Seth Rogen may strike every fashionable left-wing pose in his public persona (lately suggesting that Israel should not exist), but socially observant comedy doesn’t work unless it rings true. Since the truth is conservative, and Rogen is good at his job, he keeps making conservative comedies.
Knocked Up teaches that a slacker who gets a girl pregnant should grow up, act like a man, and form a committed relationship with the mother of his child. Neighbors: You can’t keep partying like a college student when you have a kid, so stay home and look after your family, even if that makes you lame. Funny People: Having the ability to bed all the women you like won’t make you happy. The thread that ties together a lot of Rogen movies is: Grow up. His leading source of comic power seems to be the Jiminy Cricket on his shoulder, telling him and the cohort of clowning, dope-smoking Millennial manboys he represents that their values are messed up.
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