Judd Apatow Articles

Judd Apatow Judd Apatow, one of the producers of Best Picture – Comedy or Musical nominee Bridesmaids, attends the 69th Annual Golden Globes Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Bridesmaids, starring Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph, was one of the year's biggest hits. Apatow recently made headlines because of his telling off Jerry Lewis at the Critics [...]

While accepting the award for Best Comedy for Bridesmaids at the 2012 Critics Choice Awards ceremony, Judd Apatow ended his speech with the following: "Jerry Lewis [photo] once said that he didn’t think women were funny. So I’d just like to say, with all respect, fuck you." Jerry Lewis' negative comment about female comedians was made at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in [...]

Sean Penn and the humanitarians behind him, Critics Choice Awards George Clooney, Viola Davis: Critics Choice Awards Ceremony Speeches Best Supporting Actor winner Christopher Plummer (Beginners) announced he had discovered a substitute for the Fountain of Youth. "I feel terribly young tonight suddenly," Plummer told the crowd, "and, at my age, I need all the help I can get in that department." (Academy members eager [...]

Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Bridesmaids Paul Feig's Bridesmaids, starring Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph, has become "the top R-rated female comedy of all time," having surpassed Sex and the City according to The Hollywood Reporter. Impressive? Well… First of all, how many "R-rated female comedies" have ever been released? Second, there's something called inflation, which, well, inflates movie-ticket prices. Back in 2008, Sex and the [...]