15 Actors Who Weren’t Always In On The Joke

Also: Deleted Scenes from the ‘Spinal Tap’ 4-Hour Workprint Welcome to the Cracked newsletter! This issue is about 'Spinal Tap' deleted scenes, Stockholm syndrome, actors who weren't always in on the joke, and raunchy versions of 'Enchanted'. [10 Criminally Deleted Scenes from the ‘Spinal Tap’ 4-Hour Workprint]( This is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner’s directorial debut and instant cult comedy classic, clocked into movie theaters with a svelte running time of one hour and 22 minutes. Yep, we’ve seen some great deleted scenes, with the Criterion DVD adding a whopping 80 extra minutes, almost doubling the film’s length. But wait, Tap and herpes fans — there’s more. Hiding in the corners of the internet is [the complete Spinal Tap work print]( — that’s all the filmed footage, laid out in sequence to create a whopping four-and-a-half-hour extravaganza overflowing with heavy-metal goodness. Now, we’re not necessarily recommending you do a work-print marathon. The online versions look like hell, and there’s a reason Reiner and friends compressed the multi-hour monolith into a gleaming comedy diamond. Luckily, though, we’ve panned for the gold: Here are 10 cast-aside scenes that add something hilariously crucial to the Spinal Tap legend… [READ MORE]( [The Funniest Moments of Actors Making Fun of Themselves in Comedies]( Say what you will about self-deprecating humor — that s**t’s funny, y’all. Even more so when it’s coming from someone with supposed status and clout because we’d rather hear the rich and famous punch up at themselves than down at us. After all, making fun of ourselves is, in general, a good and healthy thing. It also tends to make people just that tad less insufferable. Please, then, enjoy this list of actors who not only appeared as themselves in the following movies but did so to poke fun at their perceived personas. [READ MORE]( Related Reads: - [7 Casting Choices That Were Secret In-Jokes]( - [30 Actors With Huge Regrets About Their Famous Roles]( - [20 Serious Actors and Directors That Killed It in Comedies]( - [5 Actors Who Weren't Acting In Their Most Iconic Scenes]( [How Comedy Helped Bring Down Joe McCarthy and the Hollywood Black List]( [Beekeeping Hasn’t Changed in Nearly 200 Years]( [15 Celebrities Who Tried Stand-Up (But Absolutely Shouldn't Have)]( [Stockholm Syndrome Kinda Isn’t A Thing]( [15 Terrifying Technology Patents That Gave Us Knots In Our Stomachs]( [The CIA Hounded A Reporter Until He Died]( [The Raunchy R-Rated Version of ‘Enchanted’ We Missed Out On]( [God Bless Scrooge Parodies, Every Last One]( [15 Actors Who Weren’t Always In On The Joke]( [The ‘Hourly Pornhubbed Heathcliff’ Twitter Account Is Dirty Comedy at Its Best]( [The 15 Most Extreme Celebrity Pets]( TWEET OF THE DAY [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [Logomark_DIGITAL_Red_50X50-px]( [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2022 Cracked is published by Literally Media Ltd. This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Literally Media · 190 West St Ste 17B · Brooklyn, NY 11222-3855 · USA