"Greenfield plays Jack Beringer, the president of Wheeler College and a gleeful narcissist whose smug sense of superiority is so secure he doesn't even wait around for affirmation. Jack will backdoor-brag about his surgically enhanced calves or boast about a farcical flirtation with a celebrity seated next to him on a flight, then flee (or cease paying attention) before anyone has time to congratulate him (or cut him down a peg)."
"The public incident (on a stage, during his speech) sends Jack spiraling, and he directs his ire at the man hired to protect him: Charles Nieuwendyk ( Ted Danson). "What if it's not mud next time?" Jack says, staring a hole through Charles' thick black spectacles. "What if it's... poo?!" Between each rhetorical question, Greenfield punctuates Jack's silly worst-case scenario by stepping closer to Charles. But he doesn't break eye contact. He doesn't even blink."
Max Greenfield portrays Jack Beringer, president of Wheeler College, as a gleeful narcissist whose smug superiority is constant. Jack routinely backdoor-brags about surgically enhanced calves and invents exaggerated flirtations, then withdraws before others respond. A masked assailant pelts him with a bucket of mud onstage during a speech, sending Jack into a spiral and focusing his anger on his protector, Charles Nieuwendyk (Ted Danson). Jack escalates with rhetorical questions culminating in an absurd "poo" punchline, delivered with unblinking eye contact and a minute eyebrow pump that converts self-seriousness into broad, effective comedy.
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