![]() ![]() On how he interviewed big-name comedians in high school The interview took place at Seinfeld's West Hollywood apartment ("Note the lack of decor," says Apatow.) ![]() Judd Apatow (left) interviewed Jerry Seinfeld in 1983. You shouldn't read this like it's Infinite Jest or something it's meant to be dipped into when you feel like it." "There's like 30-something interviews in the book so you could open it up and go, 'Oh, I'd love to hear Mike Nichols or James Brooks or Chris Rock.'. "I think it's meant for the toilet, Terry, it's meant for an airplane," Apatow says of his new collection. ![]() Those interviews, as well as Apatow's recent interviews with comics, are collected in his new book Sick in the Head. That confidence helped him land interviews with an impressive roster of comedians for his high school radio show. This is the only thing that only I know about,'" he says. "Back then I was alone and I had a little confidence about it because I felt like: 'This is my thing. Today, Apatow says there's a "giant culture of comedy nerds." But as a kid, he was on his own - and in some ways, that worked in his favor. "There was no one to talk about it with." "No other kids in my school cared about it at all," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "You are smaller, you are behind in every possible way."Īs a kid, Judd Apatow was obsessed with comedy. "When you're little, that year is impactful," he says. Apatow (who dressed up as Harpo Marx for Halloween in 1975) was one of the youngest kids in his grade. ![]()
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