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Judd Apatow: "...and then you and Roger can stand on either side of Salvatore and be all, 'You know how I know you're gay?'"

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There is, in fact, one earlier house in Hamm’s L.A. story, omitted from our tour because the address is lost to history. This is the apartment fondly remembered as “The Shithole,” where Hamm came to visit Rudd and another roommate, Bo, while still living in St. Louis. They spent two weeks on the couch, playing Madden football, inventing baroque Nintendo golfer names (Hammer Lou, Whipticle “Whip” Fadada, Nacho Heyerdahl: “The MexiSwede”), and eating takeout chicken from El Pollo Loco. On rare trips out, they went head-to-head in arcane, dice-based drinking games. “He is seriously the most competitive person I’ve ever met,” Rudd says. He declines to name a game or sport in which he may have ever beaten his friend, for fear of retribution.