Poster: Judd Apatow’s Funny People

Posted by mike

November 14, 2008

Judd Apatow. Adam Sandler. Seth Rogen. All huge names in comedy and all are coming together for a new movie called Funny People. And even though the film doesn’t release until July of next year, we’ve got the first teaser poster for the film. Of course, it’s not like they really had to do anything special for this poster, being that it’s for a Apatow movie. If you’ve the posters for The 40 Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up, you’re familiar with what I like to dub the Apatow poster. The Apatow poster features the star (or stars) standing in front of a colored background. Nothing more, nothing less. Essentially Apatow’s poster guy has about as easy a job as a backup QB. He’s just there to go through the motions. Make sure you catch the full poster after the jump and let me know what you think of it and my posterology.

When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship cause him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.

Discuss: What do you think of the poster? Do you want to be Apatow’s poster guy?

Funny People is being written and directed by super comedy director Judd Apatow previously of films like The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up (not to mention having his hands in Superbad, Pineapple Express and many others). The film stars Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill and Leslie Mann. It’s slated to release on July 31st, 2009.