And if they weren't schmucks, why would they fall for the official mantra that "if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear"?
The general tenor of this tech critique goes something like this: the poor schmucks don't know the first thing about this stuff; otherwise they wouldn't be signing up for "free" services that read their email and exploit their personal data; nor would they be storing their files – unencrypted – in the cloud, or enabling location services on their smartphones.
He also provided the voice of Gru, a super-villain who plots to steal the Moon, in the animated Despicable Me and played a cheerfully oblivious misfit in the screwball comedy Dinner for Schmucks.
"But, really, at the end of the day, its just two schmucks in trailers and once in a while I'd be like, 'Hey, mind if I used your treadmill?' And Mickey goes, 'Yeah, you should try my weight vest.
You see after 28 years and nine studio albums, Metallica has amassed quite the fan base and tonight 20,000 of these schmucks have descended on North Greenwich.
Third, WFAN decided to replace its afternoon host, Pete Franklin, a curmudgeon from Cleveland who had failed to charm New York with his habit of referring to callers as scumbags and schmucks.
The schmucks all believe it's a "dinner for winners".
"If you don't have someone to blame, other than some schmucks with fancy bonuses, you won't have a recovery".
The "schmucks" they're insuring against, of course, are themselves, and their schmuckiness is often a by-product of their stinginess.
But the director, Jay Roach, in search of more material, had swung his cameras around to shoot the schmucks' reactions to Madam Nora, as well as any bits they wanted to improvise.
Carell's real hesitation was that the job chiefly consisted of scouring the country for schmucks to mock.
