Judd Apatow is in the process of casting his next directorial effort-- if you need a reminder, Megan Fox and Albert Brooks are the latest to join what's being described as a Knocked Up spinoff-- but he's still keeping busy as a producer as well. THR reports that he'll be shepherding the film Do Gooders, based on a pitch from writers Alex Gregor and Peter Huyck, who will also be writing the script.

Apatow definitely won't be directing the movie, which as THR puts is, "is known to center on actors with caring hearts keen to help those in need." My guess is it will be a somewhat satiric take on the subject, maybe targeting actors who do philanthropic stuff for the positive media attention, or who get involved in causes they don't know anything about. I mean, if they actually are targeting people who genuinely do charity work, that seems kinda mean and pointless. Gregory and Huyck have done work on TV for King of the Hill, but maybe the best test of their screenwriting skill will be in A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy, the long-delayed comedy that's premiering next month at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Apatow's track record as a producer is far spottier than as a director-- in the last few year's he's been behind stuff as good as Pineapple Express and Forgetting Sarah Marshall and as bad as Drillbit Taylor and Year One. We never run out of a need for good comedies, though, so cross your fingers this will be one of the ones that works out for the better.