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Top 10 Hilarious Celebrity Audition Tapes


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for the top ten hilarious celebrity
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content for this list we’re looking at
audition tapes from celebrities who
settled their nerves enough to give us a
laugh
number 10 Ellen Page Juno I’m seeing
pregnant Lee Shh dude keep your voice
down okay my mom is like around here so
much just know we’re sexually active
Ellen Page definitely brings her own
style to acting and it really shows on
this screen test for the independent
cult classic Juno
here we find Ellen Page and Olivia
Thirlby auditioning for their roles as
Juno and Leah respectively while
therapy’s definitely special in her own
right Paige’s description of her visit
to the doctor’s office is spot-on what
are you doing here dumbass I’m supposed
to come pick you up at 4:00 I couldn’t
do it Leah I couldn’t do it I mean you
should have smelled this place it was
like a dentist’s office or something and
there were those those bad magazines
lying around everywhere the ones with
those like horrible spritz cookie
recipes and bad fiction not to mention
her nonchalant convo about what to do if
she keeps the baby adorable and
hilarious the undeniable proof that
Paige was meant for the role is right on
the screen what you gotta be kidding me
people put ads in the Pennysaver for
babies number nine Scarlett Johansson
Jumanji I’ve got sixty seven dollars and
eight cents someplace where I don’t have
to go to art school
fun fact Kirsten Dunst wasn’t the only
Futures allowed to audition for this
1995 hit movie a young Scarlett
Johansson gave her a run for her money
kind of well she turned up anyway we
don’t know if little Scarlett was just
having a bad day but I ball rolls and a
lack of enthusiasm show she clearly
didn’t want to be there at first she
will but everybody will be better off
this way she is a kid though so maybe
her nerves got to her even though she
missed her chance to work alongside
Robin Williams she ended up building a
career of her own including fighting
bears aliens and everything in between
number eight Russell Brand Forgetting
Sarah Marshall yes the six remain
dispersed the old fact we know Russell
Brand is a pro at what he does but he
raises the bar to a new level here in a
completely improvised scene for his
audition for 2008 Forgetting Sarah
Marshall brand passive-aggressively
argues with his audition partner about
wanting to go horseback riding while she
wants to stay in the imaginary hotel and
order room service to do that all she’s
imagining the equine beauty you and I
are penises noble hmm
staying in character brand manages to
keep the jokes coming leaving the crew
laughing throughout in fact he keeps it
up for four minutes of solid
entertainment
no wonder brand was the best choice for
the role of Aldous Marshalls charismatic
Rockstar bf Jun well I think I’ve
improved in actually again just do a lot
to figure out his ever design award
number seven Kaitlin Olson It’s Always
Sunny in Philadelphia you got the prize
Kaitlin Olson had only had minor
appearances on screen before her Always
Sunny breakthrough but here in what
should be a fairly grim scene with
Charlie revealing that he has cancer
Olsen’s mannerisms and comedic timing
keep us laughing throughout in a twist
the character was so underdeveloped at
that point that the line she read
actually weren’t written for sweet Dee
in fact the entire scene was not only
just between Charlie and Dennis but it
also was already shot they made the
right choice casting her though and
Deandra has since become one of the most
liked parts of the popular show effects
number six Seth Rogen freaks and geeks
oh I could work my ass off unafraid her
like my dad or become a farmer before
Seth Rogen started appearing in Judd
Apatow movies he was on one of his early
TV shows as Ken Miller one for the
freaks on freaks and geeks he met other
future stars like James Franco and Jason
Segel who he later go on to do other
projects with I would go but I have a
prior engagement
my cousin just sent me a bunch of
mushrooms and I’m gonna eat them
this deadpan yet humorous audition led
him to being cast in the show and
catching his big break well he doesn’t
appear to be his usual self in the tape
he does drop some of his patented stoner
comedy no the courting cows are just be
there just to distract the heat from my
main crowd number five Emma Stone easy
eh look I just need to set the record
straight and what better way to do that
than to broadcast it here on the
Internet so here it goes
this audition has Emma Stone channeling
her inner teen in a webcam confessional
trying for the part of Olive penderghast
a well-spoken high school student in the
movie easy a stone’s comedic timing and
facial expressions make it obvious why
she got the part
her character confesses that rumours
about her might be her fault but that
there are always two sides to a story
let me begin by saying that there are
two sides to every story and this is my
side the right one her performance in
this tape met the actors her first
starring role in a movie and all without
even leaving her bed number 4 Jimmy
Fallon Saturday Night Live TSSA all the
time she said and I would say yeah I’d
say yeah why don’t you show up in this
eight minute long audition for Saturday
Night Live Jimmy Fallon shows off his
best comedic skills doing jaw-dropping
impressions of celebs including Seinfeld
Chris Rock and Adam Sandler after
showing the casting directors a few
original characters he takes his guitar
to imitate popular musicians of the time
Wow huh he’s successfully won over the
judges and made his debut on the show in
1998 reprising some of his impressions
and musical humor love him or hate him
this audition is proof that even pre SNL
Fallon was on top of his game my voice
is my face number three TJ Miller Yogi
Bear I’ll be playing Ranger Jones in the
scene the bear
playing Ranger Smith well this certainly
is the most unique audition on our list
despite the fact that Yogi Bear and boot
were animated in the film TJ Miller
decided to do his screen test with an
actual real-life bear Ranger Smith I
just wanted to say I’m sorry I want to
be in charge so bad that no no hold on
oh wait wait okay to not be scared out
of your ranger pants is one thing but to
actually interact with the bear like
Miller does and keep the audition
entertaining takes some serious skill we
already knew he was funny but anyone
willing to bounce some lines off of bear
for the sake of comedy deserves all that
comes to them didn’t we have a
discussion about sexual harassment onset
number two various actors the office I
watched that special victim SVU frigging
reboot bonus laughter for this one
auditions for the office attracted a lot
of current celebs among the unlucky are
Seth Rogen who auditioned for the role
of Dwight and Bob Odenkirk who was a
contender for Michael Scott before Steve
Carell agreed to take the role you get
the best out of us and I say well they
occasionally other celebs make
appearances in these auditions too like
Eric Stonestreet Kathryn Hahn and John
Cho but what makes these great is that
the camera shots make you feel like
you’re watching an actual albeit weird
and under-produced episode of the show
if we can supply it to them and if they
can purchase it and I’m boring myself
just talking about it
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions oh don’t waste
ink your
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number one steve carell anchorman The
Legend of Ron Burgundy a doctor will
tell me that I have an IQ of 48 and AM
what some people call mentally retarded
Steve Carell is audition for the part of
brick Tamland provides us with the most
laughs in his scene Rick mistakenly
takes falafel from a garbage can which
he thinks is a food basket the script is
already top-notch but Carell steak on it
makes it even better
leaving the crew in stitches in fact he
gets so into it that his face ends up a
completely different color than when he
started
we love anchorman but without Carell as
our favorite San Diego weatherman it
definitely would have been lacking Rick
weren’t you gonna hang her name I don’t
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