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It Started As a Joke

It Started As a Joke

Julie Smith Clem, Ken Druckerman

2019

  • Documentary
  • Comedy
4.8

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.

Cast & crew

  • Julie Smith ClemDirector
  • Ken DruckermanDirector
  • Eugene MirmanSelf
  • H. Jon BenjaminSelf
  • Mike BirbigliaSelf
  • Wyatt CenacSelf
  • Jim GaffiganSelf
  • Janeane GarofaloSelf
  • Jon GlaserSelf
  • Ira GlassSelf

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