Cast a replacement for Steve Carell on the The Office

Nl5H · Post by **Nl5H** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:36 pm

i don't know about you all, but i DEFINITELY don't want to see a ghostbusters 3.

mike eagle · Post by **mike eagle** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:47 pm

Foley, Lennon, Daly, or Colbert would be great

also

Paul F. Tompkins

Jason Bateman

Jim Gaffigan

Norm Macdonald

Jon Hamm

The Afronaut · Post by **The Afronaut** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:15 pm

mike eagle wrote:Paul F. Tompkins

Good call.

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:26 pm

The Afronaut wrote:
mike eagle wrote:Paul F. Tompkins
Good call.

yes. gaffigan might be good too.

CRASH DDZ · Post by **CRASH DDZ** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:50 pm

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@ Sarah's thighs right here. Horse face or no I would like to play Kentucky Derby with her in my Pat Day suit.

...and this was a class move by Bill.. He gave all the Dead SNL cast props.. funny twist at the end... I missed the awards I need to check to see if they run it again.. Bill's speach was pretty much perfect tho.

Overlooked posibility for the Office: Paul Giamatti

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:51 pm

sarah silverman. does she still have a show? if not she should take the role.

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:06 pm

Colbert would be TERRIBLE.

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:41 pm

colbert plays a similar character on his talk show. i just don't think it's a good look for him to take the helm on a sinking ship.

The Afronaut · Post by **The Afronaut** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:20 pm

Just so I'm understanding correctly, is NBC looking for someone to take over the actual role of Michael Scott or are they looking to introduce a new character to fill Carrell's absence?

CRASH DDZ · Post by **CRASH DDZ** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:48 pm

The Afronaut wrote:Just so I'm understanding correctly, is NBC looking for someone to take over the actual role of Michael Scott or are they looking to introduce a new character to fill Carrell's absence?

Rumor has it the last episode he and Lily Tomlin trade bodies while touching an ancient sacrificial bowl and she thinks she's him for the rest of the series.

j/k I think we're just speculating who would bringthe interest back that will inevitably get lost with the departing of Michael's character.

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:42 pm

i say end the show but if they do continue and put someone new in the role i think the character should be completely opposite of what Michael Scott's character is

CRASH DDZ · Post by **CRASH DDZ** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:08 am

Jim Carey ?

No really.

vinylpops · Post by **vinylpops** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:02 am

They already brought the replacement in (I'm pretty sure). Judging from the reaction of the source, It's a pretty well known name/popular with fans of Office-like comedy. I can't wait to see who it is.

The show should end, though. That character can't be replaced.

Some pretty good suggestions so far-- Gaffigan & Keaton would be f'n awesome. If anyone has seen The Big C on Showtime I'd throw in Oliver Platt.

Some more out of the blue:

Justin Kirk
Andy Buckley (Who is David Wallace-- I kinda liked when he got all who gives a fuck and weird, I wished they pushed that further. I think if he kept up that schtick it could be funny)
Steve Martin
Bryan Cranston
Ty Burrell

Orale Holmes · Post by **Orale Holmes** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:34 am

christopher walken

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:18 am

Never really watched this show outside of a handful of episodes (mostly due to the really annoying fanbase and "you have to watch the office, dude" being shoved down my throat) but I've been saying that JK Simmons needs his own show for a long time now.

A Kid · Post by **A Kid** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:57 am

1. Will Arnett/Danny McBride

2. Dave Chappelle

Rabbi Jihadovich · Post by **Rabbi Jihadovich** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:32 am

David Cross

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:29 am

Recent SNL album is a good call.

A Kid · Post by **A Kid** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:02 pm

Orale Holmes wrote:christopher walken

Russian · Post by **Russian** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:32 pm

Rabbi Jihadovich wrote:David Cross

A Kid · Post by **A Kid** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:03 pm

Cross would be good tho, for some reason i feel like him leading a network tv show would be a failure..even if critically acclaimed it will get cancelled with the quickness

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:41 pm

BJ Novak wants McBride to join the cast, doubt they will be able to get him though

A Kid · Post by **A Kid** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:04 pm

^i heard Eastbound was only doing 2 seasons..and id imagine they're done doing it since its only like 6 or 7 episodes...maybe?

i'd rather have Eastbound but if it has to go i could live with this..

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:33 pm

they said they are gonna do one more season

A Kid · Post by **A Kid** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:01 am

Truth. wrote:they said they are gonna do one more season

The Frankest · Post by **The Frankest** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:08 am

but wait, when did they say it?

mike eagle · Post by **mike eagle** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:10 am

it makes sense to do at least one more...it does so well in the ratings that even if it slid it would beat whatever they try to replace it with. Plus more people may tune in to see if its a trainwreck.

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:34 am

The Frankest wrote:but wait, when did they say it?

Beaks: What's the next move from here? At one point, it sounded like you were only going to do two seasons of EASTBOUND & DOWN. Has that changed?

Hill: I think we'll probably do one more season after this, but we're going to call it pretty quickly. Most shows start to repeat themselves after two seasons. There are exceptions, but even the good ones still have filler episodes, and we don't want to do that. So we're going to call it pretty quickly, I think. After that, more movies, I guess. We've actually talked to HBO about doing another show. Making television with HBO is pretty cool. We consider EASTBOUND & DOWN a really long film; it doesn't play like most television. You can really do long-form stuff. Growing up, I really liked CENTENNIAL and RICH MAN, POOR MAN. These kind of events don't really happen anymore, and I kind of think EASTBOUND &DOWN is in the same vein as those stories.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46659?q=node/46658

Funkdoobiest · Post by **Funkdoobiest** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:01 am

Came in here to say Bob Odenkirk

If they could give him some kind of Exec. Prod. role he could sort out the shitty fucking writing as of late.

BusinessMan · Post by **BusinessMan** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:50 am

At this point it's pretty obvious that they're going to have Craig Robinson replace Steve Carell.

Today's episode had some pretty strong foreshadowing.

ie. Craig: "I've got big plans at this company"