GQ has an excellent profile on writer/producer/director/King of Hollywood Comedy Judd Apatow out today. In it, Judd Apatow discusses his ambitions to branch out and write a play about the criminal justice system:
“I have a great idea. Maybe like the best idea I’ve ever had,†[Apatow] says. “It requires me to create characters and situations that have absolutely nothing to do with my experience.â€When he reveals the idea, off the record, I can see what he means. The subject matter (all he’ll let me say about it is “It’s about victims of the criminal-justice system and the challenges they faceâ€) is unlike anything he’s tackled before. It’s not remotely autobiographical. It’s complicated, relevant, political even. “I am excited to write something which has a social conscience,†he e-mails me later when I push him to reveal more. “That is not something I have attempted before, and I hope I am up for the challenge.â€Will it be funny? “I don’t know yet,†he says. “I think it will. But it might stop being funny.â€
So, are you ready for a serious Judd Apatow Broadway play? It’s a surprising next chapter for the acclaimed writer/director; we’ll just see if it does end up happening. Apatow has been attending the theater lately, recently confessing on Twitter to being the one who threw up on the orchestra during a Broadway production of Grace starring Paul Rudd. I refuse to believe that that tweet was a joke.