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Spinning Into Butter

By Brian Prisco | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (12)

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This has nothing to do with Jenny McCarthy’s vagina. At least in theory.

Rob Corddry has signed on to Jason Miscallef’s black-listed script Butter, a modern political allegory set at an Iowa butter-carving competition. Corddry is taking over the male lead once set aside for Jim Carrey, opposite Jennifer Garner and co-stars Ty Burrell and Yara Shahidi.

See if this sounds rich and creamy: Corddry plays a womanizing former butter-carving champion forced to relinquish his title. His wife decides to throw her bonnet into the crock, facing down a 12-year-old youngster in moulding the old Shedd’s Spread. So, Corddry’s Clinton, Garner’s playing Hilary, and the young lass is Obama.

I guess Corddry’s a hot commodity after his time in the 121-jiggawatt jacuzzi, but he’s never struck me as leading man material. He’s funny in small doses, but honestly, I think he’s pretty fucking perfect for this role. Either him or David Koechner, his mildly retarded doppleganger. This feels like it could be the kind of role that projects Corddry to the same level of success as his other “Daily Show” brother in arms, Steve Carell. Personally, I think Carrey wouldn’t have worked.

Garner’s yet to find a successful rom-com vehicle since….maybe 13 Going On 30? Everything else has been a monumental clunker. Can she pull off a Hilary homage? If she can channel what she was bringing in Juno, then yes. This might turn into one big sticky hot mess, but frankly, I wouldn’t have thought Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, and Chris Klein would have worked in a black comedy about school elections, but hell, that worked.









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Comments

Unrelated: Jenny McCarthy is still a cuntress.

Good day.

Posted by: Xtreme at April 8, 2010 10:36 AM

If Corddry is Clinton, shouldn't the "young lass" be Monica and the butter KY?

Posted by: , at April 8, 2010 10:52 AM

No, no, no, Commadaddy. The butter is his penis.

I'd rather that it was Koechner. As you said, Corddry is fine in small doses but I find his schtick a bit annoying.

Posted by: admin at April 8, 2010 10:58 AM

Ah, I get it. And the carving knife represents Hillary's penis.

Posted by: , at April 8, 2010 11:01 AM

I ...didn't this movie already get made? How long has this been in process? What's happening? Did I wake up in 2006? I feel like I've been hearing about this FOREVER.

Posted by: Anna von MEGA-SHARKTOPUS at April 8, 2010 11:02 AM

I'd rather that it was Koechner. As you said, Corddry is fine in small doses but I find his schtick a bit annoying.

How is Koechner any different? Brian got it right, he's like a mildy retarded version of Corddy - who I actually think might have some range as an actor if he ever gets a stage big enough to show it.

Posted by: Dangerous Dave at April 8, 2010 11:04 AM

Who'd have thought that you could have started a sentence with "Border line autistic" without it ending in a reference to Daryl Hannah?

Posted by: peanut at April 8, 2010 11:08 AM

As an Iowan, I find the premise of this movie to be fantastic. Iowa is all about the politics. And the butter-carving. I remember many a year at the Iowa state fair (the best state fair there is, really), switching off between shaking the hands of whichever politician was wandering about (during caucus season of a national election, you can't go more than ten feet without bumping into someone or another) and joining the long line of people reverently shuffling by the butter sculpture of the year.

It's always behind glass in a refrigerated room, of course, and it's always a full-sized cow along with something else kitchy. Like Elvis. Or a full-sized butter Last Supper. Or Harry Potter, his owl, and a trunk full of stuff, all made out of butter. He even had a little butter snitch suspended on fishing line floating by his head. The butter sculptress Norma "Duffy" Lyon retired two years or so ago, and her replacement hasn't quite filled her shoes, but I'm hopeful this next year we'll see an improvement.

Posted by: linny at April 8, 2010 11:29 AM

Ty Burrell! Woo! Good to see him getting work.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at April 8, 2010 11:42 AM

Dangerous Dave, you answered your own question:

How is Koechner any different? Brian got it right, he's like a mildy retarded version of Corddy.

I'm a sucker for the special.

Posted by: admin at April 8, 2010 11:55 AM

I thought "carving the butter" was a reference to "Last Tango in Paris".

Posted by: Tranjo at April 8, 2010 5:36 PM

I don't know if I could handle Corddry's pugilism for the entirety of a leading man role.

@Tranjo: Ummmmmm... I can't believe it's not coitus. Don't drop the oleo! Also: ummmmmm...egad.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at April 8, 2010 6:41 PM