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...Nicholas A. Stoller ’98, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” has all the elements of a romantic comedy, mixed with Apatow’s penchant for ribald laughs, vulgar language, and nudity. Segel plays Peter Bretter, a grown-up version of his lovable oaf character from “Freaks and Geeks.” Peter, a struggling composer, is devastated when his beautiful, TV-star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall, breaks up with him. To get over his ex, Peter takes the advice of his brother and jets off to Hawaii. Upon his arrival, he learns...
...like the big goofy friend everyone loved growing up. “I’ve been this height since I was twelve,” he said. “Kids used to stand around me in a circle and chant ‘Ride the Oaf, Ride the Oaf,’ but even then I thought that that was hilarious… I guess I just see life funny.” In high school, Segel was a state championship basketball player with a slight interest in theater. He acted in his first play after stumbling upon...
...only star who simmers with comic angst is Stiller. He's the put-upon loser, a jocular Job, in films like There's Something About Mary and Night at the Museum, when he's not taking roles as the pompous, uptight bad guy (in, say, Dodgeball) or the preening oaf, as in the well-nigh-immortal Zoolander. The moneymen love Stiller too, because he's the rare comic star with international box-office clout...
Next, all the way down Plympton Street, bustling Leverett, once an oaf among dining halls and now a prize, also turns you away...
...cigars. I want to make clear that I'm not a lout or an oaf. I don't puff cigars at people. I don't smoke in the presence of others. I only smoke them at home...