Judd Apatow recently filmed an episode of Inside the Actor’s Studio that airs tonight, in which he shows up looking all clean cut like a 6th grader on picture day while James Lipton is his usual eccentric, sycophantic self.  In this clip, Apatow reveals that the scene in Knocked Up where Katherine Heigl kicks Seth Rogen out of the car on the way to the gynecologist was actually autobiographical.

APATOW: One thing I thought would be fun would be to sort of capture the intensity of some of these moments between couples. And just how heated it gets.  I think at the time I was realizing just how frustrating I was to be around.

LESLIE MANN (Apatow’s wife): I did throw him out of the car on the way to the gynecologist.

APATOW: And that is a complicated moment, because I have no money, and I’m five miles from the gynecologist…

MANN: How did you do that?

APATOW: I took a cab.

MANN:  How did you pay?

APATOW: I blew the guy.

Apatow and Mann go all Abbot and Costello at the end there, but you can tell they were super pissed at each other at the time.  That’s rough.  I’ve never had to hitchhike five miles to the gynecologist, but I have been kicked out of the examination room for making foghorn sounds.  And impersonating a doctor.

When you’re a big Hollywood director, giving major roles in your movies to your wife is pretty standard, and can lead to things like Rose McGowan playing the queen of England. “Excuse me, like, this throne is totally chafing my vag.”  Luckily Judd Apatow was smart enough to marry Leslie Mann, who just so happens to be freaking adorable.  The latest clip from Apatow’s Funny People has Mann getting into an argument with Eric Bana, who plays her husband, and badly mimicking his Australian accent.  Maybe it’s just me, but even when she’s playing a total bitch, whenever she’s on screen I get the overwhelming urge to start a tickle fight.  I guess what I’m saying is, I’d let her pee on me.  What?  It’s sterile.

Watch the Funny People clip here

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Yahoo just released this clip (after the jump) of Funny People director Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler talking about Funny People, and how Seth Rogen’s character’s relationship with Adam Sandler in the movie is kind of like Apatow’s relationship with Sandler back in the 80s/early 90s (PS, that picture couldn’t get any gayer if they were standing 69-ing and listening to Lady Gaga).  Anyway, I didn’t watch the whole thing because I’m really excited for this movie and I don’t want to spoil my appetite and I have a really really good feeling about this one, and I don’t care so judge me all you want you big meanie.

I know Adam Sandler is known mostly for making awful movies nowadays, but I still remember where I was when I first heard “The Buffoon Meets with the Dean of Admissions” like it was the goddamn Kennedy assassination.  It was kind of like the day I went through comedic puberty.  I guess what I’m saying is that no matter how many times he lets us down, there’ll always be some tiny part of me that’s waiting for Adam Sandler to stop sucking and be my hero again.  For youngish comedy writers, Adam Sandler is our OJ.

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Leslie Mann (Apatow’s wife) went on Ellen the other day to promote 17 Again and told a story about how her co-star Zac Efron agreed to call her daughter Maude (her and her sister were the best part of Knocked Up) on her 10th birthday.  It’s as annoying as you might imagine a group of 10-year-old girls to be (God I hope I don’t have daughters), but she redeems herself seconds later when she knocks some little dude on his ass for no reason.  What’s he doing at a party with a bunch of screaming girls anyway? I can’t decide if he’s a little pimp or an Efron in training.  Depends on whether his last name has a hyphen, I think.

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Given how often as you hear his name, it’s kind of surprising that Judd Apatow has only directed two movies: 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up. 

He’s in the process of scripting his follow-up, and so far, Seth Rogen, Apatow’s wife Leslie Mann (one of the best comedic actresses working right now, if you ask me), and Adam Sandler are attached. 

I would’ve been excited to report this just after Knocked Up or Superbad had come out in the hopes that Adam Sandler might finally end his slump of movies less funny than cancer in the family.  But after seeing the previews for You Don’t Mess With the Zohan (written by Apatow, Sandler, and Robert Smigel), I’m now convinced it’s going to suck.  Sandler seems to have contracted some kind of curse in which he contaminates every comedy he touches like a reverse king midas, or a homeless person.