Released this weekend, Funny People is a comedy-drama film, written, co-produced, and directed by Judd Apatow, and starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen. Apatow is best known for producing: Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talladega Nights, Knocked Up, Superbad, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Step Brothers and Pineapple Express.

After Judd Apatow expressed his desire to make a stand up comedian mentor film loosely based on his own early experiences as a struggling performer, he couldn't come up with an interesting idea since his mentors were nice. However, he then thought of making a film about a mentor facing a life crisis, and decided to cast his former roommate Adam Sandler to play that role.

Starring Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann (Apatow's wife) as the three leads, and Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, and Jason Schwartzman, this film is sure to make you laugh. Apatow had Sandler, Rogen, and Hill, who all play stand-ups in the film, write their own material for routines and filmed them performing their routines in front of live audiences. Apatow even used an old video of Sandler, dating from when the two were roommates, in which Sandler makes prank phone calls. You'll have to watch the movie for more comedy secrets from the funny people.

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