Will Arnett is a Harvey’s guy
On Hot Ones this week, the actor also shouted out Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre
Back in October, we started to wonder whether Torontonian turned Hollywood star Will Arnett had forgotten his hometown roots. While his comedy pals were spotted at the World Series, he didn’t show up to cheer on the Blue Jays, who were competing in the MLB championship for the first time in 32 years. Arnett later addressed his absence on Jimmy Kimmel Live, so we’re cool now. And after his recent comments on the Hot Ones chicken wing eating show, we’ll never doubt his loyalty again.
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A brief but sentimental discussion of Arnett’s 2019 induction into Canada’s Walk of Fame led to a subject that’s even more meaningful to our nation: the Harvey’s chain of restaurants.
“The Big Harv is the Cadillac of cheeseburgers,” he said. “There’s something about the way they grill up their burgers at Harvey’s, the way they do their sliced pickles on a burger. Come on.”
Arnett and Hot Ones host Sean Evans went on to discuss Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, where Arnett began his career as a teenager. The theatre was a “pretty huge” influence on him, he said. “It was a good trial by fire of getting in there and seeing what it was like, just working on scenes and acting outside of school plays.”
What we’re taking away from this is that Toronto is where Arnett learned how to act, which means it’s where the creative path toward the existence of Gob Bluth started, which means Gob Bluth would have loved Harvey’s.
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
