You Know You're Paul Rudd When...  …you're an Oord-trained actor
who tells boner jokes for a living, the secret of your success
is your everlasting obsession with Steve Martin, and you raised
a son who thinks he's Elvis Costello. Chris Heath looks for the
grownup side of Hollywood's most likable leading bro and comes
up laughing  Confront the actor Paul Rudd with the observation
that, in almost all circumstances, he seems to convey an immense
likability and he replies, "Well, that's nice, thanks." He says
this not in an obviously sarcastic way, but more in the manner
of a man who has just been handed a slice of cake and is
politely grateful for the gift, though not yet sure how hungry
he is. But ask him whether this likability has ever seemed to be
a hindrance professionally and he will concede that it has. "You
know, there were times, probably in my twenties, when I would
find it a little annoying. I would always get described as, you
know, 'allAmerican,' 'has no edge,' nothing dangerous about me
at all." A