"Apatow's richest, most complicated movie yet̵a summing up of his feelings about comedy and its relation to the rest of existence. The movie has passages of uneasy brilliance and many incidental pleasures... Apatow, who probably understands the obsessive loneliness of comics as well as anyone, also knows a thing or two about family life. The miracle of "Funny People" is that it brings these two entirely dissimilar, even antagonistic worlds into a single, resonant whole."—David Denby, "The New Yorker"

"Apatow writes with warmth and wit...potently hilarious. He scores by crafting the film equivalent of a stand-up routine that encompasses the joy, pain, anger, loneliness and aching doubt that go into making an audience laugh."—Peter Travers, "Rolling Stone"

"One of the most absorbing films of the year."—"New York Post"