You can get away with singing almost anything on top of a good power chord. Don’t believe it? Just ask the guys from Def Leppard. I hear they pour sugar on themselves in Capri this time of year.

For anyone trying to understand the tenor of mainstream comedy in the mid-2000s, you could do a lot worse than The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd are the relative alpha males who are, ...