Judd Apatow Takes on Comedy’s ‘Civil War’

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Writer, director, producer and stand-up comedian Judd Apatow invites us into his L.A. office for an in-depth conversation about all things comedy. We talk about his new Garry Shandling book and working on his upcoming film with Pete Davidson. Judd also weighs in on the so-called “civil war” in comedy, from fired SNL comic Shane Gillis—who called him “gayer than ISIS” in one of his controversial rants—to Louis C.K., who he thinks still deserves “criticism” for making fun of the Parkland shooting survivors. Plus, Judd looks back on some of his biggest movie hits and reveals the funniest person he’s ever worked with.

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0:47.4	Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and we have a very
0:53.1	special episode for you today with Judd Apatow.
0:56.5	Judd had us over to his office to record this episode, which was a lot of fun.
1:00.8	He's hard at work editing his next movie, Staten Island, which is co-written by N. Stars and S&L's Pete Davidson.
1:08.4	It's his first movie as a director since 2015's train wreck, and as he
1:12.4	tells me in this episode, it is really looking like it's going to be something special.
1:16.5	Judd also has a new book out called It's Gary Shanling's book. It's kind of an extension of the
1:21.9	great HBO documentary, The Zen Diaries of Gary Shanling, that he put out last year.
1:27.0	We got into so much really interesting territory in this episode,
1:30.5	including Judd's first real response to the homophobic comments made about him by comedian Shane Gillis,
1:36.7	who was hired and then quickly fired by SNL back in September.
1:41.2	Also want to put in a little shameless plug here,
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