Steve Carell said that the next season of The Office will be his last. Thank god. Hopefully the series can finally wrap up. That show hasn’t been funny in a while. Community, Modern Family and Better Off Ted are all way better.

Steve Carell’s contract with The Office runs out next season. When asked by British TV if he’s staying, Carell replied, “I don’t think so. I think that will probably be my last year.”

FOX says now that Steve is a big movie star, he doesn’t need to do a weekly TV series. Add to the fact The Office is rarely funny anymore and everything begins to make sense. There’s no shame in leaving a sinking ship.

Carell will run into the same problems plaguing Will Ferrell in his movie career which is playing the same character over and over again. How many times do I need to watch a clueless, screaming Will Ferrell stumble through a film? Just like how many times are people going to put up with an ignorant and clueless Steve Carell awkwardly delivering lines? At some point people are going to realize they’ve been paying to watch the same movie over and over again.

A deluge of promotional anecdotes have come as the premiere of Get Smart draws near. Surprisingly, all of them deal with kissing Steve Carell. First, Anne Hathaway described her infected kiss with Steve and now Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is talking about his kiss with Steve.

“One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man,” he told Pop Tarts at the Los Angeles premiere of “Get Smart” on Monday evening. “Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and [Steve] Carell — fantastic.”

One of the hallmarks of a great actor is the willingness to make out with another man. At least that’s what Jake Gyllenhaal tells me everytime I see him. For the last time Jake, I don’t want to be a goddamn actor. Stop puckering your lips at me.

[The Rock at the premiere of Get Smart. Image via Splash News]