A Minute and a Half of Tim Curry Laughing

September 1, 2016 3:34 PM

A Minute and a Half of Tim Curry Laughing
posted by chaoticgood (43 comments total)

I feel no personal shame or guilt about this, but I must keep it a secret, or I will lose my job on security grounds.
posted by Wretch729 at 3:45 PM on September 1, 2016 [7 favorites]

CHEESE PIZZA!
posted by drezdn at 3:50 PM on September 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

Needs HappyFunSeptember tag.
posted by Atom Eyes at 3:57 PM on September 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

In what movie did he play the Devil?

Or is he the Devil?
posted by guiseroom at 4:06 PM on September 1, 2016

Ho ho ho, Rocky…
posted by Going To Maine at 4:19 PM on September 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

A Minute and a Half of Tim Curry Laughing
posted by chaoticgood

Eponysterical.

I like this. Thank you.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 4:20 PM on September 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

Needs more Hexxus (at about 2:20).
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:23 PM on September 1, 2016

Forget where I saw it, maybe it was here, but yeah, not only is Tim Curry worthy of an Oscar for best actor, he deserves a truckload of them for MOST actor.
posted by KHAAAN! at 4:27 PM on September 1, 2016 [15 favorites]

guiseroom, that would be Legend.

In which Tom Cruise delivers a very heartfelt apology to a unicorn.
posted by Phobos the Space Potato at 4:28 PM on September 1, 2016 [11 favorites]

In what movie did he play the Devil?

Legend
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:29 PM on September 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

Infectious.
posted by RobotHero at 4:32 PM on September 1, 2016

Most of it from Muppet Treasure Island, good lord was that man having a blast making that film. Here is the single dumbest musical number to make it to the silver screen, transformed into lunatic brilliance by the Henson Company and one hell of an actor.
posted by Slap*Happy at 4:46 PM on September 1, 2016 [10 favorites]

We really missed out on a Batman movie featuring a young Tim Curry as the Joker, didn't we?
posted by entropicamericana at 5:01 PM on September 1, 2016 [8 favorites]

We really missed out on a Batman movie featuring a young Tim Curry as the Joker, didn't we?

He auditioned for the Joker role in Batman: The Animated Series that ultimately went to Mark Hamill.
posted by radwolf76 at 5:27 PM on September 1, 2016

Heeheehee!

I know Tim doesn't "heeheehee," but I do, so there.
posted by droplet at 5:40 PM on September 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

I kept waiting for Anton Sevarius, but now that I think about it, I don't know if he ever did a good evil Tim Curry laugh in Gargoyles--I guess most of the maniacal laughter in the Sevarius episodes was from Keith David as Thailog.

Also: Tim Curry played Gomez Addams at one point? Is whatever that's from worth tracking down?
posted by elsilnora at 5:42 PM on September 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

Did they lower his voice for Legend?
posted by gottabefunky at 5:45 PM on September 1, 2016

Any excuse to share some Slush.
posted by ovvl at 5:58 PM on September 1, 2016

Infectious is absolutely right, I couldn't help myself with this one.
posted by Naib at 5:58 PM on September 1, 2016

Also: Tim Curry played Gomez Addams at one point? Is whatever that's from worth tracking down?

With Daryl Hannah as Morticia and I remember it being pretty terrible.
posted by octothorpe at 6:01 PM on September 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

We really missed out on a Batman movie featuring a young Tim Curry as the Joker, didn't we?

Yes, but in some perfect universe he plays opposite Burt Lancaster's Batman.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 6:01 PM on September 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

There's like half a second from it in this supercut so I will use it as paper-thin justification to recommend that everyone see Jerzy Skolimowski's The Shout as soon as possible. Such a brilliant, unjustly obscure movie.
posted by Merzbau at 6:33 PM on September 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

Tim Curry is an excellent audiobook narrator. That is all.
posted by bq at 7:32 PM on September 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

With Daryl Hannah as Morticia and I remember it being pretty terrible.

That's a shame, but not surprising.
posted by elsilnora at 8:23 PM on September 1, 2016

Long John Silver from Muppet Treasure Island was TIM CURRY??!!!
posted by Oxydude at 8:35 PM on September 1, 2016 [4 favorites]

Tim Curry is an excellent audiobook narrator. That is all.

ok you can't just leave that there without coughing up some damn titles
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 8:49 PM on September 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

His audio book work includes Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix.

via wikipedia
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 8:55 PM on September 1, 2016 [8 favorites]

Total missed opportunity in not including his role in Annie. His unctuous, crowing laugh guaranteed I was going to become a Rocky Horror nerd from the tender age of four.
posted by gusandrews at 8:59 PM on September 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

I never would have guessed it was Tim Curry who played the devil in Legend, and I also missed the meme of some of his dialog put in an unexpected place, which my son, coincidentally, recently showed me.
posted by eye of newt at 9:03 PM on September 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

When I focus on Curry's eyes, I can't help seeing Susan Sarandon's.
posted by lazycomputerkids at 10:17 PM on September 1, 2016 [3 favorites]

Apparently, he also did the rock.
posted by fairmettle at 10:23 PM on September 1, 2016

Tim Curry is a planetary-wide treasure. (Perhaps galactic)
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 1:08 AM on September 2, 2016 [1 favorite]

Tim Curry is coming out of the retirement forced upon him by a stroke in 2013 to play The Criminologist in the upcoming TV adaptation of Rocky Horror. He's reportedly pleased by how the new version of the classic movie (which will somehow incorporate the audience participation that makes going to see the original so much fun) has turned out. Something to look forward to in late October?

Hahahahahaha!
posted by hippybear at 1:20 AM on September 2, 2016 [3 favorites]

Trying to remember whether Tim Curry laughed in Napoleon and Love. He may well have -- I don't remember, as I was too busy being transfixed by young Tim Curry being a sexy, sexy beast.
posted by Capt. Renault at 6:29 AM on September 2, 2016

I'm sure he laughed in 'Times Square'. I loved that movie so much as a teenager.
posted by h00py at 7:41 AM on September 2, 2016

When he was very young he did a version of Pirates of Penzance where he played the Pirate King and I would give LIMBS to see it but can't find it anywhere.
posted by Ghostride The Whip at 8:34 AM on September 2, 2016

Ghostride The Whip - here's a Royal Variety Performance with a segment of the show for your viewing pleasure
posted by ebear at 8:53 AM on September 2, 2016 [2 favorites]

Oh man, it's everything I ever wanted. The 80s hair, the Bowie shirt.

In my head this is part of the continuity with Long John Silver.
posted by Ghostride The Whip at 9:26 AM on September 2, 2016

Have we posted the best Halloween song of all time?
posted by Ghostride The Whip at 9:30 AM on September 2, 2016 [2 favorites]

When I focus on Curry's eyes, I can't help seeing Susan Sarandon's.

Oh, oh lazycomputerkids, darling, it's no good here! It'll destroy us!
posted by Reverend John at 6:07 PM on September 2, 2016

Total missed opportunity in not including his role in Annie.

Holy shit. I basically wore out a VHS tape of Annie as a kid, but I haven't seen it in years and I did not at all realize that he was Rooster.
posted by tocts at 6:34 AM on September 3, 2016

And here is one of Seth Rogen. lol jk.
posted by Monkey0nCrack at 10:59 AM on September 3, 2016

Long John Silver from Muppet Treasure Island was TIM CURRY??!!!

Metafilter: A Festival of Conviviality!
posted by Slap*Happy at 9:09 PM on September 5, 2016