Funny how the threat of death makes things so much clearer. But that “funny” goes missing when the threat is removed. George’s disease goes into remission — and the air comes out of the movie.

Photos courtesy of Universal PicturesAdam Sandler and Seth Rogen are shown in a scene from "Funny People." STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In a relatively short period of time, writer/director/producer ...

They're funny people, to be sure, ... Just not a particularly funny movie. Contact movie critic Carol Cling at ccling@ reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0272. Carol Cling's Movie Minute.

"Funny People" is a true brass ring effort, a reach for excellence that takes big risks. It's 146 minutes, with a story that's more European in feeling than American.

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 ...

It’s hard to believe that Judd Apatow’s sour, maudlin Funny People is only the third film he has directed. His man-child universe, with its mixture of juvenile raunch and white-bread family ...

Funny resume: TV s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Office and the movies The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Get Smart. Serious turn: He played the suicidal scholar in Little Miss Sunshine.

In the movie, Adam Sandler plays a stand-up comic suddenly facing mortality. "George in 'Funny People,' he doesn't wanna connect with people," Apatow said.

Universal Pictures' "Funny People," with Sandler trading adolescent humor for an adult story about a terminally ill comedy star, debuted as the top weekend movie with $23.4 million, according to ...

GN Movies was among the select few media outlets invited last December to the L.A. set of Funny People, the forthcoming dramedy from writer-director Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up).

The lazy response to Judd Apatow's Funny People will be that it isn't as, well, funny as his two previous films, The 40 Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up. The… ...