Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush Backstage (VIDEO)

Straight out of the bromance "I Love You Man" comes this epilogue of sorts where Paul Rudd and Jason Segel finally meet the band of their dreams: Rush. You may remember how Segel and Rudd's characters Sydney and Peter (respectively) bonded over their love of the "greatest band ever" in the movie, and this video from Funny Or Die follows up on that bond with a look at the best friends backstage in the band's green room. They've got their "show beards" and their double-neck ready to "slappah da bass" with the holy trinity, but of course, not everything goes according to plan.

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Comments

[stagebandman]

02:14 AM on 02/02/2011

I don't get the Jason Segel thing. From F&G to HIMYM, and including his movies, I find him to be the most amateurish, gawdawful, actor around. And I like How I Met Your Mother, but boy is he annoying.

Paul Rudd, meanwhile, is extremely talented, and needs to stretch some, as an artist. I think he's got some untapped dramatic chops. Let's see who's still around in 10 more years.

[stagebandman]

02:26 AM on 02/02/2011

Oh, but the band, well, not only are they innovative, creative, progressive and imaginative, they've also got great senses of humor. Not only were they great here, but remember this?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kkYhCX1uqQ

[InedaName]

07:26 PM on 02/02/2011

Those dramatic chops aren't untapped. Rudd is a classically trained actor who has performed on the Broadway stage. It's just that he's made a name for himself in these damned manboy bromance movies.

And Jason Segel is a great big giant cuddly teddy bear.

[Pundit Commentator]

10:45 PM on 02/01/2011

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[tttony]

07:25 AM on 02/02/2011

Wrong thread.

[guywhocantype]

11:52 AM on 02/01/2011

Yeah, this was filmed by Rush's team and played at the end of their shows on the Time Machine tour last year. It's not a Funny or Die video that was just made. Rush fans have already seen this (probably more than once). It's nice that other 'regular people' can see it now (lol).

[drsoos]

08:44 AM on 02/01/2011

Great band. One of my all-time favorites. Used to play some of their stuff in my own band in the eighties: Limelight, Freewill, The Spirit of Radio. I had trouble playing a couple of the bass solos in YYZ, and forget the solo in La Villa Strangiato. Geddy is truly a phenomenal bassist. What a shame that Rush isn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Eventually perhaps. (Crossing my fingers.)

[JerseyHooligan]

07:06 AM on 02/01/2011

Pistol Pete and Joebin

[KJLSanDiego]

05:35 PM on 02/02/2011

YES!

[Shaun Hensley]

12:51 PM on 02/03/2011

Sydney Slacka

[oxjr]

04:03 AM on 02/01/2011

Two adorkable cubs with beards, I am dying.

[ChelleAgain]

02:56 AM on 02/01/2011

Yay, love those two -- totes mcgoats!

[fasty]

10:50 PM on 01/31/2011

I wish Paul Rudd was my gay husband. I love him SOOOOO much. *sob*

He's MY Rush.

[jessivehadit]

10:50 PM on 01/31/2011

what....why did they waste their time doing this?

[tttony]

10:01 PM on 01/31/2011

Way cool. Great to see the lads having a little fun.

[Alice Radley]

09:42 PM on 01/31/2011

I love Rush, with every fiber of my being. Best band in the world.

[tttony]

10:02 PM on 01/31/2011

You must've been one of the 7 girls in the audience. ;)

[Alice Radley]

10:22 PM on 01/31/2011

Indeed :)

[Tulka2]

06:04 PM on 01/31/2011

I thought they were going to meet Rush Limbaugh.

[PKMKII]

10:30 PM on 01/31/2011

After Letterman, Limbaugh has put himself in a media bubble where he makes no appearances outside of his own show.

[usrnmna]

06:33 AM on 02/02/2011

I thought the same thing. Lumbaugh is actually more relevant than this terrible Canadian band from the 70's.

[Robert Berryman]

09:00 AM on 02/02/2011

LImbaugh is relevant to US politics in the same way diarrhea is relevant to digestion.

[Tulka2]

03:06 PM on 02/02/2011

These two meeting Limbaugh would have been interesting and probably even funny.  Isn't Rush a Canadian band?  Careful, my dear.  Tender toes.

[Max Shaw]

04:51 PM on 01/31/2011

"NEIL PEART IS THE GREATEST DRUMMER OF ALL TIME!"

On a separate note, the hottest part of Jason Segel and Paul Rudd is Rashida Jones.

[mmm pecan pie]

12:35 AM on 02/03/2011

I have a major crush on Neil Peart. Major. I heart him. Did I mention that I love Neil Peart?

[Shaun Hensley]

12:53 PM on 02/03/2011

She's adorable.

[RastaPunx]

04:27 PM on 01/31/2011

How is this news? I saw Rush last summer and they played this at the end of the show. Funny stuff, and RUSH IS THE GREATEST BAND ON THE PLANET, but I don't get how this is news, especially today. Slow day for ya, eh, Huff Post?

[Tartfuel]

09:04 PM on 01/31/2011

You understand that this is not news, it is simply comedy. Not everyone went to see Rush in concert last summer.

[Spartan112]

10:01 PM on 01/31/2011

Great tour, my wife was one of the 7 women at the show.

[mmm pecan pie]

12:40 AM on 02/03/2011

I am taking my 16 yr old daughter to see Rush in April. My daughter and I will be 2/7 of the female audience when we get there! :) Her first real concert and she is excited! I am too but only because I LOVE Neil Peart !

[dnb310]

03:26 PM on 01/31/2011

Slappa da bass!

[tttony]

10:03 PM on 01/31/2011

It's Hedley.

[WalterNeff]

03:09 AM on 02/01/2011

funny