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Ben Schwartz is fairly sure that Clyde Oberholt, his character on the new Showtime comedy "House of Lies," which premieres Jan. 8, would hate Jean-Ralphio Saperstein, the lovably clueless, self-styled entrepreneur he plays on "Parks and Recreation."
"Clyde would write off Jean-Ralphio in two seconds," Schwartz said. "He would see that he's all talk and no game."
"House of Lies" follows a team of management consultants, led by a Don Draper-like antihero (played by Don Cheadle), under constant pressure to impress high-powered corporate executives while jockeying for position in an ethically ambiguous field. Clyde's calculating nature extends to all aspects of his life. "When he's trying to pick up a woman, he does it in a certain number of keystrokes," Schwartz noted.
An Upright Citizens Brigade veteran, Schwartz also appeared in NBC's short-lived 2010 spy drama "Undercovers." The promising "House of Lies" role is only one of many items on Schwartz's busy 2012 agenda: He wrote the screenplay for a "Soapdish" remake that recently made industry insiders' "Black List" of highly anticipated unproduced projects and will voice the title character of the Disney XD animated series "Randy Cunningham: Ninth Grade Ninja," slated to premiere late next year.
-- Judy Berman
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