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Can We Please All Be In Love With Jason Segel Now?

A photo of Jason Segel

But really, can we?  Did you see Forgetting Sarah Marshall? Have you seen Jason doing the Confrontation scene from Les Miserables with both Neil Patrick Harris and Paul Rudd?  I’m sure you don’t need additional reasons to fuel your love, but have you seen the cast list of the new Muppets movie, the one Jason Segel is writing and also starring in?  Amy Adams, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, with rumored guest appearances by Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Jack Black, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Krasinski, and probably every other celebrity you’ve ever heard of.  Jason Segel is getting to be a big deal, you guys, and he did a painfully adorable interview to prove it.

Who’s your favorite Muppet?
Fozzie Bear because he’s just so sweet.

When did you get into puppets?
I was young, I was in my early teens and I started writing little short films and I would use puppets as other actors because no one could drive at that point.

Did you have friends?
[Laughs] Yeah I did, I did! We were just too young to drive.

It’s sort of an odd thing to play with puppets.
Well I was an odd thing. I wore a Superman cape under my clothes until I was 12. I’m not the most normal dude.

How about now?
I literally have 10 or 15 puppets out in my living room right now.

Do you put them away when girls come over?
No! You don’t put them away, you’ve got to put it all out right in the beginning. You don’t want to pull out the puppets two months in. Now it’s my profession so it’s cool. There was a time when I was just a weirdo dude in his mid-20s playing with puppets.

Mission accomplished, right?  We’re all in love now?  All right. Christmas miracle.

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