“I just loved comedians — I couldn’t believe they would talk to me. So I wrote for dozens of comics when I first started out — it was a great way to pay my rent. I wasn’t making money doing stand-up — I made much better money writing jokes for other people. I wrote Roseanne’s act for a year with Roseanne. I used to sell jokes to people: I wrote the Grammys for Gary Shandling one year, I wrote jokes for Jeff Dunham’s puppet Walter, the old-man puppet, when I first started out. I wrote for a TV special for Colin Quinn and jokes for George Wallace, and it was always really fun. Those times were great. No one was miserable like George, so it took me a long time to think of a character that would make this relationship interesting. But what is very truthful is how excited I was to be with my heroes.”

– Judd Apatow (Boston Phoenix, 7/29/09)