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Anyone remotely curious as to what’s up with Jason Segel, now that he’s performed the same song not just with Maroon 5 but now with (Oscar-darlings) The Swell Season?  Is he laying pipe for a potential musical-comedy album or something?

Anyways, the supposed backstory to this song goes like this: “The band was at a restaurant in Los Angeles; drinking tea, when they were offered a bottle of wine by two celebrities. Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. Now The Swell Season has been enjoying watching their “Freaks & Geeks” DVDs while on tour, so this was a nice coincidence. They became good acquaintances, so The Swell Season asked Jason Segel to be a surprise guest and sing a song for us. ”

Now I’m really going to call the number to see what happens.

To be honest, I’m a little speechless.  But, on Saturday Maroon 5 played a concert at St. John’s University and Jason Segel came out to play a few songs with Adam Levine.  It’s early, I haven’t had coffee yet, so my brain is still trying to make sense of this.

“During the intermission between Fitz and the Tantrums and Maroon 5, Adam Levine brought out a special unannounced guest to the stage which really brought the house down. The special guest turned out to be Jason Segel (you might know him from How I Met Your Mother, I Love You Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up etc.) and Jason ended up playing the piano and singing a couple of songs from his recent movies (he’s actually a very talented musician and a hilarious song writer),” writes Herman Young.

This is the type of bizarre-O surprise that I love.  There’s absolutely no way you could expect or plan for something this delish. Anyway, who wants to call the number and see if it’s viral marketing or his actual phone numer? 315-329-6673  [via]

This happened on Friday, I believe, but I took the weekend off and completely unplugged myself from the machine for the first time in god knows how long. Friends were in town visiting.  Two days away from the internet is like a lifetime of regret (wow, so deep, let’s get that on a bumper sticker or post card or Hallmark card).

Anyway, Fallon has certainly been off to good start as the new host of Late Night. He’s doing a lot of things differently and has a nice touch.  It helps that you can watch just the good parts and on demand, rather than staying up that late.  Segel, you may remember is writing the new Muppets movies.

Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen and Jason Segel, a.k.a. “Pretty Young Things.”

Not that I’d want to see it, but why the beige nudie leotards.  Why not drop trow and go all out for this one.  Of course, they are mocking the famous Annie Liebovitz photo featuring fashion designer Tom Ford, Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley.

Dreamworks has released a new trailer for the comedy I Love You, Man, starring Paul Rudd as a newly engaged dude looking for a best man.  You see he doesn’t have a guy friends, ya’ll.  Expects lots of publications to through around terms like “bromance” or “man date,” but as someone living in a new city without any dude friends I have a feeling this movie is going to hit home on a certain level. And maybe not in a good way.  I will say, that trying to make dude friends is kinda awkward.

I don’t have much faith in director John Hamburg, best known for Along Came Polly, but I’m holding out hope that Jason Segel and Paul Rudd can bring some of that Apatow chemistry to the mix.  The film also costars Jaime Pressly, Andy Samberg, Jon Favreau, and Rashida Jones.  Good comedy actors for sure.  I’m setting my sights low for this one and hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

Access Hollywood debuted the trailer for the upcoming Judd Apatow-produced, Forgetting Sarah Marshall.   The premise is, like a lot of Apatow productions, overtly simplistic.  But we’ve all come to accept that it’s not the plot which makes Apatow comedies the best in the business right now, it’s the execution.

It’s the deft blend of raunchy comedy, male ego bashing, female bewilderment, but above all else the underlying pathos for the characters.  Despite all of their imperfections, whether it’s Seth Rogan’s manchild Ben Stone, or Steve Carrell’s ubermanchild Andy Stitzer, you can tell that Apatow loves them and wants us to love them as well.  That’s missing from a lot of comedies, especially from a lot of romantic comedies.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall seems to take the same approach.  The story of Peter Bretter (Jason Segel), takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex… and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend. The film also features Apatow regulars Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd and Bill Hader.

We love Kristen Bell and Jason Segel is so underrated on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.  They’ve both got great comedy chops and hopefully they can pull of this sort of romantic comedy.