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Sep 29, 2020 · Jim Piddock (Trevor Beckwith): I’d done very little improvisation since drama school. So nothing prepared me, other than the sheer terror that everyone feels about improvising without any...
The show was an instant success with critics and audiences, winning Piddock the Bay Area Critics' Best Actor Award. The show was then produced Off-Broadway and he quickly gained the attention of the New York theatre scene.
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Best in Show is a 2000 American mockumentary comedy film co-written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy and directed by Guest. The film follows five entrants in a prestigious dog show as they travel to and compete at the show.
- Roger Cormier
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- Eugene Levy wasn't sure how to make a dog show funny. Christopher Guest—portrayer of Nigel Tufnel in This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and Count Tyrone Rugen of The Princess Bride (1987)—and his wife, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, had two dogs, leading the writer/director to make frequent trips to the local dog park.
- The narrative outline for Best In Show was only 15 pages long. Levy explained the outline and the major improvisation it left room for: "Our outline gives a very solid blueprint to the actors so they know how to get from point A to point B, but how they do it is largely up to them.”
- Christopher Guest and his Best In Show cast did their homework. Along with Levy and producer Karen Murphy, Guest spent months attending and researching dog shows.
- Best in Show's filmmakers had to create their own dog show. No actual dog show would allow Best In Show's creators to film on site, so they had to create their own dog show.
He also appeared in the Christopher Guest comedies Best in Show as the Dog Show commentator with Fred Willard, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, and Mascots, the last of which he co-wrote and produced.
YearTitleRoleNotes2020Father StackEpisode: "The Pupil"2019Judge Griffith WilliamsEpisode #1.62018Malcolm FennermanEpisode: "The Escape"2017Dr. RuneEpisode: "Line of Fire"Sep 21, 2020 · He plays a television announcer named Buck Laughlin and was specifically instructed by Guest to not research dogs, whereas Jim Piddock (playing co-announcer Trevor Beckwith) was told to conduct...
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Showing all 8 items. Jump to: Photos (2) Quotes (6) Photos. Quotes. Trevor Beckwith : [as Scott enters with Agnes the Shih Tzu] And now we have the toy, the Shih Tzu is coming, and here is, uh, Scott Donlan. Buck Laughlin : Look at Scott! He is prancing along with the dog!
