Rogen, Goldberg, Ceipley, Apatow

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N.Y. Times writer Michael Cieply sits down at Swingers with Superbad co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and he doesn't even ask why those two cop characters (played by Rogen, Bill Hader) are so anarchic and off-the-reservation absurd (particularly during the second half) compared to the hilariously ground-level genuine-ness you get from the characters played by Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen

I wasn't expecting Cieply to try and nail Rogen and Goldberg for this, of course, but he doesn't even friggin' bring it up. C'mon, man...inquiring minds want to know.

This video clip of Rogen and Superbad producer Judd Apatow talking things over is much more engaging. They discuss a presumably forthcoming N.Y. Times magazine piece that's been written about them, and whether it makes any sense for a reporter to spend months and months falling them around in order to write it.

I also love the part when Rogen asks what the N.Y. Times magazine is, and then how he follows this with "none of my friends read it" and "I don't know what it is...I mean, what is it, part of the newspaper on different paper or something?" Apatow gently breaks the news that it's inside the Sunday paper and that it's printed on shinier paper, and Rogen goes, "Oh...okay."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 4, 2007 at 12:46 PM

comment #1

lazespud says ...

We get it Jeff. We GET IT. You didn't like the two cop characters. You've made it clear in every posting about this movie. No one else has bitten. Time to take a Ritilin, put on an Enya album, and relax about it. Life WILL go on Jeff.

Posted by lazespud at August 4, 2007 2:34 PM

comment #2

AH says ...

Enya!!!!

Posted by AH at August 4, 2007 2:45 PM

comment #3

JD says ...

Is it just me or is Jeff getting mad about increasingly minor issues lately? A few examples: 1) the cop characters in Superbad, 2) Keith Richards' manager "lying" about the way in which her client snorted his father's ashes, 3) Brett Ratner daring to lie about his ex-girlfriend's whereabouts, only to be redeemed by a tranny blowjob, etc. I hope Jeff's being deliberately bizarre here: if he's sincerely ourtaged about these trivialities, he needs help.

Posted by JD at August 4, 2007 2:55 PM

comment #4

christian says ...

rogen is just like, a dude like all of us! dude!

Posted by christian at August 4, 2007 3:01 PM

comment #5

T. Holly says ...

They're meant to encourage thought, JD, unlike you.

Posted by T. Holly at August 4, 2007 3:31 PM

comment #6

George Prager says ...

I hated the scene in MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET when Santa makes Natalie Wood pretend that she's a monkey.

Posted by George Prager at August 4, 2007 3:55 PM

comment #7

gruver1 says ...

Wells to lazespud, JD: I read the piece, I thought it over, and the fact that a certain question hadn't even been asked, much less answered or discussed to any degree, is what popped through. Half of this column is about responding to stuff I've read. When you're banging stuff out all day, that's what the game is. If I get into something more than once, so be it. And there are no such things as minor issues, JD. The blade of grass contains the universe and vice versa, and things are what they are what they are.

Posted by gruver1 at August 4, 2007 4:01 PM

comment #8

christian says ...

rogen's lack of curiousity about the world is charming.

Posted by christian at August 4, 2007 5:17 PM

comment #9

Rothchild says ...

That's a really stupid question to ask. The only response is, "because it's funny."

Posted by Rothchild at August 4, 2007 5:24 PM

comment #10

JD says ...

It just seems a bit hypocritical, Jeff, that you spend so much time dismissing people for their trivial preoccupations (ie. Paris Hilton, who by your "blade of grass" theory may be the most fascinating person living in today), while regularly taking this triviality even further. If you want to give people something to think about, I'm sure you can do better than recounting that you felt slighted by Brett Ratner because he wanted to protect his ex-girlfriend's privacy. I'm not saying these posts aren't amusing, I'm just a little perplexed by how seriously you take some of this absurdist Hollywood gossip nonsense.

Posted by JD at August 4, 2007 5:44 PM

comment #11

bone says ...

For whatever reason, Jeff just can't like a comedy with a thread count like this. So there's always some trivial thing he constantly brings up when mentioning these movies. Whether it's the cops, how Katherine Heigl would never date Seth Rogen, or juvenile the friends were in 40 year old virgin. Every post on these films will feature that one nitpick, over and over again. It's like cover for not panning middlebrow films.

Posted by bone at August 4, 2007 7:07 PM

comment #12

bmcintire says ...

Given the tone of the entire piece, I would guess he was kidding. I'm surprised they didn't somehow work in a swipe at Parade Magazine as well.

Posted by bmcintire at August 4, 2007 7:09 PM

comment #13

ben151 says ...

FYI, Apatow was the NY Times Mag cover boy in late May, and the video was tied to that May article.

Posted by ben151 at August 4, 2007 9:59 PM

comment #14

GeeseOPlenty says ...

Katherine Heigl WOULDN'T date Seth Rogen. I loved KNOCKED UP but their relationship kept taking me out of the movie and reminding me that I was watching a movie.

Posted by GeeseOPlenty at August 5, 2007 11:07 AM

comment #15

Hallick says ...

"Katherine Heigl WOULDN'T date Seth Rogen. I loved KNOCKED UP but their relationship kept taking me out of the movie and reminding me that I was watching a movie."

I don't know if Katherine heigl would date Seth Rogen or not, but her character going all-in with his character once they decide to go forward with the pregnancy was a big baffling "whatthefu-?" plot point. A little later, when she could she the guy's charms clearer would've been right on the mark; but at the the point it happens in the movie, he's just a slobby, net-porn kingpin wannabe who was so magically ignorant that he didn't know about Mr. Skin (and in what effing universe would that have made sense? A universe where Mr. Skin doesn't exist, which is where I thought "Knocked Up" was placed until it's revealed to him for already being online). Not knowing Mr. Skin (and a ZILLION other free sites) was already up and running...that's even more bizarre than instantly going "steady".

Posted by Hallick at August 5, 2007 4:23 PM

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