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The One and Only Dick Gregory documentary premieres this Juneteenth at the Tribeca Film Festival. The world premiere’s already sold out. But you can watch it starting July 4, 2021, thanks to the good folks at Showtime. Showtime has acquired this doc from Andre Gaines that unpacks the career of …
If you needed more evidence that live comedy is already back in big business, then look no further than this month’s Tribeca Film Festival, which announced it’ll host the tapings of 10 new stand-up comedy specials in partnership with Comedy Dynamics. Tribeca and Comedy Dynamics planned to do something similar …
We’ve wondered for almost a year now what would happen to all of that documentary footage shot last summer in Yellow Springs, Ohio, as Dave Chappelle put on comedy shows and invited his funny friends over to visit, perform and play during the heights of the pandemic. Now we know. …
PRESS STATEMENT BY JANE ROSENTHAL, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, TRIBECA ENTERPRISES “We founded the Tribeca Film Festival as a way to heal our community after the devastation of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. We were determined to overcome our fear and anxiety by joining together. It is in our DNA to …
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 …
The cast and producers of 1994’s Reality Bites reunited 25 years later for a screening and panel retrospective over the weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival. Lisa Loeb even showed up onstage to play her hit song, “Stay,” over the end credits. Watch Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Winona Ryder and …
Keenen Ivory Wayans and his co-stars from In Living Color, including Tommy Davidson, David Alan Grier, Shawn Wayans and Kim Wayans, reunited for a panel retrospective on their influential FOX sketch comedy show from the early 1990s.
2019 will mark the 35th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap, and the 25th anniversary of Reality Bites. Both cult classics will celebrate these milestones with retrospective screenings, panels, and even a concert as part of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, happening April 24-May 5. This Is Spinal Tap stars and creators Christopher Guest, Michael …
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 Comic reported back in 2014, director Lisa D’Apolito helped make this documentary with an Indiegogo campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcHYRrUI7w8 The finished film, completed with the support of …
You know the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. But who is the man behind the voice? That’s the question Neil Berkeley wanted to answer. Berkeley, who previously directed the 2014 documentary Harmontown, wondered how character comedians lived offstage when not in character. Which naturally led him to Gottfried. Those dirty jokes. …
