Apatow dropped out of U.S.C. after two years. He moved into an apartment with Adam Sandler, a young comic he met at the Improv. Apatow would arrive home late at night and come across his roommate making crank calls and cracking himself up. “Every moment of the day he was funny,” Apatow says. “It was hilarious and depressing. I was hanging out with him and Jim Carrey, and they had such strong comic personalities. They’d tell these really personal revealing stories, and I’d never join in. I told myself: I don’t have it. My point of view is not interesting. I cannot be that funny. I am not going be Jerry Seinfeld.”