Fall TV Press Tour: What Has Jerry O'Connell Disturb'd?
Ladies and gentlemen, the cast of the new Fox sitcom Do Not Disturb![Awkward silence from roomful of press.]• Sure enough, the questions start coming, the gamut of which revisit the so-so recent sitcom pasts of cast members Jerry O'Connell and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. "I know [Carpoolers] was not successful, but I had a wonderful experience," O'Connell says, defending his decision to latch onto another laffer. "Life is funny — that show ends, I get depressed, I don’t leave my house. But then [Do Not Disturb director] Jason Bateman and [series creator] Abraham [Higginbotham] see it and one thing leads to another. No regrets, man!"• J.O. is asked why he didn't opt for another drama. "I got bit with the comedy bug," he explains. "Crossing Jordan was in a morgue and everything was sad... totally depressing! I'd come home and be like, 'What's life all about?!' [Doing a sitcom] makes you a generally happier person."• Higginbotham is put on the spot about Jesse Tyler ...
Tue, Jul 15, 2008
