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" As the star of the hit comedy series The Office, Steve Carell is used to making people laugh. But at home, Carell, 45, is up against a much tougher audience. He and his wife, fellow comedian Nancy Walls, have two children, Elisabeth, 7, and John, 4. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d bet my wife and I think our kids are much funnier than they think we are,&amp;quot; he says. Soon to be seen in the big-screen remake of the classic spy spoof Get Smart, Carell says it was his most recent film appearance \u2014 as a voice in the animated Horton Hears a Who! \u2014 that finally made an impression at home. &amp;quot;To my kids, there was an enormous cool factor built into doing a Dr. Seuss movie,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;And I will take any brief moment of time that I can be cool to them, because I know as they get older, those moments will become few and far between.&amp;quot; Q: After 13 years of marriage, how have you kept your relationship strong? It sounds like a clich\u00E9, but it helps if you make each other laugh \u2014 a lot. There isn&amp;#039;t a person on earth who understands my sense of humor better than my wife: We speak the same language, and that&amp;#039;s why we ended up together. Q: What&amp;#039;s the last thing that made the two of you laugh? It&amp;#039;s usually something to do with our kids. Like this: Our son, John, really doesn&amp;#039;t want to eat vegetables. He just hates them. So my wife was begging him, &amp;quot;Please, Johnny, you have to eat some vegetables. You have to.&amp;quot; Finally he broke down and said, &amp;quot;OK, fine.&amp;quot; So my wife said, &amp;quot;All right, what are you going to eat?&amp;quot; And he said, &amp;quot;Carrots.&amp;quot; So my wife asked, &amp;quot;And when are you going to eat them?&amp;quot; He just looked at her and calmly said, &amp;quot;Next Tuesday at 10:30.&amp;quot; It was so great, because he completely set up that line! He knew it was funny, too. He knew it. Q: What does your family do for fun? On Saturday night, we&amp;#039;ll turn on music and then each of us will do a little dance routine. Right now, my wife Nancy&amp;#039;s is the bring-down-the-house performance \u2014 it involves her shaking her booty. The second-funniest routine is John attempting to shake his booty in the same way. Q: Are you helpful or handy at home?  Helpful, yes; handy, no. If Nancy cooks something, it is absolutely my job to clean up after the meal. But if an appliance breaks, I call a handyman. I once tried to replace a toilet, and when I was trying to loosen a bolt, I smashed the wrench through the tank, which was filled with murky, syrupy blue water, and it leaked out everywhere and stained the floor. Sitting on the floor in the blue liquid taught me to call a professional in the future. Q: What are your plans for Father&amp;#039;s Day?  We have the same ritual for Father&amp;#039;s Day and Mother&amp;#039;s Day: Whoever&amp;#039;s day it is gets to sleep in \u2014 that means until about 7:15 \u2014 and then breakfast in bed is delivered by the young people. Breakfast is a bagel, and some bacon, and then the newspaper. After that, Father&amp;#039;s Day is officially over \u2014 I don&amp;#039;t get any special dispensation for the rest of the day. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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