Judd Apatow Returns
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What is Judd Apatow's new visual memoir about?
Hi, my name is Judd Apatow. And I feel very needy about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
Fall is here, hear the yell. Back to school, ring the bell. Brand new shoes, walking blues. Climb the fence, books and pens. I can tell that we are gonna be friends. Hey, Conan O'Brien here. Listening to the highly unedited, just off the cuff, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. We never stop and start again. No, this is definitely not a restart.
No, not at all. Sona, how are you? You doing good? I'm great.
And get it right or we're going to have to do it over again.
How did an audition for Jim Henson influence Judd's career?
I am doing great. Thank you.
And how are you, Matt Gourley? I'm good, thanks.
What's on your mind? Hey, I have something off the cuff. We haven't talked about this at all. I was going to get you there.
You don't have to cut me off and say, hey, I've got something. I was going to get you there with, hey, what's on your mind?
On a recent episode, we talked about having a listener in high school that was listening during high school. And then Adam had mentioned that he knew someone that was in seventh grade, Giles, that listened. But we now have beat that record. A friend of mine, Jeremy Connor, has a son named George who loves the show.
What books shaped Judd Apatow's understanding of life?
Started when he was eight, is nine years old now, and listens to the show and would love an autograph. Would you mind signing this poster? I'm not signing that. You have to.
No. He's eight. I want some scratch. I want my payday. This is so incredible.
He's nine, but he started listening when he was eight. Oh, well, nine.
That's when the real cynicism kicks in.
But this is for you, George. Thanks for listening.
Yeah, of course. This is so nice. I love that I'm doing this. It's nothing more exciting to listen to a guy sign something.
Scribbly.
You can watch it on YouTube.
How does Judd Apatow reflect on his childhood experiences?
Yeah, okay. Squeak, squeak, squeak.
It's also very fascinating to watch someone sign a poster.
And to hear someone comment on someone signing a poster.
Well, there we go. Yeah, that was a good use of our time. Listen, I don't understand how a nine-year-old, what will they connect to? We don't have any listeners over 14. That's not true. That's not true. I can beat all of this. There's a woman who is seven months pregnant and her child's been listening in utero to the podcast and hates it. Loathes it.
Kicks a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah. Kicks a lot when you're listening.
I'm just trying to imagine maybe it's they can tell that my friend Jeremy was saying that when this podcast gets edgy, it still has a kind of innocence at its heart. And he felt that that was OK for the child.
I think maybe that's it.
But that might have been negated by the recent Deez Nuts Milk Dem Titties episode.
Deez Nuts, we did do a lot of, you know what?
Yeah, but you can appreciate that on two levels.
Yeah.
I used to watch the original Batman series with Adam West and just appreciate it on the crime fighting. When they were making jokes about politics and things like that, I didn't pick up on any of it. I just loved, and then years later- I got all the great dry humor and great references. I picked up on that much later. I think that's how people listen to our podcast. You can listen to it on this very friendly crime-fighting level, and then there's all the nuances that we pack in here. What you're saying is people should do a re-listen to find the onion layers. Yes, and they should listen to all the new ads that we place in there because there's dynamic ad insertion.
Talk on that. Yeah, tell us more about that process. I want to hear about that from you.
This is a technical ad. This is an idea I had. What's that? A lot of people think I don't really know how podcasts work, but my idea a while ago was, hey, we should have dynamic ad insertion.
What insights does Judd share about collaboration in comedy?
And what is that exactly? Well, it's when you have a dynamic insertion of a aforementioned ad.
If you could expand on that a little bit.
Well, sometimes there's something that doesn't have an ad in it. And if it does have an ad, it's kind of flaccid and not moving. So I think, well, it should be moving or dynamic and it should be inserted. So it's inside.
And that's how you explain this to the people that put it in the process.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Judd Apatow's new visual memoir about?
0:03–0:49
2
How did an audition for Jim Henson influence Judd's career?
0:49–1:16
3
What books shaped Judd Apatow's understanding of life?
1:16–1:49
4
How does Judd Apatow reflect on his childhood experiences?
1:49–3:37
5
What insights does Judd share about collaboration in comedy?
3:37–4:35
6
How does Judd Apatow describe his transition to directing?
4:35–5:44
7
What are the challenges of directing a comedy film?
5:44–6:10
8
How does Judd Apatow view the current state of comedy?
6:10–1:04:11