Judd Apatow

And it was really, for me, like a place I would escape to, this Mike Douglas show world, and everyone was so happy and talking about their projects.

And so the letter says, Dear Mike, my name is Judd Apatow, and I am 10 years old.

I always watch the Mike Douglas show.

It's great.

I learn a lot from it.

Now you have the best guests.

I'm glad your show moved to Hollywood.

Now you get better guests.

Yours truly, Judd Apatow.

And the funny thing about that is when I found this letter, on top of it was a letter to Merv Griffin, and it said almost the exact same thing.

Yeah, I was.

But I wasn't good at sports.

So there was always a lot of time where friends would be on the football team or the baseball team.

And I was left alone because my friends were the athletes.

I was the goofy guy with the athletes.

And so I would just go home and watch Live at Five with Sue Simmons and write letters.

Yeah.

Like any normal kid would do.

You know, you go home and you watch Mike Douglas and the People's Court.

I mean, I can remember like the things I would watch and I would also watch All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bash, Bob Newhart, like every single day, Odd Couple.