Judd Apatow has been crowned Hollywood’s “King of Comedy.” Nobody else in the business has been honored with that headline more often. But the writer-director-producer of such blockbusters as “Knocked Up” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” doesn’t actually set out to make “comedies,” per se.
“I try to write stories and inject them with humor. I don’t find any of them comedic premises. I just find life funny and absurd. Everything makes me laugh,” Apatow said in an interview with The Washington Examiner. He doesn’t feel the need to write big, broad farces with over-the-top characters. “People are strange,” he said. “That’s why I don’t have anyone attempt to murder anyone in my movies, or even cheating. Because all the mundane details of life are funny enough.”
