our first guest stars in a new film entitled 50 50. it opens on Friday ladies and gentlemen
here he is the entertaining the very funny Seth Rogen Seth welcome back hello
you know I was looking today at uh what we call filmography or filmography filmography
yeah let's see your films and uh the the number of films you've made is impressive
and the variety and the nature of the film is also impressive and the money these things have
made is remarkable unbelievable I mean you're like the most powerful man in Hollywood right
that's not at all true uh but I really appreciate it uh yeah that's reserved for people much more
handsome than I am and people with wives and many kids uh of various ethnicities
well you should be very very proud of yourself because when you first started coming on the show
you were just a kid from Canada and you didn't really know what was going on I had no idea what
was going on that's right I didn't know my my butt for my elbow exactly and now I know all right now
see that now you've overdone I've overdone no that's fine and what is this picture here we got
a photo of you and uh your buddy and for a long time the question was well if you have the Seth
Rogen do you need Jonah Hill remember that yes it's true yeah and now we have both also very
successful and what were you guys doing together uh this is me getting extremely drunk and uh
and not having the wherewithal to know I shouldn't take pictures like this because
they wind up in People magazine uh and then my girlfriend sends them to me asking what
the hell did you do last night and the answer is what I'm doing is I'm
getting very drunk with the cast of the Jersey Shore as that picture is uh being
taken whoa which uh it's kind of like playing basketball with Michael Jordan it's like uh
they're good at it yeah
this brings up a couple of questions one hey had you lost a bet what happened uh
I actually like the Jersey Shore people like I I I unironically like I respect
them like I respect like a stunt man or like a rodeo clown or something like that
um because they they are putting their selves in physical danger for our entertainment they're
they're drinking things they shouldn't be drinking and they're having sex with things they shouldn't
be having sex with and they're at Great risk on a daily basis of communicable diseases and
alcohol poisoning and I and I honestly respect that right there it's great they're out there
getting it done for us that's right well I never looked at it it's quite like that
yeah I I I have no recollection of the night whatsoever but uh how did it begin it began me and
Jonah Hill were at the Video Music Awards which uh is really boring because I have never heard of any
of the musicians that are on there uh because I'm not 12 years old and uh and um so we decided to
get really drunk uh to combat the boredom and um we found uh the cast of the Jersey Shore sitting
nearby and shockingly they also seemed interested in getting really drunk and uh we thought we would
combine our efforts again it was like it was like an opportunity to play baseball with Mickey Mantle
even if you don't like baseball you don't turn down the opportunity and so any special memories
if you can remember anything I remember Dina Dina who's one of the Little Italian ones uh she uh she
she
uh she gave me something called the New Jersey Turnpike I'm told uh and I don't
know what it is but I've been tested for everything you can get tested for and uh
how did you mentioned your girlfriend how how is your girl and your fiance I'm sorry
your fiance I'm getting married getting married soon I'm getting married pretty
soon our wedding's approaching uh we're in the final throngs of the planning which is
nice uh I got a few things in there we got a video arcade at the wedding
um no no whatever at the actual service not at the service itself yeah we're standing in a video
arcade but uh it's it's funny like she asked me to make a list of the stuff I like really
kind of would want at the wedding and it was like a video arcade and like a Sunday bar and
like and I realized it's like Sunday I really it's like the exact same list a 12 year old
would make if he was like Sunday I wanted John Claude Van Damme to officiate it and uh that is
he gonna do that he is actually it's great yeah it's very exciting he's got ordained gonna be a
huge gonna be a huge wedding right it's gonna be pretty big uh yeah a lot of my fav when you're on
TV all the time you can't hide the fact that you're getting married when you talk about
on talk shows and stuff so I was gonna try to not invite my whole family but they know about
now this movie the 50 50 was it shot in your hometown of Vancouver it was it was shot in
Vancouver British Columbia where I'm from at a great City yeah thank you very much
now I read this afternoon that when you're up there uh you're acting in the film and you're
also a producer of the film yeah I'm one of the uh producers of the movie so so you're more than
just a Hired Gun here you're actually a person of authority I am and that you were visited on set
by a lot of your old buddies from Vancouver and they would come by and hand you a joint they would
yes they would have me uh a marijuana cigarette uh very offhandedly I guess you know I guess if
like you're Jared Fogle people hand you Subway sandwiches or something like that and and uh
now and uh now here's a question I've been wanting to ask you I remember six months ago a year ago uh
you're busy uh uh writing up the green uh Hornet yes and you went on our friend Howard Stern Show
yes and you and you mentioned that uh often you would write under the influence of marijuana that
is very correct yeah yeah now now at the time I said to myself does the studio know what they're
getting here the writer of the script and the star of the movie are creating something while they're
all baked yes very baked they do now uh apparently they must have known Howard but okay now here's
the question and and and as you suggest many of the characters you play in in films is a guy who's
often smoking marijuana yes in your own life yes what percentage of the day yeah are you loaded
uh I wake up and go to the bathroom so that takes 20 minutes I don't know how what
percentage 20 minutes is but subtract that from 100 and pretty much that amount of time really
no of course no no no no no no now what about you
so what about your fiance does she share this interest uh not really probably a little more
since she started dating me I think I'm a bad influence I either get you to start smoking weed
or I make you stop smoking weed I will do one of those two things to you now how old were you when
you began uh I was around 13 years old which is pretty young uh but I'm fine so I wouldn't worry
oh that's good and one one more question and we'll move
on I don't know what you're talking about all day
from the time you were 13 to your most recent experience yes have you noticed
that the strength of the uh weed is the weed yeah has gotten exponentially stronger uh to
the point that it is a little startling at times what past what they can grow out of the ground
these days I mean this is really impressive that comes from dirt and water that's amazing
I could drive you insane yeah and and do you like the stronger version of it it's gotten
I've I've hit my limit I've realized I've had to downgrade from I used to go and just
give me the strongest you got and now that's too strong so I can't do that anymore and uh
where do you get it
we'll talk after have you have you ever had uh experiences where you thought well hello this
not quite right yeah um there's been times I really wish I wasn't stoned uh one time uh I
was I was uh driving my car in traffic and a bee flew in it and I freaked out uh and I drove into
the person in front of me and I tried to blame the B legally I tried to make my case that it
was the Beast ball and how'd that go not too good actually yeah well tell me about the uh
uh I saw this uh film and I I thought it was a uh a wonderful choice for a story and it is a
true story isn't it yeah and you know the fella who wrote the story right yeah he's one of my
best friends uh six years ago I was a writer for the Ali G show on HBO and uh one of them I made
good yeah come on give it up for him he's great I'll take that um and uh and one of my uh and
and there was another guy who was around my age who was a writer and we became good friends and
shortly after uh he found out he had a massive tumor on his spine uh which is not funny but
um we we realized that the best way to deal with it because we were I was 23 years old was
we just kind of made jokes about it all the time because we didn't want to talk about how we felt
um and and at the same time no one knew how to react and when he got better uh we realized that
we'd never really seen a movie that kind of reflected our experience and and what
it was like for a young person to go through this and still do date girls and still have
a job and still have friends that were obnoxious and and to us that was it was really interesting
and so we thought we'd try to make a movie out of it which thank God turned out pretty good
because if he had cancer and we made a bad movie out of it it would have really sucked
um and and the the guy the your friend is is okay he's in remission he's completely
in remission and he's totally good and he's a movie writer now so that's good
you know the part about the first girlfriend is that all true or is that uh you know is that
just like a rodeo it's kind of uh it's it's fabricated but it's based on some
people that Will was friends with just kind of bailed on him uh unfortunately
um and uh and and and I was actually his friend at the time that's all true and I kind of would
try to use his cancer for things that were maybe not self-serving things that could benefit both
of us we uh uh use it to meet women I I tried I actually met my fiancee while will was sick at a
bar and he introduced us and it must have made me look pretty sympathetic and inspirational I
would imagine because I was at a bar with my friend with cancer I was being funny and nice
to him and it was I think I came across pretty good yeah nice going thank you so the movie 50
50. let's see a clip here Seth what's this going to be uh this is in the movie uh reflective of
that this is a scene where I finally convinced him to go out to a bar and try to make and when
you say him who are we talking this is Joseph Gordon-Levitt who plays uh my friend uh does a
fine job he's amazing he's really an incredible actor so we're trying to use the cancer at a bar
to pick up women here we go 50 50 opens Friday Seth Rogen 50 50. nice to see you thank you so
much if I'm not invited to the wedding and it happens soon my best to you and your wife
thank you so much thank you very much we'll be right back with Poppy Montgomery everybody
actually