You can thank comedian Lisa Gilroy for this moment of beautiful madness, shared through her own Twitter page, as she read a portion of the group therapy scene from the first Austin Powers movie as part of an exercise in her drama class. Taking some, but not all of the most outrageous claims from Dr. Evil’s tragic backstory, Gilroy delivers the lines into her camera with professional deadpan energy. Even better, the whole thing is infused with true Academy Award-baiting inflection and facial acting that rides that fine line between the silliness of the words and the drama of the moment.
