Misery Loves Comedy
Kevin Pollak explores the dark side of comedy in this fascinating documentary.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 8, 2015
- Originally Released: 2015
- Label: Tribeca Enterprises
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Entertainment Reviews:
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An evident labor of love and also a work of grating amateurism.
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New York Times
[Kevin] Pollak isn't taking a solve-for-x approach here so much as simply geeking out with his fellow tribesmen (and a few -women), who may or may not be your favorite funny people, anyway.
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SF Weekly
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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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
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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RogerEbert.com
Rating: 2/4 --
Are they miserable? No; everyone seems to be having a great time. Are they funny? Um, not so much.
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Seattle Times
[Pollak] manages to cut together some truly insightful commentary from an impressive list of funny people...
A.V. Club
Rating: 2/4 --
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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San Francisco Chronicle
Product Description:
This insightful documentary features interviews with more than 50 successful comedians, writers and filmmakers, as they discuss the theory that misery is an essential component of humor. A few of the stars appearing in this release are, Judd Apatow, Amy Schumer, Jimmy Fallon, Jason Alexander and Whoopie Goldberg.
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