The Audition: This is Brand’s improvised and ultimately successful audition for the part of louche Brit rocker Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Why So Entertaining? With just a single line of instruction, Brand delivers a furious four-and-a-half minute charm offensive, full of surreal asides and sexual swagger. It’s basically Brand being himself, to the power of ten, and it earned him not only this role but the spin-off movie Get Him To The Greek.