Hello, my name's Justin Clu. I'm here today with Will Sloan. And you're listening to

the Important Cinema Club. And are you ready to cry? Whoa. Yeah. Not laugh. Would you usually

do listening to this podcast? No, because today we're going to be talking about comedians who also did

dramatic roles.

You know, enough of that silliness, enough of stepping on a banana peel and having a ladder fall on you.

It's time to elevate your craft.

It's time to do serious art.

Let's cycle through all those chestnuts of people like to say that comedy is actually hard, drama is easy.

Yeah, that's right.

Because that's what always comes up when you hear like, oh, a comedian is taking a dramatic role.

They'll often say, oh, but I find that easier to do because it's less demanding and the actual reaction in an audience is less immediate. To be a comedian or to be a comic actor is to already be a great actor. There you go, yes. That's what they would all say. Just ask, you know. Jerry Lewis. Yeah, or a carrot top. Mm-hmm. Or... A carrot top? What is a dramatic carrot top? I was just trying to think of comedians and he was the first that came to mind. He's the first comedian you think when you think a comedian? Yeah, because he's funny. He's got a carrot head. And he does prop. He has a big trunk that he pulled stuff out of. And he's really buff. He's worked out a lot. Not back in the day in Chairman of the Board, his true dramatic role. I'm sure we probably came up with this topic thinking about Adam Sandler and Uncut

gems because this is a particularly extreme example.

And I feel like over the last few months there's been a lot of Sandler discourse.

Adam Sandler, in the critical imagination, has been synonymous, much like Michael Bay has been,

with a certain kind of lowest common denominator.

He's the ultimate, talented guy

who has squandered his talents in lazy, slipshod comedies.

And every film bro around could be like,

oh, did you see this movie to their date?

Punch drunk love?

Adam Sandler, serious. But I've seen much reappraisal of his, of his comments. Oh, God. I just watched, you don't mess with the Zohan. Is it? I've actually never seen it. Yep. An hour and 53 minutes will. Ooh. Yeah. But I definitely see people like talking about how actually the Adam Sandler comedies are funny. Mm-hmm. I've seen that as a popular kind of contrarian take. I'll give you happy Gilmore and nothing else. Is it a contrarian take? Because look at those box office numbers. Yeah. Also, you know, when I was a kid, uh, I, I was a precocious child who read Entertainment Weekly and knew that the right...

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