Judd Apatow's miserable new comedy, This Is 40, is a cautionary tale that warns against two things: getting older and being married. I don't know what messages you are to extract from this thing if not: kill yourself and get divorced now.
After the quite-good Comedy Issue of Vanity Fair (guest edited by Judd Apatow) was released this week, I was a little surprised to learn that it was only the third single-subject guest-edited issue in the magazine's history. Bono's "Africa" Issue (which focused on just...all of Africa, I suppose) seemed more in…
Sure, there have been enough YouTube parodies of HBO's hyperlocal quarterlife crisis narrative Girls to fill an entire season, but few have been stamped with the personal imprimatur of the show's executive producer Judd Apatow.
Ensemble romantic comedy Think Like a Man continues to outperform expectations, winning the weekend again after last weekend's smash debut. The film took in $5.5 million on Friday and is slated to earn $16 million this weekend, bringing its total gross to more than $50 million.
From writer/director/co-producer/key grip/ferret handler Judd Apatow comes This Is 40 — the highly (?) anticipated (?) sequel to 2007's Knocked Up.
In making the unending publicity rounds for Girls, co-star Allison Williams has been peddling a YouTube discovery myth: Producer Judd Apatow, the tale goes, happened to come across a video of her singing a self-produced mash-up of the theme song to Mad Men in October 2010 and immediately knew that she was the…
A new comedy star is emerging and her name is Melissa McCarthy. Also today: the glorious return of Little People, Big World, catching up with the Ribisis, and an exciting new gay movie.
The TRL host of yesteryear just keeps hanging on. Also today: pilot casting news sees the return of some old favorites, V may be flying south, and Megan Fox is funny now apparently.
Here's an interview with Judd Apatow and Comedy Death Ray's Scott Auckerman about Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared—two shows that were widely loved, yet canceled anyway.
Here's a trailer for the Judd Apatow-produced comedy Bridesmaids, a movie that may finally solve that age-old debate about whether women, the ones with the vaginae, can be funny or not. Judging from this trailer, it looks like they can!
In his opening monologue at the Producers Guild Awards, host Judd Apatow tore into Ricky Gervais for his mean Golden Globe jokes: "Leave Tim Allen alone," he said! Then he made fun of Gervais' flop The Invention of Lying.
Two movies together means it's true love. Also today: Mad Men news, HBO picks up a hip young series, and the BBC will always make better television than us.
On the Tonight Show, Judd Apatow shares that he's a longtime fan of Robin Williams and that Barack Obama is a longtime fan of Judd Apatow. The President is apparently a fan of Apatow's Funny People and other "depressing movies."
That's a lot of money! Anguilla must be so embarrassed. Also today: Meryl Streep as the Iron Lady, two vampiresses team up to kill people, Judd Apatow heads to the Playhouse, and Scream finds another victim.
Judd Apatow was at the Correspondents Dinner and on a private tour of the White House and still hasn't got to meet to President. Among the obstacles standing in his way: his wife's bladder, speechwriter Jon Lovett and Tracy Morgan.
Discussion quickly went from movies to drug trafficking during Craig Ferguson's show last night. Craig had lots of questions about the practice that guest Judd Apatow was more than qualified to answer.
Al Pacino steps into Robert De Niro's Italian leather shoes. Amanda Bynes' sex comedy. Judd Apatow forsakes the bromance for Kristen Wiig. Erector Sets' movie adaptation is not a soft-core porn. The Trade Roundup just ate an entire frittata.
Today at Gawker.TV, Judd Apatow's 1993 Jay Leno impression, Julia Roberts does a drunken interview, 60 Minutes misses the point, the most hated comedians, and Hollywood gives itself some self-congratulatory acceptance speeches.
In this retro clip from The Ben Stiller Show, a very young Judd Apatow does a spot-on impersonation of Leno. In it, he's trying out for The Tonight Show back in the days when it still belonged to Johnny Carson.
Today at Gawker.TV, we visit the Jersey Shore, Quentin Tarantino's new bizarre commercial, car wash revenge, a terrible spoof on Judd Apatow movies, and Obama responds to a call to legalize everything bad for America.
