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Rating the Performances
by Richard Zoglin E-Mail this
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"A Comedian at the Oscars"
Grade: C

Will Ferrell and Jack Black teamed up for a so-so musical number making fun of the fact that comedians never get nominated. Just what John C. Reilly, plucked out of the audience to form the third member of the trio, was doing in the number I'm not quite sure. Maybe real comedians in Hollywood know a half-hearted Saturday Night Live sketch when they see one.


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