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Eugene Levy and Martin Starr Team Up At CBS

Martin StarrWell this is exciting. Martin Starr (Adventureland, Party Down) and Eugene Levy (American Pie, A Mighty Wind) have just been given a deal to produce and star in a show for CBS. Maybe CBS is finally ready to stop depending on lowbrow cash cows like S#*! My Dad Says and Mike and Molly, and go for something truly funny. Just maybe.

As excited as I am about this news, I’m also a little wary. The last two (excellent, wonderful, hilarious) shows that Starr…er…starred in both met with untimely deaths. First it was the sadly short-lived Judd Apatow creation, Freaks and Geeks, in which Starr played a lovable, chuckle-inducing mega geek with a severe peanut allergy and second was the dearly departed Party Down, in which Starr played an elitist geek turned aspiring science fiction screen writer moonlighting as a cater-waiter to pay the bills. He’s gotten pretty good at the geek thing. The bottom line is that the guy is funny, he gives Jim Parsons one hell of a run for his money (sorry Big Bang fans). He may just be the key to making CBS the king of nerd-based comedy if the show gets off the ground.

As for Eugene Levy, as much as I love his work in all those Christopher Guest movies – I could watch Waiting For Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind on repeat for weeks – his more commercial roles are little more than contests with his previous roles to see how high he can raise the obnoxious bar. (See: Cheaper By The Dozen 2 or any of the American Pie movies.)

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Even if Levy manages to annoy the hell out of me, I’ll bet the show (whatever it turns out to be) will be ten times funnier than S#*!.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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