--- title: Steve Carell Plays Fabio in 1994 Second City Clip description: The only thing that's missing is a stallion canonical: https://time.com/3741210/steve-carell-fabio-second-city/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-11T20:45:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:35.709Z og:title: Steve Carell Makes a Perfect Fabio In This Vintage Clip og:description: The only thing that's missing is a stallion og:url: https://time.com/3741210/steve-carell-fabio-second-city/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Steve Carell Makes a Perfect Fabio In This Vintage Clip twitter:description: The only thing that's missing is a stallion twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Steve Carell Makes a Perfect Fabio In This Vintage Clip by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 11, 2015 8:45 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 11, 2015 8:45 PM UTC Steve Carell was recently nominated for an Academy Award for his role in _Foxcatcher._ But his most compelling performance might be in this 1994 clip — courtesy of improv group [_Second City’s_ archives](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WddBNQ9ht%5FQ) — in which the funny man becomes Fabio, complete with flowing golden locks and flexed pectoral muscles. And, to make the clip even more delightful, Stephen Colbert voices Fabio’s lines from off-stage as Carell mouths gibberish: “I am Fabio, and I would like to make you my very special lady tonight.” Yes, please. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3741210/steve-carell-fabio-second-city/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3741210/steve-carell-fabio-second-city/"},"headline":"Steve Carell Makes a Perfect Fabio In This Vintage Clip","datePublished":"2015-03-11T20:45:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:35.709Z","description":"The only thing that's missing is a stallion","url":"https://time.com/3741210/steve-carell-fabio-second-city/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrities","Comedy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3741210/steve-carell-fabio-second-city/","name":"Steve Carell Makes a Perfect Fabio In This Vintage Clip"}}]}] ```