Billy Gardell was on The Tonight Show yesterday and Jay Leno asked about his co-star Melissa McCarthy being nominated for and Oscar. He said that she hasn’t changed and is so proud that in the last year she stars on a hit sitcom, became an Emmy winner and an Oscar nominee.
Even though he is happy for her, on his way home the day she was nominated for the Academy Award he thought to himself that if she won that he’ll “officially be like that guy who worked with Tom Hanks on Bosom Buddies. They’re going to go ‘Remember Mike and Molly with Melissa McCarthy? What the hell was that other guy? What’s his name?'”
His name is Peter Scolari, and I am sorry to tell you Billy, that you are no him. After Bosom Buddies he went on to star in Newhart and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and I do not see you following in his footsteps. That and I do not see McCarthy winning the Oscar for Bridesmaids, since she already won the Emmy for it.
Now don’t get me wrong I like Billy Gardell, I just don’t like that he dissed Scolari for no reason at all. I know Scolari’s name now and I will know it twenty years from now, and I hate to say but I don’t think I can say the same about that guy from Mike and Molly. What’s his name again?
