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Seth Rogen Admits Some of Superbad's Jokes Were 'Blatantly Homophobic'

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Seth Rogen has admitted that some of the jokes from ‘Superbad’, the raucous teen comedy he wrote with Evan Goldberg, were 'blatantly homophobic’.

The 2007 movie, coming hot on the heels of Rogen’s breakthrough in 'Knocked Up’, saw Michael Cera, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse playing booze and sex-fixated teens heading for the party of the year.

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But Rogen, older and a bit wiser now, said that some of the gags don’t play as well today.

“It’s funny looking at some movies we’ve made in the last 10 years under the lenses of new eras and new social consciousness,” Rogen told The Guardian.

“And yeah, there’s for sure some stuff in our earlier movies - and even in our more recent movies - where even like a year later you’re like, eh, maybe that wasn’t the greatest idea.”

“There are probably some jokes in 'Superbad’ that are bordering on blatantly homophobic at times,” he went on.

“They’re all in the voice of high school kids, who do speak like that, but I think we’d also be silly not to acknowledge that we also were also, to some degree, glamorising that type of language in a lot of ways.”

The movie was based on Rogen and Goldberg’s experiences growing up in Vancouver, the lead characters even being called Evan and Seth.

As well as writing the movie, Rogen played goofy Clark County police officer Michaels opposite Bill Hader.

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Along with making a healthy $170 million at the box office, from a low budget of $20 million, it also rocketed Hill and Cera to fame.

Rogen is currently doing the publicity rounds promoting his latest movie 'Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising’.

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