Judd Apatow Mines The Mystery Of His Mentor: Garry Shandling
Apatow drew on the late groundbreaking comedian's personal journals to create a 4 1/2 hour HBO documentary called The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling.
Judd Apatow was just a kid when he first saw the comedian who would change his life. He was watching The Tonight Show.
"Like a lot of people in America, I just thought: what a fascinating, hilarious, odd man," Apatow says. "And I tracked his career. Some kids would track baseball players and their averages. I would watch comedians and watch them develop."
Apatow grew up to write and direct hit comedies like and But he owes a lot to the time
