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Finding a good vehicle for a great comedian can be tough -- the ability to be funny doesn't always come hand in hand with the ability to act.
Finding a good vehicle for a great comedian can be tough — the ability to be funny doesn’t always come hand in hand with the ability to act, and the film needs to work with a comedian’s persona and particular strengths. A few recent or upcoming films have done brilliantly bad jobs of this — most notably “Run Fatboy Run,” with Simon Pegg, but to a lesser extent “The Rocker” with Rainn Wilson and “Hamlet 2″ with Steve Coogan. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at ten past films that have, in different ways, squandered the comedic talent attached to them.
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Tags: Hamlet 2, Rainn Wilson, Run Fat Boy Run, Simon Pegg, Steve Coogan, The Rocker
