20 years ago, when Judd Apatow made his since-classic feature directorial debut, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," it was a vastly different time for comedies (especially in America). The line to cross had been far wider, and you could get away with much more when it came to offensive and inappropriate humor in films than you can today. Whether you think that's good or bad, one thing's for sure: we'll never get another comedy like Apatow's first — not in this social climate. But even for the standards of the mid-aughts, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" pushed so many buttons back then that Universal Pictures had to shut production down on the third day of shooting because Apatow's actors were doing " too much improv ."

For the film's 20 th anniversary, the writer-director was interviewed by The Holl

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