‘Funny People’ Might Just Know How To Go Viral

Filed under: Videos , Movies , Marketing While our review of this summer's Judd Apatow comedy is irrelevant (see our friends at The Rotten Tomatoes Show for their take), we did notice one thing about the film that definitely was our kind of funny: CUTE KITTENS . In the movie, Jonah Hill's character -- struggling comedian Leo Koenig -- makes his money the way real people do nowadays: by posting videos of cute kittens on the web. Seriously, this is a job now, you guys! And like sm

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Judd Apatow has worked in comedy since he was a teenager, and his knowledge of the business comes through in the details of his latest film, Funny People . The movie is full of small touches that are completely convincing, and were no doubt inspired by the experiences of Apatow and his cast of comic ringers. For example, look at the scene in which Seth Rogen, playing a struggling stand-up who gets hired as a writer by superstar Adam Sandler, is pitching his new jokes to the boss- instead of lau