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Rogen and Carell are two examples of underknown talents with ordinary looks who were given lead roles in movies and instantly proved their pull as comedy stars; they could make the audience fall in laugh with them. Just now, they are two of a dozen or so movie comics who are giving the genre a clout it hasn't seen for decades--maybe since the great silent era of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn and their jolly colleagues aren't of Chaplin's artistic stature, but they are something...
...nice fellow who'd never managed to have sex triumphs over the prodding and baiting of his jerky friends (including Rogen and Rudd) and finds a compatible mate. But The Girl (Catherine Keener) was hardly a character at all; her only function was to unleash a hearty laugh whenever Carell passed a joke. Alison, granted, is more prominent and complicated here. But for all the lip service Apatow pays to the guy-gal plot of Knocked Up, he invests much more energy and affection in the scenes of Ben with his friends and, emphatically, with Pete...
...Rudd in Knocked Up is Ben's humane, hunky alternative to his lower-life-form friends, and a closer soulmate than Alison. He can't have sex with Pete, but Alison can't make him laugh so hard - which is what matters in a guy-centric comedy. Ben is tolerant of Alison's weaknesses but attracted to Ben's strengths. He's not the Other, which guys like Ben think of women; he's the better, cooler Ben. At the film's climax, the two go off to Vegas, again not to have sex but to do some "shrooms...
...went well and everything turned out to be excellent. I was a little bit nervous about the crowd and whether or not they'd get all the jokes, but I was lucky to have such great support from Lowell House and friends. I was happy about their graciousness to laugh when they were supposed to," McNamara said...
...part political dynamo, one part unrepentant lover, friends say. “I admire her sense of morality on a number of social issues. I envy her energy,” says Mark M. Higgins ’07. “And she has a great laugh.” “As a person, I’m really easy-going,” Provost insists. “There are things in this world I absolutely love.” Provost has a love-hate relationship with the market economy. Seated in the Dunster House courtyard...