A Very Unfortunate Steve Carell Typo

A report that is not-so-greatly exaggerrated

We’re amazed this still hasn’t been fixed. Take a look at the first two paragraphs of the following weekend overseas dispatch:

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It’s not so much the editor(s) at the Belfast Telegraph who goofed here, creating a Hall of Fame stumble-by-omission article beginning. But rather Cover Media, credited at the bottom with having fed them the celebrity-snippet content.

Carell obviously did not die last summer; the “comedy great” being cited is the late Robin Williams (as becomes clear if one keeps reading a bit further). Still,

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