Time out for snacks (Two phrases you are not likely to see in the same sentence: "40-Year-Old-Virign" and "Oscar-winner")

This is a screed that's been brewing. We will return you to your regularly scheduled extra-bile shortly.

First off -- if Steve Carrell does not get a best actor nomination, then all comic actors who are Academy Members should leave. Steve Careel of the movie "40 Year Old Virgin." I'm sure the gross-out element and sexual nature of this comedy will confuse and leave many to dismiss.

But: if you are a fan of things like Animal House, etc., the SMART, yet RIBALD look at things, then this movie was one of the best I've seen in a long, long time. I've been a huge fan of the director/writer's (Apatow) work on TV for a while (Freaks&Geeks, UnDeclared).

Back to Carrell's performance: wonderous.

Didn't feel like he sacrified the comedy for pathos. Didn't feel like his humanity towards the charater got in the way of the comedy. And for every dramatic actor who thinks that's easy -- Please. Try it sometime and we'll be glad to watch you fail.

I really think part of the problem with comic actors being recognized within the body of the Academy, is no matter whether the dramatic thesps admit it or not, when faced with comedy in the present day (not looking back at Keaton, Chaplin, Lewis), they feel it's low-brow. They are still hating the class-clown cut-up who got laffs, while they were sitting in the back of the room brooding, having a rich interior life.

They will say things like comic actors just "mug," meanwhile think of a dramatic actor who doesn't have his stock "I'm in emotional pain" look that he pulls out when in trouble.

Gay Lover was corresponding the other day with an oscar-winner he fucked. Oscar-boy was sniffing about how Bill Murray is not an actor. His opinions are pretty standard: the dramatic actor seethes that the class clown is still getting attention, and he'll be damned if he's every gonna get an award from HIS exclusive club, until the comic is dead, dead, dead. Then we can celebrate comic elegance. Only then.