The humor is merely the setting for an affecting drama about comedians. Their material is endlessly amusing, and their chummy and sarcastic behavior toward one another riotous. Yet underneath that, Apatow emphasizes how the humor presents a façade.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 4, 2023

What the movie ends up saying is that some funny people will always be alone; their artistic strengths and their personal flaws are two sides of the same coin.

| Original Score: B | Sep 22, 2022

Feels like it is both a love song and a tribute to Apatow's life journey and the people in it through their joys, sorrows, quirks and idiosyncracies.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

Despite the lengthy run time, Funny People gives us one of Adam Sandler's best performances so I can't complain.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2019

A wise and moving look beneath the mystique of celebrity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Here's a film full of rich characters who are interesting, funny and believable. It's handled with great care by Apatow and the result is his best film to date.

| Original Score: A- | May 16, 2019

I wouldn't even describe this movie as a comedy. I would describe it as pointless. I know where they were trying to go, they just didn't get there.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 11, 2018

Perhaps the film's failure lies in the level of expectations that one has of Apatow... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2018

Funny People is deeply personal and intriguingly abstract, a bittersweet vision of a comedian's mournful existence.

| Sep 18, 2017

This is a smart movie, one that's very unexpected.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 12, 2017

At over two hours, it moves at the dignified pace of a Bergman film rather than, well, a Happy Gilmore or a Waterboy, but the director can rest easy, it's another hit.

| Aug 16, 2015

The unique hatred of yourself, and your audience, required of being a comedian is something that Apatow (and Sandler) understand profoundly: That's what this movie is about.

| Original Score: B | Jun 22, 2013

Why does Funny People often feel like a joke without a punchline?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Funny People is funny, moving, dramatic, and alternately hilarious. It's a bit like a stand-up dramedy.

| Original Score: B | May 6, 2011

For all its qualities Funny People never quite comes together. It can't quite decide who it wants to be about, whether it wants to be a comedy or a drama and in trying to be all things at once it never quite hits its full potential.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Mar 22, 2011

Apatow draws on his own experience to explore behavioral nuances of people that make us laugh, and it's no secret that being funny is not the same as being happy.

| Feb 1, 2011

Funny People may be deeply flawed, but at least it has an accurate title.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 27, 2010

Es al mismo tiempo la película más interesante de Apatow y también la más irregular. Ambiciosa, agridulce, por momentos brillante, demasiado larga.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2010

... a character drama in the guise of a show-biz comedy.

| Dec 6, 2009