Jason Segel: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked

2. Kyle - Dead Man On Campus (1998)

Another early effort for Segel, and another that could be chalked up to his wanting to pay some bills and show his eagerness to break the business before Freaks & Geeks offered a short-lived break-through, Dead Man On Campus is still difficult to let slide. Strictly speaking it's hard to pin the film's dismal failure solely on Segel, who in truth only had a passing role, but it's hard not to castigate everyone involved. The so-called dark comedy is an amoral, nasty disaster, reliant on a plot that is inconceivably inhumane, and which - even worse - is lifted whole-sale from fellow 1998 "suicide comedy" The Curve. As a mark of how awful it was, the film has now gone out of print - which must be some relief to Segel and his fellow cast members, but those who saw it will always have that back-of-the-brain nagging that he is always capable of making terrible career choices like this.