10. Barry Speck (Dinner for Schmucks) - Carell, the shadow king of kookiness, the based god of goofy, the czar of zany, is on his Weird Al in this corn maze of a movie.
9. Burt Wonderstone (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone) - If your name is Burt Wonderstone and you become an accountant, I would count that as a failure in life. I don't trust a guy named Burt Wonderstone with spreadsheets. The only sheets I trust a guy named Burt Wonderstone with are the ones that he pulls out of his mouth endlessly. Someone Teller Penn that these guys need some tips from a professional magician.
8. Gru (Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Minions) - Carell voices the hilarious supervillain in this minion teenage wasteland.
7. Phil Foster (Date Night) - There is nothing worse than getting wrapped up in a crime ring when you are just trying to have a quiet night with your wife at the Cheesecake Factory. This fondue is to die for, Vince Young was on to something.
6. Frank Hoover (Little Miss Sunshine) - An outlier in the pre-Booboo era of children's fashion pageants. Do not watch if you are color blind and have aspirations to join the Air Force.
5. Cal (Crazy, Stupid, Love) - Gosling and Carell represent the best cross generational bromance since MJ and Kobe in this silly, dumb, wonderful film.
4. John du Pont (Foxcatcher) - Not as fun of a movie as the title suggests. Wouldn't that be tight if this movie was about a badass guy who catches foxes for a living, though? Is that a real profession? What would you do with all the foxes that you catch? Would you keep them on some sort of... Foxcatcher Farm? I just broke this whole story open! Anyway, Steve Carell plays a murderer who's still breaking in his face like a new baseball glove. You gotta put a baseball in and back over it in the driveway with your mom's Ford Fiesta, Steve. Don't be such a Burt Wonderstone. The last time Burt Wonderstone played baseball, his self esteem magically disappeared. Burt Wonderstone is the Kirk Cousins of magicians. David Blaine is Dez Bryant. Siegfried and Roy are Rob and Rex Ryan, except the Ryan brothers were the ones that ate the lion in their case.
3. Andy Stitzer (The 40 Year Old Virgin) - When I first saw this as a kid, the only thing I took away from it was that virgins religiously follow the television show Survivor. Then I thought about it for a second and realized this was a metaphor for the crux of the film. Survivor of innocence. Maybe Carell is the one that was right in this movie and we're all tripping? His bar for happiness is drawn in cement. Is the point of life to be content or strive for another level of consciousness? Jeff Probst, you Teva rocking, Hippo Grylls.
2. Brick Tamland (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) - What did Brick really mean when he said he loves lamp? Perhaps he's discussing the plight of consumerism and the effects this has on the younger generation in our country. Or maybe he is talking about the significance of being able to show love and appreciation to others without asking for anything in return. It may be the noblest thing a human has ever done, to truly love an inanimate object such as a lamp, because this individual is putting their neck on the line without asking for a single thing. Brick could be hypothesizing about the effects of social media and the internet on the ability of our youth to have real, face to face interactions that don't have a hashtag. If our youth cannot first love themselves then how will they be able to love another individual. Brick may be commenting on how difficult it is for a young person to craft their self image in a day and age where popularity is based on favorites and retweets. I like to think that Brick was considering the significance of capitalism in defining the aspects of what makes our country great. Sure, it's nice to love a lamp. Next, you can love your car's headlights, then a floodlight, a spotlight, a streetlight, and finally the Moby Dick, stadium lights. But just because you have moved up the ladder, all the way to stadium lights, that doesn't mean you can't always love lamp. Some things never change.
1. Dan Burns (Dan in Real Life) - The most underrated Steve Carell flick and one of the most overlooked comedies out there. One of my favorite movie posters, depicting Carell using a stack of pancakes as a pillow. You ever have a day where you just wanna put your face in a whole mess of Aunt Jemima's? Life is like a pillow of pancakes. You never know what you're gonna get, except that it is probably gonna be real syrupy.
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