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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your movies, which was your favorite character to play? -Alex Saenz, Tipton, IowaBrick Tamland [from Anchorman] was pretty fun. I just laughed until I cried every day on that movie. And I didn't have to do very much. I just kind of stood there in the background, and Adam McKay, who directed Anchorman, would instruct me to just say whatever I wanted to say, to find an opening and say something-usually a non sequitur of some sort. It could not have been more fun. To play a person who was completely disconnected with reality was just a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Steve Carell | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

Formerly known for playing sidekick to Jon Stewart as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” to Will Ferrell as Brick Tamland in “Anchorman,” and as minor characters in “Bewitched” and “Bruce Almightly,” Carell has since earned recognition as an individual thanks to the success of “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” and his role as title hero Andy Stitzer...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Like a ‘Virgin,’ Known for the Very First Time | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

...call personality reflects a naiveté to his newly acquired fame: he can hardly finish a thought without apologizing for rambling, and responds to every expression of praise with an enthusiastic “Oh, thanks!” Though he claims to identify with the obliviousness of Brick Tamland, his mannerisms are more Stitzer-esque, as if Carell is no more experienced with a national audience than the lovable virgin is with the female anatomy...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Like a ‘Virgin,’ Known for the Very First Time | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

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