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YouTube Clip Of The Day II

3:52PM Jess McGuire | My darling pal Fluffy alerted me to the existence of this clip – it’s poor old Michael Cera being fired from a movie after having a vicious spat with director Judd Apatow. More »
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Did Apatow’s ‘Funny’ Make Any Money?

7:30AM Foster Kamer | Hollywood’s been waiting for the answer to the question Does Judd Apatow have what it takes to be a “serious film” filmmaker? or at least wants to know about his bankability in drama. Take a guess what happened. More »
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Everything Un-Ravaged, Everthing Un-Burned In Hollywood

2:58AM Natasha VC | Three picture deals, reunions, prequels, and the secret ingredient to box office success have all been revealed! Like a fresh patch of skin that emerges after a viscous sunburn, this last week of July has some rejuvenating news from Hollywood. More »
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Everyone Hates Katherine Heigl

10:15PM the cajun boy | Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow trash Katherine Heigl, Joe Jackson confirms Michael Jackson’s Norwegian lovechild, Britney mocks K-Fed’s weight gain, Robert Redford dislikes Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Simpson has an expensive new reality show and Sienna Miller needs love. More »
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How Dare You Not Be Charmed By Judd Apatow’s Publicity Tour?!

5:09AM Natasha VC | In the waning days of his publicity blitz, Judd Apatow is blogging over at MTV in some kind of meta ‘comedians-are- sensitive-beings-who-have-Google-alerts-and-read-them’ promotion for Funny People. It’s quite enjoyable! More »
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Which Thirty Minutes Of Funny People Did Universal Want To Cut?

5:55AM Richard Lawson | Today The Wrap henpecks at the troubled Universal, citing flagging box office returns and office infighting. But the most interesting tidbit is that the studio tried to cut 30 minutes off of Judd Apatow’s two-and-a-half-hour Funny People, but failed. Why? More »
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Is Judd Apatow’s Funny People Ha-Ha Funny, Or Awkward “Funny?”

12:45AM Foster Kamer | Yesterday, the first reviews of Judd Apatow’s Funny People started to trickle out from the major film critics. How’d it do? Well… More »
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Will And Jada Pinkett Smith Will Sneak Into Your Bedroom For A Shag

9:59PM the cajun boy | Jada Pinkett Smith says she and Will like to bang in other people’s homes, Victoria Beckham has her third boob job, Nicole Ritchie breaks up Lohan and Ronson, Owen Wilson still loves Kate Hudson, and Judd Apatow sucks in bed. More »

Funny People Doesn’t Look Very Funny

3:00AM Defamer Hollywood | When not cobbling his Oscar tribute to comedy together, Judd Apatow has been working on his next directing effort, Funny People, a comedy about the world’s least funny topics: comedians and cancer. More »

Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler and Others End Surprisingly Bootleg-Free ‘Funny People’ Rehearsals

5:45AM STV | We’re more than a little disappointed to find that nobody has yet uploaded any video, audio or any record whatsoever of Adam Sandler, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen or Kevin James’s stand-up sessions last Saturday at UCB. The quartet was concluding rehearsals MC Judd Apatow’s forthcoming comedian opus Funny People, insights into which we’d gone all the way to Canada to retrieve as recently as July. Then we miss one night in Franklin Village and it’s radio silence. Folks, step it up. We’re serious. It’s not a Beatles reunion or anything, but if we have to read abstractly about Hill biting it or Rogen defaulting to his imaginative zenith of aeroplane flatus, there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to see or hear it in all its stumbling, meandering glory: More »