Funny People

SPOILER WARNING.

Judd Apatow. The name has pretty much created a whole new sub-genre of comedy movies. A whole new ‘clique’ in which certain people are privvy to being in a collection of movies with similar themes, plots and actors. They’ve been criticised as being mysoginistic and embodying the teenage fantasy of the geek getting the babe; and whilst some of the movies are quite humourous in places, others have started to dip in quality as … want to read more?

You see a TV show set in High School, and you’ll be forgiven to think that its core audience is people who are actually in high school. But what if the show is set in the early eighties, twenty years before the current generation? Could it actually be possible for a show to actually be aimed towards adults?

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