Evidence of Lana Clarkson's comedic skills didn't do much for the jury's disposition Thursday.

The 12 people sitting in judgment of Phil Spector sat largely stone-faced during a 35-minute video that Clarkson made in 2002 to promote her acting skills.

Lana Unleashed, which the actress supposedly had to borrow money to produce, was a collection of skits featuring Clarkson as multiple characters, such as illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher of Siegfried & Roy fame, a talking Barbie doll, a Las Vegas showgirl and Little Richard, for which Clarkson sported black face.

The entire courtroom remained silent, for the most part, including Clarkson's agent, Nick Terzian, who was on the witness stand at the time and who referred to his client Wednesday as a comedic actress.

Terzian described Clarkson as an "extremely marketable," talented, enthusiastic performer who could act in any genre, but he admitted under cross-examination by defense attorney Roger Rosen that he had trouble finding her high-profile work.

"She never performed in any 'A' movies, did she?" Rosen asked.

No, Terzian said. He also mentioned that he hadn't sent Lana Unleashed to any casting agents. (Another witness testified awhile back that Terzian had told a devastated Clarkson that he didn't like the video.)

The prosecution, which launched its rebuttal case Wednesday after the defense finished calling its main witnesses, is working to refute the claims that Clarkson was depressed and frustrated about her career in the months leading up to her death—enough to have shot herself accidentally, while under the influence of drugs and alcohol, on Feb. 3, 2003, in the hallway of Phil Spector's Alhambra mansion.

Terzian testified that Clarkson was "ecstatic" about going on auditions again after recovering from two broken wrists she suffered in a fall in 2001, and that she had landed several commercials, including one scheduled to shoot five days after her death.

Another witness, real estate agent and longtime Clarkson friend Nili Hudson, testified adamantly that Clarkson was an upbeat and hopeful person, hardly a woman at the end of her rope.

Hudson, who said she'd known Clarkson for more than 20 years, told Deputy District Attorney Patrick Dickson that her friend, who Hudson talked to the day before she died, had never mentioned suicide.

Clarkson intended to go shopping for more comfortable shoes to wear for her job as a hostess at the House of Blues, Hudson said. "She was excited she was happy, she was like she'd always been: hard-working, tenacious, a self-starter."

Hudson also read part of a letter written in December 2003 by defense witness Punkin Irene Elizabeth Laughlin, who previously testified for the defense that Clarkson was increasingly despondent in the weeks leading up to her death.

"My Lana, my best friend, my right arm, my inseparable sister was violently and abruptly taken from me at the hands of Phil Spector, Feb. 3, 2003," read the letter.

On the stand, Laughlin denied telling someone at a party that Spector "should fry" for what he did to Clarkson.

Hudson then said on cross, however, that she was still angry at Spector over Clarkson's death, and that she had been watching TV coverage of the trial but had avoided watching coverage of the defense's case.

"My point of view is, absolutely, that he's guilty," Hudson said.

When questioned about a breakup Clarkson had recently gone through before she died, Hudson said that, yes, Lana was sad, but that she did not dwell on it.

And although he won't be testifying, as far as anyone knows, the jury got to hear from Spector Thursday morning when he requested a one-day delay to accommodate attorney Linda Kenney Baden, who is sick—a request that L.A. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler obviously denied.

"Your honor, Mrs. Baden is my point lady," Spector said. "She explains to me everything going on in the trial. She strategically handles all of the defense. She's the only one I can talk to. At night I talk to her for hours."

"I feel completely naked and lost without her," he continued. "She's the only one I can't do without. I'm extremely worried about her."

Baden, who appeared to be in pain earlier this week, was seen being helped out of court Wednesday. She has presided over much of the scientific questioning so far and also gave part of the defense's opening statement. 

Fidler said that Baden's input wasn't essential for the witnesses scheduled to testify today, and he pointed out that Spector has an especially large defense team to pick up the slack.

Michael Bay is expected to testify on Monday, presumably to refute Laughlin's testimony that Clarkson got really upset a few weeks before she died when Bay gave her the brush-off at a party. The Transformers director, who worked with Clarkson on a commercial, has denied that the run-in took place.