Mattbrain]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#12

Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:55pm

The cast of Spamalot and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels were hilarious.

Amy Spanger and Kevin Cahoon were hilarious in The Wedding Singer.

Felicia P. Fields brought the house down at The Color Purple

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[singtopher]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#13

Posted: 8/16/06 at 7:37pm

Most people here won't know's the actress, but Beth Flynn is the funniest actress I've ever seen. She's an actress in Denver, and occasionly does theatre elsewhere.

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

[BrianLuvsBway]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#14

Posted: 8/16/06 at 7:43pm

Norbert, Kristin, and the whole Drowsy cast

[matt schneider]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#15

Posted: 8/16/06 at 7:50pm

Norbert Leo Butz and most of drowsy cast

The bushes of Tex were nervous recks because their son was dim, But look what happened to him~Dirrty Rotten Scoundrels~all about Ruprecht They say the thoughtful musicals dead on broadway~forbiden broadway : SVU~The crime scene Never say never, there's always one more person you can hit up~avenue Q.~the money song Life sucks, get a pacifyer~my own saying

[MargoChanning]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#16

Posted: 8/16/06 at 7:51pm

Jackie Hoffman
Julie White
Peter Bartlett
Julie White
Amy Sedaris (she needs to get back to NYC stage!)
Harriet Harris
Christine Baranski
Edward Hibbert
Nathan Lane

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[WickedGeek28]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#17

Posted: 8/16/06 at 7:58pm

Megan Hilty, Norbert, the cast of Sweeney at certain times.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[bta212]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#18

Posted: 8/16/06 at 8:13pm

Marian Seldes: An extraordinary genius of body language, delivery and deadpan panache. Flawless, peerless and unique.

Madeline Kahn: The voice. The delivery. The face.

Julie White: Yes--it's a shtick, but she's brilliant at it.

"They have never understood, and no reason that they should. But if anybody could . . . " --SS

Updated On: 8/16/06 at 08:13 PM

[SNLMedia]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#19

Posted: 8/16/06 at 8:14pm

Currently, Lisa Jolley in Hairspray. She barely has to say anything and I lose it. She makes the funniest faces!

"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball

[JamesMacon]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#20

Posted: 8/16/06 at 8:29pm

Norbert Leo Butz
Mary Faber

[nomdeplume]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#21

Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:11pm

Wow, Margo, you have a baseball team of funny folk!

[FoscasBohemianDream]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#22

Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:17pm

Bernadette Peters
David Hyde Pierce
Edward Hibbert
Debra Monk
Megan Mullally
Michael Jeter
Kristin Chenoweth
Donna Murphy (just for her performance in Wonderful Town)

[MargoChanning]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#23

Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:22pm

Also add Dame Edna, Bill Irwin, the late great Dorothy Loudon and Dame Maggie Smith who gave perhaps the single funniest performance I've ever seen, in LETTICE AND LOVAGE over a decade ago -- I hope I can see her on stage again someday.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[nomdeplume]

re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?#24

Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:57pm

Okay, Margo, that's doubles for tennis in addition to the baseball team. Aren't you forgetting someone?