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If Aaron is refering to the Vince on Just Good Friends, then I agree with you. Apparently he used to get sick before he started performing.

Paul Nicholas is a fine actor. One of the most in work actors of the last 30 years.

Lots of contenders really.

Jamie Theakston in Mad About Alice.
Ant and Dec in their remake of The Likely Lads.
Chloe Annett in Red Dwarf.
Johnny Vaughan in 'Orrible.

Paul Nicholas couldn't act to save his life

Quote: Nick @ April 18, 2007, 7:04 PM

Chloe Annett in Red Dwarf.

Oh my god, yes. That has to be the winner. Was a bad actor AND managed to help ruin a great show.

Chloe annett - Red Dwarf and Mike in the Young Ones - effing awful.

There was some awful acting in Boosh too, sorry to all you Boosh fans, some of it was clunky and it affected most of them at times. I saw the boxing kangaroo episode purely for research purposes and it just seemed to be dialogue stitched around a sort of Ministry of Funny Walks idea set to dance music (Aboriginal and 10 cc) What was it with all that dancing? And 2 minutes of testicle symbolism. I was shouting 'Bollocks' at the screen and it worked at so many different levels.

:D

The actor that plays Naboo is terrible at acting, but that's the point. (He's just the little brother of one of the main actors)
And Noel Fielding can sometimes hit a different note than most other (better) actors would, but it's endearing, and works for the part. Although not for you two, clearly!

Barratt however, is a fantastic actor, and has been great in everything I've seen him in.

So I'm not having any nonsense about him.

I agree about Paul Nicholas - but Jan Francis made it a must watch.

Judith in As Time Goes By. She was a right snobby bitch who thought Help the Aged gave clothes to old people.

I think Noel Fielding's portrayle of Richmond prooved how good he is at acting ... Huh?

Quote: Nick @ April 18, 2007, 7:04 PM

Jamie Theakston in Mad About Alice.

Oh that's a good one! Can we add most of the rest of the cast in as well.

My pet hate is kid actors - in some sitcoms it seems they're excused from trying because they're small. Some kids can acts - some kids, like the one in My Family the other week, cannot.

Kid actors I can forgive, although I don't want to see them, it's mainly the teenagers that bother me.

Any appearance in sitcoms by famous people trying to be themselves and failing miserably (The footballers in Goal for a starter)

SlagB doesn't mind Boosh, I'd like it better if it didn't keep turning into a hairy version of Pan's People.

:D

I loved Richmond!

Quote: SlagA @ April 19, 2007, 10:02 AM

a hairy version of Pan's People.

I wonder if that's how they pitched it?

:)

Quote: Rick Skelton @ April 18, 2007, 4:27 PM

I'm normally happy to let everyone have their opinion, it's their right after all, but if you are seriously suggesting that David Brent is poorly acted, then I'm going to have to seriously suggest that you are the stupidest person alive!!

Yep, that's exactly what I am suggesting. IMO, Gervais overplays it in completely the wrong way. It's just not believable.

And barely funny, but that's another issue altogether. :P

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