--- title: Steve Carell Reflects on His New Stud Status on Jimmy Fallon description: The former 'Office' comedian reacts to being called a rival to fellow "silver fox" George Clooney, thanks to his shiny new hair color. canonical: https://time.com/4836673/steve-carell-silver-hair-fallon/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-28T15:11:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:58.260Z og:title: Steve Carell Reflects on His New Stud Status on Jimmy Fallon og:description: He's part of the silver fox club now og:url: https://time.com/4836673/steve-carell-silver-hair-fallon/ 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 Reflects on His New Stud Status on Jimmy Fallon twitter:description: He's part of the silver fox club now twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Steve Carell Reflects on His New Viral Stud Status on Jimmy Fallon  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 28, 2017 3:11 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 28, 2017 3:11 PM UTC Steve Carell has been a popular comedian for a while; his role as cringeworthy boss Michael Scott in _The Office_ is cemented in television history. But lately the former _40 Year Old Virgin_ is reaching a [whole new fanbase](http://time.com/4834526/steve-carell-grey-hair-internet-reactions/?iid=sr-link1), thanks to his newly grey head of hair and official status as a silver fox. During an appearance on [Jimmy Fallon](http://time.com/4819852/miley-cyrus-undercover-subway/)‘s _Tonight Show_ on Tuesday evening, Carell and host Fallon riffed on this exciting development for Carell, reading out a number of recent headlines in magazines that had called attention to his changed appearance with glowingly thirsty reviews. One magazine even went so far as to tell fellow actor and new father [George Clooney](http://time.com/4797707/george-clooney-twins-due-date/) to “move aside,” given Carell’s ascension up the silver fox ladder. “Did you get invited to silver fox, like, meetings?” Fallon joked. “Do you go to a club and, like, Anderson Cooper is there, Andy Cohen?” “There’s a bracelet you can get. Mine says ‘Steve,'” Carell deadpanned. “And on the other side of the bracelet it says ‘hunk of man meat.'” Carell added that there’s one particular woman who’s become especially smitten with his aging process: “You know, my wife finally says she’s in love with me,” he said. Watch above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4836673/steve-carell-silver-hair-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4836673/steve-carell-silver-hair-fallon/"},"headline":"Steve Carell Reflects on His New Viral Stud Status on Jimmy Fallon","datePublished":"2017-06-28T15:11:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:58.260Z","description":"The former 'Office' comedian reacts to being called a rival to fellow \"silver fox\" George Clooney, thanks to his shiny new hair color.","url":"https://time.com/4836673/steve-carell-silver-hair-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","jimmy fallon","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"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/4836673/steve-carell-silver-hair-fallon/","name":"Steve Carell Reflects on His New Viral Stud Status on Jimmy Fallon"}}]}] ```