Article: Mayor of Comedy; Does Judd Apatow know every funny person in Hollywood?(Preview)

Byline: RACHEL ABRAMOWITZ - Los Angeles Times

As an 11-year-old growing up on Long Island, Judd Apatow began each week by studying the newspaper's TV section and highlighting all talk show guests of Mike Douglas, Dinah Shore and company. He spent afternoons holed up in his room watching TV, hanging out in his head with Charles Nelson Reilly.

"I couldn't have had more fun in the saddest, lonely way," Apatow says. "There was a period when I would get home at 3 and watch TV until 11, and I couldn't be happier."

Eventually his parents became concerned. "In eighth grade, I made some friends who drove dirt bikes. My parents were deathly afraid of ...

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