The 5 Dumbest Comedies Starring This Year’s Oscar Nominees
Congratulations to all the performers nominated for Academy Awards this morning!
While the acting nominations represent a professional pinnacle for most on the list, this is a good time to remember that many of these esteemed thespians also starred in some ridiculously dumb comedies. Here are five nominees who should be just as proud of these ludicrous laugh riots…
Home Alone 2
Kieran Culkin nabbed his first Oscar nom for his supporting turn in A Real Pain, but no one knew pain like the kind Kevin delivered to the Sticky Bandits in Home Alone 2. (Jesse Eisenberg never takes a brick to the face, I promise you.) Macaulay’s younger brother and his gigantic eyeglasses don’t have a ton of screen time in this sequel, but he steals the show every time he turns up. Hopefully, he’s still cashing those Pepsi checks.
InAPPropriate Comedy
The Brutalist's A.I.-assisted Adrien Brody proved he has a juvenile sense of humor with his shirtless, dreadlock-wigged introduction of Sean Paul on Saturday Night Live. He doubled down by appearing with comic luminaries Rob Schneider and Lindsay Lohan in InAPPpropriate Comedy, a series of lewd sketches stitched together for a lowbrow movie. Brody appears as the “hilarious” Flirty Harry, master of the queer double entendre. This is the guy who might earn two Academy Awards?
Hot Tub Time Machine
Before Best Actor nominee Sebastian Stan delivered as Donald Trump in The Apprentice, he played another rich a-hole in Hot Tub Time Machine. Stan is the movie’s bad guy Blaine, a snooty ski instructor who barks, “Those are the kind of ski shenanigans I don’t allow on my mountain!” Blaine is clearly an ancestor of Lane, the jerkwad downhill champ in John Cusack’s Better Off Dead, but this time Cusack lets Rob Corddry do the honors of putting the prick in his place.
One Crazy Summer
Director Savage Steve Holland followed up Better Off Dead by reuniting with Cusack and Golden Globes Best Actress Demi Moore for One Crazy Summer, an ‘80s teen comedy about, well, one crazy summer. Moore plays a young rock singer being pursued by a motorcycle gang because, what can we tell you, it was one crazy summer. Holland told Fast Company he’s working with Bobcat Goldthwait on a 30-years-later sequel, but he’s realistic about its prospects: “I don’t think Demi would be on board.”
Crossroads
In Britney Spears's “teen road comedy-drama,” Oscar front-runner Zoe Saldaña played Kit, the most popular girl in high school. Saldaña and Spears hit it off during filming, and the actress later defended Spears during her auto-tune controversy on Watch What Happens Live. “She was the one big, big celebrity that I met when I was starting to work in Hollywood who literally was humble,” she told Andy Cohen. “Whatever was going on in her mind or in her world, it was never about hating her neighbor.”
Crossroads friends forever!
