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Apatow to direct "Schindler's List" of standup

From Moviehole comes this quote from Judd Apatow on his upcoming movie about standup comics:

It’s about comedians and funny people and it’s about how one comedian has a near-death experience and how he reacts to it. There’s some standup performance. Yeah, it’s based a little bit on [my experience doing stand-up]. That’s what I’m going to direct. I’m writing and directing Funny People and that starts end of September. I’m very excited. Janusz Kaminski is shooting it, which is very– very- It’ll be the Schindler’s List of stand-up comedy movies.

(Kaminski has been director of photography on many fine films, “Schindler’s List” among them.)

Perhaps we’ll finally be able to put the memory of “Punchline” to rest once and for all.