The road to comedy superstardom doesn’t always start where you’d think. Open mic nights at local comedy clubs, or even improv classes, on the surface, seem like logical places to begin. Hell, I don’t know, but maybe auditioning for a role in a comedy of some kind would make a little sense if your goal was to try to make people laugh. However, if the names you see below are any indication, going in a completely different direction can be the right move.

That said, let’s take a look at five comedy titans who decided to go the horror route before scoring big in the laugh department.

5. John Candy

Though he’d appeared in a few movies prior, John Candy’s first substantial film role was in a low-budget 1976 horror flick titled The Clown Murders. There, he plays the not-so-funny Ollie, who pla

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