Comedy vs Drama - What Is Your Fear?

When malcolm in the middle ended after seven years, i was offered two pilots to play a sweet goofe dad. And immediately, of course, itas no a because i would be derivative of myself if i went right into something else. That's the danger though, right? Is in the perfect scenario, the thing that you're doing becomes a huge success. But with that comes being pigeon holed as that. You know, i don't want to be known as any one thing. I want to keep trying new things and and discover if i'm any good at it,. At the very least,  i just don't wants to be pigeon holed....