Exhibit A in the curious career of Saturday Night Live veteran Rob Schneider. Schneider has no discernible comic talent, aside from giving the impression of being a 10-year-old stuck in a 40-year-old man’s body, yet here he’s given a plum part: that of a lowly aquarium cleaner who stumbles into a second career as a gigolo. There are maybe three good laughs – Amy Poehler has a field day with that old comedy reliable, the sweet girl with Tourette’s – but Schneider has little to do with any of them. His biggest contribution is to get as much mileage as possible out of the phrase “man whore.
