"Perhaps it's a Canadian thing. He joins a long line of Canucks who garnered fame and fortune via television. The list includes William Shatner and Michael J. Fox."

Oh yeah, a Canadian thing for sure. Um, what??
(Withholding what I really want to say.)

Shatner started as a stage actor. He was classically trained and performed at the Stratford Festival. Eventually he became his own parody.

Regarding Rogan, I wouldn't so much call it "luck" as the fact that Judd Apatow cast him in Freaks & Geeks and then brought him along for his other projects. It's likely that Rogan got some training along the way, and downtime between acting projects gave him time to write etc. Maybe there's some luck in there, but it started with being cast in Freaks and Geeks.

Sorry to be so critical of a post that praises Rogan when I have nothing negative to say about the man, but the post appeared to be misguided.

you clearly haven't seen anything from him to talk about him that way. This guy has changed comedy about sex from the heavy and stupid (american pie years) thing it was, into smart and fun movies to watch such as superbad which is for me one of the only comedies worth watching these last years.

I haven't seen Rogen's latest movie, but yea, absolutely none of his movies are almost porn, and potty humor is not even a plurality of the jokes in his movies. Are you talking about a different Seth Rogen?

I say, "More power to him." He makes a hell of a lot more money than you or I.

None of his movies were almost porn. Putting the word porn in the title doesn't make it so.