Going Deep with Judd Apatow on Women, Collaboration and How Funny Works
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Judd Apatow is curious, unassuming and forthcoming in this conversation with Kelly about his mom, his daughters, the business that needs improving and the work he loves. Filmed for Kelly’s PBS show Tell Me More in Los Angeles in celebration of Judd’s new film, The Bubble. After talking to Judd, Kelly sat down with Columbia’s George Bonanno to talk about a key part of Judd’s history and how it relates to George’s work on resilience. (Previously aired)
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like down deep I have such low self-esteem I'm always fighting against a voice in my head that saying |
| 0:06.0 | Shut up no one cares what you think about anything and the very active getting on stage and talking and telling stories and trying to be funny is a weird act of approving |
| 0:17.0 | of myself. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm |
| 0:26.2 | wondering about self-esteem and resilience and laughter and how those things might |
| 0:31.3 | be intertwined. |
| 0:33.0 | My thought partner is writer and director and producer, |
| 0:37.0 | the sort of singular comedic talent, Jed Abitow. |
| 0:40.0 | He is the force behind Knocked Up and 40 year old Virgin. He was an important |
| 0:45.4 | producer on girls and bridesmaids. I could not have enjoyed his company more and |
| 0:50.4 | found him incredibly open to every question I asked. |
| 0:55.0 | So join us. Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
| 1:09.0 | Laughter is a weird, wonderful, and important thing. |
| 1:13.1 | That awesome contraction in our diaphragm is also a buffer |
| 1:17.3 | against heart disease, pain, and isolation. |
| 1:20.8 | And when the laughs hinge on keen observation we start to see more clearly who we are |
| 1:27.2 | and how we are and that we are not alone in our foolish self-importance or our desire to be included. |
| 1:35.0 | Since the late 90s, Judd Apetow has been reflecting a world back to us. |
| 1:39.9 | As the force behind 40-year-old Virgin knocked up and train wreck, it produced her on girls, the big sick, |
| 1:45.7 | bridesmaids, a lonely teenager thrown hard by his parents divorce, Jed Apotaph on comfort |
| 1:51.8 | studying comics and has never stopped working to become an expert in |
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