I'm all for going green. And I love Mary Lynn Rajskub's Chloe on 24. In fact, I have missed her since she's been gone from the show for a few weeks. But that's no excuse for the horrific PSA she did to promote 24's new eco-friendly green initiative last week. It's taken me forever to wipe the stink of it off my eyes.
Who knew that an actress could be completely incapable of convincingly reading a short script in an even slightly convincing manner. It reminded me of when Saturday Night Live books politicians or athletes as hosts and then are stunned when they can't act their way out of a table read . Honestly, there's nothing more I can say about it that could fully explain the horror. You'll just need to see it for yourself (but it is 30 seconds you can never recover):
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4-21-2009 @ 3:41PM
Pasha said...
Was she attempting to do that in character?
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4-21-2009 @ 3:45PM
David S said...
Saw Sunshine Cleaning, where Mary Lynn Rajskub plays a supporting role, and she's relatively unconvincing there as well. I didn't like her short role in Little Miss Sunshine either. The only time I want to see or hear from her is when she's directing Jack.
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4-21-2009 @ 3:47PM
JPN said...
I've seen her talk in real life and she's not like Chloe at all. I think she was trying to do it "in character" but it didn't come across right (she talked about "helping Jack" etc.) and it was definitely awkward
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4-21-2009 @ 4:02PM
Edward said...
she is definitely the awkward theater type in real life (after seeing her on the Tony Danza Show)
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4-21-2009 @ 4:07PM
StillBash said...
I kept my 30 seconds and just commented. Ha!
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4-21-2009 @ 4:23PM
J. said...
Looks like they only did one take and it was a bad read. It shouldn't have been released. This makes me want to go buy a Humvee and not recycle.
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4-21-2009 @ 4:50PM
DapperDan said...
wow what a weird facial expression and those eyes when she reads the line "join us today" was the teleprompter moving ? and than after that her brain told her to smile LOL
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4-21-2009 @ 5:06PM
homerj312 said...
Best read ever. She understood how absolutely ridiculous what she had to read was and just made it a joke.
To think that some 24 character reading something about how to save the environment will have any impact on anyone anywhere is just insane.
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4-21-2009 @ 5:20PM
CMG said...
Holy crap. It was pretty bad, but the creepy delayed smile at the end was just frightening, and put it way over the top. I'm going to have nightmares.
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4-21-2009 @ 5:30PM
Jimmy said...
Personally, I never thought Mary Lynn Rajskub was all that great as an actress.
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4-21-2009 @ 6:11PM
Melissa said...
Haha! That's great. I think if you understood how she is in person, and in her stand-up, you would get it.
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4-21-2009 @ 6:21PM
Jim said...
Totally disagree with negatives. In character, pitch-perfect.
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4-21-2009 @ 6:51PM
Tom said...
She was totally making a joke out of it or playing it in character. Reminded me of when she was on Mr. Show.
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4-22-2009 @ 12:03AM
MLRrocks said...
I think it's pretty obvious that Mary Lynn really did not want to be doing the PSA and was forced. So she read it like someone who was being forced and didn't want to do it. Good for her
Her expressions at the end were hilarious though.
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4-21-2009 @ 7:04PM
Harry said...
Weird...
UK viewers, almost as weird as Gordon's Brown speech today (see video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1172398/)
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4-21-2009 @ 7:18PM
Dave said...
Oh man...I remember seeing this live and I just cracked up at the end! Thank goodness for TiVo cuz I replayed that sucker about 5 times in a row! :D
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4-21-2009 @ 8:50PM
Jose said...
Dollars to donuts this woman consumes far more energy than the average American.
So sick of this condescending celebrity preaching. Since when is deprivation some kind of virtue. My energy consumption is a reflection of my productiivty, and I'm not ashamed of it.
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4-21-2009 @ 11:22PM
hugeliver said...
She was GREAT in Dude Where's My Car!!
:)
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4-22-2009 @ 3:02AM
Skapig said...
It's a combo of a bad read of cards and then trying to compensate by doing her usual goofy thing in responose to the silliness of the task. Keep in mind that she comes from a comedy background. Her 24 role and that the fact that it stuck is pure luck (big money for her).
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4-22-2009 @ 1:02PM
Jim said...
That looked to me like take three or four, after the director had said "Fabulous, Mary Lynn, but we really need to squeeze that read into 30 seconds. Can you pick it up a bit?"
So she did, but she was ticked at having to rush, and didn't really take it seriously. Just my interpretation.
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