I love in-depth features. While I admit I don't have the patience (or Elmo-pardoned time) for the New York Times version of in-depth, I love getting all geeked out to the AV Club's interviews. Who woulda thunk that The Onion would have such intellectual and real articles tucked inside the fake news? But they do and this week, the Seth Rogen interview had me dialing up every single babysitter I know to find a way to take the hubs for a date night featuring martinis and Knocked Up (the movie, people, not me).
Seth Rogen is a 25-year old Canadian who you likely recognize from supporting roles in The Forty-Year-Old Virgin, Freaks and Geeks or maybe even a shot or two on Dawson's Creek (oh Joey, I cringe to think you let this good guy pass you by, too). The lovely surprise of Seth Rogen is that he's spent a lot of time writing for TV and that, although he is still in his 20something toddler years, he's been doing the whole stand-up shtick since he was in his barely-teen infancy. While he could very well be an L.A.-ified, early success diva boy in a frayed t-shirt who has nailed the whole bumbly, comic book guy persona (can you say Affleck?), he really just seems like that guy who has just enough of his own, real bumble to make us love him and just enough ego keep working.
Perhaps I'm so smitten with Seth Rogen because he reminds me so much of my brother, my girlfriends' brothers, maybe your brother. Just like your brother only funnier, richer and with a better gay Australian accent. Make that, funnier, richer, with a better gay Australian accent and with a job that doesn't pay hourly. This brotherly love is both the shudder and the appeal of Seth Rogen, and I think so many of us mamas will be finding ourselves enamored with and protective of him and his man-boobs in theaters this summer.
