When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n Credit: Universal Pictures<\/p>\n Knocked Up is considered one of the best movies of the 2000s<\/a>, and I watched it multiple times when it first came out, relaying the story of career-minded Allison, who gets pregnant after a one-night stand. When I saw the title on the 2025 Netflix schedule<\/a>, I decided to throw it on for the first time in well over a decade, and I\u2019m shocked that nearly 20 years after it was first released, one side plot is as hilarious and relevant as ever.<\/p>\n The main story in Knocked Up revolves around Katherine Heigl\u2019s Allison trying to make a relationship work with Ben (Seth Rogen) after they learn they\u2019re going to have a baby. The Judd Apatow movie stars a good portion of the Freaks and Geeks cast as Ben\u2019s stoner housemates, as well as Apatow\u2019s wife and daughters \u2014 in other words, A+ casting. Still, the performance that stuck out to me after all this time was Ryan Seacrest playing an exaggerated version of himself.<\/p>\n Credit: Netflix<\/p>\n Allison is an up-and-comer at E! News, and she ends up being the crew member on the other end of Ryan Seacrest\u2019s epic rant about the Hollywood celebrities who waste his time.<\/p>\n Upon being notified that Jessica Simpson is late for her interview, the host makes it clear that he doesn\u2019t have time to wait on her, because he has to be at American Idol. Then he really gets going:<\/p>\n I don\u2019t understand the young talent in this town. It doesn\u2019t make any sense. I\u2019ve got four jobs. Hell, I\u2019m more famous than half the people we talk to anyway. No one stands up, no one has the balls to sit them down and say, \u2018Look, just cut the shit.\u2019 But everybody works for them. They\u2019re all on the payroll. They\u2019re all sucking teat. Nobody sits them down eye-to-eye, one-on-one, and says, \u2018Cut the shit.\u2019 And all these stars just fuck it up. That\u2019s what they do. They fuck my day up. And it pisses me off! And now I\u2019m sweating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Somebody get this man a cookie!<\/p>\n Jessica Simpson probably doesn\u2019t deserve to be the poster child of the kind of celebrity Ryan Seacrest is complaining about here, but it\u2019s so funny to me how much of the rest of it is still relevant. The man still has 97 jobs<\/a>, and he\u2019s definitely just as famous (if not more so) than anyone he shares airtime with.<\/p>\n In fact, now he\u2019s the one getting interviewed a lot of the time, and the question he\u2019s being asked is, \u201cDo you sleep?\u201d<\/a> Wheel of Fortune contestant Jarri Machelle-Melton posed that query to him on the October 1 episode, TV Insider<\/a> reports, to which Ryan Seacrest responded:<\/p>\n Jarri, I\u2019m asleep right now. I sleep in my suit, in case I\u2019m on call.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The best comedy has a certain percentage of truth to it, so it\u2019s almost surprising to me that Ryan Seacrest would agree to a bit where he\u2019s shading young Hollywood so hard and saying they \u201cfuck his day up.\u201d (Can you imagine him saying that to his Wheel of Fortune contestants?)<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n
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