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Misery Loves Comedy
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Jimmy Fallon, Tom Hanks, Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan, Judd Apatow, Lisa Kudrow, Larry David, and Jon Favreau are among over 60 famous very famous American and Canadian funny people who share life and professional journeys and insights, in an effort to shed light on the thesis: Do you have to be miserable to be funny?
Jimmy Fallon, Tom Hanks, Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan, Judd Apatow, Lisa Kudrow, Larry David, and Jon Favreau are among over 60 famous very famous American and Canadian funny people who share life and professional journeys and insights, in an effort to shed light on the thesis: Do you have to be miserable to be funny?
Actors:
Marc Maron,
Kumail Nanjiani,
Lewis Black,
Mike Birbiglia,
Amy Schumer,
Nick Swardson,
Jason Alexander,
Steve Coogan,
Bob Saget,
William H. Macy,
Jimmy Pardo,
...»
Marc Maron
27 September 1963, New Jersey, USA
Kumail Nanjiani
21 February 1978, Karachi, Pakistan
Lewis Black
30 August 1948, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Mike Birbiglia
20 June 1978, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA
Amy Schumer
1 June 1981, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Nick Swardson
9 October 1976, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Jason Alexander
23 September 1959, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Steve Coogan
14 October 1965, Middleton, Manchester, England, UK
Bob Saget
17 May 1956, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
William H. Macy
13 March 1950, Miami, Florida, USA
Jimmy Pardo
Genre:
Comedy, Documentary
Director:
Kevin Pollak
Kevin Pollak
30 October 1957, San Francisco, California, USA
Country:
United States
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June 21, 2015
If comedy is tragedy plus time, is stand-up comedy a kind of higher math used to survive that equation?
April 30, 2015
Are they miserable? No; everyone seems to be having a great time. Are they funny? Um, not so much.
May 07, 2015
With so many subjects, it's obvious the director is going for quantity, but it doesn't work (especially the scenes with Matthew Perry; a funny actor is much different from a professional stand-up). The overall tone feels scattered and self-important.
April 23, 2015
While there's no single, monumental insight here-no a-ha moment that cracks the code of comedy-there are a ton of stories and opinions that comedy nerds should love.
June 25, 2015
Overall, what we get is a relentless conveyer belt of talking heads, earnestly dissecting their profession.
November 11, 2015
It's a decent enough film for comedy buffs though there aren't a whole lot of surprises.
April 30, 2015
We hear plenty of engaging anecdotes, though, taken together, they don't do much to illuminate a subject that has been thoroughly explored elsewhere ...
April 23, 2015
An evident labor of love and also a work of grating amateurism.
September 10, 2015
If only he had probed a bit deeper, and widened his scope beyond the predominantly white, male subjects (including our own Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan and Stephen Merchant), this could have been a fascinating film as well as a funny one.
April 30, 2015
For the most part ... this is a pretty safe discussion about a very unsafe art form. We can only imagine what's in the outtakes.
September 17, 2015
Do you have to be sad to be funny? You'll have to sit through a slew of micro-anecdotes and shop talk before you get any answers from this choppy documentary - longer than any decent comic would defer a punchline.
April 23, 2015
While genial and never dull, the film is all over the place, a classic example of trying to do and say too much.