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...sketch comedy The Ben Stiller Show at the age of 24. There Apatow surprised everyone with his confidence and willingness to fight with network executives. "He burned bridges. He was not afraid," says Stiller. "He had the courage of his convictions. I don't know where he got that from. I was like, 'This is great, but maybe that sketch about the Weird Tales of the Dark Side where I turn into a monster for eight minutes isn't the greatest thing in the world.' But he would be like, 'No. Come on. We're doing...
...actors until they're so worn down that they can't think of anything to say other than something personal - or funny. After a scene in Get Him to the Greek, director Nick Stoller runs off triumphantly, shaking his fists in the air. "We did it! We got Sean to make a gay joke!" he yells. "They got me. They turned me out," says Combs, shaking his head as he walks away. One night, with 1,300 extras at the Greek Theater at 11 o'clock, Apatow suggests yet another shoot of Brand's rock performance with pyrotechnics. He enlists...
Once Apatow has a three-hour-plus version of the movie, he shows it to every funny person in L.A. and asks for notes. "Judd is like a feedback machine," says Feig. "He wants feedback of the person he doesn't even like or trust. And he's got the brain trust of comedy at the moment, old and new." The next stop is test audiences - 10 for Funny People. "We had a debate over how much is too much for a comedian to talk about his penis and testicles," Apatow says. "The answer there is, No amount...
...even cared if any of us could write," Rogen says. "He just cared that we wanted to write and figured he could shape us into writers." Stoller, another young writer on Undeclared, was hired by Apatow to direct Forgetting Sarah Marshall despite having no directorial experience. Andy Dick, who got his start on The Ben Stiller Show, has had small roles in a handful of Apatow's projects. "Judd has given me a chance from when I was a nobody to when I have publicly reduced myself to being less than a nobody by my public, drunken, stupid-ass shenanigans...
When I tell Rogen about Apatow's planned sabbatical, he just laughs. "What year - 2030? He's got this movie to promote, then Get Him to the Greek is in post-production and then two movies he's producing," he says. "He may say that, but he'll write a movie during that time." I think Rogen underestimates Apatow's work ethic. I'm betting he writes nothing. And that his back kills...