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* '''[[Al Pacino]]''' is notable
* '''[[Woody Allen]]''', while he wrote many hilarious movies, is [[Cannot Tell a Joke|apparently unable to tell jokes]] in [[Real Life]]. He admitted himself that he's a pretty boring person and many of his colleagues confirmed that.
** Allen initially rose to fame as a stand-up comedian, so perhaps it's more that he's boring and unfunny when he's not using the comedic persona he's created.
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* '''Julian Barrett''' of ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' is extremely nervous in interviews, and very quiet indeed when separated from Noel Fielding.
** Although, in an interview, Noel says he is actually really funny, but just doesn't realize it.
* '''[[Peter Sellers]]''' (from [[The Goon Show]], the original ''[[Pink Panther]]'' movies, ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'', etc.) was known for this. His friends thought he was kind of weird and quiet but as soon as he was given a character to play he was super animated and hysterical. Directors described him as not having any real personality of his
** In his ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' appearance, he's told by Kermit the Frog that he can relax and act like himself when he's not onstage. He replies with the page quote above. This was put in after explaining to the writers that he can't "be himself".
** This probably made him the [[Only Sane Man]] during his days on ''[[The Goon Show]]'', as his co-stars were, somehow, [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|even weirder off-air]].
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* '''[[Raocow]]''', of [[Let's Play]] fame, has admitted that while he's doing his videos he's incredibly, well, weird, he has difficulty maintaining that state of mind all the time.
* '''[[John Cho]]''' and '''[[Kal Penn]]''', who play uptight, repressed Harold and loose, freewheeling Kumar in the [[Harold and Kumar]] movies, respectively, have stated their real-life personalities are almost exactly the reverse.
* '''Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding''', ''aka'' [[Bob and Ray|Bob & Ray]] were renowned for their ability to improvise subversive, cutting-edge comedy
* '''[[Douglas Adams]]''', author of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. Said in interview: "I'm not a wit. I'm a comedy writer. A wit says something funny on the spot. A comedy writer says something ''very'' funny two minutes later. Or in my case, two ''[[Ridiculous Procrastinator|weeks]]'' later."
* '''[[Christopher Lloyd]]''' made a career of playing loopy, over-the-top characters like Reverend Jim Ignatowski and [[Back to The Future|Doc Brown]], but in real life is very shy and laconic. According to Bob Gale's commentary on the ''Back to the Future Part III'' DVD, when he tried to do promotional interviews on talk shows, he froze up and had to be gently coached by the interviewer. Robert Zemeckis says it took the entirety of shooting the first ''[[Back to The Future]]'' movie just for Lloyd to strike up a conversation with him.
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* '''Michael Showalter''' is known for being pretty serious and aloof in real life, a complete 180 from his work on shows like ''[[Stella]]'' and ''[[The State]]''.
* '''[[Doug Walker]]''' has admitted in an interview that people find him really boring when he's not playing any [[The Nostalgia Critic|of]] [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|his]] [[Bum Reviews|characters]], and tries to avoid being naturally funny all the time in his private life. If you listen to the commentaries on his videos, he's much funnier when he's with his brother Rob.
** He's a lot more confident with Rob around, too. They usually go to conventions together but in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND6WqnFR0Cg&feature=related this Youmacon video], there's a few moments when you can just see him looking nervous and freaked out.
** Much like Rowan Atkinson, he is a perfectionist, and does several takes until he believes he's got a funny one. Because [[Bum Reviews]] and [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]] are improvised, the raw footage is said to contain long pauses.
* '''Bhargav "Bargo" Dronamraju''' from is perhaps the [[Large Ham|largest ham]] out of all the contributors on [[That Guy With The Glasses]].com, particularly in his performance as [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|Ma-Ti]]. Outside of his acting, he's pretty laconic, and barely says a word during Doug and Rob's commentary for their review of ''[[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]]'', even though he's there for the majority of the recording. He's also pretty serious during his Transmission Awesome interview.
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* '''[["Weird Al" Yankovic]]''' is one of the most lasting comedians in entertainment, but has noted in interviews that because of his [[Stage Names|stage name]] people expect him to be crazy at all times. He is generally a friendly guy and cracks jokes at times like anyone else, but besides his music he is never outlandish or "weird."
* '''[[Frank Zappa]]''' made (mostly) humorous music, but took it utterly seriously, scoring his compositions as if an orchestra was to play them, spending hours mixing his work for the perfect sound quality, and regularly replacing musicians if he felt they weren't good enough. He treated his music like a business. Steve Vai, who worked with Zappa in the early 80s, has said that he wasn't sure if he was in the band at first because Zappa didn't give him any indication at his audition.
* '''Wallace Shawn''', who is perhaps well known for playing goofy oddball characters like [[The Princess Bride|Vizzini]], [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Grand Nagus Zek]], [[Murphy Brown|Stuart Best]], and [[Toy Story|Rex]], is a self-proclaimed
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