Rooster trailer: Steve Carell leads Bill Lawrence’s campus comedy
We should never have to go too long without a regular dose of Steve Carell. Next month, he’ll be headlining a comedy called Rooster.
There’s something about a campus story, right?
Whether it’s books such as The Secret History or TV shows including Sex Lives of College Girls, there’s something about the cloistered world of academia and ivy that makes everything feel heightened and a tad absurd.
So, a campus story with Steve Carell as a protective dad trying to work out his relationship with his daughter in the aftermath of her marriage breakdown? Here for it, and also for the first trailer, which dropped today,
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His daughter, meanwhile, has to navigate what it means to have her dad around, and also the awkwardness of working and living in the same small space as her ex and his new girlfriend.
The series was co-created by Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, who both also serve as showrunners.
Lawrence is having a real renaissance moment with this, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Bad Monkey and the upcoming Scrubs reboot.
The man is busy, but he’s also carving out a sub-genre of these gentle comedies (Bad Monkey not so gentle) centred on Gen X men (OK, Carell is a boomer) having to confront their emotional neuroses.
Rooster also features Lawrence alums John C. McGinley from Scrubs and Phil Dunster from Ted Lasso. Connie Britton, Danielle Deadwyler, Robby Hoffman, Charly Clive, Rory Scovel, Lauren Tsai and Annie Mumolo round out the ensemble cast.
Carell is best known for his role on the US version of The Office but he has also been very busy these past few years. On the big screen, he was part of Wes Anderson film Asteroid City, and has also recently starred in the first two seasons of Morning Wars, Space Force, The Four Seasons and Jesse Armstrong’s billionaire satire Mountainhead.
Rooster is on HBO Max from March 8
