Steve Carell Does Not Mock the Undeserving
When I first came on the show, I had to quickly figure out how I was going to make it work for me, morally. I don’t think I would have been able to live with myself had I just gone out and mocked people who didn’t deserve it. So I turned it around on myself: I became the idiot reporter, and the brunt of the joke.
You say you’re not political, but don’t you think determining who is innocent and who is not is a political question?
I didn’t see it as political, I just saw it as being a decent human being. Really, it’s very simple: I just didn’t want to make fun of innocent people. There is no joy in that.