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Steve Carell inks deal with WB

by Brad Trechak, posted Oct 7th 2008 2:05PM
The OfficeThe 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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StillBash

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 :-)

October 07 2008 at 9:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul

Or maybe "comedy entities".

October 07 2008 at 7:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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