Judd Apatow

As soon as it's an HBO special, they're never gonna do it live again.

And I think there are some comedians, and I'm among them who thinks, there's nothing wrong with doing 10 minutes out of the hour of your favorite stuff that you've ever done.

And I think the crowd loves it, but comedians feel like I have to turn the whole thing over.

Yeah.

I mean...

I don't think you can speed up the lesson of it.

I mean, it really usually comes from mentors or reading or your observations to adjust yourself.

But I think a lot of it is this intense, youthful madness and passion where it makes no sense that you think you can make it.

You know, the odds are so against you.

But I remember when I lived with Adam Sandler, like we all were like, oh, Adam's the guy, right?

He's going to be like what he is now.

We all knew he would be.

And I think he believed that that was what was coming.

And there were other people like that, like Jim Carrey, who felt like this is the trip I'm about to be on.

But there's a madness to that that I think everyone in all fields have.

But it's mainly when you're in your 20s where you're willing to take those crazy risks.

It's probably like in our genes to just be believers in ourself unless something happened that crushed our confidence.

And that makes us act crazy.

just more energetically and ready to fight because it is like a fight or flight response.

It's like a hunter-gatherer energy, which has nothing to do with comedy.