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Most successful post-SNL career? Discuss. -- nm

Posted by Mop (212 lbs) (aka rburriel) Feb 25 '11, 14:11

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worldwide gross Adam Sandler 2.979 billion, Dan Aykroyd 3.548 billion Eddie Murphy 6.996 billion -- (link) - crash davis Feb 25, 14:24 26
- (just by way of comparison: Clint Howard: $3.27 billion) -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:53 4
  - I understood your point before you iterated it :) - crash davis Feb 25, 14:56 3
    - I get that you know, I just thought it's a fun data point. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:56 2
      - it is fun, but even more fun to me is by this chart Kathy Bates is a bigger movie star than Julia Roberts -- (link) - crash davis Feb 25, 14:58 1
        
        heh...that Titantic box office really throws it for her. -- nm - Remlik Feb 25, 15:16
- I'm surprised no one mentioned Aykroyd until this. The guy's got volume if not quality. -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Feb 25, 14:33 3
  - He's still in the ST doghouse for Blues Brothers 2000 -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 14:35 2
    - Indeed. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 14:38
    - But... Crystal Skull Vodka! -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Feb 25, 14:36
- to do this properly, you would have to a) adjust for inflation b) include DVD sales and the like - Reagen Feb 25, 14:29 15
  - Plus, you'd have to factor in the bedget of the movie. - the wrong element, bad guy Feb 25, 15:13 1
    - Pluto Nash is the all time "It shouldn't be possible for this to happen" movie. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 15:14
  - or just ask executive producers what they're willing to pay the actor before they see a return. -- nm - Max Feb 25, 14:43
  - It's not like Bill Murray didn't also do bit parts and cameos. He's measured on the same scale as the others. -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Feb 25, 14:38 3
    - To be clear, we're not debating strictly box office, right? nm - Dignan Feb 25, 14:44 2
      - "What's the bigger number, 6 or 8?" -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:44 1
        
        8 (to be fair, I saw the answer on celebrity Jeopardy). nm - Dignan Feb 25, 14:46
  - sure, and I believe John Ratzenberger is the 4th most successful actor in history -- (link) - crash davis Feb 25, 14:35
  - It's more like... no one's willing to tell him he's not. -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 14:32 1
    - Not even chuck norris. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 14:32
  - I'm just pointing stuff out to the people who automatically assume Sandler leads at the box office -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 14:30
  - if you include DVD sales Murphy crushes even more thanks to the Shreks I bet -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 14:29 3
    - Mike Myers likes this. -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Feb 25, 14:34 2
      - yeah, but Eddie has the Shreks, Doolittle, the Professor stuff, his old stuff... -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 14:34 1
        
        Beverly Hills Cop trumps almost everything, but Myers killed with the Austin Powers DVD sales. -- nm - Mop (212 lbs) Feb 25, 14:35
- RDJ 3.381 billion Bill Murray 2.856 billion Mike Myers 4.408 billion -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 14:27
Poor Joe Piscopo -- nm - Dano Feb 25, 14:19 1
- was he in Dead Heat? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 14:19
Eddie Murphy has been huge for 25 years from BHC to Doolittle to the animateds -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 25, 14:18 3
- I think he's the overall Box Office winner. Remember he shares all the Shrek money too. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 14:23
- This. -- nm - Beaker Feb 25, 14:21 1
  - right, he also has shrek on his resume -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 14:23
Robert Downey Jr. -- nm - pmb Feb 25, 14:13 2
- I know he was on, but wouldn't have if not for lists of people you'd never believe was on the show -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 14:18 1
  - he did a season. So did Gary Kroger. -- nm - Remlik Feb 25, 15:13
Sandler, Murphy and Downey for Box Office. -- nm - Remlik Feb 25, 14:13 5
- no Myers? -- nm - loosilu Feb 25, 14:17 4
  - oh sure! I got blinded by the disaster of Love Guru. -- nm - Remlik Feb 25, 15:13
  - The Cat in the Hat, Austin Powers ... Wayne's World ... there's some big bucks there, I would think -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 14:17 2
    - shrek -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 14:20
    - (And yes, I really did forget about Shrek) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 14:20
I'm sure Sandler has the top grosses. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 14:13 6
- I think Myers is still in the lead. nm - Dignan Feb 25, 14:17 4
  - voicing characters in an animated movie shouldn't count -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 14:19 3
    - Frank Welker! -- nm - Remlik Feb 25, 15:16 1
      - I feel confident in saying that the world's most successful actor should be a title held by someone more than 10% of the public has heard of. - Reagen Feb 25, 15:19
    - why not? It's still a paycheque. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 14:20
- Though maybe RDJ could surpass him before too long. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 14:15
I don't know the numbers, but maybe it would be a toss-up between Adam Sandler and Mike Myers -- nm - Beryllium Feb 25, 14:13 1
- myers had the most success with SNL type comedies -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 14:16
eddie murphy -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 25, 14:13 1
- This -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 14:13
Bill Murray. Discussion over. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:12 23
- Yeah, or Sandler. nm - Dignan Feb 25, 14:13 22
  - he's the only one you could really make a case for. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:16 21
    - Joan Cusack even out-grosses him. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 14:26 18
      - which tells you what you need to know about this measuring stick. - Reagen Feb 25, 14:28 17
        
        Sure it does. "Reagen doesn't like it." - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 14:32 16
        
        C'mon. nm - Dignan Feb 25, 14:37 7
        
        "Joan Cusack is a more succesful actor than Bill Murray." It doesn't pass the laugh test. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:39 6
        
        She's had a more successful career. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 14:39 5
        
        You're disqualified from all future discourse. nm - Dignan Feb 25, 14:42 1
        
        30% of them would go, "Don't mean John Cusack?" -- nm - David Feb 25, 14:47
        
        No one would agree with that. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:40 2
        
        You're starting to get more of The Crazy Stuff arguments than me. -- nm - David Feb 25, 14:46 1
        
        By gar, it's been awhile! -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:52
        
        Actually, even better example: Philip Rivers is the best QB in the NFL - he had the most passing yards! -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:36
        
        "I've proven that the best hitter in baseball is JD Drew! What? You can't argue with science!" -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:35 6
        
        "successful" =/ "best" - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 14:38 5
        
        We're discussing evaluation systems here. Try to keep up. -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:39 4
        
        No, we're discussing careers. Try to read. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 25, 14:40 3
        
        if the answer is based on box office, there's zero point in having a discussion. Therefore, there must be other ways of evaluating it. - Reagen Feb 25, 14:42 2
        
        Joan's gross is due to 2 things - Jessie the cowgirl and her brother -- nm - crash davis Feb 25, 14:44
        
        (Clint Howard) -- nm - Reagen Feb 25, 14:42
    - He's remained surprisingly popular. nm - Dignan Feb 25, 14:20
    - It's crushed. Shrek just sat on it. -- nm - con_carne Feb 25, 14:20

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