t’s hard to imagine Pacino, in all his gruff intensity, spot-lit on the stand-up stage, delivering zingers. But that was once a very real part of the famed actor’s life. According to the man himself, Pacino started out on comedy stages, working as a stand-up comic. Apparently, he was gifted at physical comedy, but quickly realized that he “didn’t want to be funny all the time, only when [he] felt like it.”