Funniest character of the decade

You just can’t top Fred Melamed as Sy Ableman in A Serious Man. Melamed creates a hilariously pompous and blatantly manipulative character. He is the guy who seduces the protagonist’s wife and then expects the hero to bend over backwards to make everything convenient for them.   I’ve never seen such an earnestly self-entitled character.

And here is Fred Melamed discussing Sy Ableman:

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