In ‘Rooster,’ Steve Carell Makes some College Admissions : Pop Culture Happy Hour

In ‘Rooster,’ Steve Carell makes some college admissions : Pop Culture Happy Hour

Steve Carell is a writer of pulpy crime novels and a hapless new writing teacher at a small college in the HBO comedy series Rooster. His daughter (Charly Clive) is also a teacher, and she’s the subject of campus gossip because her husband just dumped her for a student. The show’s got a great cast, including Danielle Deadwyler and John C. McGinley, and one of its creators is Bill Lawrence of Scrubs, Shrinking and Ted Lasso.Subscribe to Pop Cultu…

Steve Carell Breaks Down Reinvention, Danielle Deadwyler Revisits Poetry Roots In HBO's 'Rooster'

Steve Carell portrays a character who goes to college for the first time as the lead in the new HBO comedy Rooster. For creators Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, the inspiration comes from lived experiences. “I stink at writing stuff that I don’t at least have even a slight personal connection to, and the main reason the show exists is when Steve Carell was dumb enough to talk to us about doing a TV show, one of the shared experiences we all have …