White's work as an editor on the films directed by Apatow and McKay is unusual because of the importance of the actors' improvisations.
Just as he did with 2004's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, White had to choose the best scenes from hours and hours of wildly different takes to fashion together something with a narrative arc that resembles a movie.
Minor continuity errors be damned, Talladega Nights is one funny film.
[2]The editing of Knocked Up (2007) was described in a feature article by Stephen Rodrick in The New York Times.
[3] White received his bachelor's degree in film production from the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications (Brigham Young University) in 1983.