Judd Apatow says the Skydance merger has murdered satire

Writer-director Judd Apatow has never been reticent to speak about how comedy is a vital force in society, and on The Daily Beast‘s Obsessed podcast, the 40-Year-Old Virgin director didn’t hold back about the current state of satire in a Republican-controlled America. “The idea of doing political satire, for the most part, is gone,” Apatow told host Matt Wilstein.