Judd Apatow Responds To Paul Rudd’s Bizarre Talk Show Bit

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Judd Apatow responds to Paul Rudd's commitment to a bizarre talk show bit and shares a story about the actor from This Is 40. Since 2004, Rudd has continued to pull the same prank on former late-night talk show host, Conan O'Brien. Every time Rudd visited the show to promote a movie, instead of showing a clip from the movie, as is tradition, the actor would show a clip from the critically reviled 1988 movie, Mac and Me, of a young boy in a wheelchair speeding down a hill and off a cliff.

O'Brien, who is currently in development on a new HBO Max show, recently had Rudd as a guest on his popular podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend. The actor, whose next MCU project, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, is currently in the midst of post-production, proceeded to describe his latest project, a new Audible show, to O'Brien before asking to play a clip of it. The project Rudd was describing, however, was completely made up and was just a setup to once again play the Mac and Me clip to a bewildered O'Brien.

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Replying to a tweet from the official Team Coco Twitter account showing a video of Rudd's latest podcast prank, Apatow shares his own thoughts on Rudd's commitment to the Mac and Me bit. Apatow explains that, during promotion for This Is 40, he "begged" Rudd to not do the bit and to play an actual clip from the movie. Rudd agreed, writes Apatow, but then went ahead and played the Mac and Me clip anyway. Apatow writes that he now "respects" Rudd's lifelong commitment to such a bizarre prank. Check out Apatow's tweet below:

I begged Paul to not do this when he was promoting This Is 40 because we needed the real clip shown and the push. He said