'I Did Have This Feeling That It Would Work Out Somehow'

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( Book Excerpt [‘I Did Have This Feeling That It Would Work Out Somehow’]( Bowen Yang discusses his parents and SNL in Judd Apatow’s new book of interviews. Photo: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Before he made emotionally resonant, character-driven comedy films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Trainwreck, Judd Apatow wrote for landmark comedy television shows like [The Ben Stiller Show](, [The Larry Sanders Show](, and Freaks and Geeks. For his entire professional life, he’s worked for, with, and alongside comedy greats, a behavior that goes back to his days as a talk-show host, interviewing ’80s stand-ups like Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld for his high school’s radio station. Those interviews, along with some newer ones, were the foundation for Apatow’s 2016 book [Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy](, a collection of insightful conversations about the art and practice of being funny. Six years later comes the sequel, [Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy](. While there are a few vintage interviews (John Candy from 1984; Amber Ruffin from 2009), Sicker is composed primarily of brand-new material compiled over the last few years with legends (John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Cho, Mort Sahl) and modern humorists excitingly redefining comedy, like Ramy Youssef, Hannah Gadsby, and Bowen Yang, co-host of the Las Culturistas podcast and the person responsible for some of the most memorable and viral Saturday Night Live sketches in years. Here’s Apatow’s chat with Yang from June 2021, excerpted from Sicker in the Head. [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. 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