Superbad is pretty super-good, but I can’t help but wonder if I would have liked it as much if it didn’t star Michael Cera, whom I have also adored as George-Michael Bluth on Arrested Development and as slightly creepy campus tour guy Dean on Veronica Mars. Cera’s a slender, wide-eyed 18-year-old with incredible comic timing and a subtle sense of humor that’s hard to pin down. Why, exactly, is it hysterically funny when he runs (in Superbad), or when he tries to explain to his dad that his dud girlfriend is cute (in AD)? (Just say the word “mayonegg” to me and I’ll keel over with laughter). Partly it’s just that he looks so, so, so, so normal, like your best friend’s little brother or the guy who makes those really good vanilla lattes. But he’s not normal. He’s brilliant.

And he also has a band. A BAND THE ADORABLE GEORGE-MICHAEL BLUTH HAS A BAND.

Ahem. Sorry. Capslock excitement got the best of me there. You can also get more Michael Cera at Clark and Michael, where I am about to watch some funny interwebs TV about Clark and Michael trying to sell a script (at least that is what it says it is about). Also, there is a blog on this site, and Michael Cera most recenly blogged about Beulah, which is a band all people with good taste should like. So clearly he’s more than just a pretty face the funniest 18-year-old of his era.

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