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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?
Genre:
Comedy, Documentary
Actors:
Jemaine Clement, Amy Schumer, Sam Rockwell, Stephen Merchant, Jon Favreau, Matthew Perry, Kevin Smith, Freddie Prinze Jr., Bobby Cannavale, Janeane Garofalo, Kumail Nanjiani, ...»
Director:
Kevin Pollak
Country:
United States
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San Diego Union-Tribune
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.
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Guardian
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.
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Seattle Weekly
June 21, 2015 If comedy is tragedy plus time, is stand-up comedy a kind of higher math used to survive that equation?
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Seattle Times
April 30, 2015 Are they miserable? No; everyone seems to be having a great time. Are they funny? Um, not so much.
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AV Club
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.
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RogerEbert.com
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.
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Empire Magazine
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.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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.
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Los Angeles Times
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 ...
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New York Times
April 23, 2015 An evident labor of love and also a work of grating amateurism.
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The List
June 25, 2015 Overall, what we get is a relentless conveyer belt of talking heads, earnestly dissecting their profession.
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New Statesman
November 11, 2015 It's a decent enough film for comedy buffs though there aren't a whole lot of surprises.
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