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Originally Posted by Faluzure
Saw Apatow a few weeks ago and found a lot of his stuff to be more moderately entertaining/interesting than funny. Like stuff that maybe made me smile but not laugh.
He opened with about 15 minutes of traditional stand up which wasn't bad but then there were a lot of stories about Judd Apatow being Judd Apatow and it wasn't really what I would call stand up any more. He'd flash some photos on a screen and tell some stories about them "Hey, here I am with Adam Sandler when we were 19". "Now here I am with President Obama who cracked a funny joke and made my wife laugh". It felt a little easy and lazy.
Not to mention the set up for the Netflix special was long, not Apatow's fault of course. They were pulling people from the line to make sure they had the faces they wanted in the first few rows and even once we were in and seated they were moving people around. This caused the show to start quite late. Apatow was booked for 7, he did a one hour set and we had to hustle to make Trevor Noah at 9:30.
Pics of the set and the main crowd wrangler...