In an exclusive excerpt from his visual memoir, Comedy Nerd, the filmmaker annotates snapshots from Freaks and Geeks, Girls, ...

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“When we went to record it, the record company and a lot of people who advised us said, ‘Man, they won’t play that, it’s too long.’ Cos songs could only be like two or three minutes, like the old ...