His hair grows super-long, which is funny, and his beard resists shaving, which is also funny, and an aide played by Wanda Sykes calls him a Bee Gee, which is funny if you lived through the '70s or Barry Gibb's guest stint on , depending on your age. Jerks in the media call him the ''New York Noah" (he's from Buffalo) and cat-calling crowds gather outside his home, where he is, per godly instruction, assembling a 300-by-50-cubit ark designed to survive a deluge. The skeptics think he's nuts, man, but no one ever thinks to ask, "Uh, Evan?
Have you read Genesis lately?" In Tom Shadyac's followup to his own, nuttier , Carell's big-mouth broadcaster is now a newly elected Congressman, a job he scored by vowing to "change the world." On the very first night in his very new home, his wife (Lauren Graham) and three boys tucked in, Evan gets on his knees and hesitantly asks for guidance.
Next morning his alarm goes off at 6:14 (as in chapter and verse, ''Make thee an ark of gopher wood''), and Evan finds a mysterious box of tools at his doorstep. Soon he gets a visitation from the Lord Himself (Morgan Freeman again, divine in a white-linen shirt). Their meet-and-greet lacks both the kibitzing quotient of George Burns's !
movies and the addled bafflement of Bill Cosby's Noah routine, instead suggesting a gentle paternal taskmaster and his thickly obstinate son. To prove his omniscience, God informs Evan that his right nipple is a quarter-inch higher than his left, but the freshman politico ignores this startling piece of info and instead returns to the hard work of sucking up to senior Congressman Long (John Goodman) on a quest to rape the environment. God and animals intervene: Smith Goes to Washington , or maybe the National Zoo.
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