I am – Hercules!!
Judd Apatow wrote for “The Ben Stiller Show” and “The Larry Sanders Show” before he came to co-mastermind “Freaks and Geeks” and create “Undeclared.” Then he went on to produce “Anchorman” and write and direct “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” (just chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the ten best films of 2005).
If all this isn’t reason enough to love the guy, it turns out he spent his youth running around doing high-school radio interviews with comedians and comedy writers like Garry Shandling, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Martin Short, Michael O’Donaghue, Jim Downey, Franken & Davis, Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld.
The new issue of In Focus Magazine has a massive, fascinating interview with Apatow in which he discusses these interviews as well as his work on the new “Fun With Dick and Jane” movie, the big musical number that concludes “Virgin,” his love of reality shows, how he likes to employ a “vomit draft” when he writes, and his many failed TV efforts.
Read the whole thing for free here.
