It Started As a Joke

2019

76 min

4.8

Ends at

This documentary chronicles the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival – including a final farewell show. The film celebrates Eugene’s unique brand of humor and his role in the alternative comedy movement, offers a bittersweet goodbye to an era, and reminds us of the healing properties of comedy – even in the most challenging of life’s circumstances.

Budget

$0

Genre

Documentary, Comedy

Director

Ken Druckerman

Country

Cast & Crew

Eugene Mirman

H. Jon Benjamin

Mike Birbiglia

Wyatt Cenac

Jim Gaffigan

Janeane Garofalo

Jon Glaser

Ira Glass

Bobcat Goldthwait

John Hodgman

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It Started As a Joke

This documentary chronicles the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival – including a final farewell show. The film celebrates Eugene’s unique brand of humor and his role in the alternative comedy movement, offers a bittersweet goodbye to an era, and reminds us of the healing properties of comedy – even in the most challenging of life’s circumstances.

  • Eugene Mirman

  • H. Jon Benjamin

  • Mike Birbiglia

  • Wyatt Cenac

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