First Banana
Steve Carell and the meticulous art of spontaneity.
Steve Carell's face is built for comedy—butter-pat hair, L-wrench nose, woe-is-me eyes. He earns laughs not with wit but by investing all faith in deeply boneheaded convictions. "I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess," Carell says. Nearly a third of "Dinner for Schmucks" was composed in front of cameras.