Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 597th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's

Awards Chatter podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a Canadian actor,

writer, producer, and director who has been described by the Washington Post

as a generational comedic voice, by The Guardian as the most successful comic leading man of his

generation, and by the New York Times as someone whose fingerprints, along with those of his

longtime creative partner Evan Goldberg, have been among the most visible on American film comedy for almost 20 years.

Seth Rogan's work for the big screen, which includes the 40-year-old virgin, knocked-up, Superbad,

Pineapple Express, This Is The End, The Interview, Neighbors, and Sausage Party, has collectively

grossed nearly $10 billion worldwide. And yet it was not until

earlier this year, when he returned to the small screen from which he emerged decades ago on the

short-lived cult classic freaks and geeks, that he found widespread critical appreciation

and eventually awards recognition as well. That has come for the studio, an Apple TV plus comedy

series that he co-created, co-wrote, co-directed, and stars in, which the Associated Press has said

may be the definitive portrait of contemporary Hollywood. On the show, Rogan plays Matt Remick,

a longtime studio executive who is named the head of a major

studio, a job that he has long dreamed of, but that he quickly discovers is not all that it's

cracked up to be. The New York Times recently wrote that the show is funnier than most anything on TV now,

and members of the Television Academy agreed, bestowing upon it 23 Emmy nominations,

which broke Ted Lasso's record for the most nombs for a rookie comedy series, and tied the second

season of the Bears record for most moms for any season of a comedy series. Rogan personally is

nominated for acting, writing, producing, and directing, and he is widely

expected to win in most and possibly all of those areas. Only one person, Dan Levy, of Schitt's

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