Steve Carell Drops By The Late Show

I just put a bullet in Tuesday night’s episode of The Late Show, on which Steve Carell appeared to tout tomorrow’s release of Get Smart, and share stories of Father’s Day gifts from his kids (he joked that he told his 7-year-old daughter it wasn’t true that the best gifts are made, not bought) with host David Letterman. An awful lot of the one-segment chat was non-movie-related, interestingly enough. The competitive reception of Get Smart — an adaptation that an entire generation doesn’t even know is an adaptation, kind of like 2002’s I Spy — up against the return of Mike Myers in The Love Guru will be an interesting barometer reading of possibly converging comedy stars.