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While Judd Apatow credits Garry Shandling as his mentor for pressing him to write more character-driven comedy, he also credits Seth Rogen, now 25, with being an influence to become more outrageously dirty.

Apatow discovered Rogen as a 16-year-old aspiring stand-up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and cast him in “Freaks and Geeks” and later in “Undeclared.”

Around 2001, Rogen gave him the script for “Superbad,” which he had begun writing with his friend Evan Goldberg not long after they met in bar mitzvah class.

“Superbad,” which premieres in August, is probably the dirtiest high school movie of the past 30 years. It’s about three hapless, sexually panicked teenagers hunting for liquor to impress girls.

(Rogen and Apatow collaborate on next week’s highly anticipated dirty-romantic-comedy “Knocked Up.”

“Seth has always promoted the really edgy movie,” Apatow says. “I think that is a lot of the reason why we’ve gone farther than I might have gone.”

Says Rogen: “I was definitely a loud voice in making (‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’) filthy. That was my whole thing. (Steve) Carell is the sweetest, nicest guy in the world.

“What’s funnier than surrounding him with the dirtiest guys you can possibly imagine?”