Book Details
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Sick in the Head |
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Judd Apatow |
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1 |
| Last Read: |
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08.21.16 |
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| 08.21.16 | A collection of interviews that Judd had with comedians and other entertainers. Apatow's origin story is pretty interesting: he conducted a lot of interviews with comedians while in high school (a few of which are printed here) in order to learn what it was that a comedian did. The book mixes some of those early interviews in amongst more recent interviews, transcribed podcasts, and dvd commentaries. There are more good ones than bad ones, although I will say I was surprised at how some of the people I thought would make good interviews didn't come out as well as others from people I maybe wasn't so directly interested in hearing from . My favs were probably Harold Ramis, Spike Jonze, and Mike Nichols. I'm typically a sucker for these long-form interviews so this is biased but I liked parts of this book a great deal. On the whole, it's pretty good... I don't know how you get around this, but I feel like I read the same summarization of Apatow's childhood like 8 different times throughout... that got to be a bit much. The stuff where he talked about his work - where it comes from, getting it made, how he feels about it now - was all great though. |
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