Knocked up club song movie#

You just start thinking about guys with beards: I'll make a Cat Stevens joke, I'll make a Serpico joke, I'll make a Charles Manson joke, I'll make a Taliban joke. There's a DVD extra that has like 300 beard jokes on it.Īpatow: Who knew the beard was such fertile ground for comedy? We would write a bunch of them, but then Jonah Goldberg could make beard jokes for five straight hours, so none of that was difficult.

Rogen: Suddenly a stupid joke had thousands and thousands of dollars of man-hours put into it. Because every scene ended with one of us making fun of Martin's beard. Segel: It was also a real exercise in focus to try to think of 30 beard jokes a day.

Knocked up club song movie#

We thought we could chart the nine months based on Martin's beard length.Īpatow: It was scary because I thought, 'If I make Martin Starr grow a beard the entire movie and the joke bombs, I really destroyed the movie.' So I'm so happy our sea of beard jokes worked, because if it hadn't, it would have just sunk us. Segel: The thing I love about the beard is that at one point, we had the beard idea, and then it was done.

Rogen: We just thought it would be funny if Martin Starr was growing a beard the whole movie. We're sort of the backdrop to remind the audience that a month ago this guy was a pot-smoking, porn-watching clod. We're like the Greek chorus, you know? All of our advice is so different that we literally are no help whatsoever. Segel: The reality of the situation is that if you're a dude who gets a girl pregnant, the first thing you're doing is going to your friends and saying, 'What the fuck am I supposed to do?' And I think that's sort of the function we serve. I knew that even if I sucked, the movie would be good just because Katherine Heigl and Leslie Mann and all my roommates are so funny. Rogen: I was very happy with the rest of the cast. I just thought, 'He has his joke styles with everybody, so if I hire his real friends and they rehearse and improvise, it will sound exactly like what it does when Seth is hanging out with his buddies,' except maybe funnier, because I only pick the funny stuff. Once you're improvising for hours on end, you're just going to do what's funny and natural.'Īpatow: I think Seth has lived with almost every person that plays his friends in the movie. You will not all seem the same no matter what. Rogen: My friends would be like, 'Yeah, but am I the funny guy or the angry guy?' and I'm like, 'You're you. I don't think there will ever come a time where any version of this song doesn't make me cry.Knocked Up trailer courtesy of Universal Pictures It wasn't cut, and a version with the original lyrics had already been released on the What's Inside album Sara released before the musical premiered. She Used to be Mine: Not 100% sure why this is here. What Baking Can Do and What's Inside do exactly the same job this song would have. It further shows the kind of abuse Jenna's husband was subjecting her to, but You Will Still Be Mine did the same thing.įalling In Love Pie: Cute, but it makes sense that this was cut. I Can't Wait: I love this a lot, but cutting it makes sense. Still glad it got a release this way, though. It's beautiful, but a little too dramatic for Pomatter. Without a Believer: I said this on the thread for the Jeremy Jordan version of this song, but I can understand why this got cut in favor She Reminds Me of You. But I guess it doesn't really further the story much. Kinda wish they would have kept this over Club Knocked Up, if I'm honest. But I guess She Used to be Mine and Everything Changes serve the same purpose. This could have been a great moment of strength for Jenna, and it would have fit with the other Door songs. Jenna's husband is abusive, so Joe telling her she needs to work on 'being happy enough' with her life would have made him look like an asshole.ĭoor #3: I'm kinda sad this was cut. Happy Enough: Assuming this was meant to be sung by Old Joe, this song would have been off-putting in context. I really like these, but that's not surprising.