I think our show is really different in tone and once people watch they’ll feel what the separation is, but those are shows that I would never kick out of bed for eating crackers. You know, I think all of them are flattering, because I think all of the shows we’re being compared to, from “Sex and the City” to “New Girl,” are all shows that mean a lot to me and that I love. Speaking of which, people talk about “Girls” as if it’s joining a sorority of women-centric shows. That was before there was kind of a spate of shows with the word “Girls” in them, and we just decided to stick with it. It was the “Untitled Lena Dunham Project” for a while, to the point where it was like, will this show ever have a title? It was actually Judd Apatow who came up with what we all thought was a temp title, which we all got attached to, which was “Girls.” So many of the titles we were coming up with had the word “Girls” in them, and so he said, “hey we’re using the word ‘girls’ a lot, so why don’t we just go with the meta version of this and just say ‘Girls’?” And it ended up feeling really right. How did you choose the title of the show?

I think about that video way more than I should. Like in her wearing-all-white, arm-wave-y phase. Lena Dunham: I think I’m a girl, not yet a woman. Kase Wickman: So just to get my token Britney Spears reference out of the way: are you a girl, not yet a woman? Are you a girl, a woman or a lady?

Dunham and I met recently in New York to discuss the show, although we ended up talking about a lot of other things as well, from Hoda and Kathie Lee, to entitlement and jealousy and hate-reading, to which is more awkward to do on screen: have sex or be weighed?

Now there’s “Girls,” a comedy about four 20-something women puzzling out adulthood in the city, executive produced by Judd Apatow. Her 2010 feature, Tiny Furniture, released when she was 23, was just added to the Criterion Collection. Its creator, writer and star is Lena Dunham, about whom, if you’re reading this, you probably already have an opinion - although it’s difficult to come up with an opinion or observation about Dunham that she has not already anticipated, heard or joked about herself. It may feel like “Girls” has been on the air for months already, but the series actually doesn’t premiere on HBO until April 15th.

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