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Why Judd Apatow Feels His Shift from Comedy to Documentaries was a Natural Evolution · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When you hear the
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  Speaker 1: name Judd Apatow, you immediately think of comedy, but the
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  Speaker 1: acclaimed writer, director and producer has recently been more focused
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  Speaker 1: on documentary work. His last two films, George Carlin's American
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  Speaker 1: Dream and Bob and Donna Love Story, where both nonfiction.
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  Speaker 1: He's now serving as an EP on another new doc,
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  Speaker 1: Flip Side, and while it might seem like a late
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  Speaker 1: shifter in his career, it also connects to his first
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  Speaker 1: big break. The late comedian Gary Shandley was the first
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  Speaker 1: person to hire Judd as a writer, who credits him
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  Speaker 1: for changing his life and teaching him the entertainment value
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  Speaker 1: and reality. Judd tells NPR when I worked with Gary,
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  Speaker 1: it was always about how truthful you can get. He
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  Speaker 1: always wanted to go as deep as possible. So the
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  Speaker 1: next step is documentaries. That's the logical road. I find
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  Speaker 1: people fascinating, and a lot of times life is more
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  Speaker 1: fascinating than fiction. There's also something less pressurized about it.
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  Speaker 1: I just find it to be more enjoyable, oddly less
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  Speaker 1: stressful to making a comedy. Jud apatil there without giving
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  Speaker 1: way too much. He's more than just a producer on
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  Speaker 1: the new doc Flip Side. He's part of the story.
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  Speaker 1: It's out now, that's direct from Hollywood.