Jason has been doing some promotion in Australia for Despicable Me which is released there next week. He called up NovaFM to talk about the film. Check the interview below.

Be sure to go visit novafm.com.au for a written re-cap.

Jason Segel is on a hit TV show (“How I Met Your Mother”) and has a host of movies in various stages of completion – including the new “Despicable Me” – but he recently found the time to appear at a San Francisco comedy event, providing dramatic readings from pop-star autobiographies.

“I filled in for a friend and it ended up being a blast,” he says of his first standup-esque experience. “I did the Jonas Brothers and I think it was David Cassidy – it was one of the Partridges – and Tommy Lee.” Was it difficult to keep the Jonas and Lee memoirs separated in his mind? “Absolutely, they have very similar lifestyles.”

He takes a moment to reflect on the most important life lesson he picked up: “Don’t write an autobiography when you’re still in your 20s.”

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A longtime member of the Apatow stable, Segel is known to film audiences for some risque fare. But of his projects in the wings, three are aimed at families.

“I’ve always been drawn to that tone,” he says. “The Tim Burton movies, growing up, were a real inspiration to me. But yeah, between ‘Despicable Me’ and (‘The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made’) and ‘Gulliver’s Travels,’ I’m gonna be a PG guy for the moment, it looks like. But I’ve got an R-rated comedy around the corner.”

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Nicholas Stoller has been promoting Get Him To The Greek recently and had a string of interviews where he’s talked about a lot of his upcoming projects, a lot of which involve Jason.

Stoller talked about Gullivers Travels and said that he’s seen a rough cut but it already looks great.

Stoller’s especially confident in the film’s director in terms of making sure it will be a good movie. “The world’s going to see when ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ comes out, Rob is a very talented director. I just saw a rough cut of it without any VFX so it’s just Jack Black’s head or Jason Segel against green screen, and it’s just a really charming, hilarious true fantasy adventure movie.”

The Muppets script is almost complete, he mentioned that they’ve had the first table read with all the actual puppeteers who gave them advice on the characers.

For a while, it seemed like that project might not get off the ground. Then the new Disney leadership came in and made it a priority and all of a sudden it’s going. Can you talk a little bit about the behind-the-scenes? Were you nervous it might not actually go?

Stoller: I was pretty nervous because we’d worked on it for two years at that point. Maybe I’m just not that humble but our script is awesome. Like Jason is so into the Muppets and such a fan. I’m such a fan of Muppets. And I think the script’s actually pretty solid. It really is a labour of love for us to get this thing off the ground. It was scary but then there was the change in leadership and I think that the new guy in charge is basically like, “We should just do this.” It won’t be that expensive, the script is fun, the guys just love this thing, and with all of that, the world is just ready for the Muppets again. It’s strange that there hasn’t been one for so long. I think there were a lot of political reasons for why that was the case but it’s just exciting that now it’s going to happen.

Jason will have a crazy schedule in September because he will be filming both How I Met Your Mother and The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time simultaneously.

So it’s filming this September. How long is the film shoot on that? Is it filming here in L.A?
Stoller: It’s all in L.A. There might be some location shooting as well. I think it’s pretty short. I heard it was like six to eight weeks, which is pretty short. But you don’t have to do makeup or anything. There’s no hair, there’s no makeup, there’s like one trailer for Jason and one for the actors who do cameos. It’s quick. So that’s what they’re saying. I don’t know if that will change.

Totally. So Jason is set to star. What about his TV show [How I Met Your Mother]?
Stoller: He’s basically not going to sleep while they’re shooting. He’s going to arrange his TV show in such a way that—I think his show shoots 3-4 days a week—and he’ll shoot the rest of the week and weekends.

I see. So this is really the passion project.
Stoller: Oh yeah, yeah. It’s going to be intense for him but he’s thriller. I’m really excited for him. I don’t know if I said this to you, but I consider the Muppets to be a comedy gateway-drug. It’s like the first thing you see when you’re a kid and you’re like, “Oh my God. This is what I have to do for the rest of my life. So just to be a part of that, and I have a two-and-a-half-year-old girl and she’s going to see this and it’s really just very exciting.

Finally he talked about Five Year Engagement which has been talked about for a couple of years, but never seemed to be getting off the ground.

According to the always-accurate IMDb [sarcasm]: Five-Year Engagement, Einstein Theory, Opposite Day—are these on the drawing board or are these just projects that have been linked to you for a while?
Stoller: Opposite Day was a while ago and I have not worked on that in a long time. And Five-Year Engagement is something I’m considering to be the next thing to direct. I’m trying to figure that out right now. And then the Einstein Theory is something I’m producing along with the Mark Gordon Company at Warner Bros. and we’ve been working on a script for a while.

Check out the full interviews here and here.

According to Filmofilia.com Gulliver’s Travels will be released in 3D. 3D has been a pretty big buzz word for films over the past few months with Alice in Wonderland and Avatar having 3D screenings and it seems like every other film this year will have some sort of 3D aspect. The 3rd Narnia film and Harry Potter among others will all have 3D showings. I can see how Gulliver’s Travels lends itself to being shown in 3D, I just hope they don’t mess it up because the film was originally filmed flat and is to be converted to 3D during post-production.

I’ve added a bunch more candids of Jason filming Gulliver’s Travels last year in England, be sure to check them out.

I’ve Just added a few candids of Jason from when he was filming Gulliver’s Travels in England last May. The film is currently in Post Production and will be released December 22nd 2010 in the USA. Huge thanks to Daily Mail & ComingSoon.Net for the filming candids.