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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Judd Apatow

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Director Judd Apatow joins Andy Richter to talk about shooting The Bubble during in the pandemic, getting interested in comedy at a young age, making the jump from TV to Film, and more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. This is Andy Richter. Then this is another episode of the three questions.

0:18.0

I am speaking today with a real juggernaut, a comedy juggernaut. What doesn't he do?

0:28.6

A lot of us think it's too much. A lot of us think just juggernaut. It's Judd Apatow.

0:36.6

It's Judd Apatow. Everyone's favorite. Hi, how are you?

0:40.6

I'm delighted to be here. It's about time I've been waiting. I've been waiting for the call.

0:47.6

It came in and I had practiced and I was ready.

0:52.6

If you don't cry during this, I'm going to be so mad. I'm always crying. You don't have to worry about that.

0:59.6

Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good.

1:01.6

How are you? Are you in the middle of publicizing bubble or the bubble?

1:06.6

The bubble, which is going to be on Netflix on April 1st, which is our movie about people in lockdown trying to make a dinosaur action movie.

1:17.6

You know, you knew someone was going to do it sooner or later. I thought why don't you?

1:22.6

Now, how did you begin first? I want to know that because at what point, because COVID started about mid-March 2020, at what point did you say, oh boy, somebody's going to make a movie about making a movie during this time, I want to be the person.

1:39.6

I want to be that idiot. I want to be the moron of the things you can make jokes about it.

1:44.6

People say, you know, too soon. I'm like, yeah, now. I'm like, it's beyond too soon. It's still happening.

1:51.6

But, you know, I started taking these long walks on the beach, like 90-minute walks every morning with my friend Brent Forester and other friends.

2:01.6

And we wouldn't work. We would just try not to go insane.

2:05.6

Yeah. And then after about three months of that, I said to Brent, maybe I just an exercise. Let's outline stories.

2:12.6

Just so that we don't have to keep talking about our personal lives. Right. Right. And sounds like Brent and oversharer.

2:19.6

Exactly. Brent tells you too much. And Brent, you know, rode for the office in the Simpsons and he's a layer.

2:26.6

So we just started kicking around different ideas we had. And one day I said, this NBA bubbles seems pretty funny.

2:33.6

All these guys stuck in a hotel in Florida. That must be tense. You know, they're all used to live in the life. And they're in some weird Disney hotel.

2:42.6

Yeah. And then I thought, maybe that's a play, like a play where everyone is seven feet tall. That was the first box.

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