Charles Grodin is Dog!

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...and deserves his own thread. perhaps he's a bit of a dud nowadays, but this man is so hilarious i can hardly stand it sometimes. the TRES-EST OF THE DROLL. hell, even Beethoven (haven't seen the sequel) has it's great grodin reaction moments. let's praise him here and now.

(inspired by the muppets thread because when i saw the thread title i immediately thought of him. "ohhh, piggy." ha!)

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It's been a while, but I remember him being hilarious on Letterman. Totally deadpan the entire time.

Also great as the skeptical doctor in Rosemary's Baby!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

He does have moments of genius - though his own talk show wasn't as good as it should have been.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

good call on Rosemary's B., jaymc!
Lots of people like him in Midnight Run

Child: He doesn't look like a criminal.
CG: I'm a white-collar criminal.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

He's also the best (only good?) thing about Ishtar.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

he is despicable, sad, and hilarious in The Heartbreak Kid. plus, a young young cybil sheppard. reow.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed. I wonder how his performance in Dino De Laurentis's King Kong has held up?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost!
King Kong was his crowning achievement.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen him as great as he was in Midnight Run. Some Letterman appearances were classic, but he always seems underutilized.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen him as great as he was in Midnight Run.

Only saw it the once but I did like that...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

He's like a better-heeled Bill Murray.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever he once was, he is now a smug, intolerable DUD.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Does he still have his talk show?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

he did for a few years, on msnbc I think. It was hysterical (to me anyway)

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Grodin Growls Back!

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

Prompted by a memory jog from Stevie D.... I had forgotten even the stuff I saw when it aired (like SNL '77).

http://splitsider.com/2011/12/the-awkward-hostile-and-absolutely-hilarious-late-night-appearances-of-charles-grodin/

I saw him do a Q&A last year for The Heartbreak Kid @ Lincoln Center and damn, he wouldn't shut up.

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 16:36 (thirteen years ago)

six years pass...

scene for scene, i think his best performances are Heartbreak Kid and Heaven Can Wait (both w/ Elaine May involvement)

romance w/ Miss Piggy was pretty good too tho

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:12 (six years ago)

Grodin in Great Muppet Caper is one of my all-time favorite comic performances, no lie.

― Lake Meat (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:14 (six years ago)

one year passes...

RIP. One of the greats.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 19:12 (five years ago)

five years pass...

Couldn’t find a thread for ‘Midnight Run’, so this seems like a good place to post this very entertaining chat between Paul Thomas Anderson and Martin Brest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9US4QTjuS0

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 18 July 2026 20:59 (three months ago)

Worth it to find out Brest’s nickname for PTA.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 18 July 2026 21:00 (three months ago)

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