Seth Rogen regrets those 'blatantly homophobic' Superbad jokes

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Seth Rogen has admitted that were he to make teen comedy Superbad in 2016, its “blatantly homophobic” jokes would be axed. Despite the film’s huge financial success, Rogen no longer considers its gags “the greatest idea”. “It’s funny looking at some movies we’ve made in the last 10 years under the lenses of new eras, new social consciousness,” he told the Guardian during an interview with Chloe Grace Moretz to promote new movie Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising. “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’.” Rogen, 34, named Superbad as his most controversial comedy, noting that although the homophobic jokes are delivered by high schoolers, they were “to some degree glamourising that type of language in a lot of ways”.