Can anyone think of example of this?
Good comedians in bad comedies
It almost crippled his career from the 70s.
Guest House Paradiso. Even sucked a young Simon Pegg into it's epicentre of awfulness.
According To Bex
Take Amanda Holden out of Big Top and you have a few right there.
Steve Coogan in "The Trip"...
*Lights the blue touch paper and retires to a safe distance*
I liked Peters Friends
my sister swore at me when I puched the air in the cinema
and said "I knew it!"
When Peter said he had AIDs
Billie Conolly in that Yankee sitcom.
Eric Idle in another Yankee sitcom.
Alexei Sayle in 'Paris'.
I liked Peter's Friends, it's ace.
And I rather enjoy Guesthouse Paradiso too. 
Peter's Friends? What?
Guest House Paradiso is great.
Quote: Aaron @ December 15 2010, 12:03 PM GMTPeter's Friends? What?
You mean what is it?
It's a film from... the eighties? Early nineties, maybe.
Stephen Fry invites all his friends to his mansion for Christmas and says he has something to tell them. And it is sad. 
It's got all the luvvies in it!
Never heard of it. Sounds like a proper indulgent tossfest.
It is indeed, and brilliant.
Wasn't it modelled on some American film which I can't remember? Tossfest is a fair description though.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ December 15 2010, 10:21 PM GMTWasn't it modelled on some American film which I can't remember?
Yes, The Big Chill.