Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#0Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:42pmWhich stage actor, On or Off Broadway, gives you the giggles?
#1re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:43pmGoodness. Uuummm, Norbert Leo Butz. And Julia Murney. When do I not list her?
#2re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:43pm
Norbert Leo Butz
Patrick Wilson (Barefoot in the Park)
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#3re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:44pmDonna Lynne Champlin, Donna Lynne Champlin, Donna Lynne Champlin!
What the puck?!
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#4re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:46pmAnd 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#5re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:01pmNathan 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
#7re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:11pmNathan 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
donna_darko_23
Broadway Star Joined: 2/25/06
peapod36
Swing Joined: 8/11/06
#10re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
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?
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#12re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
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."
#13re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
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
Swing Joined: 8/8/06
#14re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 7:43pmNorbert, Kristin, and the whole Drowsy cast
matt schneider
Broadway Star Joined: 7/3/06
#15re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 7:50pmNorbert 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#16re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
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
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#17re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 7:58pmMegan 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
To Kill A Mockingbird
#18re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#19re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 8:14pmCurrently, 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
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#21re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:11pmWow, Margo, you have a baseball team of funny folk!
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#22re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#23re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:22pmAlso 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#24re: Who's Your Favorite Funny Actor?
Posted: 8/16/06 at 10:57pmOkay, Margo, that's doubles for tennis in addition to the baseball team. Aren't you forgetting someone?
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