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Ron Livingston Joins 'Schmucks'

by Jenni Miller Oct 26th 2009 // 7:50PM

Filed under: Comedy, Casting, Remakes and Sequels

Jay Roach's Dinner for Schmucks is adding another seat at the table for Ron Livingston; the movie also stars funny guys Zach Galifianakis, Steve Carell, and Paul Rudd. Dinner is based on the famous French movie directed and written by Francis Veber, Le dîner de cons, otherwise known as The Dinner Game, which won a César for best writing. Dinner is the story of a dining group with a rather interesting twist; they have a contest to see who can bring the biggest idiot to dinner. Soon enough, though, the guests realize their little snarky game isn't so harmless.

The question is, who will be the biggest schmuck? Carell and Rudd star, and either could be schmucky, although Carell can play dumb with a straight face pretty damn well. (He loves lamp, after all.) However, I can't picture Zach Galifianakis as a bougie dinner party guest and not a schmuck. Maybe he's a more minor schmuck? In any case, this dinner table is getting full of schmuckitude, and will give all us writers a great chance to exercise our mastery of Yiddish slang for weiners.

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Tags: comedy, dinner for schmucks, DinnerForSchmucks, Paul Rudd, PaulRudd, remake, ron livingston, RonLivingston, steve carell, SteveCarell, Zach Galifianakis, ZachGalifianakis

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