Judd Apatow Says He’s Co-Writing A Post-Iraq War Comedy About Soldiers, Sacrifice & Service

To paraphrase Judd Apatow interviewed on the just-released episode of Pete Holmes’ great “You Made It Weird” podcast, his work encompasses a lot of different key and core subjects: coming of age, high school, college, mortality, marriage and family, and to hear it from the writer/producer/director, he’s not entirely sure where to go next.

“Sometimes I think ‘Well, what else is there to cover??’,” he explained to Holmes jokingly. “And I realize there’s not much left. I could start writing about old age… or go back and talk divorce when my parents [split-up], or go back to youth, but I do really feel like I’ve made a pretty good high school show and a college show and a pretty good young adult show, [stories] about first sex, first relationship, marriage, older marriage, death and so I’ve covered most of my bases.”

Apatow said one of the benefits of working with Amy Schumer on “Trainwreck” is that he gets to work in her “shame” bin and this can rebuild reserves he’s...