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Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Judd Apatow

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Judd Apatow has spent his life obsessed with the sweet science of being funny. He joins Ted Danson to talk about his upcoming book, working with Garry Shandling and Rip Torn, documenting the lives of his comedy heroes, executive producing “Freaks and Geeks,” and what it feels like coming up on the 20th anniversary of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” Like watching your podcasts? Visit http://youtube.com/teamcoco to see full episodes.

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0:00.0

And then she went off to the side and made the vomit herself out of like strawberry yogurt and granola.

0:05.0

Did she pass it by Steve?

0:07.5

Yeah.

0:21.0

Welcome back to where Knows Your Name.

0:28.2

John Apatow is probably the closest thing we have to a professor of comedy, or maybe even a dean. He bridges generations of comedy through his writing, producing, and directing.

0:34.0

Think 40-year-old virgin, knocked up, freaks and geeks, girls, love, and so much more.

0:40.4

If you can believe it, August marks the 20th anniversary of the 40-year-old Virgin, which was

0:46.7

remastered for the occasion. Judd also has an amazing new book called Comedy Nerd, which documents

0:54.1

his lifelong obsession with comedy in

0:56.6

stories and pictures. He just gave me one, and so I have one and you don't. Let's get into it. Meet

1:03.5

Judd Appetach. When do I get my makeup done? You know, you get brought into all these things, and. And then you think, well, there's no video. You don't think much about the video. And then you suddenly see it on YouTube or somewhere. And you look crazy because you don't have your massive glam squad covering all of your problems. But you have glam lighting. I have to tell you, this is the best lighting I've ever seen on a podcast. I'm so relieved. Yeah, me too, actually. Years ago, I realized I didn't care how I looked on anything because I thought, well, I'm just like the weird comedy guy. And I, so now, like, when I do, like, the talk shows, if you ever track it, it literally may be the same suit for 11 straight years.

1:47.1

Because no one cares how I look in any situation.

1:50.4

The hair, the beard, the color, it's all working.

1:53.9

In this stage.

1:55.4

In this stage.

1:56.0

It's dancing-esque.

1:57.5

Right?

1:58.5

You're better because it's silver foxy.

2:01.3

But I can't shave the beard because when the beard goes, it doesn't look like that.

2:05.4

I wish I could have a beard.

2:06.7

Mary goes, nope.

2:07.9

I mean, you can, but I won't kiss you.

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