Yesterday the world got another glimpse at Paul Rudd's sportsmanship when he was tangentially involved in the Joe Buck/Artie Lang total non-scandal that was totally blown out of proportion for publicity. But Paul Rudd seems to always be game for anything, stupid or not, always willing to risk looking silly, and always quick with an off-the-cuff joke. Another case in point: today a guy who interviewed Paul at the SXSW premiere of I Love You, Man put up a video of himself making Paul recite lines from Romeo And Juliet with him. Even though that request is more than a little silly, Paul obliges, and ad libs funny along the way. Since it's been a while since Videogum has been an official Paul Rudd fan listserv, here's that video.
I'm not really sure how Paul Rudd can still be attractive while dressed up in a big, awkward "Earth" suit and dancing and singing with puppets, but, by golly, he is. And where is his self-consciousness? It doesn't exist!:
The ball's in your court, Jon Hamm. Also, I like that this video, which is quite possibly the least controversial thing imaginable, still caused enough of a stir on YouTube that this comment was deemed necessary by someone:
Over the past week, I've gradually become convinced that Paul Rudd does the voiceover for this newish Macbook commercial. If it isn't, chalk it up to his recent um, exact-right-amount-of-media-exposure. The voice sounds a little younger and a little dorkier, but the "rs" sound so like him!:
It sounds like Paul Rudd trying to not sound like Paul Rudd, if that makes any sense. The way Jon Krasinski does in those Blackberry commercials. And it's been airing during comedies, like 30 Rock last night. And Apple has a history of hiring comedian pitchmen, of course. I sort of maybe rest my case? I've been wrong before, though (see the Bobbie From Mad Men Green M&M Disaster.)
No way! I had no idea, and if anyone out there would sadly, pathetically know that information before it was in Time Magazine, I would think it would be me. Sometimes truth is stranger than fan fiction:
"He always liked to get naked. Anybody that lived in his fraternity house would tell you. And yes, he is a frat boy, no matter how much he would go screaming from that now," says sportscaster Joe Buck, who, along with Mad Men star Jon Hamm, has known Rudd since their college days.
"He's adorable. There's no two ways about it," says Hamm.
If ever there was a case of the pot calling the kettle adorable, that's it. The article, which is annoyingly contrived (Joel Stein and an exhausted-seeming Rudd try to "pick up" guys at a bar, get it, because of the movie etc.), mentions the Paul Rudd-executive-produced comedy series, Party Down, which premieres on Starz on Friday. It's also already available to watch on the Party Down website.
Paul Rudd was on The Daily Show last night, and he was awesome, duh. After dancing seductively for Jon last fall while promoting Role Models, this time Paul chose another dance, and one that is close to my heart: the dance known as "the old prospector." But something funny happened: I swear to god, Jon Stewart seemed to be kind of FLIRTATIOUS with him! And this isn't even the first time this has happened this week -- as mentioned yesterday, David Letterman seemed similarly enamored, though he didn't jump out of his chair with delight like Jon did at Paul's dance. Does Paul Rudd possess the magical powers of cross-sexual-preference seduction?
The debonair Paul Rudd was a guest on Letterman last night, and once again it was clear Dave really likes Paul. Their budding bromance was obvious as Paul told a story about trying to act tough in his early auditions, and a carefully-worded anecdote about the time Henry Kissinger caught him furiously pretending to jerk off to entertain a friend at a party. But the best part was when Paul's friends dared him to say the phrase "the debonair Henry Kissinger" in a Role Models-promotiong interview on a European TV show, and Dave showed the clip.
This week Jason Segel and Paul Rudd did a Q&A at a Chicago screening of I Love You, Man, and Paul held the mic while Jason performed "Dracula's Lament" from Forgetting Sarah Marshall:
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