Judd Apatow

that he sent that to me, almost an invitation.

And I'm sure he just is funny and probably did that to tons of people because he's a great person.

But to me, it was like the person I think is the funniest person in the world thought it was worth his time to do that.

And so it probably gave me a lot of the confidence that I had to be insane to go interview 50 comedians from my high school radio station and work as a dishwasher in a comedy club.

It only like set the fire more for me to try hard to figure out how to get into it.

I think that was just my Long Island rat attitude.

That part of it, you know, people ask about it sometimes.

And I think I was just so obnoxious.

I just was like, I didn't quite know where humor was.

And being from Long Island, there was so much insult humor.

And we all gave each other such a hard time.

And so in a real annoying Long Island boy way, I thought that was funny.

Yes, absolutely.

And with my friends.

I mean, it was certainly a world of insults with love.

I did once we were in a meeting together and someone asked me to tell the story.

Then afterwards, they said, Steve, is that how you remember it?

And he said, how I remember it, I knocked on Judd's door.

Yes.

I realized at some point that if you wrote a letter to someone who was on television, a lot of them would send you a signed autograph.