It Started As a Joke (2019)
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.
- Date of release
- 2019-03-10
- TMDB
- 4.8 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Documentary, Comedy
- Director
- Julie Smith Clem, Ken Druckerman
Casting
- Eugene Mirman — Self
- H. Jon Benjamin — Self
- Mike Birbiglia — Self
- Wyatt Cenac — Self
- Jim Gaffigan — Self
- Janeane Garofalo — Self
- Jon Glaser — Self
- Ira Glass — Self
- Bobcat Goldthwait — Self
- John Hodgman — Self
- Kumail Nanjiani — Self
- Kristen Schaal — Self
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