My favorite part:

“I did a weird, ballsy move,” Segel says. “My first move, now that I’m successful, was to call Disney and tell them I wanted to write the new Muppet movie. People thought I was nuts. It was met with silence and a weird spattering of laughter. And I was like, ‘No, I’m serious, guys.’”

[Thanks Cora and Jack for sending in this tip]

Carala, sent me an email the other day about a site she found showing “15 Stars In Their Favorite T-Shirt“. I didn’t check it out until now, but it’s pretty cool. I know there are several of you who have mentioned how you like the t-shirts they wear on HIMYM and while I don’t recognize any of these from the show, it’s still pretty cool. Our friends Jason, Alyson, and Neil are in the slide show, each with a short description of why they like their shirt. I’m a huge rubber ducky fan (at one point I had 29 in my bathroom) so I’m especially fond of Alyson’s shirt. If anyone knows where I can get it let me know!

I really like the recent trend in creating auxiliary websites for a show.  They are nice little nuggets for those of us that obsess about a show, and they offer just another way to attract more viewers.  Not to mention they make these characters seem just a little bit more real.  This site, the slap bet count down, along with all the character’s myspace pages give us another way to observe/interact with the characters we only get to see for 30 minutes a week.  Keep it up CBS!

There are two things I want to touch on.  One, Jason makes a comment that most of the guys that like is work are a “interesting dudes” and that run of the mill people think he is boring.  The way he says it, it sounds like he’s saying he gets a bunch of freaks who follow his work.  I love most of the stuff he’s done but don’t consider myself a weird guy.  What do you think?  Am I just reading too much into this, or is that what you thought too?

Secondly, He talks about how on some of his other projects, he does a good bit of improv in. Do you think Bays and Thomas allow the same amount of improv?
Give it a listen below but be warned there are a couple naughty words.

[Thanks Cora for the tip]

Even though it did not quite last a season, your first series, Freaks and Geeks became a real cult success since it was on the air. What was it like to work on and were you surprised by how it has stayed popular years after its run?

Yeah. That really changed my life. That was, in a lot of ways, the start of my career. I met Judd Apatow doing Freaks and Geeks. Judd taught me how to write and I’ve written quite a bit since then. I’m on my third script, now. One of them is with Judd at Universal, hopefully to be done this hiatus. We did that together, and then we did Undeclared, and we did a pilot together that didn’t get picked up, called North Hollywood. We just finished a movie called Knocked Up. So, I think more than anything, it was meeting Judd during that period that changed my life. He’s been a real mentor to me.

They also talk about the “Aunt Robin” line and how the writers were a little disapointed they had written them into this corner for the entirety of the show. Jason does remind us that they are both incredible writers and they could surely write a way out of that first episode line. We’ll just have to see!

[Thanks KM for sending this in!]

[Thanks Cora]

In honor of Jason’s birthday today I decided to post a little bit of info I found by chance the other day. For some reason unbeknown to me, I rented the TV show “Undeclared” from Netflix the other day and watched it. Boy was I surprised to see our number one pirate in a lead role. Jason Segel plays one of the lead actress’s whiny-way-too-emotional boyfriend on the show and does a great job of selling his role. The show itself is pretty lame, filled with bad actors/acting but Jason and one or two others really sell their role. I guess Jason was just born to play the sweet boyfriend type roles.

I know he was also in a show called “Freaks and Geeks” but I haven’t seen it yet. What else have you seen any of the HIMYM cast in? Got a screen capture? Send it in! ben (at) howimetyourblog (dot com).

I’m thinking about having a party in honor of our birthday boy (ok, so I’ll use anything as an excuse for a party), but not sure how to correctly celebrate. What do you think? How should I, or how are you, going to celebrate Jason’s birthday?