Funny Character, Boring Actor/Playing With
Basic Trope: Comedic characters played by dull actors.
- Straight: Funny Bob is funny, but the actor who played him, Serious Bob, is boring.
- Exaggerated: Funny Bob makes jokes that make people's heads explode with laughter onscreen, but his actor, Serious Bob, causes many people to commit suicide or die from boredom when he's offscreen.
- Downplayed: Funny Bob is hilarious, able to spurt out a joke per minute, but Serious Bob is shy and reserved and can't tell a single good joke.
- Justified:
- Serious Bob can't be funny without writers writing all his jokes for him.
- Serious Bob is shy and reserved, but feels more comfortable playing a character.
- Inverted: Bob the actor is a very funny man, his character is incredibly dull.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob is funny on stage and off stage.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob intentionally acts unfunny during interviews to keep from having to do more interviews.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob takes improv classes and learns to be more funny on the spot.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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