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Edition #24: Mike Judge, Extract
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Tania Ketenjian's Sight Unseen series continues with a conversation with Mike Judge, creator of cult classic Beavis and Butt-Head, award-winning King of the Hill and numerous films such as Office Space and now 2009's Extract. Looking at all the work Mike Judge has produced, it's remarkable how vast his skill set is. He is a producer, animator, writer, director, actor, composer and he has a background in the sciences, having studied physics in college. His first great success, Beavis and Butt-Head was a seminal TV program on MTV depicting two socially and intellectually inept teenage boys who spend most of their time laughing at ridiculous things like the word butt and making fun of others and each other. That was followed by what several major publications have called one of the best TV shows of all time, King of the Hill. Now, with his film Extract, he revisits a topic he seems to love, the strange idiosyncrasies of everyday life. We spoke about the different blue collar jobs he has had in his life, how a film is like a blank canvas and why he doesn't like to be asked whether his parents approve of what he is doing with his life (23 minutes).
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