Carrie writes in: "I don't know if you watched Conan last night but Jesse Eisenberg was such a good interviewee. You should do a post on that segment because I think Vgummers want more opportunities to talk about who is... CONTINUE READING SPEAKING OF MICHAEL CERA, IS JESSE EISENBERG BETTER THAN HIM?»
Posted on October 1, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Conan O'Brien | Debate | Jesse Eisenberg | Michael Cera | The Tonight Show
As many of you know, I love the website thisisphotobomb.com, which features user-submitted photobombed photos. Sometimes I wish that my job was just to sit around reading ThisIsPhotobomb all day. So, I guess what I'm saying is that sometimes I... CONTINUE READING IS MICHAEL CERA THE KING OF THE PHOTOBOMB?»
Posted on October 1, 2009 in
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Tags: Michael Cera | Photobombs
Youth in Revolt trailer, you guys: When it comes to the timing of Youth in Revolt, things have worked out pretty well for me. I read the book about a year after it came out (I am a registered Malcolm-Jamal... CONTINUE READING THIS IS YOUR FATHER'S YOUTH IN REVOLT»
Posted on August 24, 2009 in
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Tags: CD Payne | Emmys | Fred Willard | Justin Long | Michael Cera | Miguel Arteta | Portia Doubleday | Ray Liotta | Steve Buscemi | Youth In Revolt | Zach Galifianakis
Despite my own website's best efforts, I haven't really been sold on Paper Heart, but this promo clip with Charlene Yi and Rob Huebel is so funny and charming that I am changing Paper Heart from a Sell to a... CONTINUE READING MAYBE WE WERE ALL WRONG ABOUT PAPER HEART?!»
Posted on August 4, 2009 in
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Tags: Charlene Yi | Michael Cera | Paper Heart | Rob Huebel
Youth in Revolt poster, you guys. It is weird to think of how I read this book more than 15 years ago. Nice timing, Hollywood. You've really got your finger on the pulse of America's adults who used to be... CONTINUE READING IF MICHAEL CERA EVER STOPS BEING SO MICHAEL CERA-Y IT PROBABLY WON'T BE IN YOUTH IN REVOLT»
Posted on June 22, 2009 in
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Tags: Justin Long | Michael Cera | Portia Doubleday | Ray Liotta | Steve Buscemi | Youth In Revolt
Did you see Year One, the Biblical-times movie starring Jack Black and Michael Cera, this weekend? If so, this is the place to talk about it. Especially because I don't know how it ends because I walked out of the... CONTINUE READING THE VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB: YEAR ONE»
Posted on June 22, 2009 in
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Tags: David Cross | Harold Ramis | Jack Black | Judd Apatow | Michael Cera | Olivia Wilde | Paul Rudd | The Videogum Movie Club | Year One
You know, The Videogum Movie Club, that thing where we see the same movie on the same weekend and talk about it on Monday? This weekend it's the Michael Cera/Jack Black Biblical comedy Year One. Hopefully we'll all love it... CONTINUE READING VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB REMINDER: YEAR ONE»
Posted on June 19, 2009
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Tags: Christopher Mintz-Plasse | David Cross | Jack Black | Michael Cera | Olivia Wilde | Year One
Today Variety reports that the 1985 cult classic Girls Just Want To Have Fun is being remade. This is huge news for fans of the often overlooked, actually quite witty dance movie (if Dorothy Parker wrote a teen dance movie... CONTINUE READING WHO SHOULD STAR IN THE GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN REMAKE?»
Posted on May 29, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Abigail Breslin | Chace Crawford | Dancing | Ed Westwick | Girls Just Want To Have Fun | Helen Hunt | Jonathan Silverman | Leighton Meester | Michael Cera | Robert Downey Jr. | Sarah Jessica Parker | Shannen Doherty
The MTV Movie Awards promo starring Jack Black, Michael Cera, and host Andy Samberg that they're showing on TV was funny, but this version is even funnier: Is it wrong that I'm actually looking forward to this show a little?... CONTINUE READING UNCENSORED MTV MOVIE AWARDS PROMO CONTAINS THE WORD "PENIS"»
Posted on April 22, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Andy Samberg | Depeche Mode | Jack Black | Michael Cera | MTV Movie Awards | Penises
There's a first trailer for the Sundance curiosity Paper Heart, a mockumentary about comedian Charlyne Yi's fake search for the true nature of love, also starring her boyfriend Michael Cera: Even though, from reading blogs, I knew the documentary aspect... CONTINUE READING SO PAPER HEART IS LIKE A TWEE, GIRLY BORAT?»
Posted on April 21, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Borat | Charlyne Yi | Demetri Martin | Michael Cera | Paper Heart
There's a new full-length trailer for the Judd Apatow-produced, Harold Ramis-directed prehistoric/Biblical summer comedy Year One starring Jack Black, Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde from House, and all the Apatow people. I think it looks funny!: But it seems like the... CONTINUE READING WHAT? I THINK YEAR ONE LOOKS FUNNY!»
Posted on March 20, 2009 in
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Tags: Harold Ramis | Jack Black | Judd Apatow | Michael Cera | Olivia Wilde | Year One
The internet is thrilled today with the announcement that Michael Cera has officially signed on to reprise his role as George Michael in the Arrested Development movie. And this is certainly good news in the sense that an Arrested Development... CONTINUE READING 5 REASONS THE ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT MOVIE MIGHT BE BAD, NO OFFENSE»
Posted on February 25, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Alia Shawkat | Arrested Development | David Cross | Emmys | Jason Bateman | Jeffrey Tambor | Jessica Walter | Michael Cera | Mitch Hurwitz | Portia Di Rossi | Will Arnett
Your mom probably forwarded this to you already, with a note like "isn't this that boy whose name you keep writing on your jeans?," but Michael Cera "flips out" on the set of Youth in Revolt. BTW, the movie doesn't... CONTINUE READING BEHAVIORAL ISSUES ARE THE LEAST OF MICHAEL CERA'S FUCKING PROBLEMS»
Posted on February 9, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Books | Michael Cera | Youth In Revolt
Here's the Super Bowl teaser scene from Year One, starring Michael Cera and Jack Black as cavemen who witness history. Like The Ten Commandments meets Forrest Gump. In this two-minute scene, they meet Cain and Abel, played by David Cross... CONTINUE READING JACK BLACK, MICHAEL CERA, DAVID CROSS, AND PAUL RUDD IN YEAR ONE»
Posted on February 2, 2009 in
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Tags: David Cross | Jack Black | Michael Cera | Paul Rudd
Two years ago, I made a rule that I wasn't going to read anything or care about rumors about the always up-in-the-air Arrested Development movie until principal photography actually starts, yet somehow I still manage to read some new little... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL CERA WOULD SHRED THE ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT MOVIE SCRIPT, IF IT ACTUALLY EXISTED»
Posted on January 20, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Arrested Development | Michael Cera
After the success of her Will Ferrell-starring Christmas video last year, Aimee Mann has gone all out this year to prove she's friends with a lot of comedians (JK, I'm obviously just jealous) with her own version of A Christmas... CONTINUE READING AIMEE MANN GETS SCROOGED »
Posted on December 22, 2008 in
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Tags: Aimee Mann | John C. Reilly | John Krasinski | Michael Cera | Michael Penn | Tim Heidecker
Casting calls on craigslist are almost always hilarious. It's always like: DO YOU WANT TO BE RAPED? THIS COULD BE YOUR BIG CHANCE TO BE RAPED. PLEASE COME TO HOLLYWOOD IN OUR BASEMENT. EMAIL US YOUR DICK PICKS AT FAMOUSTOWN@HOTMAIL.COM.... CONTINUE READING YOU ARE NOT THE NEXT MICHAEL CERA»
Posted on December 17, 2008 in
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Tags: Hollywood | Jonah Hill | McLovin | Michael Cera
This month marks the one year anniversary of Diablo Cody's Academy Award-winning film, Juno starring Ellen Page as a sardonic high schooler who gets pregnant by Michael Cera and decides to carry the child to term and give it up... CONTINUE READING THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE JUNO BACKLASH»
Posted on December 8, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Depeche Mode | Diablo Cody | Ellen Page | Jason Bateman | Jason Reitman | Jennifer Garner | Juno | Michael Cera
There is an article in the New York Times today about a computer program that can determine "the most attractive set of distances and then choose the ideal closest to the original face" to create a "beautified" image of someone.... CONTINUE READING BEAUTY IS ONLY CGI DEEP»
Posted on October 9, 2008 in
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Tags: Bonnaroo | Coachella | Michael Cera
Michael Cera was on Letterman last night talking about Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist, agilely deflecting Dave's attempts to set him up with co-star Kat Dennings and talking about getting mistaken for Denzel Washington while filming in New York's "Alphabet... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL CERA MAKES HIS FAMILY CALL HIM "MR. BIG SHOT"»
Posted on September 30, 2008 in
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Tags: Charlyne Yi | David Letterman | Kat Dennings | Michael Cera | Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
On the one hand, if I were Michael Cera I'd be very annoyed that someone stood across the street and videotaped me hanging out with my friends at an outdoor cafe and walking down the street signing autographs for bystanders... CONTINUE READING IF LOVING THIS PAPARAZZI VIDEO OF MICHAEL CERA HANGING OUT IS WRONG, I DON'T WANT TO BE RIGHT»
Posted on August 14, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Michael Cera | Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist | Telekinesis
"No, no more movies about everlasting teenage love." said one commenter when I put up the poster for Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist, the October 3 quirky comedy/romance that's Michael Cera's next movie. I agree that those movies can be... CONTINUE READING NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST LOOKS INFINITELY ADORABLE»
Posted on August 1, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Kat Dennings | Katy Perry | Michael Cera | Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist, a comedy/romance based on a bestselling Young Adult novel, starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings, comes out October 3 and seems like it will be pretty big: High school student Nick O'Leary,(Michael Cera) member of... CONTINUE READING THE FIRST POSTER FOR NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST»
Posted on July 8, 2008 in
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Tags: Kat Dennings | Michael Cera | Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
SuperDeluxe.com, an offshoot of Turner networks and a source for some funny videos, is e-shuttering its iDoors, and being folded into Adult Swim, reports the Washington Post: Yet another comedy site fails to deliver its overpromise ... paidContent has learned... CONTINUE READING THE ULTIMATE ARGUMENT SETTLER: THE 10 BEST SUPERDELUXE VIDEOS OF ALL TIME»
Posted on May 8, 2008 in
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Tags: Bob Odenkirk | Brad Neely | Chelsea Peretti | Derek Waters | DJ Dougg Pound | Eric Wareheim | Gabe Liedman | Jenny Slate | Jon Benjamin | Kristen Schaal | Kurt Braunholer | Maria Bamford | Michael Cera | Patrick Borelli | Simon Helberg | Tim Heidecker
If the kids at A Special Thing were allowed to create their own version of Charlie Rose, it would be called The Michael Showalter Showalter. Actually, that might not be true. It would probably be called The Patton Oswalt Oswalt.... CONTINUE READING OPERATION WATCH THIS: THE MICHAEL SHOWALTER SHOWALTER»
Posted on April 24, 2008 in ,
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Tags: A Special Thing | Michael Cera | Michael Showalter