I was able to rip the clip. You can download it here (48 MB):
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kipsla/james/media/starterhallmcavoy_VP6_1Mbps_Stream[1].flv (click right and choose: 'save as'
You will need an FLV player to play it. You can download a good one here:
http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/193122-0O88/FLVPlayerSetup.exe (click right and choose: 'save as'

Another clip:
He is being very witty in this one as well, although he also looks a bit nervous! It is from the Craig Ferguson show:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xeD33PiyrkQ

Hey, huge Star Trek fan here too! My nr one is Voyager though, but I love NG as well!
Don't you just love that borg smilie! I have had it for years, but finally have my own board to add it too!!

I once did this manip about James playing Scotty in the next ST film..





And I loved the part in the dodgy insect conversation where he says: 'My wife would be very offended if I went mmwwwuhaaa'


But did he not look nervous when he sat down, or right after he sat down when he kept shifting in his seat or when he said silly things like erasing Craigs sister from his memory?

I had a whole answer but I lost it when I clicked a wrong button!!

That Paul O-Grady clip is very cute as well. He seems so nervous in the beginning. he just sits there with his shoulders all tense and his eyes wide. he does seem to get a little more comfortable when he starts talking about his female mullet and being in the depths of hairdressing hell though.. But then the tense shoulders come back and so do the nervous remarks. But I love how he waves to his grandmother and calls her gorgeous!


It is like he is much more nervous to go on talkshows than he is doing these filminterview with only the interviewer, cameraman and maybe a co-star in the room. In that SFT clip you posted in the first post he doesn't seem nervous at all!

Oh no! I cannot watch that scene!
In Dutch we call that 'substituted shame'. I have never been good at watching those things. I always have to walk away from the TV as well when you can see womething is gonna go soooo wrong. It is like watching a car-wreck, I can't do it


I also think he overacts way too much in this film. Or maybe overacting is not the right word.. he is TOO much of a nerd. Cute as he may be, in this film he is so nerdy, it is just not believable for me ANY girl would be interested in him.. at all!


And he not that realisticly stoned to me. He acts the way most poeple think a stoned person acts, but it is too cliché to be very realistic. But then I don't think that was what this film was going for. So his performace is fine for this scene

I don't think any of these things are James's fault though. I think that is the acting the director was going for, because if it was not, he would have had to steer James in another direction. That is what directors are for after all.
I would have liked it better if Brian would at least have been trying to look cool and masculine, but would have fallen through that disguise every now and then by being clumsy for instance. And then the girls would have thought his clumsyness to be cute. That would have been much more believable for me.

It's all my opinion though, feel free not to share it with me