Funny or Die brings us these bloopers from Judd Apatow’s latest, This is 40, and they’re pretty funny.

The best part comes from Jewcy favorite Jason Segel, who’s having some trouble keeping a straight face while intimately stretching Leslie Mann’s character. He’s supposed to say “Everything you need is inside of you,” but he keeps cracking up.

“Come on, Segel. This is what you do,” he says to himself in an adorable pep talk. “This is what I do for a living.”

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Just as much as Chinese food on Christmas Day is a veritable Jewish tradition, so to is the movie you inevitably head to afterwards. This year, will you be seeing Judd Apatow’s latest man-child flick This is 40, or will it be the Barbra Streisand/Seth Rogen buddy comedy The Guilt Trip? You could always ditch both of those and go see Billy Crystal and Bette Midler as the ‘other’ grandparents in Parental Guidance—either way, your movie options are pretty damn Jewish this year.

Tablet’s movie critic J. Hoberman has some thoughts about the three films, all more Jewish than Chinese food on Christmas. Unfortunately, however, his diagnosis isn’t pretty:

But just what is a comedy? Their nominal happy endings notwithstanding, all three movies reek of male failure. Perhaps because they are played by beloved icons Streisand and Midler, the Jewish mothers in The Guilt Trip and Parental Guidance are wacky and endearing. What’s more, however annoying the advice, their wisdom is essentially right; the best that could be said for the Jewish men is oy vey. The Jewish father in This Is 40 (Paul Rudd) is in danger of going broke and having to sell his house, in part because he is helping to supporthis supremely feckless father (Albert Brooks); the Job-like Jewish son (Rogen) in The Guilt Trip can’t keep a girlfriend or successfully market his idea for a “green” household cleanser; the Jewish grandfather in Parental Guidance (Crystal) has lost his job and possibly his mind. Not a “Hebrew Hammer” among them.

A Jewy Little Christmas [Tablet]

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• Our new favorite food is the glorious chocolate marshmallow dreidel. [Offbeat Home]

• Lena Dunham v. Gawker. [MediaBistro]

• Glatt Kosher goes glam in NYC, and Madonna and Ricky Martin approve. [Tablet]

• More on Michael Bolla’s Lower East Side development, Madison Jackson—though our favorite story about the project remains the one titled Bagels and Luxe. [Observer]

• Judd Apatow’s daughter Maude wrote a parody tween pop song for dad’s new movie, This is 40. [Vulture]

• Meanwhile, everything you ever wanted to know about that Judd Apatow tribute art show:

Gallery 1988 – Judd Apatow Tribute Show from Gallery1988 on Vimeo.

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• The Front Row’s Richard Brody has Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love and Judd Apatow’s This is 40 on his list of the best films of 2012. [New Yorker]

• Hatufim and Homeland mastermind Gideon Raff is creating a new show for FX about an American family in the Middle East. [Vulture]

• Jewcy contributor Meredith Gordon has some ideas for how to up Hanukkah’s marketing game. Matt Damon is one. [HuffPo]

• Thanks to the Internet, you can get a Jim Morrison menorah and “Dr. Dre Del” stationary. [Guy Code]

• What happened when a Wasp went to a Bulletproof Stockings concert in Ditmas Park. [New Yorker]

• Meet the two young Jews who wrote music and lyrics for the new Broadway version of A Christmas Story. [Vox Tablet]

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• Daniel Craig: the latest in a long line of catalysts for Jewish male complexes. [Tablet]

• The latest perfume in Gaza is called M-75. You know, life the missile Hamas fired at Israel a few weeks ago. [Times of Israel]

• Scooter Braun, Justin Bieber’s momager, was not happy about the young phenom’s lack of Grammy nominations. [EW]

• Judd Apatow gets the Terry Gross “Fresh Air” treatment for his new movie, This is 40—sure to see a big ticket sales spike on Christmas Day. [NPR]

• Meanwhile, Sir Apatow orchestrated a Freaks and Geeks reunion, 20 years later. [Vanity Fair]

• Albert Brooks is a big liar:

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Forget the latest Judd Apatow film, This is 40—the real action is in the parody video, ‘This is 80.’

There are Viagra mishaps, awkward Schindler’s List references, and grandmothers discussing erections—basically all the makings of an Apatow classic.

What do you think—is 80 the new 69?

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The New York Times’ Dave Itzkoff talked to comedy power couple Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann about their new film, This is 40, which picks up of the lives of Paul Rudd and Mann’s Knocked Up characters several years later. Here are the highlights:

Framing Paul Rudd as the inspiration for weird things:

Q. But not everything in “This Is 40” is directly correlated to something that really happened to you.

A. Apatow A lot of it is fabricated to get across certain points. Things at their worst, or the way we wish things were, or things that we’ve seen happen to other people. We’re always debating, do we need more fake stuff to throw people off the trail? Can we blame this on Paul [Rudd]? We’re always saying anything weird in the movie is Paul.

On whether their daughters, Maude and Iris, get to watch the movies they make:

Q. Did they get to watch “Knocked Up”?

A. Mann No.
Apatow Iris hasn’t seen anything, and shows an incredible lack of interest in ever seeing anything. [laughs] There are no mermaids in the movies, so she doesn’t care. And when we finally told Maude that she could watch all of our movies, she watched like half of one and lost interest. I did show her this movie.
Mann Did she like it?
Apatow She seemed to like it. It didn’t blow her mind too much. And it doesn’t seem to have done any lasting psychological damage, from watching it. I think that comes from being bored of being around all this, in a strangely healthy way. It’s all demystified.

The family that works together…

Q. Do you feel that working with your children like this strengthens the family bond?

A. Apatow I think it does. I’ve tried to explain to them why we do it. This is what creative people do. They share their lives, they let other people that they feel the same things as them, that we’re all in this together. It’s a positive to talk about how you’re experiencing this life. It’s O.K. for her to be the screaming, emotional kid, because there’s millions of other kids who feel that way, and when they watch that, they’ll laugh, and they’ll feel better about themselves, that they’re not alone in that.

Strange Bedfellows: Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann on ‘This Is 40’ [Arts Beat]

(Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Pink Party)

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