Jason Segel, the star of films such as "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Knocked Up" and the popular television show "How I Met Your Mother," has been named Hasty Pudding's 2012 Man of the Year.

The Pudding will award Segel the Pudding Pot award in Farkas Hall on Feb. 3, just before the Hasty Pudding premieres its 164th production, "There Will Be Flood."