forgetting sarah marshall
3:51AM Kyle Buchanan | Flaccid Rankings: In an attempt to rebut the cruel patriarchy of Mr. Skin’s women-only list of the year’s top nude scenes, The Frisky has published their own Top 10, detailing the best bare men of the year. As a commentary on this year’s slim male pickings, two of the winners went nothing more than shirtless, one was onstage, and the winner was Jason Segel from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Alas, The Reader continued its nude scene shutout. Old Harvey would have gotten Kate Winslet on this list somehow, even without a penis! The full list, after the jump: More »
Jason Segel’s Penis Revealed Just In Time For Debate at ‘Vanity Fair’ [NSFW]
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Wednesday marked the first time in four days that Jason Segel didn’t publicly recount his bestselling short story Getting Dumped While Naked, but that didn’t keep his bare ween off the minds of close observers from Videogum to Vanity Fair. While one went the think-y route in exploring the Segel’s phallus phenom, the other was the first to procured a screenshot of the actor’s famous wang in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Guess which was which? Or just follow the jump for your prurient full-frontal fix. Remember, NSFW! More »Jason Segel Changes Story Just In Time For Last ‘Sarah Marshall’ Interview
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | “I got dumped once while naked…” So begins the umpteenth and (we think) final televised retelling of Jason Segel’s exceedingly well-practised cock-flaunting anecdote from the set of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Seeing as he took pains to mix it up a little last night on The Tonight Show, we’re almost sorry to see him step off the publicity roundabout just when his improvisatory spirit was just taking flight: “This is the first time [in my career] I might start getting recognised,” he told Jay Leno. “Every person who’s come up to me is staring directly at my crotch!” See? Now that’s a story! [NBC] More »Jason Segel’s Nudity Anecdote So Good That He Told It Twice
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | The contagious, gag-repeating virus that so infamously befell David Letterman a few weeks ago was apparently also contracted last Friday by Jason Segel, who regaled his host at the Ed Sullivan Theatre with yet another story about his ween-baring escapades on the set of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Yesterday on Ellen, meanwhile, Segel shared the same anecdote — literally the same one, almost verbatim down to the “Dockers” punchline. The look on Ellen’s face is priceless: kind of the knowing, disbelieving grin of a woman praying her audience missed Segel’s Letterman appearance and wondering how the imaginative writer of the weekend’s top comedy can’t find a more clever alternative for “third-string Chippendales model.” But it did play well with the ladies, so hey. [video by Molly McAleer] More »
US Box Office: ‘Forbidden Kingdom’ Audiences Forget About ‘Sarah Marshall’
7:30AM Seth | Keep the morning blues at bay via the savory comforts of a matzoh, egg, and bacon breakfast sandwich, plus a generous helping of home-fried box office numbers: 1. The Forbidden Kingdom – $US20.9 million Lionsgate’s action picture starring venerable martial arts masters Jackie Chan and Jet Li (and newly minted Kung Fu superstar Michael “Who?” Angarano) may not have registered too highly on your own new-release radar. But its surprise #1 finish meant there was indeed an audience looking for a fresh spin on the increasingly hackneyed plots served up by the genre, and who simply couldn’t get enough of this touching story of two dads, as deadly fisted as they are in love, trying to raise their troubled teenage son the best way they know how. 2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall – $US17.3 million It outperformed the Apatow Pictures Group’s previous two releases, but not even its ubiquitous Sharpie marketing campaign and an unobstructed view of Jason Segel’s semi-chubby man-parts were enough to earn Sarah Marshall the kinds of Superbad and Knocked Up numbers responsible for ushering in Hollywood’s Golden Age of the Paunchy, Lovelorn, Post-Adolescent Jew. Still, a respectable second-place finish hardly suggests genre-fatigue. Perhaps all that’s needed to again crack the $US30 mil mark is to up the male-nudity ante, finally conquering Hollywood’s long-standing cyclops taboo in a close-up sequence that involves a frantic Seth Rogen bending over to fish his wedding ring out of a shower drain. More »
Exclusive: ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ Director Gives Us The Most Penis-tastic Interview Ever
10:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Nicholas Stoller is having a very good year. After being taken under the mighty wing of Judd Apatow, his hilarious-yet-touching directorial debut, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, opens today. Not only that, he and star Jason Segel are currently making the new Muppet movie. Clearly, it’s time to learn a little more about this guy before he becomes too much of a big shot. Since they’re old friends, we asked our frequent guest-blogger Nick Malis (who contractually required us to plug Malis in Wonderland and Cute Things Falling Asleep) to interview Stoller. What follows is a fascinating portrait of a young artist at the dawn of his career. Also, he talks about penises a lot. Stick around after the jump to hear Stoller opine on the homoerotic world of Judd Apatow’s office, seeing Kristen Bell naked, and what Richard Roeper is like in bed.
Jason Segel Enters Exclusive Full-Frontal Male Nudity Club In ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’
8:45AM Molly Friedman | Judd Apatow has fulfilled his promise to “shake Americans from their squeamishness about male anatomy in movies” by featuring Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jason Segel completely nude in the movie’s pivotal break-up scene. And as the LAT pointed out yesterday, Segel’s manhood provides the film’s “most captivating screen presence” (sorry, Kristen Bell). But Apatow and his cool comedy clique aren’t the first ones to boldly focus their cinematic lens on male actors’ full frontal displays. We took a look back on Segel’s predecessors to showcase other (pun intended) ballsy big-screen cameos by the likes of Bruce Willis and Ewan McGregor after the jump. Just a warning, this is NSFW. More »
