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?
13 October 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 October 1966, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
23 May 1963, Long Island, New York, USA
13 November 1955, New York City, New York, USA
31 May 1963
2 August 1970, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
5 March 1955, Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA
27 September 1963, New Jersey, USA
5 November 1968, Daly City, California, USA
29 June 1947, Brooklyn, New York, USA
24 November 1974, Bristol, England, UK
3 May 1965, Swansea, Wales, UK
23 September 1959, Newark, New Jersey, USA
23 November 1971, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
9 October 1976, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
12 September 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
24 August 1962, Tipton, Missouri, USA
3 October 1959, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
7 July 1966, Chesterton, Indiana, USA
24 August 1964, Hopedale, Massachusetts, USA
30 September 1965, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
30 July 1963, Encino, California, USA
15 June 1963, Dayton, Ohio, USA
9 July 1956, Concord, California, USA
30 August 1948, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
20 June 1978, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA
10 January 1974, Masterton, New Zealand
2 July 1947, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
November 11, 2015
It's a decent enough film for comedy buffs though there aren't a whole lot of surprises.
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.
April 23, 2015
An evident labor of love and also a work of grating amateurism.
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
While genial and never dull, the film is all over the place, a classic example of trying to do and say too much.
June 25, 2015
Overall, what we get is a relentless conveyer belt of talking heads, earnestly dissecting their profession.
June 21, 2015
If comedy is tragedy plus time, is stand-up comedy a kind of higher math used to survive that equation?
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.
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.
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 30, 2015
Are they miserable? No; everyone seems to be having a great time. Are they funny? Um, not so much.
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.
