JP Jones said:
Care to explain? I know Jim can be crazy (Ace Ventura, Liar Liar), but he can also balance his comedy (Bruce Almighty, Yes Man)
I think he'd almost be perfect as boss.
Yeah, I meant more or less what you guessed. I know he's done some pretty good stuff, and isn't just a comedian, but he's still, almost always, tightly wound to some degree (in my experience). Part of the reason Helms <I>would</I> work is that his comedy comes primarily from a place of empathy, as Carell's does. That was the biggest difference between Carell's boss and Gervais's - but then that was partly the fact that a long-form American sitcom has different needs than a British series. Carrey can clearly play sympathetic - I think he's quite good in <I>The Truman Show</I>, but I also sort of feel that he's too intellectualized a presence. You can see the wires, you know? There's that level of thought that you can't quite get through, to get to a level of feeling. I'm not sure he's right for a comic center, at least on a sitcom.
And if the show does only last one more season, as many suspect, they do have a bit more freedom to go experimental with the boss, as Carrey would be, or as Craig Robinson's Daryl would be, for that matter: Daryl as boss would lead to a boss who is much more straightforwardly competent, and would be the "one sane man" form of comedic lead. And Arnett: well, he'd be off-putting too, in some of the same ways Carrey might be expected to be, and he is, from what i hear, Gervais's favorite, so: anything's possible.