{"id":2095,"date":"2010-07-09T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T22:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2024-05-08T21:16:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T03:16:28","slug":"dinner-for-schmucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Dinner for Schmucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Imagine you work in “business”, by which I mean the generic everyjob that seems to only exist in Hollywood’s imagination, where people are trying to get a promotion for a corner office, and there’s a meeting in a long room with the boss at the head of the table and people throw out ideas and are called on one at a time and so forth. Got it? Now, imagine that you are about to get<\/em> that corner office, only you have to impress your boss at a monthly dinner he hosts by (along with all the other invitees) bringing along a complete moron, convincing these people that they’re awesome and up for a prize, and then setting them loose. I mean, it\u00a0can’t\u00a0be just any moron, it has to be someone special, like a blind fencer or a ventriloquist who is married to his puppet, or a guy who creates dioramas out of mouse taxidermy. You are now in the midst of a moral quandary, because you’re basically an okay everyperson, and yet this is your only way up the ladder. Oh, and you’re also in a screwball French comedy.<\/p>\n

I believe I have now adequately described Dinner for Schmucks<\/a>, excepting only to add that it was quite a bit funnier than even the fairly decent previews indicated and that it really made a point of working that Steve Carell connection to get a lot of Daily Show people on screen. Good for them! If you like watching funny movies in theaters, you should give it a peek in a couple of weeks when it actually gets released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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