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Call Me Lucky
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This affectionate portrait of Barry Crimmins shares Hysterical’s interest in comedy as a hard-won vocation and a means of speaking truth, with a strong sense of community among performers.
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Its expansive collection of comic voices echoes Hysterical’s conversational energy, probing the vulnerability, ambition, and pain that can feed a performer’s public persona.
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The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
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For Hysterical’s interest in the precarious lives behind comedy, this formally playful documentary follows a director confronting the ethics and instability of making a portrait of a fading entertainer.
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Funny People
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A fiction counterpart to Hysterical’s backstage realism: it uses the rhythms of working stand-up and performer friendships to explore ego, vulnerability, and the emotional stakes behind getting laughs.
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An honest and hilarious look into the lives of some of stand-up comedy’s most boundary-breaking women, exploring their journey to become the voices of their generation and their gender.
Stand-up comedy had always been a male domain. Only a tiny handful of women have broken out of the brutal world of comedy clubs to become household names. After decades of fighting for a place in the spotlight, things have finally shifted. This documentary journeys backstage and on the road with veteran comedians, rising stars and novices to discover how an intrepid group of boundary-breaking females are changing the game and exploring what it takes to become the voices of their generation and their gender.
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