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Judd Apatow Sits Down for a Serious Hour-Long Interview with Conan O'Brien

by | November 20th, 2012

Here's Judd Apatow being interviewed by Conan O'Brien, a web exclusive interview as a part of Team Coco's series "Serious Jibber-Jabber." It's an uninterrupted serious chat without an audience that runs over an hour and almost feels like a podcast because of its duration and intimacy. Revelations from the interview include Apatow's early career dreams to write a sequel to The Jerk for Steve Martin, the fact that The Simpsons is using the script they rejected from him 22 years ago this season, and that he recreated his childhood autograph from Steve Martin for an upcoming Vanity Fair photo shoot.

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It Gets Better, From the UCB Theatre

by | October 14th, 2010

You may be familiar with Dan Savage's It Gets Better project at this point, but if not, you should check it out. In it, hundreds of LBGT adults have made videos for teens who are being harassed for who they are, telling them to hang in there, because life will get better for them. It's being done in response to the recent wave of suicides by gay teens who have been literally bullied to death.

Hundreds of people have made videos, ranging from celebrities to politicians to clergymen to normal everyday people. And now the gay community at NYC's UCB Theatre has gotten together to make a video for [...]

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Are Gay Jokes Ever Acceptable?

by | October 12th, 2010

Since last week, when Universal bowed to pressure from Anderson Cooper and cut a gay joke from its trailer for The Dilemma, there's been a lot of talk about where the line is when it comes to gay jokes in comedy. As far as The Dilemma goes, its case wasn't made any stronger by the revelation that the joke as written in the script is much worse: In Allan Loeb's screenplay, dated a year ago, Vaughn's character goes on to say "Not homosexual gay … but soft gay, unmanly gay, quiet and small gay" (in the trailer, the line was "my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay") and that "if you're a [...]

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