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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/lists...ckson-20150211
Discuss.
Molly Shannon is way too low. Chris Rock and Adam Sandler are way too high. Rachel Dratch was absolutely terrible, so her ranking is a joke.
Hartman could (and maybe should) be #1. I can't believe they put him at #7. As you all know, Eddie Murphy is my #1. No one had as many fantastic sketches as he did. But can't argue with Belushi getting it since he probably set the tone for the entire franchise.
Other than that, not much argument. Maybe because the above critique is the absolute maximum amount I could possibly care.
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Ackroyd is overrated in the extreme. Everything funny that Dan Ackroyd has ever done was funny in spite of, not because of, his performance. “Trading Places” is the only exception. But I defy you to note any difference in his characterization of Raymond Stantz, Joe Friday, Elwood Blues and Beldar Conehead. It’s basically all Beldar Conehead without prosthetics. How many times must we see him rattle off lines in a terse, monotonous faux-cerebral way? He plays everything like a dumb person’s idea of a smart person.
I’m personally happy to see Tina Fey so highly ranked, but everyone who went to U.Va. in the early '90s (as Rob Sheffield did) has a blind spot about her. I doubt other authors would rank her above anyone in the original NRFPTP.
And fuck that article for telling me that blonde was Phil Hartman’s wife. And, always and forever, double-fuck Phil Hartman’s wife.
