Jason Segel

Jason Segel (b. 1980) is an actor and writer, known for his work on television in the series Freaks and Geeks and How I Met Your Mother, and the films Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up, I Love You, Man, Gulliver's Travels and Bad Teacher.

He stars in the 2011 feature film The Muppets as Gary.

In Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Segel performed puppet characters created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

Segel wrote the script for The Muppets with Forgetting Sarah Marshall director and co-writer Nick Stoller. In June 2008, Segel said: "I actually just turned in my first draft of the Muppets and I'm really excited about it. I think we're bringing them back. Hopefully it will fall right in the pantheon of The Great Muppet Caper, Muppets Take Manhattan, Muppet Movie, you know, we're trying to make one of those."