Summary

CM Punk made a last-minute appearance at Night of Too Many Stars and ended up sharing the stage with Steve Carell and Jon Stewart for a WWE 2K26-themed comedy segment.

Punk traded jokes with Carell, including a crack about his "Scott's Tots" sins, before the two were shown playing WWE 2K26 with Punk using himself and Carell represented by a created version of the actor.

How the segment played out

The joke escalated once the game footage had Carell trying to run backstage to escape Punk. The bit then spilled into the live stage presentation, where Carell tried to flee before Punk caught up with a life-size ragdoll version of him and threw it around for laughs.

The segment wrapped with Punk and Carell shaking hands and laughing together on stage.

CM Punk and WWE 2K26 get crossover exposure

For WWE, the notable part of the appearance is how naturally Punk fit into a mainstream comedy setting built around WWE 2K26. That gives the game, and Punk himself, a little extra visibility outside standard wrestling programming.

It also shows Punk continuing to be used as one of WWE's recognizable crossover personalities, especially in a setting that paired him with names like Carell and Stewart rather than placing him in a traditional in-ring storyline beat.

Sources

As reported by Fightful