Painfully Unfunny People

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For all those proclaiming The Death of the Newspaper Movie Critic…we give you: Rex Reed’s artful evisceration of Funny People in the current issue of the New York Observer. Bam.

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.