Jenni Konner
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Oct 26, 2026
Doree ShafrirHOST
I think I kind of like that, you know? It's just, it's sort of like just an epilogue.
Doree ShafrirHOST
And no involvement of Jenny Conner.
Elise HuHOST
So those of y'all who read the Lena Dunham memoir, as we did, will know that there is no love lost between Lena Dunham and her former bestie and creative collaborator, who is many years her senior, Jenny Conner.
Elise HuHOST
who is a producer here in LA.
Elise HuHOST
Yeah, she's not going to be involved.
LiaHOST
I like that.
StephHOST
The only person who's not coming back is the former showrunner and executive producer, Jenni Konner-
LiaHOST
Okay
StephHOST
... who having read Lena's latest book, oh, they had a bit of a falling out.
Rebecca NicholsonGUEST
Yes.
Rebecca NicholsonGUEST
So her partner in making it, Jenny Konner, um, who also does not necessarily come out of the autobiography particularly well, uh, I don't think she's involved in it.
Lucy HoughHOST
Right.
Rebecca NicholsonGUEST
But Judd Apatow is involved in it.
Aoife BarryGUEST
Yeah, absolutely.
Aoife BarryGUEST
I mean, Jenni Konner was the woman who made Girls with, um, Lena Dunham, and, you know, she writes in Fame Sick about how she was only, like, 24 when the, when the series started.
Aoife BarryGUEST
It was on HBO, this, like, massively kind of prestigious job to get.
Aoife BarryGUEST
She'd only made one film up to that date, Tiny Furniture, which she made on, like, a $50,000 budget, and she outlines how, like, her mom rang around her friends to, like, help her make the money and stuff like that.
John FardyHOST
Right.
Aoife BarryGUEST
So, so Jenni Konner was there k- as, as older, as in, like, she's in her late 30s, as a, an older woman who knew what she was doing to guide her through the industry, and they were super close.
Aoife BarryGUEST
They even set up, um, a newsletter called Lenny Letter.
Aoife BarryGUEST
You know, they did so much together and then it all, you know, kind of fell apart really.
Chris RyanHOST
Yeah
Andy GreenwaldHOST
... you know, stuff about CTE, and the NFL was not into one of its partners saying anything sideways about football.
Chris RyanHOST
Yes.
Andy GreenwaldHOST
So-
Julia GrayHOST
Mm-hmm.
Drew HaskinsHOST
It'll be interesting to see what it looks like without Jenny Konner and some...
Drew HaskinsHOST
Like, I don't think Judd Apatow's involved in this.
Drew HaskinsHOST
Like-
Emily JashinskyHOST
Sometimes it was supposed to be annoying.
Emily JashinskyHOST
Sometimes it was just annoying because that tension exists within Lena Dunham and exists within Jenni Konner, who I'm very curious if she will be a part of this, her write- Lena Dunham's longtime writing partner.
Emily JashinskyHOST
There's been a lot of tension in that relationship.
Emily JashinskyHOST
But I expect it to be good, and I am hoping that it keeps pulling at this thread because I think that's partially what a lot of younger women, especially Gen Z women who have rejected sex positivity, not everyone, but many who have rejected sex positivity.