Is Funny People actually good?

Funny People sits in the 34.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 34.9% of them.

How does Funny People compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Funny People lands in the 38.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Funny People's score based on?

282 calibrated reviewers stand behind Funny People's score.

2009

global pct

34.9

Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s

Funny People

Name: Funny People
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2009

Scored from 282 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

34.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

38.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

17.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

282 calibrated reviewers

Summary

George Simmons, a famous stand-up comedian, learns he has a terminal illness and hires a struggling young comic, Ira Wright, as his personal assistant and opening act. As George reckons with mortality, he tries to reconnect with the one who got away, a former girlfriend now married with children, while Ira navigates the messy fallout.

Funny People is a 2009 comedy and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

282 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 286 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 10,730 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.