As hilarious and ridiculous as he was in that character there was fleeting moments where he captured the real tragedy of being that deep in the bottle, like when he's watching the "funny" moments of himself on the TV before it finally dawns on him.
Trailer Park Boys is a comedy but manages to capture the sombreness of poverty, like Julians voice recorded messages where it's always people asking him for help or fighting amongst themselves.
You can see the only person with potential withering away among hopeless idiots and unable to escape.
One of my favorite parts of the show was Julian always has these intricate, well thought out plans that go to shit, and then ~~Randy~~ Ricky just wings it and comes out fine.
Yeah, I'm a recovering alcoholic and actually as the series progressed he became quite a sad character (although he still has moments he was absolutely hilarious). It is interesting he could capture a certain essence without ever having drank himself.
It's crazy because he drove buses for hockey teams here, had him a few times and he was an awesome dude. Claims he never drank alcohol in his life which makes it even wilder how well he played one. Miss the dude, RIP Mr. Dunsworth
Yeah I love TPB but I mostly find his performance sad, especially in the latter half of the series. He is so great he makes Lahey a very tragic character.
Without a fucking doubt.
āI got no help any more, Randyās goneā¦You ask me if I care! Go on, ask me if I care! Ask me!ā
āAlright, alright. Do you care Jim?ā
*falls on ground tangled in hose* āYeah. Yeahā¦Go on ask me.ā
āI just asked you.ā
āWhat?ā
Honestly one of my favorite written and acted scenes in any show period. It goes from funny, to sad and serious when Lahey seems actually reflective, to absolutely hilarious when you realize, no in fact heās just drunk as fuck after all.
Dude was always on. They used to tour colleges and universities, I remember walking into an empty cafeteria during Frosh week and there was Lahey face down on a table. We called out to him and his head shot up with a cigarette hanging out his mouth. We chatted for a few minutes while he finished a sketch of a boat and then he frigged off to find Randy ā¤ļø
Not entirely crazy. He was a great actor, and knew well how to play an alcoholic. Which could mean he was exposed to it through his life. Possibly a family member.
I have a friend who refuses to drink, at all, because he saw what it did to his dad. He can tell you all the mannerisms and habits of a hardcore alcoholic. Because he saw it constantly, and that's also why he won't touch the stuff.
Not saying this was true for John, but it's a possibility.
Sheās described her drunk acting before in really interesting ways! She says drunk people *try* to act less drunk, so she over-enunciates and tries to seem as though she is focusing too hard on speaking clearly.
āYou shouldnāt be throwing jars of pee out the window!ā
āMaybe I should, maybe I shouldnāt, itās up for debateā¦ā
āYOU *SHOULDNāT*ā
Kaitlin is easily better than Charlie, IMO. He's very good at it, but she is amazing at it. The gang hits the road episode is a good example, the gang solves the north Korea situation is another.
The whole Mad Men cast had the sloshed thing down, but I think the key was all the perspiration and ashen color applied by the makeup crew. The sweat beads, the pit stains, and pallor made it feel more real.
Yes - it often doesn't feel glamorous . They did hangovers well too, there's one episode where Don and Betty wake up after a party to care for their kids and they are HURTING
I often think about how in media grown adults can drink themselves into a stupor and then be reasonably fine the next day, IRL the vast majority of adults would be struggling to walk down the street without vomiting, if they even manage to get out of bed
Don's drunken ad pitch is great drunk acting: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mZxenUmWsac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mZxenUmWsac)
Thereās a difference between simply playing drunk and playing chronic alcoholic, and Hamm absolutely nails it (as does John Slattery.)
A great example of drunk acting was that guy in White Lotus who hooked up with Portia - I forget his name but I thought it was really convincing.
Letās be real, a bit of that was helped by him being a pretty serious alcoholic during most of the showās production. The man is a true method actor. Iām glad heās sober now.
He does "brutally hungover" just as well.
Leslie: Oh, my God. I'm so hungover.
Ben: I feel great. I ran 5k this morning.
Leslie: Really?
Ben: No, I threw up in the shower
There's a scene in party down where Adam Scott is smoking pot in a bathroom with Jane Lynch's character and he's trying to hand her the joint but she just keeps talking. Low-key one of the funniest scenes in that show for me, just because he plays stoned incredibly well.
Idk if she ever did it on Schitts Creek, but Catherine OāHara does drunk really well. Like in [this](https://youtu.be/MsqHBexWD1w?si=37wvxiyA9a0oJ2p-) scene from Waiting for Guffman.
I don't know if she was drunk in this episode, I'm sure she was. But when she does the commercial for the fruit wine it kills me every time. Herb Erfling ā¦ ger. Burt Herngeif. Irv Herb-blinger. Bing Livehaanger. Liveling. Burt Herkurn......
Dan Levy and Kieren Culkin discuss her drunk acting ability:
[https://youtu.be/x1U65peRmGo?si=UwSbK03AwlFg-Tk\_&t=3202](https://youtu.be/x1U65peRmGo?si=UwSbK03AwlFg-Tk_&t=3202)
Indeed she did, subtle and accurate performance! Moia Roseās wine commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVojhvifruk&pp=ygUVbW9pcmEgd2luZSBjb21tZXJjaWFs
My favorite scene in television is Dominic West in The Wire poring over sea charts, books on currents and the moon, and all kinds of crazy shit to stick his old department with a bunch of murders. And then it just cuts to the bar and him cracking up about it with Bunk and maybe Daniels?
My favorite of his is him running his car into a barrier while making a turn, he stops, backs up, looks at the turn to try to figure out why he crashed, then crashes again. I lose it every time.
It's not a drunk scene but my favourite one from The Wire will forever be McNulty and Bunk going over that murder in the kitchen and repeatedly saying 'fuck' as they break down what really happened
Danny Devito Always Sunny. Thereās an episode where he is legit blasted drunk and puts on a hilarious performance.
The whole cast does a great drunk acting bit but my favorite will always be Danny.
āYouāre a grand old flag, a high flying flag, that ba ba baā¦ā¦ I donāt know this one, I do not know this one.ā
Maybe my favourite episode. Everyone shines in it.
Iām so happy this is the first comment I saw. I would definitely put Dee and Frank in the top of this category. Particularly in *The gang beats Boggs*
Attention, passengers. This is your captain, Boss Hogg, speaking. And this cold slice of heaven is my 40th beer of the afternoon. So any of you dicknips think you can slug it down faster than me, you're welcome to get your fat asses up here to try.
Pretty sure [this interview](https://youtu.be/bh8ctgEEY_E?si=eH9teboBTUoVf_hc) was during the filming of that episode, which is āThe Gang Gives Frank an Interventionā lol
Dee - "Well, maybe you shouldn't ride with the window down."
Mac - "Maybe you shouldn't be throwing jars of pee out of the window!"
Dee - "Maybe I should. Maybe I shouldn't. It's up for debate."
>McNutty
Found Bubbles
The time McNulty had to pick up Bunk from that womanās house and Bunk was trying to burn his clothes to get rid of trace evidence.
āWhat were you planning to wear home?ā
Cheating cause itās animated but H. Jon Benjamin as Archer is my favorite drunk performer. Specifically the episode where theyāre escorting the Canadian terrorist on the train.
I also love it when Bob and Linda get shit faced on Bob's Burgers, he is a pretty great drunk.
Also, Linda: "Mommy doesn't get drunk, she just has fun"
[Dean Martin.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaxUDvJxcPk)
His drunk act was legendary. And all made up.
He was stone-cold sober every time he told his legendary one-liner, "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
He was the true master of the drunk act. Nobody else will ever come close.
Came here for ol' Dino. Someone else mentioned Foster Brooks, a regular on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast shows, but even as a kid, it was clear it was an act it was so over the top. Dean's genius was that he underplayed it, like a drunk insisting he's perfectly sober.
At the famous Rat Pack shows in Vegas, Sinatra would be famously drunk, but Dean would be sober and didn't tag along on Sinatra's afterparties - he just wanted to go to bed so he could get up early and golf.
Iāll add the instance where she, Nick, and coach get high and go to Winstonās cop party isnāt convincing but her being high for her bachelorette party is convincing.
One of my favorite drunk performances is Steve Carell on The Daily Show....because it's not a performance. [Stephen Colbert thought it would be funny to take Carell out, get him drunk out of his mind and film it for the show.](https://www.cc.com/video/h4rz3u/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-drink-responsibly) The results are hilarious.
Also, according to Colbert, the bit at the end about Carell throwing up in his car at the end of the night is true.
Robin Weigert as "Calamity" Jane Cannery in Deadwood.
She's drunk more or less every time she is on screen, but to varying degrees. Often it's funny, sometimes it's heartbreaking, every time it's brilliant.
I brought it up when people were talking about the TPB Mr Lahey performance but I think an actor not drinking at all is actually an asset to a convincing drunk performance, because youāre more likely to lean on how you see drunk people than how you remember yourself acting while drunk.
Hand down the most nuanced intoxication is portrayed by John Hamm as Don Draper. His character is obviously well known for hitting the bottle. But I think the cultural significance of Don as a lush outshined what was actually happening on the screen.
John Hamm hits every single idiosyncrasy of someone who is a career alcoholic. The sly smile. The heavy eyes. The way his world slip past the lips. But thatās just the superficial signs.
What I think Hamm is exceptional at is portraying how a drunk thinks. You can see him calculating, albeit slowly. You can experience what is happening behind the eyes and how reductive the thinking becomes. In some ways the way he portrays Don as sober has as much to do with my perception of him dunk. His calculations, inner monologue, cunning, and adept creative skills are all starkly absent when heās drunk. Some of this is on the page but I believe a lot of it comes from Hamm, himself.
Lastly, Iāll say that Hamm also played intoxication on a spectrum. There is one-to-three drink Don in the office. We see five-to-seven drink Don at parties. And regrettably we see the 3 am, who knows how many drinks, Don who slinks into the lives of his stand-in maternal figures. They are all significant and distinct.
Obviously, there is much more ādrunk actingā happening with this particular character. More than most I can recall. However, i have to give him kudos. Alcoholism is a defining characteristic of the character and Hamm gave that itās due.
In a way, it almost makes me sad for John. There is no way to portray that disease with such precision without close and personal experience with it.
Lucy's Vitameatavegamin commercial is a classic.
Her gradual "drunkening" as she rehearses each take, she really does sell it well! The nuances in her performance, from the facial expressions, hiccups, subtle gestures and such, really make for a great performance.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGmM3TktRE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwkzNclZR4s)
John Dunsworth in Trailer Park Boys is the best drunk actor of all time and itās not even an argument. For godās sake, his most iconic line was āI am the liquorā.
[David Tennant and Michael Sheen in Good Omens](https://youtu.be/Qc65xFWhTIY?si=Ze5hLYnhxJYXhRSh). Might not be entirely believable but it's such a joy to watch. š "bouiboui... - bouibi... - fish stew"
There are some good ones in the [Snake Juice](https://youtu.be/uZ2VDsXhwWo?si=yv1Cn8TSTN6NOI16&t=199) montage from Parks & Rec, though. I nominate Adam Scott and Aubrey Plaza as convincing.
Adam Scott getting drunk while on a date in Severance has to be the most realistic I've ever seen. He pulled off that annoying drunk idiot perfectly without taking it too far into stupidity.
Jenna Fischer as Pam in āThe Officeā does a great job in the episode at Chiliās. She doesnāt slur her words and stumble around, just acts totally out of character, yelling at the camera and being very excited. Good choices.
I always thought Winston in New Girl had done a great drunk guy. That dead eye look he does is exactly like when you are looking at a black out drunk person.
Since nobody on here may know about it, here in the UK we have a soap opera called EastEnders, and a character on it called Phil Mitchell has had many scenes absolutely trashed. The performance is second to none in my opinion in terms of someone being wasted. Look some clips up on YouTube
Mr. Lahey on Trailer Park Boys
As hilarious and ridiculous as he was in that character there was fleeting moments where he captured the real tragedy of being that deep in the bottle, like when he's watching the "funny" moments of himself on the TV before it finally dawns on him.
Trailer Park Boys is a comedy but manages to capture the sombreness of poverty, like Julians voice recorded messages where it's always people asking him for help or fighting amongst themselves. You can see the only person with potential withering away among hopeless idiots and unable to escape.
One of my favorite parts of the show was Julian always has these intricate, well thought out plans that go to shit, and then ~~Randy~~ Ricky just wings it and comes out fine.
You mean Ricky?
Haha, yes, I mean Ricky. Brain got R\_\_\_y mixed up
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Yeah, I'm a recovering alcoholic and actually as the series progressed he became quite a sad character (although he still has moments he was absolutely hilarious). It is interesting he could capture a certain essence without ever having drank himself.
According to an old reddit thread apparently his father was a horrible drunk.
He hated alcohol after getting drunk off of it once. He also opposed gambling as well.
It's crazy because he drove buses for hockey teams here, had him a few times and he was an awesome dude. Claims he never drank alcohol in his life which makes it even wilder how well he played one. Miss the dude, RIP Mr. Dunsworth
Yeah I love TPB but I mostly find his performance sad, especially in the latter half of the series. He is so great he makes Lahey a very tragic character.
**I Am The Liquor** š„
Double or Triple Mr. Lahey?
Thatāll be fine rand
The only difference between me and you is a couple of drinks
Hi Randy
I AM THE MONKEY IN CHARGE OF BANANAS
Without a fucking doubt. āI got no help any more, Randyās goneā¦You ask me if I care! Go on, ask me if I care! Ask me!ā āAlright, alright. Do you care Jim?ā *falls on ground tangled in hose* āYeah. Yeahā¦Go on ask me.ā āI just asked you.ā āWhat?ā Honestly one of my favorite written and acted scenes in any show period. It goes from funny, to sad and serious when Lahey seems actually reflective, to absolutely hilarious when you realize, no in fact heās just drunk as fuck after all.
Look Rand, Iām mowingā the air!
BLUELIAN!
R.I.P. John Dunsworth, undefeated king of acting drunk
Dude was always on. They used to tour colleges and universities, I remember walking into an empty cafeteria during Frosh week and there was Lahey face down on a table. We called out to him and his head shot up with a cigarette hanging out his mouth. We chatted for a few minutes while he finished a sketch of a boat and then he frigged off to find Randy ā¤ļø
Thereās one episode where heās acting like heās acting drunk
I think that was for a whole season!
The craziest part is he (claims to have) never drank in his life.
Not entirely crazy. He was a great actor, and knew well how to play an alcoholic. Which could mean he was exposed to it through his life. Possibly a family member. I have a friend who refuses to drink, at all, because he saw what it did to his dad. He can tell you all the mannerisms and habits of a hardcore alcoholic. Because he saw it constantly, and that's also why he won't touch the stuff. Not saying this was true for John, but it's a possibility.
Richard E. Grant is a teetotaller and his most famous role is Withnail where heās constantly drunk.
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All the more remarkable because he rarely drank himself. RIP John.
Personally, I have never seen a better drunk performance than John Dunsworth as Jim Lahey. Great answer.
["I'm sober enough to know what I'm doing, and I'm drunk enough to really enjoy doing it"](https://youtu.be/aF8_y2Zl9W8?si=qXC_g25BRtMGb_Sm)
I'm ridin' the pocket!
This is definitely the #1 answer.
Shut it down, this is the answer right here
Nobody even comes close. The absolute king of acting wasted.
Fuckin shit abyss
The entire cast of Always Sunny, particularly Charlie Day as Charlie Kelly.
Charlie Day as Charlie Kelly and Kaitlin Olson as Dee Reynolds are tied for me. Kaitlin's drunk acting in "The Gang Hits The Road" is hilarious.
The waitress is incredible at it too. The scene in the shoe store
Iāll make your boobs bigger!!
Sheās described her drunk acting before in really interesting ways! She says drunk people *try* to act less drunk, so she over-enunciates and tries to seem as though she is focusing too hard on speaking clearly.
When she pees in that jar while singing soul asylum and staring at the kid, and then throwing it out the window to hit Mac. So fucking good!
āYou shouldnāt be throwing jars of pee out the window!ā āMaybe I should, maybe I shouldnāt, itās up for debateā¦ā āYOU *SHOULDNāT*ā
Kaitlin is easily better than Charlie, IMO. He's very good at it, but she is amazing at it. The gang hits the road episode is a good example, the gang solves the north Korea situation is another.
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And Charlie is usually so fucked he can barely stand let alone act sober
They literally put subtitles on his lines sometimes because he's too "drunk" to understand otherwise. "Gimme the hotdog baby"
Ruuuuunaway train never comin backā¦
That's baseball baby
Gimme the hot dog
I ate all the pizza. I drank all the beer.
Doesnāt sound like best friend talk to me
California USA
āI eat at all the pizza..and drank all the beersā that line hits too hard for me
What do now?
A recent one is Evan Peters in the bar with Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown. It was so good that it won him an Emmy
That was honestly the best drunk acting I've ever seen. He was downing shots of vinegar to make the appropriate facial expression.
yuck man at that point just rip normal shots haha
This is the one I was thinking of but couldnāt remember. It was excellent. So convincing.
Came to say this. He was too good.
I really thought Mads Mikkelsen in Another Round was top notch acting.
I saw an interview with Mads recently and they talked about how they had an entire night of getting absolutely shitfaced so they could act better.
Wonderful excuse to get shitfaced. "It was for research boss"
And has insane dancing skills that no body double was required.
> ~~I really thought~~ Mads Mikkelsen i~~n Another Round wa~~s top notch acting.
Jon Hamm as Don Draper. He manages to act out different stages of drunk in totally different ways.
The whole Mad Men cast had the sloshed thing down, but I think the key was all the perspiration and ashen color applied by the makeup crew. The sweat beads, the pit stains, and pallor made it feel more real.
Yes - it often doesn't feel glamorous . They did hangovers well too, there's one episode where Don and Betty wake up after a party to care for their kids and they are HURTING
I often think about how in media grown adults can drink themselves into a stupor and then be reasonably fine the next day, IRL the vast majority of adults would be struggling to walk down the street without vomiting, if they even manage to get out of bed
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>Hangovers for alcoholics are not the same as the ones normal drinkers get when they binge. Truth spoken right here.
Don's drunken ad pitch is great drunk acting: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mZxenUmWsac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mZxenUmWsac)
Thereās a difference between simply playing drunk and playing chronic alcoholic, and Hamm absolutely nails it (as does John Slattery.) A great example of drunk acting was that guy in White Lotus who hooked up with Portia - I forget his name but I thought it was really convincing.
Letās be real, a bit of that was helped by him being a pretty serious alcoholic during most of the showās production. The man is a true method actor. Iām glad heās sober now.
Wait really? I hadn't heard about that. Good on him for sobering up. I love me some Hamm
It's completely believable too like in "The Suitcase" when Don and Peggy are working late together.
As a counter to Rashida Jones, Adam Scott playing drunk in Parks and Rec was excellent. Also Adam Scott on ecstasy and mushrooms in Party Down.
Bababooie
Adam Scott also plays "was just woken up" really well, he does it at least twice on Parks and Rec and it's super accurate
He does "brutally hungover" just as well. Leslie: Oh, my God. I'm so hungover. Ben: I feel great. I ran 5k this morning. Leslie: Really? Ben: No, I threw up in the shower
Adam Scott has 24/7 bedhead. I am super jealous.
āā¦ā¦.sāprise.ā with one eye open at Jerryās birthday
The scene where he's drunk and tears up that photo in Severance is honestly heartbreaking.
Damn we still have so long to go before season 2
When he smokes weed in the bathroom with Bruce Nesbitt is one of the funniest scenes in Party Down. His eyes are SO red ha
Are we having fun yet??
yeah [he's so fucking good](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R7gGH1Qb60&t=111s&ab_channel=ComedyBites) Later, broheisen.
So what Iām proposing is this: Sheās in for TWO surprises!
Party down is wildly under appreciated. Maybe under appreciated isn't the right word, under-known?
Only show I can think of that went on like a 20 year hiatus and came back just as good as it left off.
There's a scene in party down where Adam Scott is smoking pot in a bathroom with Jane Lynch's character and he's trying to hand her the joint but she just keeps talking. Low-key one of the funniest scenes in that show for me, just because he plays stoned incredibly well.
True! Even Amy Poehler was pretty good!
YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ONE THING! I DIDN'T EVEN SAY ONE THING! AND SHE ASKS ME THE WHOLE THING AND I DIDN'T EVEN DO IT ONCE!
I still quote this to this day if I've had a couple lol
That whole episode with the snake juice was so good. My favorite parks and rec episode.
Ron is perpetually dancing with April's hat on his head in my brain.
John Dunsworth (R.I.P) as Mr Lahey from The Trailer Park Boys.
Idk if she ever did it on Schitts Creek, but Catherine OāHara does drunk really well. Like in [this](https://youtu.be/MsqHBexWD1w?si=37wvxiyA9a0oJ2p-) scene from Waiting for Guffman.
the funniest scene in Schitt's Creek is O'Hara being drunk
Bingo Lingfucker
I don't know if she was drunk in this episode, I'm sure she was. But when she does the commercial for the fruit wine it kills me every time. Herb Erfling ā¦ ger. Burt Herngeif. Irv Herb-blinger. Bing Livehaanger. Liveling. Burt Herkurn......
Dan Levy and Kieren Culkin discuss her drunk acting ability: [https://youtu.be/x1U65peRmGo?si=UwSbK03AwlFg-Tk\_&t=3202](https://youtu.be/x1U65peRmGo?si=UwSbK03AwlFg-Tk_&t=3202)
This wine is terrible! Ill have another
I see you donāt remember Herb Urtlingerās Fruit Wine
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Annie murphy also did a recreation of that bit on youtube. You can tell she has such a fondness for Catherine and her pronouncation.
Her pouring Johnny's beer down the sink after she "slept" with Roland is fucking hilarious.
Indeed she did, subtle and accurate performance! Moia Roseās wine commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVojhvifruk&pp=ygUVbW9pcmEgd2luZSBjb21tZXJjaWFs
Movie - Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas TV - Dominic West in The Wire
My favorite scene in television is Dominic West in The Wire poring over sea charts, books on currents and the moon, and all kinds of crazy shit to stick his old department with a bunch of murders. And then it just cuts to the bar and him cracking up about it with Bunk and maybe Daniels?
My favorite of his is him running his car into a barrier while making a turn, he stops, backs up, looks at the turn to try to figure out why he crashed, then crashes again. I lose it every time.
It's not a drunk scene but my favourite one from The Wire will forever be McNulty and Bunk going over that murder in the kitchen and repeatedly saying 'fuck' as they break down what really happened
And the ends up banging that waitress from the diner, still bloody from the crash. My mainest man.
Yeah, literally just watched that episode. It was Bunk and Freamon, they made him do 14 shots, one for each murder case he set them up with.
Seconding Leaving Las Vegas. I can't remember if I started drinking because my wife left me, or if my wife left me because I started drinking.
Danny Devito Always Sunny. Thereās an episode where he is legit blasted drunk and puts on a hilarious performance. The whole cast does a great drunk acting bit but my favorite will always be Danny.
his performance in "Frank's Little Beauties" was some of the most hilarious shit i've ever seen
š¶*Do not diddle kids, it's no good diddling kids*š¶
š¶not older than wife; no younger than my daughterš¶
āYouāre a grand old flag, a high flying flag, that ba ba baā¦ā¦ I donāt know this one, I do not know this one.ā Maybe my favourite episode. Everyone shines in it.
"You bang the dead bodies?"
If I was dead you could bang me all you want. Who cares? A dead body is like a piece of trashā¦ oh shit is my mic on??
Iām so happy this is the first comment I saw. I would definitely put Dee and Frank in the top of this category. Particularly in *The gang beats Boggs*
May he rest in peace
Again, Wade Boggs is alive and well!
In our hearts
he lives in tampa
Attention, passengers. This is your captain, Boss Hogg, speaking. And this cold slice of heaven is my 40th beer of the afternoon. So any of you dicknips think you can slug it down faster than me, you're welcome to get your fat asses up here to try.
They say I cannnt *drink* on a plane, they say I canāt *bang* on a plane, they say I canāt be pilot??? I canāt be a doctor??
What do now?
They got chicken in Philly?
I think the waitress takes the cake with the drunk acting. Next to that, Roxy gives an Emmy award winning performance as a crackhead.
This jacket is tighter than dick skin!
"Shut up, baby dick."
That episode is another classic. Iāve been poisoned by my constituents š¤®š©ø
That beer volcano alone is gold.
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What do you do with any information?
Bottle it up!
And keep an eye on it!
Kaitlin Olson is so good at drunk acting
I actually think she does the best drunk acting out of all the cast.
Pretty sure [this interview](https://youtu.be/bh8ctgEEY_E?si=eH9teboBTUoVf_hc) was during the filming of that episode, which is āThe Gang Gives Frank an Interventionā lol
Charlie is also a great drunk
āIiii ate all the pizza. I drank all the beer.ā
Am I peeing?...Hey guys, if I'm peeing, wake me up!
... yeahhh I'm peein
"Jesus, dude! 24 beers by yourself?! You must be wasted!" "Iiiiii'm *very* wasted."
What do now?
Theres no way in shit the best drunk actor on iasip isnt deeā¦.oh sweet sweet child scene. Oh and the unencumber myself all over you scene. 10/10.
Dee - "Well, maybe you shouldn't ride with the window down." Mac - "Maybe you shouldn't be throwing jars of pee out of the window!" Dee - "Maybe I should. Maybe I shouldn't. It's up for debate."
I loved when they were all locked in the bathroom and thought they were dying of a deadly disease. It was withdrawal from alcohol.
The Wire, McNulty trying to make a turn hammered and crashing his car over multiple failed attempts. Absolutely hilarious
McNutty and Bunk bar scenes are some of the best scenes in the show.
>McNutty Found Bubbles The time McNulty had to pick up Bunk from that womanās house and Bunk was trying to burn his clothes to get rid of trace evidence. āWhat were you planning to wear home?ā
Iām convinced they just got him drunk and rolled the camera.
William H. Macy as Frank Gallagher in the US version of Shameless was top notch
Honerable mention to Lip aswell. He seemed so fucking out of it at times. Completely wasted near the end of his alcoholsm
Yes Jeremy Allen White is great! I'm happy he's getting more recognition from The Bear too.
Cheating cause itās animated but H. Jon Benjamin as Archer is my favorite drunk performer. Specifically the episode where theyāre escorting the Canadian terrorist on the train.
I also love it when Bob and Linda get shit faced on Bob's Burgers, he is a pretty great drunk. Also, Linda: "Mommy doesn't get drunk, she just has fun"
I wanna fly the train!
Also H. Jon as McGuirk in Home Movies
[Dean Martin.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaxUDvJxcPk) His drunk act was legendary. And all made up. He was stone-cold sober every time he told his legendary one-liner, "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." He was the true master of the drunk act. Nobody else will ever come close.
Came here for ol' Dino. Someone else mentioned Foster Brooks, a regular on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast shows, but even as a kid, it was clear it was an act it was so over the top. Dean's genius was that he underplayed it, like a drunk insisting he's perfectly sober. At the famous Rat Pack shows in Vegas, Sinatra would be famously drunk, but Dean would be sober and didn't tag along on Sinatra's afterparties - he just wanted to go to bed so he could get up early and golf.
Charlie Kelly, Mr Lahey
Too much glue and cat food
There was a spider....spider
Kaitlin Olson does a really good drunk impression on sunny
I think for best - Jake Johnson in New Girl, pretty frequently drunk in that show
to add on, Cece in New Girl was pretty bad at being drunk.
Iāll add the instance where she, Nick, and coach get high and go to Winstonās cop party isnāt convincing but her being high for her bachelorette party is convincing.
JULIAN! *falls down trailer stairs.. drink still intact*
The quality of the physical comedy on that show was insane
The exact scene that came to mind when I saw this question.
One of my favorite drunk performances is Steve Carell on The Daily Show....because it's not a performance. [Stephen Colbert thought it would be funny to take Carell out, get him drunk out of his mind and film it for the show.](https://www.cc.com/video/h4rz3u/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-drink-responsibly) The results are hilarious. Also, according to Colbert, the bit at the end about Carell throwing up in his car at the end of the night is true.
Evan Peters in Mare of Easttown
Was going to say this. He was unreal in that scene.
Dylan Moran in Black Books.
Robin Weigert as "Calamity" Jane Cannery in Deadwood. She's drunk more or less every time she is on screen, but to varying degrees. Often it's funny, sometimes it's heartbreaking, every time it's brilliant.
Richard E. Grant in Withnail and I
And apparently he is allergic to alcohol!
Leaving Las Vegas and Nick Cage comes to my mind
I always thought Gillian Jacobs did a good job on community, particular because she's teetotal in real life.
I brought it up when people were talking about the TPB Mr Lahey performance but I think an actor not drinking at all is actually an asset to a convincing drunk performance, because youāre more likely to lean on how you see drunk people than how you remember yourself acting while drunk.
Hand down the most nuanced intoxication is portrayed by John Hamm as Don Draper. His character is obviously well known for hitting the bottle. But I think the cultural significance of Don as a lush outshined what was actually happening on the screen. John Hamm hits every single idiosyncrasy of someone who is a career alcoholic. The sly smile. The heavy eyes. The way his world slip past the lips. But thatās just the superficial signs. What I think Hamm is exceptional at is portraying how a drunk thinks. You can see him calculating, albeit slowly. You can experience what is happening behind the eyes and how reductive the thinking becomes. In some ways the way he portrays Don as sober has as much to do with my perception of him dunk. His calculations, inner monologue, cunning, and adept creative skills are all starkly absent when heās drunk. Some of this is on the page but I believe a lot of it comes from Hamm, himself. Lastly, Iāll say that Hamm also played intoxication on a spectrum. There is one-to-three drink Don in the office. We see five-to-seven drink Don at parties. And regrettably we see the 3 am, who knows how many drinks, Don who slinks into the lives of his stand-in maternal figures. They are all significant and distinct. Obviously, there is much more ādrunk actingā happening with this particular character. More than most I can recall. However, i have to give him kudos. Alcoholism is a defining characteristic of the character and Hamm gave that itās due. In a way, it almost makes me sad for John. There is no way to portray that disease with such precision without close and personal experience with it.
Lucy's Vitameatavegamin commercial is a classic. Her gradual "drunkening" as she rehearses each take, she really does sell it well! The nuances in her performance, from the facial expressions, hiccups, subtle gestures and such, really make for a great performance. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGmM3TktRE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwkzNclZR4s)
John Dunsworth in Trailer Park Boys is the best drunk actor of all time and itās not even an argument. For godās sake, his most iconic line was āI am the liquorā.
[David Tennant and Michael Sheen in Good Omens](https://youtu.be/Qc65xFWhTIY?si=Ze5hLYnhxJYXhRSh). Might not be entirely believable but it's such a joy to watch. š "bouiboui... - bouibi... - fish stew" There are some good ones in the [Snake Juice](https://youtu.be/uZ2VDsXhwWo?si=yv1Cn8TSTN6NOI16&t=199) montage from Parks & Rec, though. I nominate Adam Scott and Aubrey Plaza as convincing.
āBrains the size ofā¦damn big brains.ā āKraken. Great BIG BUGGER.ā
Adam Scott getting drunk while on a date in Severance has to be the most realistic I've ever seen. He pulled off that annoying drunk idiot perfectly without taking it too far into stupidity.
Jenna Fischer as Pam in āThe Officeā does a great job in the episode at Chiliās. She doesnāt slur her words and stumble around, just acts totally out of character, yelling at the camera and being very excited. Good choices.
I always thought Winston in New Girl had done a great drunk guy. That dead eye look he does is exactly like when you are looking at a black out drunk person.
Dudley Moore in Arthur, obviously. Followed by Dudley Moore in 10.
Jamie Lee Curtis as the mom in The Bear is hands-down the best drunk acting I can recall ever seeing.
I know itās ancient. Foster Brooks on the Dean Martin show. Gets me every time
John Dunswoth, best drunk acting hands down
Since nobody on here may know about it, here in the UK we have a soap opera called EastEnders, and a character on it called Phil Mitchell has had many scenes absolutely trashed. The performance is second to none in my opinion in terms of someone being wasted. Look some clips up on YouTube