Daniel Stern vs. Chris Elliott

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v beautiful hair chris

why would someone photoshop chris elliot's face onto richard marx?

Had no idea he had some Adult Swim show.

I was in attendance for his Neil Diamond cover last week:

http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2011/12/comedian_chris_elliott_feelies.html

watching Cabin Boy right now!

Whip It is really good - i actually started marinating on this poll idea months ago when i watched it found myself wondering who the fat old guy playing ellen page's dad was, then doing a double-take when i realized it was DS

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, September 5, 2011 9:45 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark

lol i was absent mindedly half watching this movie and it took an hour before i realized that wasn't Randy Quaid

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRIWTliXJU4&feature=related

http://www.fright.com/edge/WhosAfraidOfChris.htm

American comedy from this era is mostly unknown to me, I've never heard of Get A Life. Was Elliott really so hated and was the comedy scene really so macho?

I think that guy is overstating things pretty majorly. Elliott was more cult/marginal than hated -- he was working for Letterman back when Letterman was the weird guy at 12:35, and Get A Life was on FOX back when FOX had like 2 hit shows and a bunch of stuff that was pretty much off the pop culture radar. Cabin Boy was the moment where a bunch of movie critics suddenly were confronted with this guy and panned him, but i doubt it was reviewed worse than Billy Madison, the difference was just that Sandler's movies made money.

I think Elliott kinda was ahead of his time -- he was more in step with the kind of that became cool circa Mr. Show but by that time he had already flunked out of SNL and was kind of an old guy, spent 15 years just popping up in Farrelly Bros and Wayans Bros movies until things cycled around to the point that something like Adult Swim existed to give him a proper starring vehicle.

Totally agree with some dude. Show me ANY critic who didn't like Get a Life. It was universally critically acclaimed. People who knew Chris Elliott from his Letterman appearances loved the show and even people who were not familiar with him became converts because of that show. Yeah, it lasted two seasons... just like Twin Peaks lasted two seasons.

Some dude otm

How is there not a dedicated Chris Elliott thread. Seriously. Come on, people.

Anyway, new special edition Cabin Boy blu-ray is coming from Kino. Loving this cover:

http://images2.static-bluray.com/movies/covers/43221_large.jpg

YES!!

this was a really weird poll. Stern is/was an actor, CE is a comedian.