Review: “Always Amazing” on All Things Comedy YouTube
by Hulu has an unconventional documentary coming out in August about The Amazing Johnathan, but Steve Byrne beats it to the punch with a heartfelt look …
Tag: documentaries
Showtime plans four-part documentary series on The Comedy Store and Mitzi Shore
I’m Dying Up Here may have died after two seasons on Showtime, but the pay cable network is going directly to the source material for …
Paramount Network’s “I Am Richard Pryor” documentary will premiere at SXSW 2019
Paramount Network announced that the next installment of its award-winning I Am documentary franchise will focus on the late great Richard Pryor. I Am Richard Pryor will …
Too Soon? Documentary recalls “The Onion” issue following 9/11
Satirical publication The Onion began printing on actual newsprint back in August 1988. The staff picked up and left their original home in Madison, Wisc., …
Indiegogo campaign to complete final, posthumous documentary special on Ralphie May
When I sat down with Ralphie May and Lahna Turner to podcast in the green room of Gotham Comedy Club back in March 2015, a …
New biography, documentary explore the life and death of Robin Williams
Is there ever an appropriate time to look back at the life and legacy of Robin Williams without feeling sad at how it all ended? …
Can you make a comeback to stand-up after 20 years offstage? Ask Lou DiMaggio
Some people quit stand-up comedy. Some people don’t quit until they die. And others just fade away, for a variety of reasons. What was Lou DiMaggio’s …
Doo-doo or do not, that is the question of this “Poop Talk” documentary
Everyone Poops is a very popular children’s book. And yet. Everyone poops, and nobody wants to talk about it. Despite the long history of fart …
Gilda Radner documentary “Love, Gilda” will open 2018 Tribeca Film Festival
Love, Gilda, a documentary about Emmy-winning and Grammy-winning comedian Gilda Radner, will open the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2018. As The Comic’s …
David Wain’s Doug Kenney/National Lampoon biopic, Robin Williams documentary both will premiere at 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival has announced its slate of world premieres for January 2018, and among them are two notable new comedy projects. Futile and …