I think a lot of seriously repressed people live vicariously through movie goofballs such as Adam Sandler & Will Farrell. These are people who wouldn't dare rock the boat in their extremely ordinary day-to-day existence, and wouldn't even know quite what to do if they met someone as zany as their comedy movie hero in real life.
They'd probably move away in a hurry, though.
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My thought on Adam Sandler is that he'd be mildly funny, if only for several minutes in 1997, if his character's weren't sociopaths. His child/man bit, the guy who talks like a 10 year old one moment and then is waiving a broken beer bottle at you the next? That's just terrifying.
Will Ferrell I can find amusing, but that's when he's selling Robert Goulet ringtones on SNL.
I'm not suggesting that those guys are not talented, or even that there's no value in their humour. I'm making a point about people that watch & sing along with Mary Poppins, then act like Mr. Banks during the rest of the day.
Funny analogy.
Those people live their lives vicariously in its totality. They see the line at their feet and follow it until it ends.
Some piece of them wishes to step off the line and gets them watching the AS and WF's of the world. But that piece is too small to compete against the rigid unquestioning follower that dominates their life.
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