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As the video says, before "Dinner for Schmucks, " "I Love You Man" or even "Clueless," Paul Rudd did the bat mitzvah for Gabrielle Birkner. She writes at The Forward that he "turned out to be the perfect choice for the event."
Rudd, donning a yellow tuxedo jacket, a ruffled shirt, shorts and Doc Martens, ably and energetically led us through all of the bat mitzvah staples: Candle-lighting, Coke & Pepsi, Toasts, limbo, “Hands Up,” Challah-cutting and “YMCA.” And as the “Today” show-themed bat mitzvah party came to a close, he invited my friends onto the dance floor to sing a moving rendition of “That’s What Friends Are For.”
Takes guts to let your own bat mitzvah video go viral on the Internet. Via the Jewish Journal.
Rudd/Valley trivia: In "Knocked Up," Rudd's character Pete sneaks off to the Valley to secretly cheat on his wife...playing fantasy baseball.