RR has been in a ton of movies over the years, but I've only seen a handful of them. In the ones I had seen prior to Deadpool, like RIPD, The Proposal, Green Lantern and a few others, I don't recall his characters taking sarcastic smartassedness to the level of Deadpool. Wes said that was a big part of his schtick but I had a limited catalog to go by. When I watched DP, I was blown away by how damn funny he was and how perfect he was for that character. So, if you guys say the second is even close to the original, I can't wait to see it.
BTW, I did see The Hitman's Bodyguard after DP. Fairly entertaining flick, nothing great. But worth seeing just to decide who the bigger smartass was between Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson.