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A new documentary about stand-up, This Is Stand-Up, gets its world premiere this coming Sunday (Easter) with limited commercial interruptions on Comedy Central. “This is Stand-Up is at heart a love letter to these amazing people,” says Producer/Director Paul Toogood. “Many years spending time and building relationships has hopefully enabled …
Comedy Central’s new documentary, Call Your Mother, will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2020, before debuting on Mother’s Day on the TV network. “Comedy Central is very proud to present this documentary to the world. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady have created a fascinating and layered look …
Comedy Central announced today an order for a one-hour documentary special from D.L. Hughley, How Not to Get Shot and Other Advice from White People, based on his New York Times bestselling book of the same name. Hughley will executive produce and star in the special, following him into the field to explore …
Comedy Central announced a collaboration today with All Things Comedy to produce a documentary about Patrice O’Neal. O’Neal died in 2011 at the age of 41. Michael Bonfiglio, who directed Gary Gulman’s new HBO documentary special, The Great Depresh, as well as Jerry Seinfeld’s Jerry Before Seinfeld for Netflix, will …
HBO Max, launching in spring 2020, has ordered the documentary Expecting Amy (working title) from Amy Schumer. The unfiltered documentary follows the comedian and actress during an extraordinarily difficult pregnancy while touring to prepare for a stand-up special. She delivered both earlier this year; Growing, on Netflix, in March; baby boy Gene Attell …
Rainn Wilson’s SoulPancake just put out a moving half-hour documentary via Funny or Die that’s worth watching whether you’re a comedian, know a comedian, or are a living human being in 2019. Laughing Matters opens with a reminder of how we felt in 2014 when we learned that Robin Williams …
Fresh off the debut of its weekly docuseries partnership with The New York Times, The Weekly, FX has announced five more docs coming to the cable network in the months ahead. One of them is about women in comedy. Here’s the official description from FX: WOMEN IN COMEDY For decades …
Virgil Films has acquired a documentary about the best-selling Truly Tasteless Jokes books from the 1980s. The film, Tasteless, from comedians Jeff Cerulli and Matt Ritter, will come out next month. Cerulli previously directed a documentary about competitive eaters, Hungry. Ritter interviewed me for a podcast some years ago that …
Kathy Griffin: A Hell of A Story, which officially premiered this March at SXSW, will hit movie theaters nationwide on July 31 via Fathom Events. Here’s the trailer: From Fathom Events: See her LIVE on the big screen for an exclusive Q&A following the nationwide premiere of KATHY GRIFFIN: A …
Broad City may be over. Wait. It’s over?!? In Abbi and Ilana’s Broad City, a new Comedy Central mini-doc, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer retrace their steps from the very first webisode through to the fifth-season series finale on Comedy Central, complete with rare backstage footage and interviews with Paul, …
