It always seems to me that Bob's doing a misdirection. It's a 2 parter, double reversal deal. He makes it obvious that he is only pretending ak could live. He defuses the potential. His delivery is SO broad.
The idea is, you think "It's so obvious he's milking it. I can tell he's trying to make me think AK might be alive. I'm smarter than that. This guys full of it. AK is the dodo."
I've seen him act. He's incredible. I can't imagine the dude doing Bob Gorsky in the midnight special, could unintentionaly act that poorly. In the midnight special he does, in fact , deliver a mild form of the same hammery... When he's doing the Kaufman can't get a job routine.
I suppose he could be suffering from a case of middle aged man. Lots of good actors have. (Paccino, Nicholson etc)
And Bob, if you're reading this and I'm wrong, sorry to slag, but look on the bright side, I just compared you to Paccino and Nicholson.
Remember, always watch the other hand. In this case his third one.
