Patton Oswalt will play an eccentric rich guy in Judy Greer’s new show
In what we’re really hoping isn’t the first step in Judy Greer getting subtly shifted into the “straitlaced friend of crazier people” role that’s exerted such a powerful gravitational pull on her entire non-Archer career, Fox has announced that it’s cast Patton Oswalt to star alongside the actress in her new sitcom pilot, HR. Oswalt will play the new CEO of the plastics company where Greer serves as head of human resources, and is being described as “an ideas guy” who “lives life at a higher octave than everyone else.” (We’re not sure what that means, exactly, unless Oswalt is going to deliver the character’s dialogue in falsetto, while Greer stands by, nodding and wondering where her more conventionally attractive best friend has gotten off to now.)