A live stand-up special hosted by Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and Judd Apatow broadcast by Comedy Central to promote the movie "Funny People". Not only does this special take another detailed look at ...
Before Good Fortune, Seth Rogen and Aziz Ansari starred in Judd Apatow’s Funny People, which was a big turning point for ...
Writer and director Judd Apatow first became known for the TV series Freaks and Geeks, which gained a cult following when it aired on NBC from 1999 to 2000. Since then, the former stand-up comic has ...
In moving his adolescent male comedies into more adult realms, the humor sharpens and characters deepen. By Kirk Honeycutt The prerelease narrative behind “Funny People” is that funnyman Judd Apatow ...
“Funny People,” which faced a dual marketing challenge as a departure from typical Adam Sandler comedies and from writer-director Judd Apatow’s raunchier laffers, launched respectably at the top of a ...
Advance buzz had tagged Funny People as Judd Apatow’s “cancer comedy.” Actually, it’s leukemia that’s putting the squeeze on George Simmons, the jerk-off star of dumb family movies and raunchy ...
Judd Apatow has become so many different things in the comedy world — producer, showrunner, kingmaker, figurehead — that it can be easy to forget he used to be a filmmaker above all else. That isn’t ...
Star comedian Georg Simmons has been diagnosed with a pretty rare form of leukemia and has approximately one year to live. When he meets the young comedian Ira Wright in a stand-up comedy club, he ...