Judd Apatow

Kevin Smith Talks Judd Apatow, Weed, And His Post-'Zack And Miri' Depression

Katla McGlynn | Posted 10.05.2009 | Comedy


Katla McGlynn

"It's sad when you realize you can't be the angry young man anymore. The angry young man is barely ever interesting, and tolerable in his 20s. But his late 20s? Early 30s? God forbid late 30s? You can't anymore."

Back to the Classics, for Grown-ups

Sarah Schmelling | Posted 09.26.2009 | Books


Sarah Schmelling

I recommend this assignment to those with the crisp copies of Moby-Dick and Brave New World on display probably just to impress people.

The End of Comedy (The Ass-End, Really)

Gwen Davis | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment


Gwen Davis

Funny People is not quite Dickensian, the best of comedies and the worst of comedies, but there are elements of almost genuine humor and indisputably the pits.

'Funny People' Wins Weekend

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 09.02.2009 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — Adam Sandler's serious side has caught on with audiences. Universal Pictures' "Funny People," with Sandler trading adolescent hum...

Funny People: Once Again, We Learn that Sometimes Clowns Cry

Alex Remington | Posted 09.02.2009 | Entertainment


Alex Remington

Funny People is a sort of message movie, a take on the classic story about a dying man trying to get his life right, told from stand-up comedy's backstage.

Judd Apatow Lobbies For Time Magazine Cover

TIME | Joel Stein Thursday, Jul. 30, 2009 | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media


Judd Apatow is working much harder on this article than I am. He wants to meet at 8 a.m., suggests six different events I can accompany him to and sen...

Seth Rogen And Judd Apatow Hit Back At Katherine Heigl

usmagazine.com | Posted 08.30.2009 | Entertainment


Rogen says he doesn't see how Heigl's new comedy, The Ugly Truth, makes women look even better. "That [movie] looks like it really puts women on a pe...

Movie review: Funny People

Marshall Fine | Posted 08.30.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

I never would have predicted that, at the end of Funny People, I'd have more kind things to say about Sandler than Apatow.

Jason Schwartzman Makes Music, Causes Hilarity In 'Funny People'

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment


His 'Funny People' alter-ego Mark Taylor Jackson might be the proudest actor to ever star in a campy high school sitcom, but the real-life Jason Schwa...

Judd Apatow Talks Breastfeeding, Wife's Sex Scenes With Adam Sandler

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment


Judd Apatow visited 'The Tonight Show' Monday night and Conan crowned him 'Moron King' after hearing one of his worst 'moron stories.' "One terrible ...

'Funny People's' Aziz Ansari Is RAAAAAAAANDY

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment


In Judd Apatow's upcoming 'Funny People,' Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen do a pretty good job making terminal illness hilarious. And Aziz Ansari is RAAAA...

Women & Misogyny: The Ugly Truth

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 08.22.2009 | Entertainment


Melissa Silverstein

It's no shock that women can be as sexist and misogynistic as men. But it's much more depressing when women get kicked in the teeth by other women on a great big movie screen.

HuffPost Review: The Ugly Truth

Marshall Fine | Posted 08.22.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

The script itself might as well be the product of random thoughts collected at an open-mike night at a Sacramento comedy club; it has that level of coherence and humor.

14 Reasons I'm Looking Forward To Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival

Sean L. McCarthy | Posted 08.22.2009 | Comedy


Sean L. McCarthy

This year, Apatow is holding a red-carpet premiere of his new movie about comedians, Funny People, at the fest. Will it live up to its often-brilliant online promotional campaign?

"Funny People" Premiere: Comedy's A-List And The Apatow Girls

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment


Judd Apatow's upcoming film "Funny People" had its Los Angeles premiere Monday night. Almost the whole cast (sadly no Jason Schwartzman) turned out...

Aziz Ansari Is RAAAAAAAANDY: Judd Apatow Creates ANOTHER Fake Website To Promote "Funny People" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.01.2009 | Comedy


First Judd Apatow launched an NBC.com page to promote his fake sitcom "Yo Teach!" that was itself a promotion for his upcoming film "Funny People." No...

Releasing my Inner Ramis: Buddhist Subtext of Year One

Perry Garfinkel | Posted 07.25.2009 | Entertainment


Perry Garfinkel

Year One: a whole new opportunity for Harold Ramis to do what he does so well -- under the guise of slapstick guffaws, subversively preach goodness over badness.

Yo Teach! Judd Apatow Makes Fake Sitcom To Promote New Film (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy


Judd Apatow launched a fake sitcom on NBC.com this week to help promote his upcoming film "Funny People." The show "Yo Teach!" stars Jason Schwartzman...

Judd Apatow And Adam Sandler's Movie About Morality

nytimes.com | DAVE ITZKOFF | Posted 06.03.2009 | Entertainment


ASSUMING Judd Apatow doesn't change his mind, and he often does, his new movie, "Funny People," will begin with a scene of Adam Sandler as no paying a...

Video Review of Observe & Report

Jenna Busch | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment


Jenna Busch

I got a chance to screen Seth Rogan's new film, Observe & Report in Santa Monica the other night and it's certainly not your average comedy.

'17 Again' Premiere Pics: Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Judd Apatow And More (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment


The 'Freaky Friday'-esque '17 Again' premiered in LA Tuesday night. In addition to leading man Zac Efron were his on-screen family Matthew Perry (...

Post Passover Ponderings

Sam Greenfield | Posted 05.15.2009 | Comedy


Sam Greenfield

Two thousand six hundred dollars for a seat in Yankee Stadium? For that money, do i get a lap dance during the seventh inning stretch?

Movie Review: Observe & Report

Zorianna Kit | Posted 05.10.2009 | Entertainment


Zorianna Kit

Rogen, often a writer and producer on his comedies, is just a gun for hire in Observe and Report. This darker, often violent, bizarre and mostly unfunny movie is not the best choice for him.

And The Geeks Shall Pwn The Earth

Aisha Tyler | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy


Aisha Tyler

Thankfully for recovering childhood nerds like me, geeks have recently, finally, come into vogue. Witness the ambivalent, doughy sexiness of a Seth Rogen, or the oddly attractive post-pubescent cool of a Michael Cera

"The Year One" Movie Trailer: Jack Black And Michael Cera's Biblical Road Trip

Posted 04.21.2009 | Entertainment


The full trailer for this June's Jack Black, Michael Cera comedy "The Year One" is out and seen below. The biblical road trip stars the pair as lazy h...