Aspiring Thespian Mugs

Articled clerks discussing amateur dramatics

'I'm being typecast, Max! Please NO more toothpaste commercials!'

'I'm playing a crowd member in the Easter pageant. I was going to play Pilate 'til I found out I'd have to wash my hands.'

'Good lick with your future acting career. And just to give you an idea of how tough it is out there, here's a copy of 'Withnail and I'. The uncut version.'

'Nothing doing folks, except ? surprise, surprise ? here's another for you, Desert Island Bloke.'

'You're doing a play in kindergarten?'

"First let me say that your father and I really, really wanted to like your performance."

All our servers are locally caught from a sustainable source — the actors' academy across the street.

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

'They all want to play the star.'

"Aristophanes explains comedy"

Department of Theatre, Film and Television: Lights...Camera...Unemployment!

"An actor, you say? Guess you caught the acting-like-a-waiter bug."

Sock Puppet in Literature

"Devi's brew?"

Comic,,,Drama,,,Laugh Track,

"There's so much pressure to like monkeys."

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."

"Have a career, and then if you want to try acting, you'll have my blessing."

"When I grow up I'd like to model for a pasta company."

"When I grow up, I want to be a Presidential impersonator on 'Saturday Night Live.'"

I'm only a part-time waiter, I'm really an actor.

A panhandler with a sign that reads "I'll never work in this town again!".

'How do you expect me to fine tune my act if you keep taking me to the principal's office?

"Larry and Phil aren't sure what they want to do, but Michael is interested in show business."

"Soon to be a motion picture."

"He's done it your majesty! He's turned lead into a screenplay!"

Waiting to be discovered, or taken to work, whichever comes first...

"I like you kid, but you're really just a work in progress!"

'Just because everyone applauded when you dropped your lunch tray in the cafeteria, doesn't mean that you should pursue a career in show business.'

'Okay, I'll do one more dog food commercial, but I don't want to get typecast.'

"Actually I'm a waiter but things are pretty slow at the moment and I'm looking for something to fill in between jobs."

'Hold' (an interpretative dance)