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The Al Franken Podcast

25: Judd Apatow Discusses Comedy, Mental Health and Politics

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Writer, director, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The Larry Sanders Show, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Girls, Anchorman, Trainwreck) discusses comedy, mental health and politics. Al laughs and gets depressed. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. We got a great one today for a change. Today with us, Judd Appetow. Now, Judd is,

0:13.0

you probably know him as the creative force behind, oh, so much.y-year-old Virgin, knocked up.

0:23.0

A brilliant, brilliant film.

0:24.7

Train wreck.

0:26.2

Amy Schumer's big screen debut.

0:28.9

One of the big writers and was a director on Larry Sanders,

0:34.8

a mutual friend of ours, Gary Chanling. He produces lots of movies, Talladega

0:43.3

nights. He did TV and HBO thing. Girls. You wouldn't think, you know, a guy would do girls,

0:51.4

but he did. He did. and that was a real achievement.

0:57.1

The Big Sick, that's a movie that I really loved.

1:00.5

I loved so many of bridesmaids.

1:03.0

Wow, that was an amazing film.

1:07.1

So this is a writer, producer, director, and actually does a great stand-up comedy.

1:18.5

Judd Apatow is joining us today. I was out in L.A. a few weeks ago and I visited Judd in his office.

1:28.1

He's working on editing this film he's doing with Pete Davidson,

1:33.4

and I saw a number of scenes and it looked really funny and really kind of touching.

1:39.9

So I think you're going to really, really like this one.

1:43.6

You know, for a change.

1:50.3

Judd is probably to comedy what somebody who is great in something is to that thing.

2:01.5

I'm the Ted Cruz of comedy.

2:03.5

No, no, no, no.

2:05.1

That's a Smigel joke.

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