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Pitching Movie To Hollywood Director
Pete Holmes developed himself as like a top, top stand-up, and then Judd Apatow was like, okay, I'll make a show with you. I'll go into HBO and pitch a show with you. That's what I'm saying. Like, you have to like work on yourself. You have to work on your work if you want to go and approach him. Okay, you can't just walk up to somebody and they're gonna go, oh, well, this guy's kind of funny, let's do it.
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Oh, fuck. Hey, Jason, go ahead. It's your turn.
I'll let you talk.
No, I'll let you talk.
Pete Holmes developed himself as like a top, top stand-up, and then Judd Apatow was like, okay, I'll make a show with you. I'll go into HBO and pitch a show with you. That's what I'm saying. Like, you have to like work on yourself. You have to work on your work if you want to go and approach him. Okay, you can't just walk up to somebody and they're gonna go, oh, well, this guy's kind of funny, le…
Uh, can I ask you, can I actually tell you something? The reason I even wanted to see Jed was to literally talk to him about comedy, about like what goes on in his head when he's writing funny scenes. Funny scenes that you actually work in the movie. Yeah, fu…
I don't know how to write funny scenes.
I wanted to see what goes on in his mind. I didn't want to pitch him anything. I literally wanted to have a conversation with him.