THE LOGICAL SMART ONE - Reelfilms

honesty.
He‟s playing Jerry Seinfeld (and his wacky family of friends is part
of his fantasy world) all the while letting the audience know that he‟s
the sane one. His no-holds-barred comments about what‟s happening
around him make many of his scenes funnier, especially if his target is
eternal neurotic loser George Costanza (Jason Alexander).
GEORGE: What kind of person are you
JERRY: I think I'm pretty much like you,
only successful.
And he really lets George have it when if comes to the subject of
women ...
GEORGE: She's got a little Marissa Tomei
thing goin' on.
JERRY: Ah, too bad you've got a little
George Costanza thing goin' on.
As an actor playing this character, there will be times when you will
need to present a brutally honest attitude and approach to the text or
another character and you will need to do so humorously and most
importandy without being mean-spirited. Otherwise the character would
turn into a Bitch / Bastard. But more on them later.
Oh Mom! Oh Dad!
Logical Smart Ones are the caretakers of The Eight Characters of
Comedy. They are not only mothers or fathers to their overgrown,
childlike husbands or wives, sometimes they are actually mothers and
fathers. From June and Ward Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley and Hugh
Beaumont) on “Leave it to Beaver” to Carol and Michael Brady
(Florence Henderson and Robert Reed) on “The Brady Bunch” to
Elyse and Steven Keaton (Meredith Baxter-Birney and Michael Gross)
on “Family Ties,” many of the great Logical Smart Ones show
maternal and paternal qualities because they ARE moms and dads.
They need to be tolerant because that‟s how mothers and fathers
should be.
But in life, you don‟t need to be a parent to be paternal. Same with
TV. Many famous Logical Smart Ones don‟t even have children. Where
would the crazy staff of Blush Magazine on “Just Shoot Me” be without