I just saw the epidose with him, Jay Mohr David Milch (The creator of Deadwood) and Tim Olyphant.
What I got out of it was that Tim Olyphant is pretty normal. Jay, Jon and David (are incredibly insacure and supriingly bitter. IF you watch the show you will see time and time againg what a moron Michael Rapaport is. He's not only unread, he's unware. Did he really think he had a chance to play the lawyer in "Larry Flint".
Is it me?
I thought he was absolutely hilarious and witty!
For Instance: A couple minutes after Favreau comments under his breath that Rappaport was edged out by Ed Norton (People vs. Larry Flynt), he remarks that he "edged out" MC Search (formerly of the rap group "3rd Base") in the movie Zebrahead (1992)...I died laughing.
Also, the David Caruso talk was hilarious...who else in Hollywood says the stuff Rapapport says, on a show to be seen by millions? Not many.
He also broke Jay Mohr's balls a bit (Last Comic Standing), saying "That dude from Survivor has got to be making more money than you...right?" Hilarious.
I think you might be mistaking his ballbreaking for being dumb...understandable.
I will say this...Rappaport has terrible table manners (Drinking from the straw and slirping, and eating from a fork like a Caveman)
Sounds like a hilarious episode...I am sorry I missed it. Hopefully I will get to see it in reruns, if they ever appear. And more than the first season on DVD would be kind of nice too.
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7 or 8 years later and I completely agree with you. Rapaport is the man! Love watching him on Dinner For Five, and everything and anything else. He is hilarious. He's a New Yorker, he doesn't give a s h i t what people think of him. <-- What more people should be like.
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He's "on." Meaning he's just acting up for the cameras. He's a bright guy, but is a ham like everyone else in Hollywood and after a few drinks get's a little loud and says too much.
Haven't we all acted that way at some point?
I think it's funny that he gave Jay Mohr a hard time for guest starring on "CSI: Miami." Especially when he goes on to do "The War at Home," which is a piece of crap sitcom.
shareI have no doubt that Rapaport was playing it up for the cameras.
Take a listen to him on "The Treatment;" he has a witty, deliberate and thoughtful delivery versus the scatter-brained and dumbfounded persona he had on this episode:
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tt/tt110720michael_rapaport_bea
You should listen to his commentary for his scenes in True Romance. He sounds like a little kid, almost to the point where I couldn't decide if he was kidding or not.
shareyou know nothing, rapaport is eating dinner, being himself, as informal as that is. If he were playing a lawyer, he'd have written lines and the vernacular of a lawyer down, because hes an ACTOR! he ACTS!
I'm not saying he would have been great, just don't judge how well Denzel Washington can play a train engineer from watching him talk to the guy at the gas station... actors play roles, so when they are in their own element being themselves, it has no effect on how well they can play someone who is nothing like them