What the corpus says about Funny People (2009)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Funny People (2009) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Funny People (2009) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:14:39 · Juliet Litman (0.40)] Funny People ↔ This Is 40 · contrast · Juliet reads the Funny People affair plot as the flip side of the This Is 40 marriage fantasy. · "that's like the flip side of this is 40 or something like that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:08:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Funny People · industry · Rich-person movies cost more because the locations must be rented and filled, as Apatow said of Funny People. · "it costs a lot of money to make a movie about a rich person."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 1:15:09 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Aubrey Plaza ↔ Funny People · career · Edgar says Scott Pilgrim was the first thing Plaza ever booked, and she had Funny People and Parks and Recreation before it came out. · "Scott Pilm was the 1st thing she ever booked."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:25:17 · David Sims (0.60)] Meg Ryan ↔ Hanging Up · programming · The Meg Ryan film Hanging Up will get a Patreon bonus episode. · "hanging up, which, Griffin, we're going to discuss on Patreon."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read) · programming · Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much. · "This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:19:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ The Whole Nine Yards · programming · The Whole Nine Yards was the comedy for the boys; Hanging Up opened with the same money as the female-led comedy. · "That's like the comedy for the boys and hanging up, which is opening with the exact same amount of money, is more of a female lead comedy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read) · lineage · Bill says halfway through the movie it becomes a Rudd and Mann movie, which becomes This Is 40. · "the movie pretty much becomes like a Rudd and man movie by the end of it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:27:08 · David Sims (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ Pitch Black · programming · Pitch Black opened fourth the same weekend as Hanging Up and has aged far better. · "It's just wild to think that that came out the same weekend as hanging up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie. · "isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:07:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Mixed Nuts · theme · Like a movie a guest watched alone as a child, Hanging Up is a household movie in the speaker's sibling relationship. · "movies that are like, this is a household movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Hanging Up ↔ Birds of Prey · theme · Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie. · "you go, I wish this had been the entire movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Hanging Up ↔ Unstrung Heroes · theme · Keaton's earlier film about a boy and his difficult family sounds similar to Hanging Up. · "There are changes, it gets closer to his uncles, sounds similar to hanging up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:10:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ One Fine Day · theme · Both are dated early cell-phone Hollywood films whose phone problems no longer exist. · "It's the same thing about one fine day, another classic of early cell phone Hollywood filmmaking"
[speaker] Edgar Wright · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · Loves Jackie Chan, Shaw Brothers kung fu, music-driven comedy, comics, and the unusual studio film. Revels in craft and in collaborators. Is not a fan of the uniformity of VFX-reel studio movies. · stances: The film could not be made today; One-and-done was deliberate; no sequel urge; Plan the movie, but credit collaborators for beating the plan
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Juliet Litman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition. · stances: Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall; Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview; Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it; Double feature should be Adventureland
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Funny People (2009); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Funny People (2009) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.