# Who is Dylan McDermott fellating? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2014, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381 "2014-10-15T06:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/21 "2014-10-17T14:37:46Z")
Indeed. That might be more interesting to watch than his show though. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/22 "2014-10-17T15:27:55Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Indeed. That might be more interesting to watch than his show though. I know I should buy a membership, but reading those two posts and looking down at the ad picture of the guy pouring a pot of coffee down his throat added a visual I could have gone Years without. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/23 "2014-10-17T15:29:30Z")
This is the strangest thread… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/24 "2014-10-17T16:20:02Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > This is the strangest thread… Hell no, not by a long shot. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/25 "2014-10-17T17:14:36Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Hell no, not by a long shot. This is a strange thread… Better? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/26 "2014-10-17T18:29:42Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Oh FFS, can we just say “blow”?! “Fellate, fellate, fellate…” It’s beginning to sound like something that is done to deli meats before they go in the cooler. I’m never eating at your house. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/27 "2014-10-17T19:27:05Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > This is a strange thread… > > Better? Much, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/28 "2014-10-17T20:48:11Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I’ve always wanted to know which major Hollywood producer Adam Sandler is the love child of. That’s the only plausible explanation for how he’s managed to appear in so many movies. Based on talent, he should be a supporting actor, not his own damn genre. His movies make a ton of money. Regardless of how lowbrow and stupid you may find them, they still have mass appeal to a large portion of the general public. If anything the Hollywood execs would be the ones fellating him to make more. > [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Whoever he’s fellating, I’m guessing they’re a couple rungs down the Hollywood ladder from whoever Scarlett Johansson’s fellating. She’s the most wooden major movie star since Kevin Costner. Yes, I too wonder how the pretty young thing 90% of straight males wish was fellating them keeps getting acting gigs. > [@faithfool](#): > > Except for _American Horror Story_. Or rather, do you mean he only lasts for one season? He was on two seasons of that show. He wasn’t a main star of the 2nd season, but he was still there, and i suspect the only reason he wasn’t back for s3 or 4 was he was busy with his own shows. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/29 "2014-10-17T22:17:14Z")
> [@wedgehed](#): > > No, that’s Kristen Stewart. Kristen Stewart has a single expression and often mistakes snorting for acting. jack Kerouac would have strangled her had he been alive when they cast her in\*\*\* On The Road.\*\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/30 "2014-10-17T22:28:37Z")
Kristen Stewart’s single expression is mooned-eyed calf to slaughter. And **TBG** , you are so right. He’s such a non-issue, I forgot about him as a serial killer in _Asylum_. We’ll have to disagree on why he didn’t come back. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/31 "2014-10-17T22:58:15Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > …I’m guessing Les Moonves, but don’t let on (and don’t let his wife catch them). But first! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/32 "2014-10-17T23:41:36Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Because that’s the only explanation I can come up with for why he keeps getting so much work. All kidding aside, I remember reading something about the four kinds of movie actors. So you have the ones who come in for an audition, and seem like they’re not much, because – well, because they’re _not_; put 'em on the big screen and they’d be nothing special. And then you have the ones who, yeah, okay, he’s not in costume and it’s not a rehearsal, but even just casually reading lines off the page in that cramped little room with all the cheap folding chairs you’re thinking _oh my god_ this guy has movie-star presence – and when he eventually brings it 100% on film, he’s of course amazing. And then you have the guys who seem like nothing special in person doing a table read, but come alive for the real thing. And then you have the rare guys who genuinely wow you in person at the table read – he has “it” – except, no, that’s as good as it ever gets; he’s halfway there when he’s half-assing it, but _he has no whole ass to give_. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/33 "2014-10-18T04:22:07Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > At the moment, Scarlett Johansson is fellating me. I knew it!:smack: ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/34 "2014-10-18T04:33:57Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Yes, I too wonder how the pretty young thing 90% of straight males wish was fellating them keeps getting acting gigs. This describes about 99% of the young actresses in Hollwood, and 99% of _them_ are better actors. ---
**Author:** ![HogarthP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dbc845/32.png) [@HogarthP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HogarthP)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/35 "2014-10-18T18:25:23Z")
Thought he had many _alright_ moments in The Practice. Not really bothered to find anything else he’s been in though. And yes, I have a theory that if you randomise Kristen Stewart screen captures, she’s got the same facial expression every single time. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/36 "2014-10-18T19:50:43Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Because that’s the only explanation I can come up with for why he keeps getting so much work. He’s a competent actor, easy to work with, and has a good agent. Feel free to use this explanation for most any commonly working actor, because it’s almost always the correct one. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/37 "2014-10-21T14:05:29Z")
Thomas Gibson makes Dylan McDermott look like Sir Laurence Olivier. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/38 "2014-10-21T15:11:40Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Thomas Gibson makes Dylan McDermott look like Sir Laurence Olivier. Hey, what happens in the make-up trailer, Stays in the make-up trailer. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/39 "2014-10-21T16:05:46Z")
Dylan McDermott is neither the best nor the worst actor out there. He’s neither the handsomest nor the ugliest actor out there. He’s a decent looking, perfectly competent actor of limited range. To be sure, there are LOADS of actors out there of whom I could say the same thing. So, why does he work more often than most of them? Because he’s established himself as a guy who shows up on time, knows his lines, and conducts himself like a professional. Producers who’ve worked with him in the past know they can depend on him, and hire him when they have roles available for which he’s well suited. There are a LOT of producers and directors out there who like to use the same actors regularly. Many of them have a “stable” of actors they like to work with. That’s partly because they know the quality of the work they’ll be getting and they’ve established a certain rapport. That can keep an actor working steadily. And the more steadily you work, the greater the chance that some OTHER producer will see you on TV or in a movie and say, “He’d be great for a new role I have to fill…” A lot of us on the IMDB laugh at Ted McGinley, and ask how he keeps getting work. It’s probably for the same reason- he’s a good looking, competent, professional actor who does whatever producers and directors ask of him. People who’ve worked with him before tend to like him and hire him again, or gladly recommend him to colleagues to are hiring. It isn’t much more mysterious than that. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/40 "2014-10-21T18:29:52Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > Kristen Stewart has a single expression and often mistakes snorting for acting. > [@faithfool](#): > > Kristen Stewart’s single expression is mooned-eyed calf to slaughter. > [@HogarthP](#): > > And yes, I have a theory that if you randomise Kristen Stewart screen captures, she’s got the same facial expression every single time. I’m not Kirsten Stewart’s biggest fan, but most of the people complaining haven’t seen her in anything other than the _Twilight_ movies. Because, when given an actual character to play in a decent script, she **can** act. See her playing Joan Jett in _[The Runaways](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017451/reference)_. She was also quite enjoyable and naturalistic in _[Adventureland](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091722/reference)_. She was playing a terribly written character in the \*Twilight \*films, and I don’t think there’s an actress alive who could have made that part work. Bella was written as a blank upon which the readers could project themselves. I didn’t see _On The Road_ because Kerouac always came across to me as a self-obsessed douchebag with whom I wouldn’t wish to spend five minutes, let alone two hours. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381.md?page=3)