Tonight's Daily Show is a repeat of the June 15th episode with Judd Apatow. The panelists on The Nightly Show are LilRel Howery, Brett Gelman, and Calise Hawkins.
Judd Apatow is a producer, director, comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in comedy films, and is the founder of Apatow Productions and also developed the cult television series Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared and Girls. He is on tonight to promote his latest book Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from the past thirty years—including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Roseanne Barr, Harold Ramis, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, and Lena Dunham.Before becoming one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, Judd Apatow was the original comedy nerd. At fifteen, he took a job washing dishes in a local comedy club—just so he could watch endless stand-up for free. At sixteen, he was hosting a show for his local high school radio station in Syosset, Long Island—a show that consisted of Q&As with his comedy heroes, from Garry Shandling to Jerry Seinfeld. They talked about their careers, the science of a good joke, and their dreams of future glory (turns out, Shandling was interested in having his own TV show one day and Steve Allen had already invented everything).
Thirty years later, Apatow is still that same comedy nerd—and he’s still interviewing funny people about why they do what they do.
Sick in the Head gathers Apatow’s most memorable and revealing conversations into one hilarious, wide-ranging, and incredibly candid collection that spans not only his career but his entire adult life. Here are the comedy legends who inspired and shaped him, from Mel Brooks to Steve Martin. Here are the contemporaries he grew up with in Hollywood, from Spike Jonze to Sarah Silverman. And here, finally, are the brightest stars in comedy today, many of whom Apatow has been fortunate to work with, from Seth Rogen to Amy Schumer. And along the way, something kind of magical happens: What started as a lifetime’s worth of conversations about comedy becomes something else entirely. It becomes an exploration of creativity, ambition, neediness, generosity, spirituality, and the joy that comes from making people laugh.
Loaded with the kind of back-of-the-club stories that comics tell one another when no one else is watching, this fascinating, personal (and borderline-obsessive) book is Judd Apatow’s gift to comedy nerds everywhere.
This sounds like a funny book, I probably won't read it but it sounds like a good read anyway.In a way, Mr. Apatow has been working on this book since he was a teenager. Seven of the interviews were done for his high school radio station in Long Island in the 1980s. Once he decided to put them in a book, he figured he would add new interviews, including ones with several of the people — like Jerry Seinfeld and Garry Shandling — he talked to as a young man.The early interviews read like the education of a young comic, with Mr. Apatow asking technical questions and trying to prove his bona fides to the comedians he idolized. When Mr. Shandling apologizes for not being funnier in the interview, Mr. Apatow assures him: “This show is pretty serious.”The purpose of those early interviews, Mr. Apatow said recently, was to learn about the business: “This was my comedy school.” (He did eventually attend and drop out of the University of Southern California film school.) “The first interview in the book is talking to Jerry Seinfeld in 1984 and I was asking him: ‘How do you write a joke? How do you get spots?’ He really lays it out.”
The new interviews, conducted over the last few years, have a different dynamic. Mr. Apatow is now an equal — he talks more so we learn more about him, and the exchanges feel more like a chummy conversation. The topics range further afield, from comedy to family or religion. Mr. Apatow also throws in some noncomedians, like Miranda July and Eddie Vedder, just because he is a fan.Mr. Apatow said one of his favorite interviews was with Jon Stewart, who had yet to announce that he was leaving “The Daily Show.”“When it was over, I thought he wasn’t going to do the show much longer,” Mr. Apatow said. “I thought he was really summing it all up. He may have known then.”Judd Apatow’s New Book Is a Love Letter to Stand-Up Comedy
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Judd Apatow Extended Interview
Tonightly: @LilRel4, @brettgelman, and @CaliseHawkins! #NightlyShowpic.twitter.com/SMAMjSL0Yf
— The Nightly Show (@nightlyshow) August 19, 2015LilRel HoweryFrom the impressionable age of eleven, Milton "Lil Rel" Howery set out to make the world laugh. With influential comedians like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, and Louie Anderson in their prime, Lil Rel spent the early 90's tuned into classic programs like Def Comedy Jam and Raw. While other young adolescents in his West Side Chicago neighborhood were doing typical juvenile things, he was studying and mastering the art of comedy. Now as a well-respected comedian, actor and writer, Lil Rel has become a comedic staple in Chicago and a rising star nationally.With small appearances like his national film debut in MGM Studio's "Barbershop 2" along with featured roles in urban hits like TV One's "Bill Bellamy's: Who Got Jokes" and HBO's "Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy," Lil Rel has been a welcome guest in inner-city homes for years. One of Lil Rel's most valuable television appearances was NBC's Last Comic Standing. Though he did not win the show, his memorable characters (including the infamous "neighborhood hoodrat") resonated well with at-home viewers. His crossover appeal landed him a spot on NBC's Diversity Showcase, as well as his hometown's second largest comedy experience, the "Just for Laughs Chicago Festival."
Brett Gelmanis an American actor and comedian best known for co-starring as Brett Mobley in the Adult Swim comedy-action series Eagleheart and as Mr. K on the NBC sitcom Go On. He currently co-stars in the FX comedy series Married.
Calise Hawkinss a comedian and writer who hails from Springfield, Illinois and currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey. Mother to her 8-year-old daughter, Asha, Calise has appeared on numerous television shows including “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,”“Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell,”“Shortcoms,”“Stand Up in Stilettos” and “Parental Discretion.” As a writer, Calise’s work has appeared on several major television networks as well as the Whoopi Goldberg pilot, “Spoil Me Mad.” In 2012, Calise was part of the prestigious “Just For Laughs Montreal New Faces Showcase.”
The Nightly show will be taking a few weeks off returning the week of September 7th and The Daily Show With Trevor Noah will begin September 28th.This Week's Schedule
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