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The difficulty of incorporating death into a comedy is to not take the issue too lightly, but at the same time put people at ease of their situation.

Such is the power of Freaks and Geeks that, even though I was in my early 30s when it first aired, its young cast feels to me a decade later like people I knew and loved in high school.

Seth Rogen tells it like it is. You get the feeling the actor is pretty much the same guy on screen as he is off.

Love it or hate it, Valentine's Day isn't a Hallmark holiday. The day became popular during the High Middle Ages - between the years 1000 and 1300 - when 'courtly love' A was all the rage.

In 2011 Seth Rogen's career took a major step forward. While the actor came up doing raunchy, R-rated comedies, he switched things up with Jonathan Levine's 50/50 , which he not only co-starred in but also produced.

How do you deal cinematically with cancer? That's the question of Jonathan Levine 's 50/50 , which was based on the experiences of its writer Will Reiser .

It's happened to most Seattleites. In the middle of a movie or TV show set here, amid the inevitable rain, we realize, that's not Seattle! One of the latest examples is the excellent "50/50," starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen.

In 50/50 , Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Adam, a public radio host stricken with cancer who enlists his best friend, played by Seth Rogen, for moral and physical support.

Always quick with a homoerotic joke, funnyman Seth Rogen couldn't miss an opportunity to get into the action with Star Trek 's Captain Hot-Ass Chris Pine.

Seth Rogen has slowly established himself over the last few years as more than just an actor.

Happy pilot season! FOX has purchased television show that takes place down the shore.

When he blasted onto the movie scene in the 2007 comedy "Superbad," Jonah Hill had everyone whispering one name -- Chris Farley.

The Knocked Up screenwriter and director will receive the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence from Bridesmaids star Kristen Wiig at the Wga's East Coast Awards in New York on 19 February .

"50/50" Missing from a lot of the season-ending award talk is the film "50/50," a comedic drama with lots of heart.

That is said by Adam who at the beginning of the film "50/50," is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer.

Comedy-drama; Rated R for language throughout, sexual content and some drug use; available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download When 20-something nice guy Adam is diagnosed with a rare cancer, his best friend Kyle stands by his side with unswerving loyalty and filthy jokes.

What's the trouble with Katherine Heigl? Since she co-starred with Seth Rogen in the 2007 hit Knocked Up , the beamish former star of television's Grey's Anatomy has worked to establish herself on the big screen.

"50/50" : "50/50" doesn't pretty up the grim realities of cancer, but it offers a refreshingly frank glimpse of a world too often distorted by Hollywood for its own ends, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's even-tempered Adam serving as the ideal guide through both its terrors and improbable gifts.

Actor and producer Seth Rogen says he isn't surprised by his movie 50/50's lack of Academy Award nominations.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, left, plays a young man dealing with a cancer diagnosis, and Seth Rogen is his best friend, in '50/50.' Joseph Gordon-Levitt, left, plays a young man dealing with a cancer diagnosis, and Seth Rogen is his best friend, in '50/50.' Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a 27-year-old who is diagnosed with a rare cancer and tries to cope ... (more)