The Office star Steve Carell has inked a first-look deal with the WB. My guess is this was done to sweeten the pot for Carell to appear in a sequel for Get Smart.Talk about being the "it" man for comedy nowadays. He's in one of television's most successful comedies and is one of the top-tier comedy movie stars. He's even slated to co-star with another television icon, Tina Fey, in an upcoming movie called Date Night.
Carell is so humble about his celebrity, he's even willing to take a ribbing from the creator of The Office, Ricky Gervais at the Emmy Awards. The look on his face while Gervais mocks him is priceless.
I can only be envious of Steve Carell since he's had ties to both Second City and The Daily Show, two of my favorite comedy organizations (what do you call it when one is a comedy troupe and the other is a television show?).
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10-07-2008 @ 2:40PM
elf said...
...both Second City and The Daily Show, two of my favorite comedy organizations (what do you call it when one is a comedy troupe and the other is a television show?).
The word you're looking for is 'institutions'.
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10-07-2008 @ 7:15PM
Paul said...
Or maybe "comedy entities".
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10-07-2008 @ 9:25PM
StillBash said...
I don't get the "even" together with the Emmy bit.
That's what they do there.
I guess what you meant is even though he's currently so successfull he hasn't turned into a complete ass. It's kind of sad that this is a feat you have to point out nowadays.
On the other side on The Daily Show he behaves like he's on that high horse every time he visits. They talk nonsense and then he's off. It's simply funny - in the one environment where people expect you to sit on a high horse, he gets mocked, in the other where you expect comraderie and shameless movie-plugging, he doesn't even talk to Jon Stewart.
It's comic genius and you simply have to love all of those guys (including Gervais and Stewart) for keeping us entertained and still doing stuff they did before. And that money doesn't seem to be able to change them :-)
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