Mike Judge on his new film, Extract

In The LA Times, Lisa Rosen talks to Mike Judge about Beavis and Butthead, Idiocracy and his new film, Extract.

After his shorts were featured on the MTV show "Liquid Television," MTV then decided to spin one off into a series called "Beavis and Butt-Head," about two head-banging, emotionally stunted teenage couch potatoes who wreak unintended havoc on just about everyone they encounter. Going to New York to work on the show, he felt completely out of his league. "I'm just this guy from Texas sitting in the recording studio doing this dumb laugh, and these people are staring at me not laughing," he says. "It was like 'OK, I have to just believe in this myself.' "

Beavis and Butthead have now returned to give their take on Extract (which, sadly, doesn't seem to have a UK release date yet):