Best-known as the gunslinging lawman of TV Westerns Deadwood and Justified , it’s hard to imagine Timothy Olyphant as anything but a master of his acting craft. But Olyphant’s first step towards fame and fortune was actually giving a very different kind of performance.

Back in the early 1990s, long before he made his screen debut, Timothy Olyphant tried his hand as a standup comic in Boston and New York. While he ultimately took his career in a different direction, he was fairly committed to touring his standup routine for a while.

Olyphant’s best movie and TV performances might not suggest that his initial route to success involved telling jokes onstage, but that’s exactly how he got into showbusiness. In fairness, he never lost his razor-sharp sense of comic timing, which

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