Uh, what? I was just asking a few questions. Why so accusatory towards me?
And how could google results be relevant?
In fairness, most of the hits for Scarlett Johansson are referring to an entirely different kind of “jerk.”
I do know a few of the people involved, as friends of friends, and I think you are right, to a point. As I mentioned, these people had worked on projects together before. Seth Rogen was writing scripts for Judd Apatow when he was 16-years-old, over a decade ago. 75 percent of the cast is basically a big incestuous comedy family. I don’t think any of them has a problem with women or female characters (well, nothing that would make them stand out in Hollywood), necessarily, but if they hire an actress from rom-coms and a TV soap and can’t figure out why she’s not riffing with the best of them, they may want to re-examine their casting process. That being said, even with his successes, Apatow was still taking a huge chance casting Rogen as a believable male lead, and was under intense pressure to pair him with someone smoking hot and marketable. He’s mentioned before that some of the only notes he got on the series Undeclared (a show that did a relatively good job of giving female characters storylines and funny dialog) were about the sex appeal of the actresses. But I think both sides are re-interpreting the actual shooting of the movie based on their later impressions (and, in Heigl’s case, in the context of her experiences auditioning and working as an actress).
I’m not sure about well liked. Certainly well respected. It seems to me that a lot of his costars look at his ultra-method style is met with a lot of behind the back eye rolling. But since it means he gets results it is tolerated. I heard Melissa Leo say that she met Bale on the flight out to the location of The Fighter then met him again at the wrap party.
Hah! I googled “my real name” + “jerk” and got 5,350 hits. I don’t think I even know that many people, or that that many people know I exist.
Kathy is on with Craig Ferguson tonight.
Kathy Griffin is a semi-regular on Craig’s show - he doesn’t seem to have a problem with her.
Craig’s also the only (I believe) late night host who is still actively doing standup, plus Craig has no problem with zinging celebrities in much the same way that Griffin does: by telling a humorously exaggerated but essentially unvarnished truth about them. See, for example, the references to Kenny Rogers being all but unrecognizable from all his plastic surgery or the growing resemblance between Paul McCartney and Angela Landsbury. And that’s just from his show; the standup act is even stronger.
Jay lives of his stand-up income, he’s never touched his “Tonight Show” income.
HOW did you google it? I did my name jerk [same as my name + jerk] and got about 100K. That’s because any hit with only “jerk,” only my first name, or only my last name will still register. When I did “my name” jerk, with the quote marks forcing all results to contain my complete name, it got zero hits.
Yeah, he’s said this since he took over, but looking at how he lives, I have often had a hard time believing this is entirely true. I know he’s a very, very popular stand-up comedian, but his garage looks like the garage of someone who earns…well, Tonight Show money.
I mean, if he was a full-time comedian only, I could believe it. I’m sure someone like Brian Regan, who almost exclusively does comedy, must make a lot, but not* that *much.
I had the “pleasure” of getting stuck behind James Woods for about 20 minutes at a post office here in his home town. He kept apologizing to us for taking so long, but each time he did so, he mentioned how very important the things he was mailing were, which kind of defeated the purpose. Also weird, he had a flunky with him - why bother with a flunky if you are going to mail things yourself?
In case he needs to go to the bathroom, the flunky can go for him. 
Damn. I’m no kind of a diva, but I sure as hell wish I could find a flunky to go to the bathroom for me at 3AM when it’s cold out! I’d pay cash. Under the table, even. 
Unfortunately, I have nothing to contribute directly to the thread. Most of what’s been said, I’d already heard, or at least suspected.
I thought he used the Tonight Show money for all the cars, but his stand-up money for “normal” living.
My college chorale sang at an American Cancer Society event for which George and Barbara Bush were the big guests. (George HW, of course.) This must have been in 2000 or so. When he heard we had stayed into the summer to perform he came backstage, where we’d been corralled by glowering Secret Service agents for two hours (they even escorted us sternly to the bathroom if we had to go - serious security), and shook each of our hands and personally thanked us for our time and effort. He posed for group pictures, too. I still don’t like the man politically but I have a huge warm spot in my heart for him personally - the guy really went above and beyond to thank us and make us feel appreciated.
Also he is very, very tall and quite magnetic in person, which you’d never think to look at him on TV.
Re: Jay Leno’s money - the book I’m currently reading says the same thing, that he doesn’t touch the Tonight Show money. I think it’s possible - he apparently doesn’t do anything at all except work and play with his cars.
“my name” AND “jerk” yielded 0 results. “my name jerk” yielded 10, mostly about chicken.
So are you a jerk, or are you a chicken?