8. Adam Sandler - Funny People (2009)
To say Adam Sandlers comedies are bad is a bit like saying Hitler went a bit too far. Sandlers crimes against comedy are so great that its impossible to really quantify the damage, and potentially impossible for him ever to rectify what hes done. If there was a special area of hell reserved for people in the movies, Sandler would have booked his place long ago. That is unless he's let off for the good behaviour displayed in Judd Apatows
Funny People, where Sandler plays comedian George Simmons, a man whos traded everything including his own happiness for money and fame. A more popular choice would be to say Sandler's Barry Egan in
Punch-Drunk Love, but his
Funny People role is the more daring of the two. Its daring because this character the loathsome, obnoxious Simmons is quite clearly based on Sandler himself. Sandler honestly seems to want you to hate his character and, by extension, him. It actually ruins the movie, making a comedy about comedy far darker than it should be, but its a great performance nonetheless.