‘Get Smart’: Steve Carell and Cast Take Control of Comedy
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Steve Carell on coming up the ranks of comedy:
“Just before Jon Stewart I was unemployed. The employed part, I was on a failed TV series called Over the Top in which I played an outrageous Greek chef in a hotel. One of the reviews referred to me as Heinrich Himmler of comedy and said that Tim Curry was Hitler and every Hitler needs his henchman…You know who pointed this review out to me was Stephen Colbert, much to his delight.”
Alan Arkin on his days at the Second City comedy club:
“It was the only place; there is no place anymore you're allowed to fail…when we were there, the audience came expecting to see 40 percent, 50 percent of what they were watching not work. They didn't care. They knew that was part of the process.”
