While we wait for Simon to help reignite the Star Trek franchise, he continues to bid his time in tiny romantic comedies – a Simon Pegg comedy tends to appeal to both halves of the gender demographic, which gives it a unique strength.<\/p>\n
Run Fatboy Run was not only a solid bit of Peggian hilarity, it was a genuinely sweet romance story as well. And hey, anything that continues to help introduce Dylan Moran to the world, can’t be a bad thing.<\/p>\n
And now comes Simon’s follow-up lead in the Toby Young<\/a> bio-pic, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People<\/a>. I hated the poster, but if you add Jeff Bridges to the equation, I’m forced to reconsider. Add Gillian Anderson (yes, she’s in there – watch closely), and I’m sold. SOLD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While we wait for Simon to help reignite the Star Trek franchise, he continues to bid his time in tiny romantic comedies – a Simon Pegg comedy tends to appeal to both halves of the gender demographic, which gives it a unique strength. Run Fatboy Run was not only a solid bit of Peggian hilarity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}