.JuddApatow on documenting the legacy (and the fart jokes) of George Carlin, and what drew him to Carlin's legacy
Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images If Judd Apatow had only released one new feature this year and put out one new book , then, as people say at Passover Seder, dayenu — it would have been more than enough. But before the pandemic, the writer, director, and man of a bunch of other titles had already started working on another project that is now seeing the light of day.
You know, I’m not sure, because I was always interested in how things get made and who the people were who made them. When I was in sixth grade, I wrote this 30-page report about the Marx Brothers, but it wasn’t an assignment for school. I just did it for myself. Looking back, that seems like a really strange thing for a young person to do. I paid my friend to write it in, because he had better handwriting than me. [Laughs.
They definitely were critical thinkers, and at the end of their lives, both of them came to a place of thinking that we’re all connected in some way. They weren’t classically religious. They weren’t people who believed in heaven and hell. They were people who believed that we are all in this together.The only aspect of his career that I probably didn’t spend enough time on was his silly, dirty, puerile material.
His positions on most of the major issues are clear. He was certainly for gun control and a woman’s right to choose. He was very concerned about the behavior of the military and our interventions around the world. He thought there was something immoral about the drug war.
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