Why Is 'Gay' Joke on 'The Office' Different Than 'Gay' Joke 'The Dilemma'? | Fox News

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• IS STEVE CARELL GAY?
• WHY IS 'GAY' JOKE ON 'THE OFFICE' DIFFERENT THAN 'GAY' JOKE 'THE DILEMMA'?
• MARK SCHULTZ ATTACKS 'GAY RELATNSHIP' WRTLG BPIC FOXTCHER
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HE BEGAN EARNG REGNN FOR HIS WORK ON THE DANA CARVEY SHOW AND 1999 HE JOED THE DAILY SHOW WH JON STEWART. IN 2005, HE LAND HIS BREAKTHROUGH ROLE AS THE IL BOSS THE AMERIN VERSN OF THE OFFICE AND ALSO ENJOYED MAJOR BOX-OFFICE SUCCS AS ANDY STZER THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRG. HE WENT ON TO AN OSR-NOMATED TURN THE 2014 FILM FOXTCHER AS {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}JOHN DU PONT, FOLLOWED BY ROL MNS, FREEHELD, THE BIG SHORT AND BATTLE OF THE SEX, EARNG GOLN GLOBE NOMATNS FOR THE LATTER TWO.EARLY LIFESTEVEN JOHN CARELL WAS BORN ON AUGT 16, 1962, CONRD, MASSACHETTS. CARELL WAS THE YOUNGT OF EDW AND HARRIET CARELL'S FOUR SONS. STEVE'S FATHER, WHOSE FAY TRAC S ROOTS BACK TO ITALY, CHANGED HIS LAST NAME OM CAROSELLI BEFORE STEVE'S BIRTH. AS A STUNT, CARELL ATTEND THE FENN SCHOOL, A PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR BOYS CONRD, MASSACHETTS, AND THEN MIDDLEX SCHOOL BEFORE HEADG OUT TO OH TO ATTEND DENISON UNIVERSY. CARELL IALLY HAD HIS SIGHTS SET ON A LEGAL REER, TAKG CLASS AS A PRE-LAW STUNT. HE SPENT HIS OFF-TIME DOG SKETCH EDY, BEG A MEMBER OF THE UNTRY'S OLST LLEGIATE IMPROV GROUP, BURPEE'S SEEDY THEATRIL COMPANY. "I WAS ACTUALLY FILLG OUT MY LAW SCHOOL APPLITNS," CARELL LATER RELLED. "AND I GOT TO THE SAY QUTN, WHICH WAS, 'WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE AN ATTORNEY?' AND I ULDN'T ANSWER . I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW. AND I WENT AND TALKED TO MY PARENTS AND THEY ASKED ME, LIKE, 'WHAT DO YOU ENJOY DOG?' 'WHAT HAVE YOU ALWAYS LIKED TO DO?' AND I SAID, 'WELL, I'VE ALWAYS LIKED TO ACT. I MEAN, 'S ALWAYS BEEN FUN.' AND THEY'RE THE ON WHO SAID, 'WELL, THEN DO .'"SEND CY TO 'THE DANA CARVEY SHOW'WHAT THAT MEANT, HOWEVER, WAS ANYTHG BUT STANT STARDOM. CARELL, WHO GRADUATED OM DENISON 1984, PATCHED TOGETHER A LIVG, EVENTUALLY MAKG HIS WAY OUT TO CHIGO. BY 1991, HE'D PUT TOGETHER A STRONG ENOUGH RUME TO BEE A ST MEMBER OF THE WELL-REGARD SEND CY EDY TROUPE. HIS REER THERE WOULD SPAN ALMOST A , AS CARELL PERFORMED WH AND TGHT FOR THE TROUPE. WHILE SEND CY, CARELL'S WORK AND LIFE TOOK DRAMATIC LEAPS FORWARD. HE STARTED TO MAKE TELEVISN AND MOVIE APPEARANC, CLUDG A MOR ROLE THE 1991 JOHN HUGH FILM CURLY SUE. HE ALSO STARTED TO GA MORE NAME REGNN AS A WRER AND PERFORMER ON THE DANA CARVEY SHOW.'THE DAILY SHOW'IN 1999, CARELL MOVED TO NEW YORK CY ALONG WH ANOTHER SEND CY ALUMN, STEPHEN COLBERT, TO JO THE ST OF THE DAILY SHOW WH JON STEWART, COMEDY CENTRAL'S FAKE NEWS PROGRAM. OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, CARELL, WHO PLAYED ONE OF THE SHOW'S RRPONNTS, FILED SOME OF THE SERI' MORE MEMORABLE FIELD REPORTS. HE TERVIEWED POLIL HEAVYWEIGHTS LIKE ARIZONA SENATOR AND PRINTIAL HOPEFUL JOHN MCCA AS WELL AS LSER-KNOWN, ECCENTRIC NEWSMAKERS. CARELL'S ADPAN HUMOR AND PENCHANT FOR PLACG HIMSELF ABSURD SUATNS WAS PERFECT FOR THE PROGRAM AND S GROWG DIENCE. "THE BT [TERVIEWS] WERE WHEN WE WERE TAKG THE PISS OUT OF SOMEONE WHO SERVED — ANYONE TOLERANT OR RACIST," CARELL LATER TOLD ESQUIRE. "THOSE PEOPLE WERE FAIR GAME. I ALWAYS HAD A BAD TASTE MY MOUTH WHEN WE HAD TO GO OUT AND MAKE FUN OF SOMEONE WHO WAS JT ECCENTRIC OR CRAZY THROUGH NO FLT OF THEIR OWN. IT WAS JT SHOOTG FISH A BARREL. SO I ALWAYS TRIED TO MAKE MYSELF THE BUTT OF THE JOK, TO ACT THE IDT, WHICH PROBABLY WASN'T TOO MUCH OF A STRETCH."BREAKOUT ROLE: 'THE OFFICE'IN 2005, CARELL MOVED TO WORK TELEVISN FOR A STARRG ROLE THE NEW NBC S THE OFFICE. THE SHOW, BASED ON A BBC EDY OF THE SAME NAME, ST CARELL THE ROLE OF MICHAEL STT, A MID-LEVEL SAL MANAGER FOR A PAPER SUPPLY PANY SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA. IN AN AGE WHEN WORKS WERE STGGLG TO FD HS, THE OFFICE PROVED TO BE ONE OF TELEVISN'S MORE SUCCSFUL EDI. BUT JT AS CARELL WAS BEGNG TO ENJOY POPULARY FOR HIS SMALL-SCREEN EFFORTS, HE BEGAN LOOKG TO TAKE ON MORE AMB PROJECTS. FILM AND TV CAREER'BCE ALMIGHTY,' 'ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY' THIS MEANT TACKLG FILMS SUCH AS THE 2003 EDY BCE ALMIGHTY, STARRG JIM CARREY, AND S 2007 SEQUEL EVAN ALMIGHTY, WH CARELL TAKG THE LEAD. HE LIVERED MORE LGHS WH FUNNY SUPPORTG PERFORMANC AS NEWSSTER BRICK TAMLAND ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY (2004), STARRG WILL FERRELL, AND AS UNCLE ARTHUR BEWCHED (2005), WH FERRELL AND NILE KIDMAN. 'THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRG,' 'LTLE MISS SUNSHE'ALSO 2005, CARELL HEADLED THE EDY OF THE SUMMER — THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRG, A FILM HE -WROTE WH DIRECTOR JUDD APATOW THAT GROSSED MORE THAN $177 LN WORLDWI. HE THEN PLAYED A MORE SOMBER CHARACTER THE DIE EDY H LTLE MISS SUNSHE (2006), ABOUT A DYSFUNCTNAL FAY ON A ROAD TRIP TO A BETY PAGEANT. FOLLOW-UP FILMS CLUD DAN REAL LIFE (2007), HORTON HEARS A WHO (2008), GET SMART (2008), DATE NIGHT (2010), DPIBLE ME (2010) AND CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (2011).OSR NOMATN FOR 'FOXTCHER' TURNG TO SER, DISTURBG DRAMA, CARELL PORTRAYED MURRER JOHN DU PONT (SOMETIM SPELLED "DUPONT") THE FILM FOXTCHER (2014). CARELL'S ROLE, FOR WHICH THE ACTOR EARNED OSR, GOLN GLOBE AND SAG NOMATNS, SHOWS THE DUPONT CO. HEIR'S RELATNSHIP WH OLYMPIC WRTLER BROTHERS MARK AND DAVID SCHULTZ—PLAYED BY CHANNG TATUM AND MARK RUFFALO, RPECTIVELY—BEFORE THE TRAGIC MURR OF DAVID AT THE HANDS OF DU PONT 1996.'MNS,' 'FREEHELD,' 'THE BIG SHORT'FOLLOWG A TURN THE ANIMATED SPOFF MNS, CARELL APPEARED TWO MORE PROJECTS DURG FALL 2015. FREEHELD SAW CARELL PLAY A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HELPG A LBIAN UPLE NIED THEIR PENSN, WHILE ADAM MCKAY'S THE BIG SHORT FEATURED THE ACTOR AS A VOLATILE HEDGE FUND MANAGER WHO GETS VOLVED DISPTG THE LQUENT HOME LOAN MARKET. THE BIG SHORT WAS NOMATED FOR FOUR GOLN GLOB, CLUDG A NOD FOR BT PICTURE, MIL OR EDY, WH CARELL EARNG A NOMATN FOR LEAD ACTOR, ALONG WH CHRISTIAN BALE.'ANGIE TRIBE,' 'BATTLE OF THE SEX'IN JANUARY 2016, CARREL AND HIS WIFE LNCHED ANGIE TRIBE, A POLICE-THEMED EDY SERI ON TBS STARRG RASHIDA JON THE TLE ROLE. THE FOLLOWG YEAR, HE MA WAV ALONGSI EMMA STONE BATTLE OF THE SEX, ABOUT THE FAMO 1973 TENNIS MATCH BETWEEN BOBBY RIGGS AND BILLIE JEAN KG. CARELL AND STONE BOTH EARNED GOLN GLOBE NOMATNS FOR THEIR PERFORMANC.'VICE,' 'THE MORNG SHOW,' 'SPACE FORCE'CONTUG HIS PURSU OF DRAMATIC PROJECTS, CARELL -STARRED LAST FLAG FLYG (2017), AS A GRIEVG VIETNAM WAR VETERAN, AND BETIFUL BOY (2018), AS A FATHER STGGLG WH HIS SON'S DG ADDICTNS. LATER THAT YEAR, HE REJOED MCKAY AND BALE FOR VICE, PLAYG GEE W. BH'S SECRETARY OF FENSE, DONALD RUMSFELD. CARELL THEN RETURNED TO THE SMALL SCREEN NOVEMBER 2019 FOR THE APPLE TV+ SERI THE MORNG SHOW, ALONGSI JENNIFER ANISTON AND REE WHERSPOON, BEFORE HEADLG THE STAR-STUDD NETFLIX FEATURE FILM EDY SPACE FORCE THE FOLLOWG MAY.WIFE AND CHILDRENWHILE TEACHG A URSE AT SEND CY, CARELL MET STUNT NANCY WALLS, A EDY WRER AND ACTRS. MARRIED 1995, THEY WENT ON TO HAVE TWO CHILDREN: ELISABETH (BORN MAY 2001) AND JOHN (BORN JUNE 2004). THE FAY LIV LOS {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• MARK SCHULTZ ATTACKS 'GAY RELATNSHIP' WRTLG BPIC FOXTCHER
• STEVE CARELL AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE - ANGRY, ACTIVIST AND VERY GAY

IS STEVE CARELL GAY?

As much as some voic the field of munitn and ter have speculated if Steve Carell is gay, there is no kd of evince that n rroborate this. While folks still say Steve Carell is gay, their ments hold no nsistency or accuracy of any kd. More and more celebri adm every year that they are gay, but this is not the se wh Steve Carell sce this celebry never said so.

Celebri such as Steve Carell never have admted they're homosexual, this is bee they are fely not gay or bee they are and don't want to go public. The show marked the but of Smigel’s recurrg animated sketch, “The Ambiguoly Gay Duo, ” which followed the adventur of Gary and Ace, who were voiced by Carell and Colbert, rpectively. Is Steve Carell Gay?

WHY IS 'GAY' JOKE ON 'THE OFFICE' DIFFERENT THAN 'GAY' JOKE 'THE DILEMMA'?

Carell joed the ensemble of Freeheld (2015) as a gay activist attemptg to secure pensn benefs for the partner (Ellen Page) of a dyg police officer (Julianne Moore).

MARK SCHULTZ ATTACKS 'GAY RELATNSHIP' WRTLG BPIC FOXTCHER

In the wake of the recent suicis as a rult of gay bullyg, Vce Vghn me unr fire when he fend his character’s joke the upg Ron Howard edy “The Dilemma. ”Vghn's character the movie says "electric rs are gay. "GLAAD (The Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn) was quick to nmn the dialogue and urged supporters to enurage the stud to remove the phrase om the last week, NBC’s h show “The Office” featured a siar the October 14 episo entled “Sex Ed, ” Michael (Steve Carell) ntracts herp and orrs Osr (Osr Nunez) to his office bee they “once sucked face as part of an office prentatn to stroy the stigma about gay kissg” and now feels Osr may have given him “a sexually transmted disease.

”’s Edor--Chief Amelia McDonell-Parry, who told Pop Tarts prevly that “The Dilemma” gay joke was ‘lame’ and subsequently appropriate given the current social climate, don’t believe “The Office” should be pared to the film. She said the show has an ongog theme portrayg Carell’s character is awkwardly appropriate when to the homosexualy of his employee, Osr.

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HE BEGAN EARNG REGNN FOR HIS WORK ON THE DANA CARVEY SHOW AND 1999 HE JOED THE DAILY SHOW WH JON STEWART. IN 2005, HE LAND HIS BREAKTHROUGH ROLE AS THE IL BOSS THE AMERIN VERSN OF THE OFFICE AND ALSO ENJOYED MAJOR BOX-OFFICE SUCCS AS ANDY STZER THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRG. HE WENT ON TO AN OSR-NOMATED TURN THE 2014 FILM FOXTCHER AS {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}JOHN DU PONT, FOLLOWED BY ROL MNS, FREEHELD, THE BIG SHORT AND BATTLE OF THE SEX, EARNG GOLN GLOBE NOMATNS FOR THE LATTER TWO.EARLY LIFESTEVEN JOHN CARELL WAS BORN ON AUGT 16, 1962, CONRD, MASSACHETTS. CARELL WAS THE YOUNGT OF EDW AND HARRIET CARELL'S FOUR SONS. STEVE'S FATHER, WHOSE FAY TRAC S ROOTS BACK TO ITALY, CHANGED HIS LAST NAME OM CAROSELLI BEFORE STEVE'S BIRTH. AS A STUNT, CARELL ATTEND THE FENN SCHOOL, A PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR BOYS CONRD, MASSACHETTS, AND THEN MIDDLEX SCHOOL BEFORE HEADG OUT TO OH TO ATTEND DENISON UNIVERSY. CARELL IALLY HAD HIS SIGHTS SET ON A LEGAL REER, TAKG CLASS AS A PRE-LAW STUNT. HE SPENT HIS OFF-TIME DOG SKETCH EDY, BEG A MEMBER OF THE UNTRY'S OLST LLEGIATE IMPROV GROUP, BURPEE'S SEEDY THEATRIL COMPANY. "I WAS ACTUALLY FILLG OUT MY LAW SCHOOL APPLITNS," CARELL LATER RELLED. "AND I GOT TO THE SAY QUTN, WHICH WAS, 'WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE AN ATTORNEY?' AND I ULDN'T ANSWER . I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW. AND I WENT AND TALKED TO MY PARENTS AND THEY ASKED ME, LIKE, 'WHAT DO YOU ENJOY DOG?' 'WHAT HAVE YOU ALWAYS LIKED TO DO?' AND I SAID, 'WELL, I'VE ALWAYS LIKED TO ACT. I MEAN, 'S ALWAYS BEEN FUN.' AND THEY'RE THE ON WHO SAID, 'WELL, THEN DO .'"SEND CY TO 'THE DANA CARVEY SHOW'WHAT THAT MEANT, HOWEVER, WAS ANYTHG BUT STANT STARDOM. CARELL, WHO GRADUATED OM DENISON 1984, PATCHED TOGETHER A LIVG, EVENTUALLY MAKG HIS WAY OUT TO CHIGO. BY 1991, HE'D PUT TOGETHER A STRONG ENOUGH RUME TO BEE A ST MEMBER OF THE WELL-REGARD SEND CY EDY TROUPE. HIS REER THERE WOULD SPAN ALMOST A , AS CARELL PERFORMED WH AND TGHT FOR THE TROUPE. WHILE SEND CY, CARELL'S WORK AND LIFE TOOK DRAMATIC LEAPS FORWARD. HE STARTED TO MAKE TELEVISN AND MOVIE APPEARANC, CLUDG A MOR ROLE THE 1991 JOHN HUGH FILM CURLY SUE. HE ALSO STARTED TO GA MORE NAME REGNN AS A WRER AND PERFORMER ON THE DANA CARVEY SHOW.'THE DAILY SHOW'IN 1999, CARELL MOVED TO NEW YORK CY ALONG WH ANOTHER SEND CY ALUMN, STEPHEN COLBERT, TO JO THE ST OF THE DAILY SHOW WH JON STEWART, COMEDY CENTRAL'S FAKE NEWS PROGRAM. OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, CARELL, WHO PLAYED ONE OF THE SHOW'S RRPONNTS, FILED SOME OF THE SERI' MORE MEMORABLE FIELD REPORTS. HE TERVIEWED POLIL HEAVYWEIGHTS LIKE ARIZONA SENATOR AND PRINTIAL HOPEFUL JOHN MCCA AS WELL AS LSER-KNOWN, ECCENTRIC NEWSMAKERS. CARELL'S ADPAN HUMOR AND PENCHANT FOR PLACG HIMSELF ABSURD SUATNS WAS PERFECT FOR THE PROGRAM AND S GROWG DIENCE. "THE BT [TERVIEWS] WERE WHEN WE WERE TAKG THE PISS OUT OF SOMEONE WHO SERVED — ANYONE TOLERANT OR RACIST," CARELL LATER TOLD ESQUIRE. "THOSE PEOPLE WERE FAIR GAME. I ALWAYS HAD A BAD TASTE MY MOUTH WHEN WE HAD TO GO OUT AND MAKE FUN OF SOMEONE WHO WAS JT ECCENTRIC OR CRAZY THROUGH NO FLT OF THEIR OWN. IT WAS JT SHOOTG FISH A BARREL. SO I ALWAYS TRIED TO MAKE MYSELF THE BUTT OF THE JOK, TO ACT THE IDT, WHICH PROBABLY WASN'T TOO MUCH OF A STRETCH."BREAKOUT ROLE: 'THE OFFICE'IN 2005, CARELL MOVED TO WORK TELEVISN FOR A STARRG ROLE THE NEW NBC S THE OFFICE. THE SHOW, BASED ON A BBC EDY OF THE SAME NAME, ST CARELL THE ROLE OF MICHAEL STT, A MID-LEVEL SAL MANAGER FOR A PAPER SUPPLY PANY SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA. IN AN AGE WHEN WORKS WERE STGGLG TO FD HS, THE OFFICE PROVED TO BE ONE OF TELEVISN'S MORE SUCCSFUL EDI. BUT JT AS CARELL WAS BEGNG TO ENJOY POPULARY FOR HIS SMALL-SCREEN EFFORTS, HE BEGAN LOOKG TO TAKE ON MORE AMB PROJECTS. FILM AND TV CAREER'BCE ALMIGHTY,' 'ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY' THIS MEANT TACKLG FILMS SUCH AS THE 2003 EDY BCE ALMIGHTY, STARRG JIM CARREY, AND S 2007 SEQUEL EVAN ALMIGHTY, WH CARELL TAKG THE LEAD. HE LIVERED MORE LGHS WH FUNNY SUPPORTG PERFORMANC AS NEWSSTER BRICK TAMLAND ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY (2004), STARRG WILL FERRELL, AND AS UNCLE ARTHUR BEWCHED (2005), WH FERRELL AND NILE KIDMAN. 'THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRG,' 'LTLE MISS SUNSHE'ALSO 2005, CARELL HEADLED THE EDY OF THE SUMMER — THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRG, A FILM HE -WROTE WH DIRECTOR JUDD APATOW THAT GROSSED MORE THAN $177 LN WORLDWI. HE THEN PLAYED A MORE SOMBER CHARACTER THE DIE EDY H LTLE MISS SUNSHE (2006), ABOUT A DYSFUNCTNAL FAY ON A ROAD TRIP TO A BETY PAGEANT. FOLLOW-UP FILMS CLUD DAN REAL LIFE (2007), HORTON HEARS A WHO (2008), GET SMART (2008), DATE NIGHT (2010), DPIBLE ME (2010) AND CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (2011).OSR NOMATN FOR 'FOXTCHER' TURNG TO SER, DISTURBG DRAMA, CARELL PORTRAYED MURRER JOHN DU PONT (SOMETIM SPELLED "DUPONT") THE FILM FOXTCHER (2014). CARELL'S ROLE, FOR WHICH THE ACTOR EARNED OSR, GOLN GLOBE AND SAG NOMATNS, SHOWS THE DUPONT CO. HEIR'S RELATNSHIP WH OLYMPIC WRTLER BROTHERS MARK AND DAVID SCHULTZ—PLAYED BY CHANNG TATUM AND MARK RUFFALO, RPECTIVELY—BEFORE THE TRAGIC MURR OF DAVID AT THE HANDS OF DU PONT 1996.'MNS,' 'FREEHELD,' 'THE BIG SHORT'FOLLOWG A TURN THE ANIMATED SPOFF MNS, CARELL APPEARED TWO MORE PROJECTS DURG FALL 2015. FREEHELD SAW CARELL PLAY A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HELPG A LBIAN UPLE NIED THEIR PENSN, WHILE ADAM MCKAY'S THE BIG SHORT FEATURED THE ACTOR AS A VOLATILE HEDGE FUND MANAGER WHO GETS VOLVED DISPTG THE LQUENT HOME LOAN MARKET. THE BIG SHORT WAS NOMATED FOR FOUR GOLN GLOB, CLUDG A NOD FOR BT PICTURE, MIL OR EDY, WH CARELL EARNG A NOMATN FOR LEAD ACTOR, ALONG WH CHRISTIAN BALE.'ANGIE TRIBE,' 'BATTLE OF THE SEX'IN JANUARY 2016, CARREL AND HIS WIFE LNCHED ANGIE TRIBE, A POLICE-THEMED EDY SERI ON TBS STARRG RASHIDA JON THE TLE ROLE. THE FOLLOWG YEAR, HE MA WAV ALONGSI EMMA STONE BATTLE OF THE SEX, ABOUT THE FAMO 1973 TENNIS MATCH BETWEEN BOBBY RIGGS AND BILLIE JEAN KG. CARELL AND STONE BOTH EARNED GOLN GLOBE NOMATNS FOR THEIR PERFORMANC.'VICE,' 'THE MORNG SHOW,' 'SPACE FORCE'CONTUG HIS PURSU OF DRAMATIC PROJECTS, CARELL -STARRED LAST FLAG FLYG (2017), AS A GRIEVG VIETNAM WAR VETERAN, AND BETIFUL BOY (2018), AS A FATHER STGGLG WH HIS SON'S DG ADDICTNS. LATER THAT YEAR, HE REJOED MCKAY AND BALE FOR VICE, PLAYG GEE W. BH'S SECRETARY OF FENSE, DONALD RUMSFELD. CARELL THEN RETURNED TO THE SMALL SCREEN NOVEMBER 2019 FOR THE APPLE TV+ SERI THE MORNG SHOW, ALONGSI JENNIFER ANISTON AND REE WHERSPOON, BEFORE HEADLG THE STAR-STUDD NETFLIX FEATURE FILM EDY SPACE FORCE THE FOLLOWG MAY.WIFE AND CHILDRENWHILE TEACHG A URSE AT SEND CY, CARELL MET STUNT NANCY WALLS, A EDY WRER AND ACTRS. MARRIED 1995, THEY WENT ON TO HAVE TWO CHILDREN: ELISABETH (BORN MAY 2001) AND JOHN (BORN JUNE 2004). THE FAY LIV LOS {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

Though he often mak jok and appropriate or ignorant remarks about Osr beg gay -- cludg on this most recent episo -- 's Michael, not Osr, who the dience is really lghg at.

“Couple that wh the fact that all of the so-lled ‘gay jok’ on ‘The Office’ are far better wrten than the one cheap shot, who's sole msage is that 'gay = lame, ' ‘The Dilemma’ and you have a clear cut se of not the same at all. ”So what is and isn’t acceptable by Hollywood standards when to “gay” jok?

“Our society has entered a lite terrory when to mg edy om gay characters and suatns. While gay topics are fally beg treated more openly and directly, ocsnally attempts to make thgs funny are gog to ph certa people’s buttons, and probably rightly so many s, ” Huver said. “Whout a specific outcry om the public, ’s unlikely that ‘The Office’ scene would be leted, and there are likely many gay dience members who found genue humor .

MARK SCHULTZ ATTACKS 'GAY RELATNSHIP' WRTLG BPIC FOXTCHER

So as an open public dialogue on gay issu a nd characters ntu to evolve, there may be several unexpected landm for film and TV edy wrers along the way. He was one half of the Ambiguoly Gay Duo.

STEVE CARELL AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE - ANGRY, ACTIVIST AND VERY GAY

Wh Stephen Colbert playg Ace and Carell playg Gary, the two were the voic of the "The Ambiguoly Gay Duo. In 1996, he beme a st member of The Dana Carvey Show (1996), and provid the voice for Gary, oppose Colbert "The Ambiguoly Gay Duo". He received wi cril acclaim the very next year for playg a gay Prot scholar the Osr-wng “Ltle Miss Sunshe.

Carell plays Frank Gsberg, a gay Prot scholar livg wh his sister (Toni Collette) followg a suici attempt.

Mark Schultz mounted an angry social media asslt on Miller after crics reviewg the film suggted there may have been homosexual unrton to the relatnship between the on-screen Schultz, played by Channg Tatum, and multi-lnaire wrtlg imprar John DuPont, played by Steve Carell. Fally, US journalist Christian Caryl lambasted send world war breaker drama The Imatn Game the New York Review of Books for pictg Bra’s Alan Turg, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, as a “dour Mr Spock who is disliked by all of his -workers” and “jt the sort of mythologil gay man, whey and weak, that homophob love to hate” ntradictn of what the cric said were historil facts. Sexualy - Gay or Nay.