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Judd Apatow Breaks Down His Career, from ‘Superbad’ to ‘Freaks and Geeks’ | Vanity Fair

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6 years ago

June 13, 2020

Judd Apatow breaks down the films that make up his legendary career, including ‘The Larry Sanders Show,’ ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ ‘North Hollywood,’ ‘Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,’ ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin,’ ‘Superbad,’ ‘Knocked Up,’ ‘This is 40,’ ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall,’ ‘Get Him to the Greek,’ ‘Pineapple Express,’ ‘Funny People,’ ‘Bridesmaids,’ ‘Girls,’ ‘Trainwreck,’ ‘Crashing,’ ‘The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling’ and ‘The King of Staten Island.’

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29 Comments

Martin Whipkey

June 13, 2020 at 5:01 pm

Wow- I’m liking the “Tim Allen from the Santa Clause” look he’s sporting during the lockdown!

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- Ellis Dee
  
  June 13, 2020 at 6:26 pm
  
  He’s literally ALWAYS had that beard
  
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SENoR Sanchez SPANKSY Longbottoms

June 13, 2020 at 5:10 pm

“the bears can smell the mensturation”

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Eric Woodard

June 13, 2020 at 5:11 pm

This man never misses

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Ben Miller

June 13, 2020 at 5:27 pm

Anyone else get distracted by the books on his shelf? I wonder why he has so many sticky notes in the Keith Richards autobiography.

Also this is pretty great, I think Judd doesn’t get much of a chance to talk about his career as often as the actors in his movies do, but he’s always been terrific.

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- angela whittenhall
  
  June 13, 2020 at 6:07 pm
  
  I was just coming here to comment on all the sticky notes in Keith Richards’ book. I love it. It’s so quotable.
  
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Sonali

June 13, 2020 at 5:30 pm

Vanity fair is doing so many career breakdowns now a days

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13strong

June 13, 2020 at 5:34 pm

I’d love to see a series like this about how people first came up in their industry. Like, what did Apatow do between High School and Larry Sanders?

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Beauty By Roo

June 13, 2020 at 5:42 pm

I love it

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13strong

June 13, 2020 at 5:52 pm

You need to chill on the jazz. It’s too high in the mix and gets really annoying.

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RenegadeOfFunk

June 13, 2020 at 6:00 pm

When did this guy turn into a tugboat captain?

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Ezra Finkelstein

June 13, 2020 at 6:01 pm

Interesting bookcase

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Rebecca O'Sullivan

June 13, 2020 at 6:04 pm

What is the Kevin Hart beer commerical?

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Wayward Mind

June 13, 2020 at 6:20 pm

“But it was really hard to figure out who was as good as Michael Cera. Michael Cera is the greatest in the world.” Uh huh.

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Carter Sims

June 13, 2020 at 6:21 pm

ahead of his time

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RckrGrl2010

June 13, 2020 at 6:24 pm

I hope one day to be a part of one of his projects ❤️

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SodaSiren

June 13, 2020 at 6:28 pm

Lol my favorite Judd Apatow project is Heavyweights.

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pincmin

June 13, 2020 at 6:30 pm

Funny People was a great movie

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Nik Murphy

June 13, 2020 at 6:32 pm

This guy has some excellent movies but he is at least partially responsible for the careers of people like Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, and Mindy Kaling.

I can’t forgive him for that.

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- Batgirl1234556
  
  June 13, 2020 at 7:29 pm
  
  sounds like you hate a lot of female comedians!
  
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- Nik Murphy
  
  June 13, 2020 at 7:35 pm
  
  @Batgirl1234556 Nope. Just the terrible ones.
  
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catdog

June 13, 2020 at 6:46 pm

We watch Superbad once every year with my sister. It’s become a tradition of 7 years now 🙂

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Ginge

June 13, 2020 at 6:50 pm

Who

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Eric Klein

June 13, 2020 at 6:59 pm

Undeclared!

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Anna Smith

June 13, 2020 at 7:00 pm

I wonder how many of those books he’s actually read…

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Joshyy Boii

June 13, 2020 at 7:16 pm

You need to do more of those slow zoom videos ????❤️❤️❤️

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Ellis Dee

June 13, 2020 at 7:34 pm

23:18 no wonder this guy is so huge and successful in Hollywood. Always be open to new audiences I never say anything bad about anyone at least publicly

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spacekitt3n stickers

June 13, 2020 at 7:35 pm

Never forget literally how much rejection this guy had to face before he took off. But he kept going.

Never give up, friends.

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C Delany

June 13, 2020 at 7:37 pm

So sad Freaks and Geeks didn’t last longer it was so good

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