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Saturday 16 January 2016
Steve Carell brings parody back to TV with ‘Angie Tribeca’
LYNN ELBER Nancy Carell, left, and Steve Carell arrive at the 43rd AFI Life- Gun” movies it spawned. “Just give me a name,” An-
AP Television Writer time Achievement Award Tribute Gala at the Dolby Theatre in “It’s not a brand-new idea, gie demands during an in-
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — In Los Angeles. In the grandly silly tradition of “Airplane!” and “The this type of comedy. But terrogation-room interview.
the grandly silly tradition of Naked Gun” comes TV police show parody “Angie Tribeca,” there wasn’t anything like “Don’t you have a name?”
“Airplane!” and “The Na- which started as a husband and wife’s private joke. this going on right now (on replies the man being
ked Gun” comes TV po- TV), and that’s what was questioned.
lice show parody “Angie (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) appealing to us about it,” “Yeah, but it’s ‘Angie’ and
Tribeca,” which started as Carell said. I never liked it,” she snaps
a husband and wife’s pri- he recalled. hour doses can tune in on Steve Carell counts as back at him.
vate joke. The series, starring his for- a weekly basis starting 9 comic inspiration his friend In another bit, Atkins has a
The clout-wielding couple mer “Office” castmate p.m. EST Monday, Jan. 25. Adam McKay, the filmmak- run-in with Apple’s digital
in this case are movie and Rashida Jones, is getting Jones’ title character is a er whose work ranges from answer lady, Siri.
TV star Steve Carell (“The an appropriately offbeat no-nonsense Los Angeles “Anchorman: The Legend “How do you fly a 767?” he
Office,” ‘’The Big Short”) launch, a 25-hour loop-reel police detective in a stub- of Ron Burgundy” to the urgently asks of his iPhone in
and his wife, Nancy, for- marathon of its 10 episodes bornly goofy world, a la newly Oscar-nominated a scene that — why not? —
merly of “The Daily Show.” starting Sunday (9 p.m. Leslie Nielsen in the short- “The Big Short.” He’s also a puts him in the cockpit of a
“We try to make each oth- EST). Viewers who prefer lived 1982 TV show “Police professed fan of the 1960s troubled jetliner, a friendly
er laugh, and we were bat- their belly laughs in half- Squad!” and “The Naked spy parody “Get Smart.” tip of the hat to “Airplane!”
ting around ideas and the “Angie Tribeca” wisely Replies Siri: “Play James
name ‘Tribeca’ was funny,” adheres to the genre’s Taylor’s ‘You’ve Got a
Nancy Carell said. mandatory and rapid-fire Friend.” The comedy may
Steve Carell casually men- wordplay, sight gags and appear loose and sponta-
tioned the concept during general willingness to do neous but is anything but,
a production-deal meet- anything for a laugh. Jones according to the cast.
ing with TBS, the channel describes it as “wall-to-wall A required focus on timing
snapped it up, and he jokes.” Jere Burns plays An- and precision leads to “a
broke the good news at gie’s commander, Chet bunch of grown people
home. Atkins (wink, nudge), in sitting around having con-
“I said, ‘Honey, you know charge of the LAPD’s Really versations about the most
that really stupid thing we Heinous Crimes Unit. Hayes serious way to do the most
were talking about? Now MacArthur, Deon Cole and ridiculous things,” MacAr-
we need to write a script,’” Andree Vermeulen co-star. thur said.q
