James Franco & Seth Rogan Smoking Pot on MTV Video

Cara Harrington @ Gone Hollywood | Monday, June 2, 2008

I am putting a lot of weight on the new Seth Rogan film. My guess is that Pineapple Express will be filled with hilarity and be the best movie of the summer. In effort to be the best movie of the summer, Seth and James Franco have been starting to push the film.

During the MTV Movie Awards, the two were up to present an award and pulled out a giant bag of “fake weed” and proceeded to light one up. On stage. Live.

[PG13(?) video -- you have to submit your birth date]

Franco insists that the bag of marijuana and the joint were fake. But MTV, who wrote the scripted presentation involving the weed, tried to jump ship moments before they went on. The station wanted to pull the joke at the last minute and told them they couldn’t actually light up on television. James and Seth did the bit anyway and as they pulled out the contraband, the cameras pulled out wide. Nothing could really be seen from the aired version.

“MTV wrote it! … Then backstage there was this big commotion: ‘You guys can’t say that,’” Franco said. “It says right in the script: ‘Lights fake joint.’”

He liked the bit, saying: “that was the joke, because the No. 1 question we get about ‘Pineapple Express’ is, ‘What kind of research did you guys do?’”

Franco said he was disappointed that the cameras went wide.
“I think they killed the joke,” he said.

So what was really in the bag?

“I don’t know! MTV gave it to us.”

Whateves. TV is getting so boring now that everyone is sitting at home thinking that Rachel Ray is a terrorist in a Dunkin’ Donuts ad and having their eyes poked out by Janet Jackson’s floppy boob circa the Super Bowl.