The famous episode of The Simpsons written by Judd Apatow finally airs this week. The "Knocked Up" and "40 Year Old Virgin" director — who is also co-producer of Girls, which has its season premiere the same night — wrote the script for "Bart's New Friend" over 20 years ago when he was a "fledgling stand up comic" and huge fan of the show. Read More »
With the finale of Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show coming to fruition on Dec. 19 – welcoming in final guest Jay Leno – and James Corden not taking over the spot until March of 2015, there’s been much wonder as to what will occur doing the nine-week gap. Well, now it appears that question has been answers, because Judd Apatow, The Big Bang Theory star Kunal Nayyar, musician John Mayer, and more, are locked in to host various episode of the show until Corden’s premiere. Read More »
Following the unfortunate death of the legendary Saturday Night Live player Jan Hooks, the Twitter world has been blowing up with many sharing their condolences and offering some kind words and memories of the late comedic actress. Personalities such as Seth Meyers, Billy Eichner, Kevin Nealon, Patton Oswalt, Judd Apatow, Dane Cook and Cheri Oteri are just some of the many. Read More »
After having mastered both TV and film, Judd Apatow is now making his way to Netflix. The This Is 40 writer-director just nabbed himself a two-season order from Netflix on a comedy series of his creation that will star Paul Rust (I Love You, Beth Cooper) and Community star Gillian Jacobs, according to Deadline. Read More »
According to a new report, comedy filmmaker Judd Apatow is hoping to make his mark on Hulu with a new exclusive series allegedly entitled Love and starring Gillian Jacobs. The young starlet is most known for her role as Britta on the recently cancelled NBC comedy Community, which was rumored to be getting saved by Hulu soon for a sixth season. But if this news about Jacobs' new show is true, Community might be out of luck! Read More »
Judd Apatow is writing a book of interviews with famous comedians, consisting largely of interviews he himself has conducted over the past three decades. Read More »
TMZ has obtained footage from the car accident that left Tracy Morgan in critical condition and that claimed the life of comedian James McNair. Since posting the video the celebrity gossip site has been receiving a lot of flack for uploading it. Friends and colleagues of Morgan and McNair demanded that the site show some compassion by taking the video down. Louis C.K., Judd Apatow, and Dax Shepard are just a few of the comedian's friends who have spoken out about the graphic video. Read More »
Over 20 years ago, famed comedy writer and director Judd Apatow had a dream to have a script he wrote for The Simpsons become reality. Now, his dream has finally come true. Read More »
According to some new film industry reports, Judd Apatow is getting ready for his next directorial project and he is teaming up with Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer's leading lady to do so. Comedian Amy Schumer and Apatow will work together on a new comedy entitled Train Wreck. Considering it is a comedic film directed by Apatow, we can assume that the title refers to the main character's state in her life. Read More »