Gabrielle Birkner, the Web editor for the Jewish newspaper The Forward, posted footage today from her own bat mitzvah today that features Paul Rudd working at the event as an unlikely D.J. “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, Challah-cutting and ‘YMCA,’” Birkner writes. She offers high praise for Rudd, whom she characterizes as “the perfect choice for the event.” Watch as Rudd, who assumes the form of a chimerical hybrid of Duckie from Pretty in Pink and David Byrne, leads a troupe of tweens under a limbo bar. Observe as he valiantly defends the bat-mitzvah girl from a pushy young man while Bob Marley’s “Buffalo Soldier” plays on. And fall in love as Rudd air-guitars along to “Hound Dog.”