Judd Apatow gives camcorders to Segal, Rogen to "make a movie if you feel like it"

If you're like all of us at Dateline Hollywood HQ, you just can't get enough hysterics from the Judd Apatow gang.

Seems like Judd and Jason Segal and Seth Rogen and all those other jokesters pump out another gutbuster every few months these days. But that's just not enough. We've already seen the hilarious "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and now we have to wait four whole months for "Pineapple Express?" Boooooo!!!!

Luckily that won't be the case next year. Dateline Hollywood has learned that Apatow has come up with a foolproof way to have a new movie EVERY WEEK next year: just give all his friends camcorders and film whatever ideas pop into their heads.

"At first, Judd was really worried about well revised scripts with lots of planning and preparation, but 'Sarah Marshall' proved you could just throw together a few of Judd's buddies with a vague idea and out pops a movie that people will pay to see," said the source.

So now Judd has bought top-of-the-line Sony camcorders and given them to Rogen, Segal, and other members of his burgeoning "crew" (some of whom are pictured together above), like Jonah Hill, James Franco, Paul Rudd, Martin Starr, and even his toddler daughter Sadie, who we have to admit was pretty damned funny as baby Sadie in "Knocked Up."

"Just hang out with your buddies and if you feel like it, shoot something that kinda looks like a movie," Apatow said in a note accompanying the camcorders. "If it's at least 80 minutes long, Universal will release it in 2009."