IRRESISTIBLE
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
Comedian Jon Stewart has written and directed two movies to date – one while on hiatus from The Daily Show, the other last year, pre-pandemic, years after leaving that Comedy central hosting job. The first film was 2014’s Rosewater. The second, making its premium cable premiere tonight on HBO, is 2020’s Irresistible, which stars old Daily Show cohort Steve Carell as a political operative who descends upon a small town in Wisconsin to steer the candidacy of a local man (Chris Cooper) running for mayor. Carell’s nemesis, a political planner on the other side of the ideological fence, is played by scene-stealer Rose Byrne, who’s proven to be as adept at comedy as she is at drama, when starring in such grim series as Damages.