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If you’re a huge Jason Segel fan (and I assume you are for checking out this site), then you’ve probably already seen Bad Teacher since its theater debut on June 24th. If you didn’t, however, I suggest you wait a few months, go to RedBox, and only really pay attention to the scenes with Jason in them. The rest of the movie is really hit or miss.

This movie is a typical romantic comedy. Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is a super spoiled, stuck up, 30-something who became a teacher so she could have summers off and barely do any work. When her rich fiance breaks it off, she tries to latch onto her oh so sweet co-worker, Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake) because, well, he’s rich too. Scott instead goes after Amy Squirrel (Lucy Punch), a goody-goody teacher who knows Elizabeth’s games of trying to steal money to get a boob job (because having larger breasts will make finding a rich husband easier, of course). After an hour and a half of Elizabeth doing ridiculous things and being a not-so-nice person, Russell Gettis (Jason Segel), a mere gym teacher, somehow convinces her to stop being so selfish and to date him. Yea, I know I’m not supposed to give away the ending, but it’s a romcom…what do you expect?

So, if I was going to rate this out of 5 stars, I’d give it a 3, and it would be lower if Jason Segel wasn’t in it. Timberlake and Punch (who I have not even heard of until I saw this movie) were absolutely perfect for their characters – both very smart and necessary for the story. Diaz, however, was a little too into her character, if that makes any sense. Too annoying, too needy, too self-centered. There were definitely some funny parts, and she plays this role well, but I wasn’t too impressed with the character or plot in general.

Segel, on the other hand, was perfection. Every line he had was charming, witty, and hilarious. He’s barely in the first half of the movie, but because of how great his character is, I think it’s worth the 45 minute wait.

So, if you’re not a diehard Segel fan, this movie is one you can skip (unless you’re dying to see Cameron Diaz dress like a scandalous teenager or you’re secretly obsessed with JT).

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of going to Empire Big Screen at the O2- an all weekend film event. The absolute highlight of the weekend was baring witness to an exclusive preview clip from my most anticipated movie- The Muppets. One word- AMAZING! The only disappointment was that Jason, himself, could not attend and there was not much mention of him during the session.

Empire have written a description of the clip in the article below so for those of you who don’t want any spoilers- look away now!

It’s a rare treat when Kermit the Frog personally introduces a world-first clip from his new movie, and an even bigger one when he does it live from New York. When it turns out to be as funny, charming and generally awesome as the ten minutes of The Muppets that Big Screen witnessed on Sunday, the superlatives run out. We’d love to be able to post it for you in actual, video form but we’d be clamped in irons, so here’s a verbal breakdown as a taster of what to expect. Read the rest @ Empire

This clip genuinely brought a tear to my eye and made the anticipation for the release even greater. Jason has certainly maintained what was so great about The Muppets and it will no doubt be a great addition to the Muppets franchise.

It’s been more than ten years since Jim Henson’s creation, The Muppets, have been featured in a full length movie. Starting this Thanksgiving, Jason Segel is going to change that.

Jason Segel on set with the Muppets

In a recent interview with PopSugar.com, Jason has expressed how making a Muppet movie has always been his life long dream, “Once the studio said they were going to make it, everyone in my life was like, ‘All right! Whatever you need. Let’s get this thing made.’ Because I’ve had puppets and Muppet figurines in my house, in my bedroom, since I was a kid. I’m not an arrogant dude, but to be even the tiniest footnote in the Muppets lineage is nuts to me. That is insane! So I feel very honored.”

Well his dream will hit American theaters on November 23 and is directed by James Bobin (Flight of the Concords) and written by Jason and Nick Stoller. Including all your favorite Muppets and Jason, the movie also stars Chris Cooper and Amy Adams. Jason also told PopSugar.com that Amy Adams was his ideal choice to play his love interset by saying, “I wrote it for her. She was in my mind from the beginning, ever since I saw Enchanted. The role is very different, but first of all, she’s like the best actress alive. To go from Enchanted to Doubt, and The Fighter, this woman can do anything. I don’t know what we would have done if we haven’t gotten her.” Including the big stars, the movie will also feature signature cameos throughout the movie. When talking about cameos Jason in the same interview said, “I got a lot off calls, especially my contemporaries who have kids all wanted to be a part of it for their kids. The idea of bringing their kids to meet the Muppets, or even to be able to show them the movie eventually. People love the Muppets. There’s a lot of muppet love out there.” Some of the confirmed cameos include Neil Patrick Harris, Jack Black, Rashida Jones, Emily Blunt, and Zach Gallifinaskis. Jason plays Gary, a naive guy from Smalltown, USA who lives with his long time girlfriend, Mary,(Adams) and his best friend, Walter, who happens to be the world’s biggest Muppet fans. The three Muppets fanatics decide to take a vacation to Los Angeles to visit the old, famed Muppet theater. But when they get there, they discover a terrible secret. There is a big oil reserve located under the theater and oil tycoon Tex Richman,(Cooper) is going to start drilling under the theater. The only way to save the theater is to reunite the Muppet gang, put on a telethon called,’The Greatest Muppet Show Ever,’ and raise 10 million dollars. This is easier said than done though, as the gang has headed done seperate paths over the years. Fozzie now plays in a Vegas tribute band called the Moopets. Miss Piggy is know a plus size fashion editor at Vogue Paris. Animal is in a Santa Barbara anger management clinic and Gonzo is working for a very powerful plumbing company. Can Kermit, Walter, Mary, and Gary reunite the gang in time to save their old stomping grounds before total destruction or will their efforts be hopeless?

Let me know what you think and if there’s any other article ideas you have or any editorials just let me know and I’ll start working on them. Thanks for your time! Anna

He’s the lovable goof Marshall on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother and is also the voice of a pint-sized super-villain with a shrink ray in Despicable Me. And now actor Jason Segel plays a ‘little guy’ in Jack Black’s latest film, Gulliver’s Travels. Excerpts from an interview…

How was it playing the main Liliputian in Jack Black’s film?
I’m in Jack’s pocket for a lot of it or standing on his shoulder or riding on his shoe. There were a lot of times when I was just acting to a tennis ball or something like that, but it was a really cool experience.

At 6’4, you’re this tall guy in real life, and the irony is not lost on many…
I tried really hard to put in a joke that I’m the tallest Liliputian, but it just didn’t translate. We’re all so little that a height difference of like 8 inches becomes literally millimeters when you’re looking at it in that scale. The joke didn’t translate unfortunately.

How much has How I Met Your Mother helped in getting you out there in the acting world?
It’s interesting, everything came together just at the right time. The first season of How I Met Your Mother was the same year I did Knocked Up, and season 2 was the year I did Sarah Marshall.Everything changed for me all at once. It’s a little hard for me to differentiate what did what, but everything came together really to be honest just when I needed it to. I was getting pretty close to feeling like it wasn’t going to pan out.

How close did you get?
I have no other discernable skills, so while mentally I might have gotten close, there really was a thought like, what was I going to do? I wasn’t going to go back to college at 26. I really didn’t have much to fall back on, so thank God it worked out.

What’re your future projects in hand?
I have co-written and also star in The Muppets, for which we are currently shooting too.

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Funnyman Jason Segel’s quirky humour is all thanks to his mother’s unorthodox parenting techniques – she had odd ways of punishing her young son. The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star’s mum would make her son watch depressing movies like Being There if he wanted to skip school and she once humiliated him after he was caught stealing a kiss from a classmate on a cinema trip.

Segel recalls, “It was right during puberty time… and you’re in a darkened theatre, so I ended up kissing the girl sitting next to me, who was in my class and I got in trouble, I got suspended. When I came home my mom wouldn’t speak to me but she had drawn pictures of me everywhere with the word ‘Pervert’ underneath.

“I had a little of that growing up and it makes you funny – I promise.” But he adds, “I also wore a Superman cape under my clothes until I was 12 years old… In my little kid brain, it was just in case.”

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Just in time for the holidays, Jack Black stars in an adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s 18th-century classic, “Gulliver’s Travels,” with a contemporary spin added to the source material. One of his co-stars, Jason Segel (of “Forgetting Sarah Marshal” and CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother” fame) recently spoke to CBSNews.com’s Ken Lombardi about this new family-friendly film and about his next collaboration with frequent comedic partner, Judd Apatow.

While watching the film, I thought to myself, ‘his neck must have hurt so much’ [from constantly having to look up at a giant-sized Jack Black].
Yeah, there is a lot of looking up, but luckily I am the same size as everyone in Lilliput [the miniature-sized region in which Gulliver finds himself], so Jack had to do a lot more looking down than I had to do looking up. But I did do a fair amount of looking up.

[Since Jack Black plays a giant and Jason plays a thumb-sized person] How did you and Jack film those scenes together?
We shot most of the scenes separately. On separate soundstages at separate times. But we would always go and be there for each other off-camera. So we did act quite a bit together, just not necessarily on-camera. But there are a couple scenes where they invented a special rig called the dual-Moco Roco. A dual motion-controlled remote control camera…that’s the real name. So we were on separate sound stages doing the same things at the same time with two cameras moving at different times. So we could just hear each other.

Tell me a little bit about your character [in "Gulliver's Travels"], Horatio. What is he like? Where did he come from?
Well, Horatio basically is a really, really sweet commoner who is imprisoned in Lilliput for flirting with the Princess…Princess Mary played by Emily Blunt. The Lilliputians, by nature, are a bit naive and very trusting. And so that part was easy, then you just do this face. This is a naive innocent face [intimates a quizzical facial gesture]. Then I added whenever I had to deal with the Princess, which separately is this face [another facial gesture], so then I put them together and I got basically this face [final sad-faced gesture.]

[Laughs] Did you read “Gulliver’s Travels” at all before this?
I read the Cliffs Notes in junior high, I think that’s the best I can say. Then once I got the part, of course, I read it over and over and over again. [He's joking.]

This is one of your first PG-rated starring movies?
Yeah, and “Dispacable Me.” This is my second family film. And, “The Muppets,” which comes out next year, will also be PG. So, I’m riding the family wave for a minute.

Do you like that? Kind of transitioning from more adult humor to—
Well, I’m trying to keep it mixed up. I also have a hard R-rated comedy called “Bad Teacher,” coming out next year. And another R-rated-kind-of-drama with Susan Sarandon and Ed Helms. So, I’m just trying to keep it mixed up. I don’t want people to be able to say, ‘THIS is what Jason does.’

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It seems that “The Muppets” movie has more questions surrounding it than potential guest stars, so MTV’s Josh Horowitz decided to set the record straight when he sat down with the film’s star Jason Segel while he was promoting “Gulliver’s Travels.” Fortunately, Segel was able to answer several of the most important questions surrounding the upcoming film, but not the most important one: Will the Dracula musical make an appearance in the movie? Fingers crossed!

Jason Segel insists he, Seth Rogen and James Franco have filmmaker Judd Apatow’s defiant attitude to thank for their fame – because he was determined to turn them into stars after TV show Freaks And Geeks was cancelled.

Apatow was upset when the cult show was axed and threatened to show TV bosses just what talent they had let slip through their fingers – by turning the members of his cast into big stars.

Segel explains, “I met Judd at the right time and got really lucky. I can boil it down to that! When Freaks and Geeks got cancelled Judd got pissed and was like, ‘These guys are good and I’ll tell you what; I’m gonna show you guys how dumb you are by making each one of these guys stars.’

“He had no reason besides that. It’s not like Seth and I are screaming to be leading men. Franco obviously was gonna be fine, but Seth and I, it wouldn’t have been an easy road for us, or Jonah (Hill). But Judd decided to prove to the studios that they were wrong. It was just Judd having a Count of Monte Cristo style reaction to being cancelled.”

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