![]() ![]() (He fails.) In one scene, Corddry cracked me up just by yawning.Ĭorddry worked on “Childrens Hospital” with Jonathan Stern and David Wain, its co-creators, as well as people he knew from his Upright Citizens Brigade years in New York and beyond. Blake Downs, is a strong believer in “the healing power of laughter” early on, he attempts using it to perform brain-tumor surgery. (It has won four in total, and was nominated for four this year.) “Childrens Hospital” feels like “Airplane” crossed with Lars von Trier’s “ The Kingdom,” riffing on everything from the dippy voice-overs on “Grey’s Anatomy” to the jazzy heat-and-lust sequences in “Do the Right Thing.” Corddry wears grotesque clown makeup and blood-drenched scrubs, yet when he shows up we are happy to see him he uses his chipper unpredictability in pursuit of subversion and sly satire. This year, the series won two Emmys, one for Corddry’s acting. His knowing presence reassures us that someone, at least, is in on the right kind of joke.Īnd then there’s “ Childrens Hospital.” He created the comedy series, which began as a short on the WB.com and then moved to Adult Swim. He often plays a likable jerk or a smarmy man-child, in entertainment that walks the line between mocking obnoxiousness and glorifying it. For fifteen years, Corddry has zealously revealed the mania and menace lurking within a balding American Everyman. On “Ballers,” the HBO comedy-drama about football in which he and Dwayne (the Rock) Johnson play financial advisers, he merrily addresses a crowd by hollering the N-word, and gets thrown off a pier. In “Hot Tub Time Machine,” Corddry, playing the guy in a group of friends, who, as he put it recently, is “an asshole, but he’s our asshole,” gets punched several times. The punch gives us a fleeting burst of hope. Corddry plays a minister in a sweater vest who has shown up outside a gala to scream epithets at gay people, and Sandler, until that instant a grade-A douchebag, doesn’t like it. The best moment in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry,” the unpleasant 2007 Adam Sandler comedy about two straight firemen who marry each other, is when Sandler’s small-minded superstud character, having suddenly developed a conscience, punches Rob Corddry in the face. Rob Corddry in “Ballers.” Photograph by Jeff Daly / HBO ![]()
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