Friday, February 20, 2009

Stand-Up Comedy is So Depressing


Well, the good thing about Judd Apatow's Funny People is that it probably won't be the most depressing movie ever made about stand-up comedians. No, that crown is being fought over by both the Tom Hanks/Sally Field movie Punchline and the Jerry Seinfeld doc Comedian. Still, Apatow knows how the stand-up comedy subgenre works and so seems to have filled his new dramedy with a plot point involving terminal illness and a lot of dialogue about death. Watch the trailer below:


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