If we worship this director because he is able to so accurately portray how men are then we are saying there is truth in his representations.
This is the main issue, IMO. Take Adam McKay, for example, who I consider to be the closest we have to a great comedy writer/director these days. Sure, his movies are not without emotion, but it's clear that all he wants is to make people laugh. Some people think
Anchorman is funny, some don't; that's fine, people laugh at different things. I think everyone will agree, though, that Judd Apatow has much higher ambitions. When people talk about
Knocked Up, they don't just go "eh, movie was funny", they praise it for its earnest and honest portrayal of people and relationships and what it's like to "grow up" (whatever it is they think that means). I just went back to Fimspotting #163, because I realised I had not listened to it after seeing the movie; Scott Tobias says it's "insightful" and "hits at deeper truths", Adam says it's "profound", "realistic" and "relatable". It would be reductive, I think, to dismiss it as just another dumb comedy.