How does the title “Superbad” come into play in the film?
Apatow: I think it’s just meant to be funny because they’re so obviously not. They’re so uncool it’s funny to have a really cool title. CS: Can you talk about the cast? Apatow: Well, I’ve obviously been on the Jonah [Hill] train for a while. We saw him for the first time when he auditioned for “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” And he was only supposed to have one line, but on the day we shot it we had a lot of extra time for some reason so we thought, “Oh, it’ll be funny to force him to improvise with Catherine Keener for a couple of hours.” So just to make him uncomfortable we made him improvise with her for a long time, and none of it was ever in the movie. And then at the very last test preview, we chucked in a minute of Jonah giving Catherine Keener a hard time and it got such big laughs that we left it in. And then he plays one of Seth’s best friends in “Knocked Up” and did an amazing job. So one day we were on the set of “Knocked Up” and we were saying, “Oh, man. We just can’t find anybo
