Word: buffoons
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...rage depends in large part on the context of classical notions about the sacred nature of hospitality. These ideas of mutual obligation, almost unto ruin, were antique in Shakespeare's day, and are alien to our own. Thus Bedford wisely plays the extravagant Timon as a bit of a buffoon, easily gulled, while his fair-weather friends are made more foul by licentious excess...
...fees to win back custody of her daughter. Erin's ex-husband Darrell is a lowlife so inept that he boosts wheelchairs, not cars, for a living. Congressman Dilbeck (the poor man's Wilbur Mills) becomes as obsessed with Erin as the sugar lobby is with keeping this drunken buffoon of a subcommittee chairman in office. Throw in a few dead bodies, and Hiaasen's morality play is off and running like a frisky Congressman on a bender...
...Conan is charm, Chevy is smarm. At least that is his TV and film persona: the preening, been-there, done-that blase buffoon. But Chase insists he won't mock his guests: "The point is to help them relax, don't bully them. I want to have normal people too. One of the ugliest sides of TV is its continual daytime flushing of the underbellies of society in the guise of exposing the real America. Well, I think there are plenty of Americans who are very interesting and aren't screwed up. I don't know who they...
...ensemble is also extremely strong. Jeremy Geidt is wonderful as the intolerable old buffoon Davies. His characterization is completely convincing and deliciously grating...
...Pedro (Colin Stokes) and his comrade-in-arms, Claudio (Mark Fish), inject a sinister tough into their otherwise straight-forward characters, rather complacently consigning a poor maiden to eternal shame. Don Pedro's brother, Don John (Ian Lithgow), on the other hand, is interpreted as a buffoon. He is a Peter Ustinov-style villain, bumbling and ineffectual. The comic actors take the Shakespearean "rude mechanical" to the limit. Dogberry and Verges (Tom Giordano) revel in the slapstick. So, too, do Borachio and Conrade--at times at the expense of the darker, more thoughtful side of the play...