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Pitching Movie To Hollywood Director
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.
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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 wo…
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.
But even that, that, that, that is a very tough thing to do. That's like me. That's like me, like hearing that LeBron, like me wanting to be a basketball player and hearing that LeBron James is having a community basketball game in Orlando. And I'm like, hey,…
He is.
You know what, sure, maybe I agree with that. I do agree with it. Maybe I'm completely out of my mind, sure I am, but that's what was going on in my head.