Just for Laughs: Judd Apatow stays humble in his standup

One of the major plot points in the new romantic comedy The Big Sick has a struggling Chicago-based standup trying to impress a talent scout from the Montreal comedy festival. The comedian, played by the hilarious Kumail Nanjiani, is unsuccessful in winning over fest scout Bob (a not so thinly veiled Robbie Praw, former Just for Laughs programming chief), largely because his girlfriend is big-time sick.
Irony abounds here. Nanjiani has performed several times at JFL. So has the film’s prod