Seth Rogen vs. Simon Pegg

I like them both but my first instinct is Rogan. I'd rather hang out with him.

would chill w/ both bros, tbh

both of them are pretty limited as actors and rogen didn't really work in 'green goblin' or whatever it was

but he's funnier than pegg in 'paul', which really shows up pegg's limitations as a writer when working apart from edgar wright/jessica surname/someone who isn't nick frost

Pegg seems more versatile to me, in that his his Hot Fuzz character's totally different from his Shaun of the Dead character, etc. although he definitely has an identifiable default mode. Rogen is all default all the time, and when he tries to take it in a different direction (Observe and Report) or do something wacky (like the dual roles in ugh Fanboys) it's just embarrassing imo, so having liked and disliked plenty of things by both of them, i think that tips the scales toward Pegg for me.

Pegg. Rogan seems like a nice guy though.

that's a good point about 'hot fuzz'. i like em both but basically just saw 'paul' and it's kind of a stinker in which rogen, while not redeeming it entirely, does a lot better than the rest. it's a bit like 'the invention of lying', where gervais was able to get all these stellar cameos -- the same people, even -- to basically do nothing good.

I always think that Rogen has done more really funny shit than Pegg but seeing it laid out like that I'm not so sure, Rogen has fallen off more than I thought. But obviously Pegg's fallen off massively as well.

But actually I'd rather watch Pineapple Express or Superbad again than anything Pegg's been in, including Spaced. H8 Knocked Up.

Shit, this is tough... leaning Rogen though, if only because Simon Pegg feels so overexposed over here, not to mention too old for his schtick now.

not to mention too old for his schtick now

this is a big part of it. 'shaun' is about a guy in his late twenties who has to choose having a girlfriend over being a geeky teenager, kind of thing. in 'paul' he's 40, getting fat, and still doing the same shit. the look isn't getting any more good.

slimmed-down rogen is sort of wrong, on the other hand.

Can you just get away with being a comedy stoner loser for longer if you're American?

brogen is only 28

voting pegg cause his rise from nerdy sketch-com to re-booted scotty seems more extraordinary.

don't imagine Rogen will get any further from geeky stoner loser roles in the next 10 years

don't imagine Rogen will get any further from geeky stoner loser roles in the next 10 years

― some dude, Monday, February 7, 2011 4:40 PM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark

well, he's tried. 'funny people' didn't quite work for me, but basically rogen is working with sarah polley on some film, and doing some thing about cancer that i guess may have him as a stoner geek, but otoh might not.

it looks like in Live With It he plays the 'comedic best friend' of someone with cancer so yeah, don't think it'll be very outside the box for him. and really even his non-typical roles tend to be the kind of thing where i think yeah that idea would totally appeal to a nerdy stoner, if that makes any sense.

I vote Spaced.

Pegg as a writer and bro i'd like to hang out with >>>>> Rogan as the same, even if I did like Superbad.

pegg easy - more likable, more versatile, less overexposed (for americans anyway)

kinda sick of rogen at this point

same

He needs to disappear for a while definitely.

Although, like I said upthread, I'd want to hang out with SR more I voted Pegg because I think that overall he's more talented and way less of a one trick pony.

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Pegg is much much funnier IMO...haven't seen the movie "Paul" yet but Hot Fuzz/Shaun are great and his work on Spaced and Big Train is incredible...BTW Big Train has got to be the most hit or miss sketch comedy show ever, it's decent overall but when it was on it was really hilarious.

Spaced > Hot Fuzz > Shaun imo - haven't seen either Big Train or Paul

saw Spaced after the Wright movies and was kinda underwhelmed, felt like a dry run for the flicks tbh

Big Train isn't so much "hit or miss" as "started off with 3 or 4 classic episodes then went straight to shit".

X-post Yeah, I mean, spaced is totally different but I loved it. I think I've watched the whole series at least twice now.

I'll be honest I don't remember which episodes of Big Train were what...I watched the whole series once and just watched the individual sketches on Youtube. The "Tom Henderson" bit cracks me up everytime. Everything about it is perfect. I remember that even Season 2 had its moments though it was clearly weaker. Come to think of it, Spaced was mostly the same way. Some really great parts, some of it cringe-worthy, but overall I thought it was a good watch. I think the atmosphere of the show was really great, it seemed like a great world to live in if you catch my drift.

pegg didn't write 'big train', i don't think. 'spaced' was epic tho, wtf. (guess i haven't seen it in a long-ass time tho.) it surprises me how much i like this stuff, because im not a sci-fi/comix/______ person and don't identify much with rogen's character(s). i only saw it two weeks ago but now cannot remember a damned thing worth remembering about 'green hornet'.

I know he didn't write it but I thought his acting (along with Mark Heap) was what really made the show.

I saw Green Hornet too...that and Superbad were what really kind of put Rogan into obnoxious territory for me; he's definitely funny but he doesn't really work as a leading man IMO which is something Pegg is totally fine with.

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shd re-do this after 'paul'

woah

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I'm sorry but Freaks and Geeks is better than anything Simon Pegg has been or will ever be in

L-R: Dr. Morbius, ILX

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Also Shakey Mo OTM

lol at that cartoon

I think you mean R-L

I'm sorry but Freaks and Geeks is better than anything Simon Pegg has been or will ever be in

― never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 16, 2011 7:11 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

love F&G but Rogen deserves way less credit for that show than Pegg deserves for his best projects

also Paul might suck but i can't imagine it lowering my opinion of Pegg any more than Big Nothing or How To Lose Friends And Alienate People did.

Observe and Report was hella underrated.

^^^

O&R was trash

did ne1 see that film pegg did with andy serkis, 'burk and hare'?

i might revisit 'o&r'. it wasn't trash, but it wasn't funny enough either. remember when anna faris was the critics' darling? ah, the late 00s.

she is no longer in movies. what was the deal w/ the girl w/ the had who ~loved~ him? kindof thought the rogen was looking fine in this movie even tho he was supposed to look shit i guess o well. it was darker and meaner than i expected and i liked that.

I watched O&R a couple months ago and didn't really like it at all.

these ppl are fucking waste jesus ilx

posts v much in character?

these ppl are fucking waste jesus ilx

― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:43 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

wha?

not saying everything they touch is gold, but dude

http://th06.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/023/b/6/seth_rogen_by_evilcarrots-d37u71a.jpg

ok

simon pegg seems p hateful to me like somebody who raises his voice using the phone on public transport. rogen seems like a dude who'll drink beer w/ u first time you offer and say thank you in a way that seems genuine and satisfying. rogen in a <3beat

srsly

haven't seen any of their fims/tv/products but judging by trailers/faces they are lmstrm ledges

i saw burke and hare, which was p terrible - incredibly old-fashioned, lots of bad 'comic' performances from ppl like bill bailey and ronnie corbett, the two leads struggling v. hard to make their characters likeable cheeky chappies who are forced by circumstance to indulge in a bit of murder and grave-robbin'. written by the same guys who wrote the modern st trinians movies, so...

simon pegg looks like someone with a little house in stroud green and seth rogen looks like a trainee psychiatric nurse on probation for some act of public indecency

haven't seen any of their fims/tv/products

calling bullshit

someone with a little house in stroud green

is this...bad?

not necesarily!

idk thats not really hard i hadnt seen superbad until just before o+r hit cinemas and it was the first rogen i had seen since f+g

as it goes i think pegg is probably an irl tool, but he was funny at one point. rogen seems chill but that could be the hollywood PR system working its evil magic.

ya i've def not seen anything with either of them

the rogen ws factor is probably leaning me further in his direction than i otherwise might but pegg is dreadful and that lose friends movie seems a good encapsulation of all that is terrible and objectionable about his personality/cosmic essence

simon pegg looks like someone with a little house in stroud green

Impressed by your geographical precision.

Where's his big house then?

ya idk i feel crouch end is a lil more alt? but basically if u walk around suburban london u probably see millions of these ppl, possibly without the 'englishman in cannes' radiation burn look

http://i.imgur.com/Z7E90.jpg

i mean i assume he is basically not a bad person, whereas rogen is obviously depraved

I'm surprised anyone could get upset by Simon Pegg, seems like an inoffensive sorta bloke, but I suppose that's ILX for ya

'the cult of the aggressively inoffensive bloke' (c) history mayne iirc

When is Pegg going to stop dressing like a teenager?

guessing he will be a kinda media/it person who is still somewhere between kidult and alt dad but will have moved to hertfordshire and be a libdem activist within the decade

haven't seen any of their fims/tv/products but judging by trailers/faces they are lmstrm ledges

should i be offended here?

hi ledge! idk, which type of ledge r u?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/477860900_7f6c720135.jpg

or

http://i.imgur.com/XHqJ7.png

When is Pegg going to stop dressing like a teenager?

When Richard Hammond gets a haircut

xp definitely a

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great poll

thanks!

has anyone seen paul?

"Seth Rogen is, to be terribly frank, this R-rated dramedy's malignant tumor."

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/50-50/5788

that's pretty damn harsh. I never had a problem with Rogan, I just think he gets way too much license to ad-lib and I struggle to think of any movie he's really been good in, while Fuzz and Shaun are total classics that I'm sure will hold up very well

also, Simon was involved in one of the greatest comedy sketches of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0TZxFQaXkc

I find Rogen's laugh really annoying.

Super annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPkk9Pv3aVM

No idea who Simon Pegg is but props to Seth Rogen for his Twitter beef with Ted Cruz:

If you’re a white supremacist fascist who doesn’t find it offensive when someone calls your wife ugly, Ted Cruz is the exact motherfucker for you. https://t.co/w4zdynI2V9

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 21, 2021

yeah this has been highly entertaining. Cruz is so fucking stupid.

Pegg most famously made Shaun of the Dead, pomenitul.

Rings a bell, but I'm a total philistine when it comes to this stuff.

Anyway, I'm amused by the fact that this is a showdown between a Canadian and an ex-Canadian.

Seth Rogen says critics would write differently if they knew how devastating bad reviews are for actors

"I’m at the point in my career where not a lot of people are in a position to yell at me in my job, but the New York Times will publish an entire article saying I suck at my job"

"I worked my way up to not having to deal with that much personal conflict face to face, but I will have a cultural institution tell everyone that I suck"

"If most critics knew how much it hurt the people that made the things they are writing about, they would second guess the way they write these things. It’s devastating"

I loved this guy on Freaks and Geeks but he's been such a fucking disappointment ever since.

cool! glad you wanted to revive a five year old thread so we could know this!

Discovered “Platonic” this month, delightful watch

that new The Invite thing looks like it could be good, in a small chamber-piece sorta.. directed by Olivia Wilde who also stars in it

xxpost You know you don't to read every thread that's revived.

saying that seth rogen has been a fucking disappointment since freaks & geeks is a pretty hilarious and insane position to hold, and i say that at someone who basically passively enjoys seth rogen like the rest of america. i just can't imagine looking at his career since he was a teenager and coming to that conclusion but such is what makes ILX wonderful i suppose

the invite is pretty funny and seth is pretty fantastic in it

I don't think it's insane position--he hasn't done anything enjoyable and he's a misogynist asshole pothead.

decent ceramicist, tho

he's probably the first creative person to hold that opinion about critics

yeah but it's this: I worked my way up to not having to deal with that much personal conflict face to face.

Seems like maybe a problem.

It's like "I earned my bubble! I only want to hear from sycophants."

There are few celebs I unabashedly adore more than Seth Rogan. Could be locational. He's so beloved in Vancouver that they got him to voice all the transit alerts.

looks like we have a diversity of opinions here!

it feels like a very mildly problematic statement, especially compared to all the musicians and actors who have embraced the fash in our troubled times. I respect a lot of other viewpoints Rogen has espoused.

I'm also probably biased for the guy, we went to the same summer camp. I wasn't crazy about the Studio and American Pickle might be the worst movie I've seen this century. But I like that he's trying stuff! Sometimes he's very funny!

199something-2011 Simon Pegg
2012-2026 Seth Rogen

Simon Pegg called for the troops to be sent in during the London riots, if we want to judge these guys by their dumbest statements.

he hasn't done anything enjoyable and he's a misogynist asshole pothead.

― every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in f (President Keyes), Tuesday, June 30, 2026 1:06 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago)

this feels inaccurate to me on a few levels also is smoking weed as bad as being a misogynist

i gotta say i wasn't aware that anyone had this strong of on opinion on seth rogen

Threads you assume you posted on at the time but then are relieved to find you didn't lol

It's like "I earned my bubble! I only want to hear from sycophants."

― every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in f (President Keyes), Tuesday, June 30, 2026 12:17 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ehh I don't think that's really what he was trying to say, in most interviews I've seen with him he's pretty candid about how the industry works and recognizes that the vast majority of his success was just being at the right place at the right time

I actually think he’s fairly self aware like that, The Studio feels very much like the type of project put together by a guy with deep fears of being seen as an inadequate phony within this specific industry.

It felt to me like a project put together by a brilliant team of people with a terrific show on the brain

Weird thread. Anyway, I looked at their respective filmographies and both are packed with movies I've never seen, will never see, or will never see again, but I guess there are more Pegg credits I'd watch again than Rogan credits.

I don’t even mean that in an insulting way, as much as a guy coming to terms with his own fears in a way

I also think generally he’s correct in this opinion. It’s not hard to simply critique in an even handed manner and not say nasty personal shit.

Well, he’s also the guy who publicly moaned for years about an actress daring to describe the way he wrote her part kind of sexist. So criticism is really not his thing.

Rogen's fine. The last time I saw him was in Spielberg's The Fabelmans: he was more than solid -- importantly, he was plausible -- as a guy who'd have an affair with Michelle Williams, married to best friend Paul Dano.

Oddly enough, not the first movie in which he was plausibly coupled with Williams!

I feel like Pegg as a filmmaker is a lot more distinctive a talent, kind of an auteur in his own way

I haven't seen anything he's done since World's End

Disliked The Studio but thought Rogen was very funny in Platonic and he’s a consistently great scene partner too - maybe even underrated/overlooked as an actor.

Fablemans was my first recognition of him as a legit actor. I had written him off as someone who coasted on his schtick, like Jack Black.

The only thing Pegg has co-written since World’s End was the last Star Trek movie, a decade ago