The movie cuts back and forth in time ... What Will It Remind You Of?: Judd Apatow’s Funny People took a similarly funny-sad-honest look at the psychology of comedians, though those wounds ...

Danger hides in plain sight.

Funny People is an inevitable step forward for Judd ... overlong and keeping in extra shots of his cute kids, cripples the movie, which meanders around three or four plots and comes to as many ...

In Judd Apatow’s 2009 tour de force Funny People (streaming on Starz), the most insightful and probing movie about comedy ever made, world-tickling slapstick movie star George Simmons (Adam ...

“Funny People,” which faced a dual marketing challenge ... The town’s hopes for higher numbers on the movie were fueled by Sandler’s track record: He’s toplined 10 comedies that topped ...

George is a very successful stand up comedian who learns that he has an untreatable blood disorder and is given less than a year to live. Ira is a struggling up-and-coming stand up comedian who ...

Luckily, however, Apatow lacks the conviction to take Funny People to the depths of bathos. Instead, he’s done his damnedest to cram two or three movies into the film’s two-and-a-half-hour ...