Jun 28 2007'That 70s Show' Guy Wished Judd Apatow Cancer
Judd Apatow buying Mark Brazill a tampon
Okay, so this email exchange is like six years old, and was published like five years ago. I'm posting it because A. I'd never seen it before today, and I'm better than you; and B. Judd Apatow is much more of a household name now than he was then. Oh, and I've also written about him being accused of thievery recently, and this is related.
Jeez, enough with the foreplay, right? Anyway, back in the day, Judd Apatow and That 70s Show creator Mark Brazill had a bit of an email feud. Brazill accuses Apatow of thievery, and closes emails with things like "Get cancer. Love, Mark" and "Until then, die in a fiery accident and taste your own blood." You should really read the whole thing. Fun times. Enjoy.
"Don't have a cow, man" by Judd Apatow and Mark Brazill (Harper's Magazine)
Reader Comments
1. proteon - June 28, 2007 4:43 PM
Hmm. A five year old acrid email exchange between the creator of a now dead sitcom and an actor I've never heard of. This is going out to everyone I know. The good news is this: next time I hear the name Judd Apatow I'm going to have no choice but to associate him with this "story" and tampons. Maybe it's a publicity stunt (big stunt) though I doubt it. Unless he's your roomate. In which case tell him that his beard doesn't hide his male pattern balding.
2. Vince - June 28, 2007 4:49 PM
I will, but first we're gonna have a talk about leaving his nasty fuckin toenail clippings on the carpet. He can be so inconsiderate!
3. cechols - June 28, 2007 5:13 PM
I don't see how you can read this and not like Judd Apatow. Brazill seems like a full-on horse's ass, and Judd fends him off calmly, smartly and hilariously.
I doubt it was a publicity stunt at the time (2001), but it is curious how the exchange found its way to the interwebs.
4. Willravel - June 28, 2007 5:49 PM
Judd Apatow is pretty damn funny. Maybe someday he can write on iWatchStuff. If he's fucking lucky.
Mark Brazill made that 70's show and he's yelling about the guy behind Freaks and Geeks? Wow. Maybe the guy behind Eragon can start shitting on Peter Jackson, or the Wayens Bros. can go after Mel Brooks. What an untalented idiot.
5. proteon - June 28, 2007 5:49 PM
I didn't read it. I don't want to "like" an actor because he can put some douchebag in his place in a friggen email, I want to like an "actor" because he/she made me believe - even briefly - that the character they were portraying (in whatever medium) was either real or real enough to elicit a mental or emotional response in me.
But then again I'm old fashioned.
Vince put his toenail clippings in his jar of Rogaine cream.
6. walein - June 28, 2007 5:56 PM
Apatow is a writer/producer.
I remember when this went around a fews years back...even though I didn't watch 'Freaks and Geeks', it did make me like Apatow a ton...I also really disliked "That 70s Show" (much the same way I dislike the Mencia/Blue Collar TV phenomenon).
7. Joe - June 28, 2007 6:02 PM
proteon, what the hell are you talking about?
You don't know who Judd Apatow is, do you? He's not an actor (outside of cameos). He's a producer, writer, director of movies like "Knocked Up" "40-Year Old Virgin" "Talledega Nights" and "Anchor Man".
You're an idiot for condemning an article you didn't even read.
Get Cancer
Love, Joe
8. Vince - June 28, 2007 6:04 PM
Joe > proteon. Thanks for the chuckle.
9. proteon - June 28, 2007 7:01 PM
Joe - I tried cancer but turns out I am better with aries. Cancer is just to anal. Wait is all of this in any way related to when Howard STern wished cancer on Roger Ebert or are the rules of PWNAGE subject to a statute of limitations?
10. walein - June 28, 2007 8:30 PM
Pro,
You aren't even getting your pop-culture references correct anymore. The cancer thing with Ebert was Vincent Gallo.
11. SuperStoned420 - June 28, 2007 8:40 PM
Things I learned.
Sucking dick will get you a Dreamworks deal.
12. josh - June 28, 2007 10:42 PM
those are pregnancy tests, not tampons......
13. Shari - June 29, 2007 4:07 AM
The best movie I've seem is the guardian..EVEEERYONE SHOULD SEE IT...
14. Not Witty - June 29, 2007 6:25 AM
I just love the "j'accuse" line. Classic.
15. B.Kirk - June 30, 2007 2:24 PM
Wait, Vincent Gallo wished cancer on Roger Ebert? And then Roger Ebert actually got cancer? Jesus, I better stop making fun of Vincent Gallo. He appears to be some sort of wizard or dark sorcerer.
16. proteon - July 1, 2007 11:54 AM
I think this thread has jumped the dolphin.
17. Vince - July 2, 2007 3:18 PM
I think your mom jumps dolphins.
18. bradstein - July 7, 2007 2:55 AM
** Cancer is just to anal. **
This sounds like some bizarre threat to ass-rape cancer itself, translated poorly from Japanese.
CATS: "All your base are belong to us, and Cancer is to anal!"
Proteon, I forgive you because I think you're foreign. And I think you made up that dolphin jumping stupidity, as well. I sure don't know what the f*ck you're talking about. But I do know this, and I think Vince would agree.
You're mom is to anal.
19. monkeyfool19 - May 31, 2008 4:34 PM
Ok, the fact that everyone had made a huge deal about the get cancer line is outrageous. Carlin and Black use lines like that all the time, no one goes after them. BTW, Brazill was just one guy, Apatow had an entire writing staff when he wrote this crap, oh, and one more thing, apatow was the one who submitted the email to the press. Hmmm... MAYBE HE EDITED THE EMAIL!!! No, no way he did that.