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Joblo Blows It Again

So I stumbled across this blog post on Joblo, second only to Ain’t It Cool News in terms of horrible entertainment “news” and “reviews,” where they suggest — without irony — that Arrested Development’s great Michael Cera was the original choice for the lead role in Knocked Up. But he was fired for being terrible, which the video shows. The hell?

The video itself is comedy gold that’s obviously a parody of the David O. Russell video, obviously fake, so why would anyone be stupid enough to post this as if it were legitimate? You’ll have to ask “James Thoo,” who posted it on Joblo. In case you can’t believe it based solely on the obviously-staged video, here is a mountain of evidence showing how full of shit it is:

1. Almost immediately after The 40-Year-Old Virgin became a smash hit, Judd Apatow announced his next movie would be a star vehicle for Seth Rogen, who was a genius on Apatow’s TV series Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared and was also pretty great in Virgin.
2. Michael Cera is starring in Superbad, a movie produced by Judd Apatow, which Seth Rogen costars in and cowrote.

I was actually going to go on with more information, but I realized that there’s absolutely nothing else that needs to be tossed out to show the utter fakeness of the video.

Way to go, Joblo. You’re almost giving Harry Knowles a run for his money.

Posted by Stan on May 29, 2007 7:54 AM  | Permalink | Random Musings | Digg It