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...mince words in print. The book's preface is direct ("Hello"), its dedication straightforward ("To me. I couldn't have done it without you") and its stance on Jim Belushi pretty clear ("I have beef with Jim Belushi"). TIME talked to Cross about the literary scene, his upcoming stand-up tour and what to expect when Arrested Development comes to the big screen. (See the top 10 literary stunts...
...There used to be as many as 15,000 people coming to these conventions and I would get up and not quite know what the next word would be, and then go from there. That was those early conventions, and then I began to get into a sort of stand-up routine. I'd change my act every six months or so, but I think everyone there had already heard them. And now apparently interest has revived as a result of the movie that J.J. Abrams made. This is the first convention I've been to in a long, long...
...surface, Funny People is about stand-up comedians who have a love-hate obsession with their penises. In the movie's many stand-up routines, Apatow surely breaks the feature-film record for dick jokes, including one told by Andy Dick. It ought to be called Funny Penises. Yet Apatow is much less interested in showing sex than in having people talk about it. George has plenty of one-night stands, but mainly as an exercise of his star power. For all the girls he takes home and beds, he's essentially alone - the proverbial celebrity who finds it lonely...
After high school, Apatow moved to Los Angeles to go to USC but dropped out after two years to focus on his stand-up act. He was 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...
...writers', Rodney Rothman (see, I credited him)." When Apatow asks me how I'm doing with this article and I tell him I've been stymied by laziness, he sends me an e-mail that reads, "The reason you are having trouble is the same reason why I quit stand-up - I am not that interesting...