Nicolas Cage is the king of simultaneously intended and unintended hilarity in film. TV has it's campy, knockoff analog: Dylan McDermott. The above video is all you need to understand this phenomenon. But if you absolutely can't spare the 2 minutes, let's run through the basic points.
Nicolas Cage is a great actor, but he is a legend for his unintentional hilarity.
Cage really knows how to commit.
Dylan McDermott is filling a deep need for a campy, TV knockoff of this. Exhibit A:
McDermott will add a certain pizzaz to any bad line.
His show Stalker is terrible, and is trying to make him too serious. But there are still glimpses of amazing.