Judd Apatow

You know, a lot of people would go to concerts and write reviews and interview artists.

So my friend Josh Rosenthal, he would go interview people like REM in the early 80s.

And he said, oh, maybe you should try to interview comedians.

And so I created a show called Club Comedy, and I got a tape recorder, and I would go off and kind of trick comedians into doing interviews with me, which was easier.

I just wouldn't tell them it was a high school radio station, and I would just call a publicist and say, I work for WKWZ.

Does Mr. Leno have any time while he's doing rascals in New Jersey to speak with me?

And I would show up with some huge tape recorder from, you know, the –

the school, the AV squad, and they would all tolerate me.

Well, there were people I couldn't get to.

I couldn't get to Dangerfield.

I couldn't figure out how to get to Andy Kaufman, who was down south wrestling at the time.

Oh, he was doing that.

So I would call the management office, and they were like, we don't know where he is.

We haven't talked to him in months.

But people like Howard Stern and Sandra Bernhardt and John Candy –

talked to me and Harold Ramis, and they had good advice.

I mean, I was asking them, how do you write a joke?

How do you get on stage?

How do you write a movie?

And they would answer, and I look back now and go, what a head start I had.