Judd Apatow

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2010

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Judd Apatow is a comedy writer, director and producer. He has become one of the largest comedic forces in Hollywood with films like Knocked Up and the 40 Year Old Virgin. Apatow's new book, I Found this Funny, is a compilation of work by some of his favorite authors.

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0:27.4	Humber College, offering a two-year program dedicated to comedy.
0:31.3	Students learn stand-up, improv, acting, and writing skills and perform in the
0:36.0	heart of Toronto. At Humber, we make funny people funnier. More information at
0:40.8	HumberComedy.com. I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from My House in Los Angeles. It's
0:46.0	the Sound of Young America from MaximumFund.org and PRI, public radio,
0:50.9	international. Welcome to The Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorne. Jada
1:01.1	Appetau might be the most important man in American comedy. He's taken the
1:06.2	broad anti-authoritarian comedy of the 80s and the character-driven comedy of
1:10.8	the 90s and imbued it with a sense of humanity. Today on The Sound of Young
1:15.5	America, I'll talk to him about how he realized that his story was an
1:20.4	important story to tell. Specifically, he had to realize that his story was a
1:25.4	story worth telling. I just thought my story was boring. Just I grew up. My parents
1:30.8	get divorced. I got depressed. I got into comedy. I had trouble getting a
1:35.3	girlfriend, you know, whatever. But then I realized that the tiniest details of
1:40.3	it are what's hilarious and interesting and that what people connect to. A
1:44.7	conversation with Jada Appetau this week on The Sound of Young America plus
1:48.8	comedy from Simon Rich. His essays are featured in Appetau's new book, which
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