Judd Apatow Lobbies For Time Magazine Cover

TIME:

Judd Apatow is working much harder on this article than I am. He wants to meet at 8 a.m., suggests six different events I can accompany him to and sends me more e-mails checking on my progress than my editor does. The two-minute video interview that I promised TIME.com turns into Apatow taking my camera, directing me for 15 minutes and editing it himself. It's not entirely surprising -- after all, I'm lazy -- but it helps explain how Apatow has become the most influential person making comedy in Hollywood

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Comments

[hdohighdesertobserver]

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

I think Mencken said it. It's so goddamned true I want to kill myself.

[TheBaffler]

Time has a long history of putting the latest middling, middlebrow-darling, flavor-of-the-month on the cover. The anemic Apatow deserves the same treatment.

[7ShallFall]

I loved "Knocked Up" and "The Forty Year Old Virgin",, I still watch "Freaks and Geeks" on DVD, criticize all you want, but the guy is talented.

[TobyPLD]

You can do that! I've got some calls to make!

[Canadiannie]

Get over yourself, Judd - you're way over rated and not that funny...

[Bobby Baker]

Both Time and Newsweek have become "entertainment " shills.