11 Famous Actors and the Big TV Roles They Turned Down

1. FishBottleT
   September 25th, 2009 at 1:57 pm

   I think that Paul would have been great on The Office. The Monk one was a throw up. Both great actors.

2. Lady Helena Handbasket
   September 25th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

   What a fascinating catalogue of TV shows I have never heard of

3. Myackie
   September 25th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

   Throw up?

4. azuza
   September 25th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

   @Myackie - LOOOOOL

5. Skipweasel
   September 25th, 2009 at 3:09 pm

   Must be a very American thing - I ain't heard of any of the characters.

6. OddNumber
   September 25th, 2009 at 3:12 pm

   Lady Helena Handbasket - Really? You've never heard of Seinfeld, Monk, Sex and the City, Home Improvement, The Office, or Gilligan's Island?

   What DO you watch?

7. Wes
   September 25th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

   For what it's worth, Richards did play a bumbling detective after Seinfeld, in the short-lived "The Michael Richards Show." I wonder if perhaps the Monk connection is a mistaken inference.

8. Miss Cellania
   September 25th, 2009 at 7:42 pm

   OddNumber, he probably watches the BBC. There are a lot of Neatoramanauts outside the US.

9. OddNumber
   September 25th, 2009 at 11:00 pm

   Good point Miss Cellania. I just remember being in Scotland a few years ago and being able to watch Scrubs reruns pretty much 24/7. I guess I just assumed that many of our other shows were also shown in other countries as well.

10. Skipweasel
    September 26th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    OddNumber - yes, the UK television network is infested with American shows. It's one of the reasons I don't watch much telly. Not because the shows are American per se, but because most of them exist purely to take up time between the adverts - they neither entertain nor inform except at the most shallow level.

11. D Bozko
    September 26th, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    That's right Skipweasel. Better to take up your time with alturistic pursuits like commenting on NEATORAMA about the fact you don't watch television. Sorry but I get tired of being told television is shallow and unentertaining. While some certainly is, there is a lot of it that is very good.

12. Lady Helena Handbasket
    September 27th, 2009 at 10:27 am

    Now now D Bozko (you're not called David Bosankoe in real life are you? I used to know someone of that name) Skipweasel didn't say that he didn't watch ANY TV, he said he didn't watch MUCH. Presumably he (like you) has decided which programmes he enjoys and watches those. And he didn't say he filled his time with altruistic pursuits. He just implied that he filled it with pursuits more informative and entertaining than TV. I'd certainly agree that reading Neatorama is both informative and entertaining.

    Anyway I don't really want to defend SW, he's quite big and hairy enough to defend himself if he wants to. I just mainly wanted to ask if you were David Bosankoe.

13. Skipweasel
    September 27th, 2009 at 11:56 am

    D Bozko - you might send some of it over here, then!

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