Judd Apatow

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q325396: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005); Knocked Up (2007); Funny People (2009); The King of Staten Island (2020); Mel Brooks documentary (Judd Apatow, HBO); This Is 40. Count them as producer (13 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Knocked Up (2007): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through This Is 40, which they directed: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says halfway through the movie it becomes a Rudd and Mann movie, which becomes This Is 40.
    “the movie pretty much becomes like a Rudd and man movie by the end of it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through This Is 40, which they directed: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much.
    “This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

Mean Girls (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they directed: Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'.
    “I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Starting Over: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they directed: Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies.
    “It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally (1989): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they directed: When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift.
    “It starts with when Harry Met Sally.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

This Is 40: 2 lines, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they directed: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says halfway through the movie it becomes a Rudd and Mann movie, which becomes This Is 40.
    “the movie pretty much becomes like a Rudd and man movie by the end of it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they directed: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much.
    “This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

Bridesmaids (2011): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they directed: Knocked Up ⇒ Bridesmaids (the host's read). Bill frames Bridesmaids as Apatow's answer to the criticism of the female lead in Knocked Up.
    “And bridesmaids is the mic trap, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:11:00 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Producing (17) everyone in producing

Directing (6) everyone in directing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (6)

  1. career (career): Judd Apatow → Knocked Up. Bill lists everything Apatow produced 2005 to 2011, the best comedy producing run anyone has had.
    “That's got to be the best comedy producing run anyone's had.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:10:54 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Judd Apatow → Girls (TV). Juliet says during the run Apatow was developing Girls for HBO.
    “he was developing girls, which then came out on HBO in 2012.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:15:37 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Judd Apatow → Lena Dunham. Juliet says the dude-movie run gave way to Bridesmaids and launching Lena Dunham's career.
    “after doing all these movies with the dudes, gave way to bridesmaids”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:15:44 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Judd Apatow → Superbad. Craig says Apatow gave all these guys their own movie, such as Superbad for Jonah Hill.
    “He like gave Jonah Hill his movie super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:35 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Judd Apatow → Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Craig says Apatow then gave Segel his own movie in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
    “Then he gives Siegel it and forgetting Sir Marshall.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:37 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Judd Apatow → Girls (TV). Juliet says Apatow took the criticism to heart, evolving into Girls and Bridesmaids.
    “I also do think he took the criticism to heart.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:28:11 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Judd Apatow → Nora Ephron. Juliet says the rom-com era of female writers like Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers was changed when Apatow arrived with his crew.
    “And then Judd Appatow comes to town with his crew and changes that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:09 · Juliet Litman (0.75 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Judd Apatow → The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Bill says Apatow put idiot 22-year-old men into a rom-com, a trick he also used in 40-Year-Old Virgin.
    “Judd figured out how to like put them in a rom-com and make it work.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:08:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Judd Apatow → Adam McKay. Bill says McKay and Ferrell were doing the same improvise-and-keep-rolling thing at the same time as Apatow.
    “Adam McKay and Will Ferrell and those guys are kind of doing the same thing at the same time.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:10:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Neighbors → Judd Apatow. Neighbors is the Apatow track: low scale, high premise, comedians, cheap and opened big.
    “The the Appatau track.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:43:08 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Judd Apatow → Ivan Reitman. Bill asks whether Apatow is, for Craig's generation, what Ivan Reitman and Lorne Michaels were for him.
    “people like Ivan Reitman, just really revering them as I was like in college”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:14 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

people (6)

  1. people (people): Mike Nichols → Judd Apatow. Chris could have met Nichols through Apatow to talk about early improv.
    “and he mentioned that he had just met Mike Nichols.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:19:52 · Chris Gethard (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Judd Apatow → Freaks and Geeks (TV). A speaker notes the cast had worked together before in Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.
    “Well, they were in freaks and geeks and undeclared together too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:09:50 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Paul Rudd → Judd Apatow. Speakers read Rudd's character as a proxy for Judd, with Apatow's own wife and kids on screen.
    “It's his wife and his 2 kids, but with Paul Rudd not playing him”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:13:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Judd Apatow → Lena Dunham. Juliet recalls spending a day with Apatow in 2009 where he always named Lena Dunham as his favorite in comedy, right after Tiny Furniture.
    “without a doubt, always said Lena Dunham.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:28:27 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Martin Starr → Judd Apatow. Starr, from the Apatow TV circle, is cast as Amadeus Cho, a major Asian character in the comics.
    “Martin Starr is in this movie and he plays a character.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:43:22 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. people (people): Shauna Robertson → Judd Apatow. Robertson, now married to Norton, produced the early Apatow comedies and is compared to Polly Platt as a quiet shaper of a comedy movement.
    “She's like a quiet, like she's like the Polly Platt of the Appital comedy movement,”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:12:34 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (produced by): Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story → Judd Apatow. Walk Hard was produced and shaped by Judd Apatow, in his big year of Knocked Up and Superbad; one of his better credits.
    “it is produced by, and shaped in a good way by, by, by Judd Appital, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:12 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Judd Apatow → The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Hall of Fame plaque for Apatow: 40-Year-Old Virgin vs Freaks and Geeks vs this movie.
    “I think I would go with a 40-year-old virgin, but this is close.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:12:17 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Judd Apatow → Freaks and Geeks (TV). Hall of Fame plaque for Apatow: another speaker goes with Freaks and Geeks.
    “I think he would go with freaks and geeks.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:12:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Judd Apatow: Bill on why the hangout scenes work: guys just busting each other's balls for five hours at a poker game or fantasy draft.
    “all we're doing is making fun of each other for 5 hours.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:08:57 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Judd Apatow: Apatow shot reportedly a million feet of film and let the guys keep going.
    “like a 1000000 feet of film for this thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:10:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Judd Apatow: Bill reads the Rudd character as a stand-in for Judd, with Apatow's own wife and kids on screen: 'Judd's really going through something'.
    “Judd's really going through something.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:14:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)