Patrick and Doug discuss Judd Apatow's overly ambitious 2009 comedy-drama Funny People by listener request, only to ironically discover that neither one of them is a funny person.Download this episode here.
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Also discussed this episode: Gran Torino (2008), Open Water 2: Adrift (2006), Angel of Death (2009), Sugar Hill (1974)
The reason Funny People was unsuccessful is because it was marketed as a funny Adam Sandler/Apatow movie. Therefore, the opening weekend viewers were people who were expecting to see a traditional Sandler, Apatow, Rogen, and Hill type of comedy. It wasn't that, so they told their friends that it wasn't funny. Word-of-mouth is much more persuasive than critic reviews and that's why it 'failed'.
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