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So difficult for someone to follow that. You need someone with the gravitas of a serious actor but with the tiniest of glints in their eye, willing to send themselves up, has to have spot-on timing, and an ability to do slapstick. Closest kind of match I can think of is someone like Steve Carrell, but he's probably not straight enough. I think Nielsen fit that role more perfectly than anyone else possibly could.


Liam Neeson. Known for action/dramatic movies (much like Nielsen pre-airplane) and plays a great straight man.


Great call. He was absolutely hilarious in Life's Too Short: https://vimeo.com/141940661


Oh man I was thinking of him too. Just playing it straight with Police Squad lines.... hilarious.


The straight/sane man is the funniest, to me, character in any kind of comedy.




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