You might not know it by watching his synthetic turn in Alien: Earth , but Timothy Olyphant is a born comedian. Just watch any interview with the actor and you'll see the 57-year-old star of Deadwood and Justified treat his time onscreen like any stand-up's tight five. On Jimmy Kimmel Live! last month, he joked that it was funny that Sex and the City never asked him to come back: "After six seasons, I thought they were just playing the long game," he said. "Turns out ... no." In my own conversation with Olyphant over Zoom last week, he had a quippy counter to just about every single thing I threw at him.
In fact, Olyphant wasn't even fazed when I called him out for using the same joke on two different late-night-show appearances this month—as if he was testing bits for his o