Whenever I watch Entourage I wonder how Turtle can get so much play, even if he is friends with a big movie star like Vinnie Chase. He’s fat and obnoxious and … okay, so I don’t need to get into a fight with Jerry Ferrara, the actor who plays Turtle, so I’ll stop right there. But I will say that I found it ironic and hypocritical that the show is in the news today for being similarly dubious of Seth Rogen’s attractiveness to Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up. I also find it interesting that Entourage could be so harsh about a movie star without that person showing up on the show and being in on the mockery (as is typically the case). Instead, Rogen is apparently upset enough about the jabs that he’s been vocal about an appararent longstanding feud between him and Entourage creators Doug Ellin and Mark Wahlberg to the E! program Daily 10. In addition to calling the Entourage gang “assholes,” he claims “it’s on.” Of course, Rogen doesn’t need to be so defensive since he got the last laugh by losing so much weight and becoming far more successful in the past two years than anyone associated with the HBO series (including Wahlberg).

Still, despite Rogen being the victor so far in the feud, I do hope it escalates until climaxing in a streetfight reminiscent of the massive battle in Anchorman (which Rogen appears in, though not in that scene). The Apatow gang vs. the Entourage boys, with eventual appearances from the State guys and the Broken Lizard troupe, etc. Maybe someone will even die by trident if we’re lucky.

Check out other blogs’ commentary on the feud after the jump:

• Kyle Buchanan at Movieline is surprised that Rogen reacted, but he’ll be more surprised if there’s a comeback from the other side:
  

  One might assume that the affable Rogen would shrug off the insult with a friendly, Fozzie-ish chuckle, but they don’t call where Rogen’s at a “fighting weight” for nothing!…We would eagerly anticipate a rebuttal from Ellin, but we know how foreign the idea of creating conflict is to the writers of Entourage.

• Lane Brown at Vulture addresses the lateness of Entourage’s attack in general:
  

  Yesterday, we pointed out the outdatedness and ridiculousness of such an assertion, since the movie came out in 2007, and since then Rogen has been toning his physique to play the Green Hornet and at this point he’d basically be doing Heigl a favor…How will the Entourage camp respond? Well, we just found out this morning that Cameron Diaz will play Rogen’s love interest in The Green Hornet, so maybe Ellin can work a joke about that into the 2013 season of his show.

• Erik Davis at Cinematical points out why Rogen has beef with Ellin & Co.:
  

  There’s a reason why Rogen doesn’t like Entourage, and it’s because he had a very similar idea for a show that he brought to HBO, but they passed on it and later picked up Entourage. In an older interview with E! Online, he said, “I just remember feeling really bitter. We thought the stuff we were writing was funny… and it just seemed crazy that no one else liked it. You start to question your own sanity. Like, ‘Our HBO pilot isn’t funny, but Entourage is?’” So was Entourage creator Doug Ellin aware of this, and was the Rogen subplot just a way of rubbing it in his face?

• The Superficial doesn’t necessarily believe Rogen won this time:
  

  I kind of expected a snappier comeback from Seth Rogen besides “Yeah, well, I’m never watching their show.” Unless he knows something about premium cable ratings that I don’t. Is there a highly profitable Seth Rogen demographic I’m unaware of?

• The Playlist isn’t sure it matters who won:
  

  Does this mean Rogen has already won? More importantly does anyone care?