These dramatic actors showed off their comedic chops on sitcoms. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for serious actors who are seriously funny when they appear on sitcoms! Our countdown includes “Parks and Recreation,” “Friends,” “The Simpsons,” and more! What’s YOUR fave comedic turn by a dramatic actor? Let us know in the comments!
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Four people on this list had great cameos on Frasier.
Though I haven't enjoyed the show in ages, I feel like Patrick Stewart's recurring role as CIA Director Bullock deserves mention ( as well as his occasional Family Guy gags like being the inner voice of Suzy Swanson or the time Peter had his vocal chords )…glad his Frasier appearance got mentioned at least, I loved that episode. Also, if I remember right, Frasier was 100% right about Blaine in the end….which just makes the whole thing funnier
It's NOT "fraZer"! 🙄
Richard Crosby on friends was hilarious especially while he was drunk and joey walked him over his shoulder and Richard said “is that my a***”
i hope Bruce is enjoying his retirement
Michael Douglas doesn’t do comedy? Romancing the Stone? War of the Roses?
patrick stewart is so funny.
We can't forget William Shatner and Kathy Bates on "3rd Rock from the Sun". Both were nominated for Emmys for their appearances.
Frasier deserves to have all the spots on this list. I mean pretty much all of the actors were originally stage actors anyway
Philipp Baker Hall as Mr. Bookman in Seinfeld.
Sam Elliot did a whole sitcom called The Ranch on Netflix
Brad Pitt was the hilarious one.😆
OK DO NOT say
Anthony Lapaglia has a great accent , you got to be kidding me .Daphnie Moon is from
Manchester UK .Lapaglia's accent is drunk cockney at best and it a shit poor cockney accent a basement version of Dick Van Dyke's and his was piss p
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I like when famous actors guest on sitcoms because they got along well with one of it's stars on another project:
Gary Oldman with Matt LeBlanc on Friends after Lost in Space
Bruce Willis with Matthew Perry (RIP) on Friends after The Whole Nine Yards
J.K. Simmons with Andy Samburg on Brooklyn Nine-Nine after I Love You, Man and again later in Palm Springs
Everybody's talkin' at me. But I can't hear a word they're sayin'.. Just drivin' around in Jon Voight's caa
i wish there wasa yarn barn in BK.
Countless celebs were on Will & Grace but Michael Douglas was one of my favorite ones to appear on the show. He was hilarious 😂
For me it's a tie between Matt Damon and Michael Douglas on "Will & Grace".
Bruce Willis got his start as a comedic actor… the breakout show is called Moonlighting and was a huge hit. And Colin Farrell has always been in comedies… In Bruges is a comedy!!!! this list really missed the mark
Mark hamil on what we do in the shadows
I've only watched 2 of these shows.
Anthony L., not gonna try to spell that last name, is an awesome actor. Loved him in A Good Marriage.
Sam Elliot. I've had a crush on him since I was 10. Still hot, especially in Ghost Rider.
I think you forgot about Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in Always Sunny Philadelphia
No Brendan Fraser on "Scrubs"?
Not even a shout-out to Danny Devito, chump list
i wouldve gone with stewarts role on american dad tbh
A lot of these picks seem not to understand that there were movies and tv shows prior to the 90s…
Bruce Willis was a comedic actor before he was in Die Hard…
Jonathan Banks was also one… he was in Airplane! even…
JEJ's ep of BBT will always be my favorite.
Anthony LaPaglia was in So, I Married an Axe Murderer.
Bruce Willis did the Friends for free, because they made a bet that the whole nine yards wasn't going to be very successful
Sir Derek Jacobi won an Emmy Award by mocking his Shakespearean background in the television sitcom Frasier episode "The Show Must Go Off", in which he played the hammy, loud, untalented Jackson Hedley, a television star with a misguided belief that he deserves a revival of his stage career.
Since when is Bruce Willis not a comedic actor? He started on Moonlighting. And Patrick Stewart already had more than a few comedic roles.
Bruce Willis was very funny in Death Becomes Her alongside Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn
you shouldn't really count actors playing themselves, and the ones in THE SIMPSONS deserve their own list.
What counts as a 'serious actor'? Actors ought to be able to do comedy or drama, with the right script and direction; the danger is when 'comic actors' who behave as if their very appearance is creating paroxyms of laughter, go 'dramatic' using the same techniques, which don't convince (Robbie Coltrane syndrome).
Anthony LaPaglia in FRASIER was incredibly wrong: A Mancunian talking like a cockney. Had the show's makers any interest in Britain, they might have explained that Simon Moon learned to read watching Bob Hoskins in the series 'On the Move', and thought it only worked if he did the voice as well.
Now I remember why I don't watch this channel, they talk too much without showing any real content, like more of the scenes brought up.
how is James van Der Beek not on here for how I met your mother or don't trust the B in apartment 23.
Fitting that Oldman is #1 because he is a chameleon of an actor. (The highest praise I am able to offer.)
02:18. Genuinely the most ANNOYING Character. A Cockney Mancunian. Really!?!? And he won an Emmy for it. WTF !? facepalm
Jonathan Banks is also in Community, which is also genius. The same goes for Michael K. Williams.
Bruce Willis was the best thing in friends. Even though it was a cameo. The scene with Ross trapped under the bed being scared shitless of Paul Stevens is very funny.
Leonard Nimoy was also on the Simpsons épisode ‘Thé Springfield Files’ (aka the x Files crossover with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) as the narrator
Liam Neeson in Derry Girls was understated but hilarious
It's versus not verse.🙄
It's not the end until Gary Oldman yells at someone 🙂
First time I watched the Friends episode with Gary Oldman in………. I kept forgetting his name! 😀
"30 Rock" mad many incredible comic turns by dramatic actors but Micheal Sheen as Wesley Snipes was most DEFINITELY the best (soz Hamm)