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Marc: Ah, the situation room. So this is your office? A lot of boards, things being outlined. It’s like—I can’t read your fucking writing. Judd: Well, part of the reason why I have bad handwriting is when I used to do stand-up comedy, I would write jokes on planes and I was always embarrassed that the person next to me would see what I was writing
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JEFF GARLIN (2013) In the late eighties, when I was on the road as a struggling stand-up comedian, I had the pleasure of opening a few times for a young guy named Jeff Garlin.
Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
Judd: It was Owen Wilson’s dad! Did you know that? It was Owen Wilson’s father who brought the show to the U.S. Eric: I think because it was so cheap. It was extremely cheap and they happened to like it, so we were on PBS for twenty years. It was the most extraordinary, fortuitous thing, because everybody got to see it. It was available in every
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Developing a sense of taste means exposing yourself to a wide range of something—a wide range of music, a wide range of art—and not just exposing yourself, but asking questions. Why is Andy Warhol considered a great artist? What was he thinking when he did his art? What do other people think of his art—people with well-developed taste? What other
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- Being a teen in the late 70s/early 80s in LA
- The collected works of Joan Didion
- Pauline Kael’s movie reviews from roughly 1971-1980.
- Robert Altman movies
- Corbin Fisher porn from 2005-2008.