this gentle giant may be men or Muppet
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be exploring the life and career of
Jason Segel Jason Jordan Siegel was born
january 18th 1980 in los angeles
california because of his towering six
foot four frame many of Siegel’s
earliest interests revolved around
sports as well as making music
it was after high school that his
curiosity and acting began and this
prompted him to appear in a few
community plays by 1998
seagull landed his debut movie role as a
vodka watermelon wielding partier and
can’t hardly wait unfortunately his
funniest scene was cut from the feature
and he continued taking minor roles in
other teen comedies like dead men on
campus and SLC punk his first important
part came on the small screen in 1999 he
began his stint on the beloved yet
short-lived NBC comedy-drama series
freaks and geeks he played the friendly
and mild-mannered pothead Nick who was
kicked off the school basketball team
for weed possession despite the fact the
show was cancelled after only 18
episodes
it gave Segal a solid footing in the
industry and allowed him to showcase his
musical talent control during the series
he forged a friendship with cast mate
Seth Rogen and started a romantic
relationship with co-star Linda
Cardellini whom he continued to date for
a few years after the show ended perhaps
the most important bond he made was with
producer Judd Apatow and that connection
served him well later in his career
Seagal then transitioned to recurring TV
roles including a spot on another Apatow
production undeclared and a few episodes
of CSI crime scene investigation in 2002
he managed a starring role in the film
slackers as one of three friends who
cheat their way through college only to
get blackmailed by a nerd who demands
they hook him up with his dream girl
once you watch where you’re going you
smell like white monkey boy
Siegel’s reputation as a small-time
actor transformed in 2005 when he landed
a spot on the sitcom How I Met Your
Mother
he made a name for himself by playing
Marshall Ericksen who was the easygoing
best friend of the show’s central
character Ted the only people in the
universe who haven’t seen Star Wars are
the characters in Star Wars and that’s
because they lived them dead that’s
because they lived the Star Wars he
actually won the part thanks to the
creator’s love of freaks and geeks while
starring on that show full-time Seagal
reconnected with Apatow and Rogen for
the 2007 comedy knocked up you got to
know all the tricks like for example if
a woman’s on top she can’t get pregnant
it’s just gravity well that’s true what
goes up must come down his hilarious
performance as one of Rogen’s friends
led to a starring role the next year in
Forgetting Sarah Marshall he played a
man who dealt with the breakup of his
long-term relationship by taking a
vacation but ended up at the same resort
as his ex and her new Rockstar boyfriend
not only did Seagal star in this Apatow
co-production he also co-wrote the
script and some of the music featured in
the film maybe the problem is that you
broke my heart into a million pieces and
so my cock doesn’t want to be around you
anymore okay he then played opposite
Paul Rudd in the well-received bromance
comedy I Love You Man and voiced the
nemesis of Steve Carell character in the
animated feature Despicable Me mitten
crimes with both direction and magnitude
he also co-created the music for the
forgetting sarah marshall sequel get him
to the Greek and played Horatio to Jack
Black’s Gulliver in 2010’s Gulliver’s
Travels
he then portrayed the nice guy against
Cameron Diaz’s bad teacher the next year
was better like grab a bite sometime
he’s still a gym teacher I am man
then oh okay cool well awesome this one
great but it was another 2011 movie that
really made a splash that year Segal
spearheaded the long awaited return of
the Muppets to the big screen by
co-writing executive producing and
starring in the project in fact it was
Segal who originally pitched the idea of
a muppet revival to Disney in order to
bring these beloved Jim Henson creations
to a younger generation the movie became
the most highly praised of all the
Muppet films and was the first to win an
Academy Award
he followed that success by starring as
the title character in the indie comedy
Jets who lives at home
the rom-com the five-year engagement and
another Apatow production this is 40 by
juggling success in both TV and film the
multi-talented Jason Segel has
transcended cult status to entertain
huge audiences from both sides of the
camera it seems certain that is terrific
and unique sense of humor will continue
to make us laugh for years to come
I’m not gonna go put clothes on I know
what that means if I put clothes on it’s
over okay
[Music]
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be exploring the life and career of
Jason Segel Jason Jordan Siegel was born
january 18th 1980 in los angeles
california because of his towering six
foot four frame many of Siegel’s
earliest interests revolved around
sports as well as making music
it was after high school that his
curiosity and acting began and this
prompted him to appear in a few
community plays by 1998
seagull landed his debut movie role as a
vodka watermelon wielding partier and
can’t hardly wait unfortunately his
funniest scene was cut from the feature
and he continued taking minor roles in
other teen comedies like dead men on
campus and SLC punk his first important
part came on the small screen in 1999 he
began his stint on the beloved yet
short-lived NBC comedy-drama series
freaks and geeks he played the friendly
and mild-mannered pothead Nick who was
kicked off the school basketball team
for weed possession despite the fact the
show was cancelled after only 18
episodes
it gave Segal a solid footing in the
industry and allowed him to showcase his
musical talent control during the series
he forged a friendship with cast mate
Seth Rogen and started a romantic
relationship with co-star Linda
Cardellini whom he continued to date for
a few years after the show ended perhaps
the most important bond he made was with
producer Judd Apatow and that connection
served him well later in his career
Seagal then transitioned to recurring TV
roles including a spot on another Apatow
production undeclared and a few episodes
of CSI crime scene investigation in 2002
he managed a starring role in the film
slackers as one of three friends who
cheat their way through college only to
get blackmailed by a nerd who demands
they hook him up with his dream girl
once you watch where you’re going you
smell like white monkey boy
Siegel’s reputation as a small-time
actor transformed in 2005 when he landed
a spot on the sitcom How I Met Your
Mother
he made a name for himself by playing
Marshall Ericksen who was the easygoing
best friend of the show’s central
character Ted the only people in the
universe who haven’t seen Star Wars are
the characters in Star Wars and that’s
because they lived them dead that’s
because they lived the Star Wars he
actually won the part thanks to the
creator’s love of freaks and geeks while
starring on that show full-time Seagal
reconnected with Apatow and Rogen for
the 2007 comedy knocked up you got to
know all the tricks like for example if
a woman’s on top she can’t get pregnant
it’s just gravity well that’s true what
goes up must come down his hilarious
performance as one of Rogen’s friends
led to a starring role the next year in
Forgetting Sarah Marshall he played a
man who dealt with the breakup of his
long-term relationship by taking a
vacation but ended up at the same resort
as his ex and her new Rockstar boyfriend
not only did Seagal star in this Apatow
co-production he also co-wrote the
script and some of the music featured in
the film maybe the problem is that you
broke my heart into a million pieces and
so my cock doesn’t want to be around you
anymore okay he then played opposite
Paul Rudd in the well-received bromance
comedy I Love You Man and voiced the
nemesis of Steve Carell character in the
animated feature Despicable Me mitten
crimes with both direction and magnitude
he also co-created the music for the
forgetting sarah marshall sequel get him
to the Greek and played Horatio to Jack
Black’s Gulliver in 2010’s Gulliver’s
Travels
he then portrayed the nice guy against
Cameron Diaz’s bad teacher the next year
was better like grab a bite sometime
he’s still a gym teacher I am man
then oh okay cool well awesome this one
great but it was another 2011 movie that
really made a splash that year Segal
spearheaded the long awaited return of
the Muppets to the big screen by
co-writing executive producing and
starring in the project in fact it was
Segal who originally pitched the idea of
a muppet revival to Disney in order to
bring these beloved Jim Henson creations
to a younger generation the movie became
the most highly praised of all the
Muppet films and was the first to win an
Academy Award
he followed that success by starring as
the title character in the indie comedy
Jets who lives at home
the rom-com the five-year engagement and
another Apatow production this is 40 by
juggling success in both TV and film the
multi-talented Jason Segel has
transcended cult status to entertain
huge audiences from both sides of the
camera it seems certain that is terrific
and unique sense of humor will continue
to make us laugh for years to come
I’m not gonna go put clothes on I know
what that means if I put clothes on it’s
over okay
[Music]
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