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Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama, documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
The story of legendary comedian Garry Shandling, featuring interviews from nearly four dozen friends, family and colleagues; four decades’ worth of television appearances; and a lifetime of personal journals, private letters and home audio and video footage.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, biography, news |
Country | USA |
Saturday Night Live has been reflecting and influencing life in the United States for forty years. LIVE FROM NEW YORK! goes deep inside this television phenomenon exploring the laughter that pulses through American politics, tragedy, and pop culture.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
An Honest Liar tells the incredible story of the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. The film brings to life Randi's intricate investigations that publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists with quasi-religious fervor. A master deceiver who came out of the closet at the age of 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru names Carlos.
Mark | imdb: 3.9 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:28 |
A documentary that goes behind the scenes of the movie Illegal Aliens, and a filmmaker's journey from obscurity to moral blindness in the seductive glare of the media spotlight.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, music, biography, history |
Country | Germany, USA |
In 1984, American heavy metal band Twisted Sister became a global sensation. For 30 years, they been synonymous with hairspray, women's clothing and tasteless album covers. Until now. Ten years ago, director Andrew Horn was granted access to the archives of Twisted Sister founder Jay French and in We are Twisted fucking Sister he explores the decade that preceded their breakthrough.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.
Mark | imdb: 4.2 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
A mockumentary that takes place in the cut throat world of stand-up comedy. It follows the struggles one comic faces as he gives his dream one last shot.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man".
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, musical, documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
After inhabiting dozens of comical alter-egos over the course of her award-winning career, Tracey Ullman finally "takes on" the one role that spawned all of her characters — herself.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:26 |
A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, biography, history |
Country | USA |
The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond despite having never acted a day in his life.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, music, biography |
Country | USA |
SEX AND BROADCASTING is a feature length documentary about New Jersey's WFMU, the world's strangest and most unique radio station, and one man's attempt to keep it alive in the face of recession, the persistent threat of commercial media, and the challenges that come with keeping a rebellious group of outsiders together.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.