Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as

always for clicking and listening along. Very excited to bring you my conversation this week

with the hilarious Judd Apatow. The man needs no introduction. Going back to the Ben Stiller show,

back to the Larry Sanders show with Gary Shandling, back to freaks and geeks. You know the

resume. Judd has been either the writer, producer, or director of so many of our favorite

comedies of the last several decades. The list is long.

The first film he directed was the 40-year-old virgin.

He'd go through to Knocked Up, Super Bad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall,

funny people, bridesmaids, Anchorman.

The list is long.

I bet you've got a favorite among those.

He grew up on Long Island, obsessed with comedy from a very young age, and he's written a book now called Comedy Nerd. It's really a scrapbook. It takes from his childhood up to current day and just documents every interaction he had with comedy. As a kid, he, write letters to famous comedians and get their autographs

on headshots. Those are all in the book. He'd tell the story about why they loved him. He famously,

in high school, growing up on New York's Long Island, had a radio show where it's 16 years old.

He audaciously approached the biggest stars in comedy and would go interview them. They said, yes,

and they'd be on this

teenager's radio show. He was obsessed with what was funny and how you made people laugh and made

a career about it. So this book, Comedy Nerd, gets to all of it. And it's really, when you think

about it, a walk-through comedy of the last 40 years because he's been involved in so much of it.

Such a funny guy, so much to stay about comedy back then and comedy now and advice for people

coming up in the business now. Judd and I got together at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York

City, a place where he has performed many times as a stand-up, has fond memories being in

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