Jane Welsh Carlyle, his formidable wife, wrote that upon finishing "A Christmas Carol " her husband "was seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality, and actually insisted on improvising two dinner parties with only a day between").
She improvises a fancy dinner for him at work, which evidently passes for foreplay in chef land.
While filming, Steve Carell and Tim Meadows improvised a lot of their dinner scene, but most of it never made the final cut.
When Tata came home from the Embassy, we had humdrum dinners that Mama improvised from what she had discovered in the fridge: wizened peppers and sunken papayas, peanut paste and some kind of animal flesh that may have been goat meat.
While filming, Steve Carell and Tim Meadows improvised a good majority of their dinner scene, but most of it never made the final cut.
The kitchen and dinner-table scenes have the jostling, improvised feel of real life.
Suspicious British customs officials confiscated meat, cheese and shellfish destined for the gala dinners here, but the chefs substituted and improvised.
In 2012, they took a road trip to North Carolina; while they were staying at a friend's house, they cast three locals to play their children, improvising a dysfunctional family dinner that featured Berlant as a wino and Early as her shrill, confused husband.
In "Dinner for Schmucks," Jemaine Clement, who plays a grandiloquent and remarkably hairy artist, improvised a scene with Carell in which their characters uninhibitedly touched each other's face over and over as they said goodbye.
