This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and believe it or not, this is our 150th episode.

And really, I could not think of a better way to celebrate than by welcoming back on the podcast, a man who has had a hand in creating so many of my all-time

favorite comedy movies and TV shows, Judd Apatow. The last time Judd and I spoke back in the fall

of 2019, we taped the episode in his LA office, where we had what I thought was a really

funny and insightful conversation about the state of comedy and his role in it.

We did this one on Zoom, but I really think it was just as good, maybe even better.

As always, there was way too much to talk about with Judd, but we covered a ton of ground,

including his upcoming documentary about George Carlin, and his new book of interviews,

Sicker in the Head, which features long conversations with previous Last Laugh guests,

like Sasha Baron Cohen, Margaret Cho, John Cleese, Whitney Cummings, and more,

as well as a few dream guests of mine, like David Letterman, Whoopi Goldberg, and Will Ferrell.

We also talked about his latest movie The Bubble, which arrives on Netflix this Friday

and might be his most purely comedic film to date.

Here's a clip in which the COVID safety officers of the fictional dinosaur action movie

within the comedy film, Reef the cast, including Kegan Michael Key,

Pedro Pascal, and Judd's wife, Leslie Mann, on some new developments.

You have all tested negative for the virus. However, some of you have tested positive for

influenza, which is the good virus? A good one, yeah, and two of you tested positive for influenza, which is the good virus.

A good one, yeah, and two of you tested positive

for two separate cases of sexually transmitted diseases.

Wait, how could we have got the flu? We've all been in the bubble.

We've narrowed it down to a delivery person and one of the gardeners,

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