Funny People

This was a good movie. Adam Sandler plays a terminally ill comic that has had huge success similar to his own career. His character lives in a huge mansion alone. The other main characters are Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman, and Eric Bana.

Sandler's character George Simmons hires Seth Rogan's character Ira to be his personal assistant and write jokes for him, he also tells him that he is terminally ill. We watch George perform stand-up and Ira as well. Simmons starts getting in touch with people in his life to tell them he is ill. So there are tons of cameos of pretty famous comedians, which is pretty cool. One of the people he gets in touch with is the love of his life who is married and has two kids, and an Australian husband played very well by Eric Bana. Bana is actually from Australia, so it was cool to here him actually speaking like an Australian, and his character is all excited about Australian rules football.

One of the cool parts of the movie was Ira's friends played by Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman. Schwartzman is one of my favorite comedic actors ever since Rushmore, and Slackers. There are some pretty funny interactions between the three.

Simmons and Ira end up going to the Bay area, after Simmons finds out he is disease free, where Simmons's love of his life lives with her husband and two kids. Here, the movie's romantic part builds up, and falls apart in a very short period of time. Simmons and Ira end up getting into a fight, Simmons and Bana's character too. Simmons kind of ends all his relationships at once with a huge melt-down. Simmons also appears as kind of scumbag Hollywood type that is wheeling and dealing all the time and he cannot relate to his true love's home movies of her kid. Ira kind of lets Simmons have it on the ride home and gives him some honesty. Simmons fires Ira, Ira returns to work at Otto's, a grocery store he was working at prior to being hired by Simmons. Simmons character shows up at Ira's work and helps him with some jokes.

This was a pretty cool movie. Adam Sandler plays a character that is similar to himself, probably not personality-wise, but similar fame. And the interactions between Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman are priceless. Ira has a romantic interest too, played by Aubrey Plaza. Her character is a nerdy stand-up comic, that is funny and sexy too.