Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: NPR

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When you see Jason Segel on the screen, he often plays someone’s best friend, or maybe a head man. His characters are sincere and very endearing.
He made his debut on the screen at the end of his adolescence, when he played alongside James Franco and Seth Rogen in the short -term cult television show: Monsters and Geeks. Jason played Nick Andopolis, a charming slacker from a suburb of Michigan with dreams of being a rock star. From there he won a bunch of other roles in how I Met Your Mother,, I love you, guyAnd OverturnedTo name only a few. He is also a truly talented writer. He wrote and relaunched MUPPETS For a new generation.
His first writing concert was romantic comedy Forget Sarah Marshall. There was the musician in difficulty Peter Bretter. The film begins with a breakup and ends with a musical on Dracula.
These days you can catch Jason Segel Contraction. It is a comedy in which Jason plays a therapist who, while crying the death of his wife, decides to adopt a new approach with his customers. Instead of retaining judgment, he offers it freely and he is very involved, very involved in the lives of his patients. What could go wrong?
When Jason spoke with Bullseye in 2020, he had just created and playing in a very different show: Dispatches elsewhere. He follows the life of a group of ordinary people who discover a hidden world.
Jason spoke to Bullseye of the way he works the humor in the tone of a show like Dispatch elsewhere. In addition, everything on Monsters and geeks, And what makes Dracula’s song forget Sarah Marshall works.



