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Hello. We're back again. Here we we are we are back to the show can I

tell you guys a funny story uh well it's not a funny story but a fun little thing a fun little

observation I love observations my wife and I watched that movie funny people do you guys remember

that movie and I was just thinking as I was And I was just thinking, as I was watching it, I was just

thinking, remember a time like 16 years ago when people could just record a comedy that doesn't

have a story and it's just like people like making jokes on camera? And it would play in theaters.

I feel like that movie was kind of the quintessential example of that, almost to the point where it was

the shark jumping moment for like the Apatow, let's sit around and riff. It was like the end of that. It might have been, it really might have been because that movie, it's fun to watch, but it's like, it's wild how, there's like a two-minute segment of Apatow's kid just singing cats. And it's like so egregious. I think if you go back and read reviews, you will see the worm turning at that moment on that specific type of comedy. People being like, what are we doing here? But it's just funny. It just feels, it feels such a product of its era because we just don't have comedies in theaters anymore other than like reboots like Naked Gun is about to come out but there's like no more

studio comedies and so I just found that it was a little kind of just surreal to watch that now

right after the last few years not only that those movies made money remember like I don't know

knocked up that one actually no I know but the successful ones yeah before that yes the appetal

comedy 40 year old virgin knocked up really big money makers yeah The successful ones. Yeah, before that, yes. It's kind of too bad, though. Super bad.

Knocked out. Really big money makers. Yeah. End of an era. Welcome to our movie podcast where we talk about comedies every week. And the studio system has it doing. There's a good subject for a bonus episode. It might be. I mean, we did all just watch the studio. So it's certainly, certainly a podcast where sometimes we talk about TV and movies.

And we actually do that a lot on the bonus feed that we have. And where might that feed be? How would you, how would you access it as a listener? Well, you would go to maximum fun.org slash join and you'd become a member. You'd support our

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