Jason Segel is on a hit TV show (“How I Met Your Mother”) and has a host of movies in various stages of completion – including the new “Despicable Me” – but he recently found the time to appear at a San Francisco comedy event, providing dramatic readings from pop-star autobiographies.
“I filled in for a friend and it ended up being a blast,” he says of his first standup-esque experience. “I did the Jonas Brothers and I think it was David Cassidy – it was one of the Partridges – and Tommy Lee.” Was it difficult to keep the Jonas and Lee memoirs separated in his mind? “Absolutely, they have very similar lifestyles.”
He takes a moment to reflect on the most important life lesson he picked up: “Don’t write an autobiography when you’re still in your 20s.”