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Jason Segel was an unlikely candidate to make the deal to reboot The Muppet franchise.
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That forced Segel to cut out a subplot where Kermit posed as an oil baron.
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The movie stars Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, making this their third film together.
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Segel, a big guy, handsome in a slightly sappy way, humiliates himself over and over, which is supposed to be endearing.
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Segel and Nicholas Stoller pitched the concept in 2008 for a Muppets film to Disney Executive Vice President of Production Kristin Burr.
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This confirms that Segel is both hilarious and adept at viral marketing.
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And actor Jason Segel giving away his phone number for free.
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Peter Bretter (Jason Segel), a Los Angeles composer, writes music for a ridiculous cop series on TV starring his girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell).
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Everything stalls the union of the thirtyish San Francisco couple formed by Tom Solomon (Jason Segel), a skilled sous-chef, and Violet Barnes (Emily Blunt), who has a Ph.
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Segel, 32, who says he obsessively watched those three original Muppet films while growing up in Southern California, lobbied hard to co-write and star in the new Muppet film.
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The film, which Judd Apatow produced, and which Segel co-wrote with the director, Nicholas Stoller, is a kind of commonplace contemporary American epic leisurely, episodic but pungent, densely populated, consistently funny, and, in the Apatovian spirit, foulmouthed and tenderhearted.
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