21.   Few wildly charismatic comic actors have had much luck crossing over to dramatic roles in movies.

22.   GENE WILDER RETURNS TO THE SMALL SCREEN Comic actor Gene Wilder may be open, talkative and friendly, but he is a distinctly serious man.

23.   He can contort his face to resemble the comic actor Jim Carrey.

24.   He got his start as a circus clown, then became a comic actor as well as a famous circus director.

25.   He is a superb comic actor and the results are priceless.

26.   How did a comic actor morph into social commentator?

27.   If this talented comic actor ever gets first-rate material, watch out.

28.   In between, other well-known figures wandered across the stage, at turns poet Maya Angelou and comic actor Leslie Nielsen.

29.   Is there anything more disappointing than a comic actor who decides to get serious?

30.   It is a number in which the comic actor appears as an unpainted wooden fence, wearing little more than a fig leaf and a few slats.