A simple, polite demand

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Dear Judd Apatow, Todd Phillips, and/or Adam McKay,

Hey guys. As you probably know by now, you're all doing the Lord's work. Making America laugh their asses off one movie at a time is a win-win proposition for both you and the audience, and you three seem to have the market cornered these days. Sure, you've all had some misses amongst your hits, and I know there are plenty of haters out there, but by and large, you're all well-liked and tremendously successful.

Along the way, you've helped make the careers of several of today's comedic actors, from Will Ferrell to Seth Rogen to Michael Cera to Vince Vaughn and Jason Segel. But now, I have a small request demand of you. See, all of those actors have gotten their shot at stardom. Sure, some were well-known prior to starring in your films, but many others worked their way up from bit parts to featured roles. All I ask now is that you continue what you've already done - showcase some of the little guys. I'm talking specifically about Ken Jeong, Matt Walsh and Joe LoTruglio.

See, these guys are the blue-collar stars of your films (and even some films that none of you were involved with even though they seem like they were, like I Love You, Man and Role Models). They're the unsung heroes, the guys that come in for sometimes as little as a minute or two and deliver big laughs, only to be never heard from again...until the next picture one of you make comes along. After all, Jeong just owned his (decent-sized) role in The Hangover, in which Walsh also had what might be his funniest bit part. And I realize that Lo Truglio is connected more to those State/Stella guys (they were responsible for Role Models, too), but Judd's shown him some love along the way, too.

To wit, I submit their respective resumes:

Ken Jeong
Judd Apatow: Knocked Up, Pineapple Express (Apatow produced), Funny People
Adam McKay: Step Brothers, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (McKay produced)
Todd Phillips: The Hangover
Unrelated, but seems like it is via multiple connections: Role Models

Matt Walsh
Judd Apatow: Superbad (Apatow produced), Pineapple Express (Apatow produced), Drillbit Taylor (Apatow produced)
Adam McKay: Step Brothers
Todd Phillips: Road Trip, Old School, Starsky & Hutch, School for Scoundrels, The Hangover
Unrelated, but seems like it is via multiple connections: Role Models, I Love You, Man, Semi-Pro

Joe LoTruglio
Judd Apatow: Superbad (Apatow produced), Pineapple Express (Apatow produced)
Adam McKay:
Todd Phillips:
Unrelated, but seems like it is via multiple connections: Role Models, I Love You, Man

Now, preferably, one of you can direct or produce a film starring the three of them together as leads. Aside from taking the studio pressure off you (since they're bound to give you that "none of these guys are stars!" crap), I think they'd have great chemistry together and play off of each other very well. Heck, all three of them were in Role Models together, and that seemed to work out pretty well, with Jeong threatening to steal the film out from Paul Rudd's and Seann William Scott's feet at any minute. Just imagine what they could all do with a halfway-decent script and at least 20 minutes of screen time each. The best part may be this: worst-case scenario is that it flops, in which you can say "Well, what'd you expect? There were no stars!"; best-case scenario is it's a modest or even good-sized hit, and you get to come out smelling like roses, playing the hero to not only these three guys, but to geeks like me that care about their respective success.

So Judd, Todd and/or Adam - what do you say? I'm not asking much, am I? Hey, if you want to mitigate your risk even further, how about one of you directs while the other two produce? Or maybe the three of you produce while one of your up-and-coming apprentices (lackeys) directs?

Anyway, I hope you take this under serious consideration, and I look forward to whatever you guys come up with for these three great comedic character actors. Thanks for listening.

Fletch