You may know him as Steve Carell or as Michael Scott on the hit show The Office, but now it’s just Steve Carell. Not so long ago, it was announced that Carell would not be returning to the show for the following season.
Two nights ago, Carell appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman to talk about the new casting, future success of the show, and about him leaving.
While praising the show and his replacement, James Spader, Carell got a little egged down by the audience and Letterman and just blurted out, “Yeah! You know what? Now that you say that, screw that show!”
He continued with, “What did that show ever do for me? I have a movie coming out, what could possibly go wrong?!”
While this is most probably a joke and was just for the laughs, it brings to mind actors who have actually left their shows angrily or just went a little nuts and were taken off the show.
Check out the video of Carell on Letterman and then other actors who jumped the gun.
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David Caruso was a mega-star in the 1993 hit show NYPD Blue and afterwards, quit after one season while saying that he was too good for the show and that he would be a big movie star one day. His movie career never took off, but he now stars on the hit show CSI: Miami.
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An extremely obvious but true example is Charlie Sheen. He single-handedly shot down his Two and a Half Men career with his various scandals and bad publicity over the past year.
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Law and Order: SVU must have been upset when they heard the news that Christopher Meloni would not be returning in the fall.
Apparently he is leaving because of a contract dispute and this begs the question, if you’re still probably making six figures per episode, why not come back and make your fans happy?
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was the top show on CBS for years until 2008, when the series head William Petersen decided to leave mid-season. The show never was the same, even when they signed on Lawrence Fishburne as his replacement.
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Fans of the former hit show Scrubs might still hold a grudge over Zach Braff. NBC canceled it after its seventh season and ABC picked it up for an eighth season and ninth season.
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At the end of the eighth season, most of the contracts were up and in season nine, Zach was nowhere to be found. The show ended up being canceled for good at the end of that season.
