Producers/directors Paul Toogood and Lloyd Stanton enjoyed so much access to so many comedians over the last several years to make their documentary, This Is Stand-Up, which premiered Easter Sunday on Comedy Central. So much as, that to only have 82 mi…
Continue ReadingA 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 Prod…
Continue ReadingComedy 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 document…
Continue ReadingComedy 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…
Continue ReadingComedy 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 …
Continue ReadingHBO 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 stan…
Continue ReadingHBO 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 stan…
Continue ReadingRainn 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 h…
Continue ReadingFresh 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 f…
Continue ReadingVirgil 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 compe…
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