1) Funny People will cost you a set and rather reasonable amount at the box office. Actual funny people have a funny way of costing you considerably more than you would ever imagine. Just ask anyone who's ever gone to a diner with one.
2) Leslie Mann is really funny -- and really hot. Most actual funny people are only hot by virtue of an extremely liberal interpretation of the theory of relativity. Worryingly, Seth Rogen is looking pretty good to me too.
3) In a remarkable central performance, Adam Sandler is significantly better in Funny People than Laurence Olivier was in The Jazz Singer. This clearly means that Adam Sandler is a much better actor than Laurence Olivier, thus ending years of public debate.
4) With the three outstanding movies that he's directed to date -- 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and now Funny People, Judd Apatow has now hit the Human Comedy trifecta, getting ever closer to the core of the human condition without abandoning the dick jokes that would be hard for a generation to live without.
5) Sure, I've seen "Fire & Rain," but I never thought that I'd live to see James Taylor totally kill in a movie comedy. Eminem, on the other hand, I always expected to kill, but not quite like he does here.
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