This is why most comedy involves the use of a straight man, a role which Dave Bautista tells Yahoo he’s happy to play in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
But according to Bautista, the pair worked so well together it was like “spontaneous combustion.”
Putting the two comedians together could just as easily have the two actors working against each other and trying to up stage the other, resulting in moments that fall flat.
While both Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Pratt provide a lot of the comic relief in their respective franchises, that doesn’t mean that simply putting them together would create instant comedy gold.