Reminds me of Apatow’s script for The Cable Guy in that it is full of bleeding edge cultural touchstones that have since evaporated. Large swathes of this movie are about MySpace, Aziz Ansari, YouTube cat videos, WiiFit. All of the aforementioned is treated with the utmost scorn but it can barely offer a viable alternative.
While The Cable Guy feels like visiting a museum of what once was , Funny People feels like a depressing rubberneck at the end of history. I…
