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* '''[[Peter Lorre]]''' is an inversion: Known for playing [[M|the first serial-killer on screen]] and [[Casablanca|many]] [[The Maltese Falcon|more]] was known to be extremely witty and funny and a great comedic actor.
* '''[[Brent Spiner]]''' as a Data is also an inversion - a completely emotionless character played by an utter goofball of an actor.
** Speaking of ''
* '''[[Best in Show|Christopher]] [[A Mighty Wind|Guest]]''' has said that many people are disappointed when they find out that he's not non-stop hilarious IRL. According to [[The Princess Bride (film)|Cary Elwes and Robin Wright]], he also doubles as a [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]].
** He's actually known for coming across as fairly prickly in interviews, though often because he strongly dislikes questions about his personal life.
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* '''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.
** [[Cloudcuckoolander|And then he starts talking about]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|penguin portals]].
* '''Paul Reubens''' is this when he's not playing Pee-Wee Herman. During a promotional interview for ''[[Mystery Men]]'', he managed to get through the first few minutes without saying a word.
* '''[[Charlie Adler]]''' might play some of the most insane characters but in person he is very serious to the point of depressing.
* Much like Peter Sellers, '''Zero Mostel''' was said by his family to usually be very quiet and shy, only to explode into the life of the party when given a character to play.
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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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