[8] With a screenplay by Norman Steinberg and David Frankel, the film is based on the article "Convention of the Love Goddesses"[1] in Esquire Magazine by Bob Greene.

New York cartoonist Duffy Bergman marries gourmet chef Meg Lloyd.

There he meets the much younger Daphne Delillo, and when she moves to New York to work as a network sports reporter, their attraction develops into a relationship.

The film was originally produced with Gene Wilder's character having three love interests - Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Farrah Fawcett.

[11][12] These edits were late in the production process, and it is believed that some promotional material was distributed with incorrect information.

Funny About Love provides an opportunity to spend 101 minutes in the presence of the most cloying, inane and annoying dialogue I've heard in many a moon, punctuated only by occasional lapses into startling bad manners.