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Finally, An Excuse To Talk About Jason Segel's Flaccid Penis
Hey, remember Knocked Up and Superbad? Sure, they were each a little sexist and homoerotic (not that there's anything wrong with that), respectively, but nonetheless spawned the adjective "Apatovian." Now any movie featuring a lovable goof and the Apatow players, also known as the cast of Freaks and Geeks, gets a rave. The latest is Forgetting Sarah Marshall, starring 73 frames of Jason Segel's penis. A tipster writes in to complain that the Entertainment Weekly review and the Slate review are awfully similar, both using Segel's body (penis) as a metaphor for the movie. Well, isn't his penis a metaphor for everything? More »
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On January 24th, Realize How Unfunny America Has Become
[To be read in the voice of Don "Voice of God" LaFontaine] In a world where Dane Cook, the unfunniest flimsiest hack bastard of a comedian is America's number one laugh man, it's hard to believe that for one night, back in 1992, HBO hosted a Young Comedians Show hosted by Dana Carvey. It featured Judd "Knocked Up" Appatow, Ray "Shit" Romano, Janeane "Tattooed East Village Ranter" Garofalo and Andy "Comic's Comic" Kindler. Sixteen years later, as America shuffles across the world stage, sweeping up the shattered laughs and broken promises, HBO rebroadcasts that performance on January 24th. America, learn to laugh again and please somebody make Dane Cook watch this.
"I think the characters [in 'Knocked Up'] are sexist at times, but it's really about immature people who are afraid of women and relationships and learn to grow up. If people say that the characters are sexist, I say, yeah, that's what I was going for in the first part of the movie, and then they change," director Judd Apatow told New York mag's Vulture blog. Okay but that's kind of besides the point because 'Knocked Up,' is so fully sexist, not because its male characters say immature and demeaning things about women, but because all the women in it are portrayed as one-note, unfunny, vain, self-absorbed hormonal crazies. It's also a hilarious movie, so you know, whatever.
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Seth Rogen And Judd Apatow's Dude Disciples Celebrate The Victory Of The Nerds
Sweating into his fluffball of jewfro, a heavyset, facially-hairy young man with glasses stepped to the microphone during the Q&A portion of the New Yorker festival event featuring film critic David Denby in conversation with writer-director Judd Apatow and his protege Seth Rogen. Seth called on him to begin speaking: "Yes, me?" This joke got the second-biggest laugh of the night. But it had some stiff competition. More »
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The Apatow Undertow
This is a column by one of the authors of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, who is still, unbelievably, still at Yaddo, which he has taken to calling "Yads." More »
Canadian sues Judd Apatow, claiming he ripped off her 2005 book, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother to Be. [Radar]
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