EVERYONE WANTS TO BE FRIENDS WITH
BY CARL KOZLOWSKI
PAMELA LITTKY
W 68 / RELEVANT_MAR/APR 12
ITH HIS LANKY FRAME and hangdog face, Jason Segel knew early in his career that he didn’t have the conventional looks of a leading man. But when he was cast as one of the leads in the high school dramedy Freaks and Geeks in 2000, his life changed dramatically. That’s because the Freaks producer Judd Apatow taught Segel that if he could write a great script for himself, he’d
be able to play to his strengths. Along with his Freaks co-star Seth Rogen, Segel has taken that advice and established himself as a top comic power—and leading man. You can see Segel on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, where he has been part of one of the best casts in network TV