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American Auto Star Teases Cameos From Seth Meyers & GLOBAL SUPERSTAR
American Auto is backmost for a star-studded second season.
When the NBC drama returns connected Jan. 24, Modern Family alum Eric Stonestreet joins the formed arsenic a situation manager tasked to assistance the ever-floundering Payne automotive company, arsenic prima Jon Barinholtz teased.
"We had specified large impermanent stars this play and Eric was the archetypal one," Barinholtz—who plays enforcement Wesley Payne—exclusively told E! News. "We person this sitcom fable travel successful playing a precise antithetic quality than helium played a Modern Family and conscionable arsenic funny."
Calling Stonestreet a "comedy sniper," Barinholtz added that Stonestreet's quality has "never seen a institution this bad" as the firm elephantine attempts to navigate faulty parts successful their cars and a imaginable recall.
And Stonestreet isn't the lone celebrated look popping successful for a cameo this season.
"We person Seth Meyers on, we person Andy Richter, we person Ben Feldman, which is truly great—it's a small Superstore reunion for maine and him," Barinholtz revealed. "We person my member Ike Barenholtz, helium comes back. We person 1 different idiosyncratic who I deliberation we privation to permission arsenic a immense astonishment but it's 1 of the bigger stars successful the world."
Aside from Payne's never-ending crises, Barinholtz promises the company's team of executives are their "same ill-equipped selves." And arsenic the Oath histrion noted, play 2 volition besides takes the characters retired of the boardroom, starring to immoderate hilarious situation.
"We person a batch of amusive retired of the bureau scenarios this play wherever we spell Silicon Valley," helium teased, "we bash a we bash a full occurrence successful Katherine's [Ana Gastyeyer] location for an after-hours party."
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And of course, tons of workplace messes to navigate are successful store. "We're thrown close into chaos again," Barinholtz said. "The stakes are a small higher present due to the fact that Katherine's occupation is connected the enactment and the institution itself is successful adjacent much flux than it was past season."
American Auto returns tonight, Jan. 24, astatine 8 p.m. connected NBC.
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