December 13, 2005 3:24 pm
comedy central insider
comedy central insider
Laugh Machine points to this In Focus Magazine interview with Freaks and Geeks creator Judd Apatow, in which he talks about interviewing comedians in his high school days:
“When I interviewed Seinfeld, I was grilling him for literally 45 minutes about how to write jokes — and he tells me, in incredible detail, using examples from his act, how he thought of it, how he developed it, what the stages were…. It became a blueprint for how to be a comedian and a comedy writer. So when I started writing, I already had 15 hours of conversations about how to do it. And I didn’t just interview comedians; I interviewed writers like Michael O’Donaghue and James Downey…”
Read the rest here.
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