Long arm of the law reaches out to comics
Excerpted from Calendar Live - Los Angeles Times
By Barbara Serrano, Times Staff Writer
May 5, 2006
For many TV fans, NBC's long-running "Law & Order" franchise conjures up images of perverts and murderers, wisecracking detectives and self-important D.A.s trying to put the bad guys in jail.
But guest-starring roles for Stephen Colbert, Lewis Black and "Saturday Night Live" regulars such as Darrell Hammond too?
....Hammond, a stand-up best known for his Al Gore and Bill Clinton impersonations on "Saturday Night Live," has appeared on "SVU" and "Criminal Intent," most recently as a bully who sexually harasses an employee.
"I feel like a clown in the sense that I am," he said. "I wear a lot of paint on my face and fake noses and ears. So to think that even for a second that I could act alongside these great actors is thrilling."
It can also be intimidating. There he was in a tense scene, Hammond recalled, with Vincent D'Onofrio (Det. Robert Goren) getting in his face like he always does with the bad guys, trying to pin a rap on him.
"When he's yelling at you, it's so real," Hammond said. "You just want to go, 'Dude, I'm on "Saturday Night Live." People don't talk to me like that.' "
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posted by thereel @ 6:54 AM
6 Comments:
that is too funny..
I'll bet he really doesn't scare the life out of you when he's in character. I can just imagine some paranoid suspect "turning himself in" to D'Onofrio. "I don't want any trouble!"
Ooops, that should've been, "I'll bet he really DOES scare the life out of you..."
With Goren in your face I reckon you'd admit to anything and everything! Love it when Goren does that to the bad guys ;)
When Goren gets in your face yelling and slamming his hand on the table, that would shake up any suspect. I love it when he does that!
If Vincent shouted at me, I'd probably leave town..... ;-)
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