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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?
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San Francisco Chronicle
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 30, 2015
Seattle Times
Are they miserable? No; everyone seems to be having a great time. Are they funny? Um, not so much.
April 30, 2015
The List
Overall, what we get is a relentless conveyer belt of talking heads, earnestly dissecting their profession.
June 25, 2015
New York Times
An evident labor of love and also a work of grating amateurism.
April 23, 2015
San Diego Union-Tribune
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.
May 07, 2015
Guardian
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.
September 17, 2015
Los Angeles Times
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 30, 2015
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