Judd Apatow

And those people like Norman Lear and Larry Gelbart and James Brooks programmed my mind of what was funny and what was moral because I spent so much time hearing those stories.

Yeah.

Yeah, you'd watch the Honeymooners, but every day.

Right.

For years and years.

And you had this very deep relationship with the characters on the show.

I mean, now, you know, TV shows are six episodes or eight episodes, and they disappear for two years.

Yeah.

you know, after five years, there's 30 episodes.

But back then, there was always a new episode, and you would watch a show for seven years or 10 years.

And by the end of it, you know, that's why 100 million people watched The Last Mash.

You know, I thought...

That life wasn't so easy now, but I think as a result of this interest, it will get easier later.

So I had this sense of one day you're going to get to be a part of this.

And right now, no one cares about it at all.

You don't have any friends to talk about it with in the way you would like to.

But somewhere there's a world where people care about life.

Bob Hope's monologue or whatever like show business thing it was and then I did move to California to go to USC Cinema School in 1985 and I met all those people it turned out I was right all the comedians all the filmmakers that there was a place where all the the judds of their high school congregated

It was a nerd convention.

Yeah.