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...tight with Sandler, Carrey and David Spade but came to feel that he couldn't compete with them onstage. So he started writing jokes for Tom Arnold and Roseanne Barr and, after approaching Ben Stiller in line at an Elvis Costello concert, took the helm of the Fox sketch comedy The Ben Stiller Show at the age of 24. There Apatow surprised everyone with his confidence and willingness to fight with network executives. "He burned bridges. He was not afraid," says Stiller. "He had the courage of his convictions. I don't know where he got that from...
...borrowed heavily from Rogen's foulmouthed stoner worldview. This was the knock against Apatow, which he mocked in a famous heated e-mail exchange with Mark Brazill, a co-creator of That '70s Show, who accused him of stealing one of his ideas for a Ben Stiller Show sketch and then wished cancer on him. Apatow wrote, "As for the cancer, I'll wait till you get it and then steal it from you. By the way, that joke was one of my writers', Rodney Rothman (see, I credited him)." When Apatow asks me how I'm doing with this...
Michael Ian Black's cynical, self-effacing performances in the sketch-comedy show The State and the subsequent college-dormitory hit Wet Hot American Summer generated a cult following. But the comedian is probably most recognizable as a snarky commentator on VH1's I Love the '80s nostalgia series. His latest endeavor is the Comedy Central show Michael and Michael Have Issues, which debuts July 15 and co-stars fellow State alum Michael Showalter. TIME talked to Black about his career, tacos and whether or not he really loves the '80s. (See a history of stand-up comedy in pictures...
Tell me about your new show, Michael and Michael Have Issues. It's about the lives of sketch-comedy writers, but I'd say it's more specific than that. It's really sort of about the relationship between my partner Michael Showalter and me, rather than the fact that we make sketch comedy...
...standing invitation to a lovefest with America's social conservatives. Like opera or scrapple, Palin is something of an acquired taste, a phenomenon loved by some, detested by others, with an uncomprehending vastness in between. But for those who don't get it, here's a thumbnail sketch of her rightward appeal: For the pro-life movement, this cheerful mother of a Down-syndrome baby is a rousing affirmation. For the gun-rights movement, she's a glamorous, moose-hunting shot of adrenaline. She hates on the media, never forgets the troops and is a walking middle finger...