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Bit of an overstatement.

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Dan Aykroyd is the most talented comedian of all time.

I am wrong. It's not a bit of an overstatement, it's completely overstated.

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Maybe you're wrong, maybe you're right. Does it really matter?

How do you feel about Alan Arkin?

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I dig him.

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Now *that's* an overstatement!

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I dug him?

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Oh me too, brother, me too.

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I guess I always kind of felt like Dan Akroyd was trying to rip off Alan Arkin a little. Maybe that's petty of me, I don't know.

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I never noticed. But I will be on the look out from here on out.

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No he had more range than that. I don't even know why that thought occurred to me in the first place. Akroyd did a good Nixon.

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I never saw his Nixon.

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That and the Blues Brothers are the two big things I remember, though I saw him in lots of other stuff too.

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Yeah I love the blues Brothers

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Also his small cameo in temple of doom. Only cause I've seen that like a hundred times.

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Huh, I haven't seen that in so long I've completely forgotten about it.

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Yeah it's a miniscule part. Without a real close-up on his face. But the voice in unmistakable.

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Okay, I refreshed my memory looking over his IMDB page... yeah, there are some gems there, the Coneheads, Trading Places, a lot of people liked Ghostbusters, it was never my favorite... Dr. Detroit I don't remember that well, but I'm pretty sure it was very strange... I'm really kind of amazed all the more dramatic work he's done that I've seen and not remembered him for... he was in Chaplin, for example...

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Wasn't he in a arachnophobia? I liked that one.

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I didn't see that. I don't see it in his credits though.

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Really I could have sworn he was in it. I'm probably misremembering.

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Maybe he used a pseudonym.

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I think I confused him in my memory with John Goodman.

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They both have a kind of dead pan delivery at times.

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Yeah but I thought I was better then that. I'm usually good at not confusing actors. It has been yonks since I've seen Arachnophobia though.

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For those of us who know nothing about comedy, who should we ask?

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Look, I just happen to think that Aykroyd isn't the most talented comedian of all time. I'd venture to guess most people you asked would say he isn't either. I like the dude. He is funny. Love is pop up in temple of doom.

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I agree let's not ague! Quick, get the tonic water!

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You can't say I'm wrong either. All I said to begin with that it was a bit of a overstatement. You said I was wrong.

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I don't know how to respond to that kind of logic, nothing I say will change that.

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Who needs logic when you've got this:

"he's the most talented comedian of all time. talented doesn't mean better than anyone else overall it just means more talented or as talented as anyone else."

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It's almost a perfect riddle of a sentence.

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