Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are to be reunited for a TV documentary to mark their comic partnership. UKTV’s Gold channel has commissioned a 90-minute documentary to celebrate 30 years since they met for the first time at Cambridge University. [Read More]

I Am Comic premiered on Showtime already, but you can still watch it On Demand. In this clip from the documentary, Craig Anton explains stand-up terminology.. [Read More]

There's a new documentary film about British comedians The Mighty Boosh and their devoted fans -- fans so devoted that the two NYC screenings of Journey of the Childmen: The Mighty Boosh on Tour sold out even before the 92YTribeca announced that Mighty Boosh creators Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt would attend the screenings! [Read More]

JOAN RIVERS – A PIECE OF WORK takes the audience on a year long ride with Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life; it peels away the mask of an iconic comedian, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as a groundbreaking female performer. expose the private dramas of this irreverent, legendary comedian as she fights to keep her career thriving in a business driven by youth and beauty. Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work will be released to theaters on June 11th. Watch the trailer below ... [Read More]

Watch the preview to the stand-up comedy documentary, I Am Comic, premiering Friday, June 11 at 11pm on Showtime. Filmmaker Jordan Brady takes a behind-the-microphones look at what it takes to stay re... [Read More]

“People who have seen the film come up to me and say, ‘I never liked you until now.’ TV interviewers say, right in front of me, ‘Even if you have always hated Joan Rivers … you are going to love her and be mesmerized by this film.’ They spit right in my face and then spend the next ten minutes wiping it dry.” [Read More]

It was "Saturday Night Live" on a Sunday afternoon, as James Franco's "SNL" documentary screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. Franco, who has twice hosted "SNL," said he wanted to find out "what that mysterious comedy process was." It began as a seven-minute school assignment for Franco, who was studying film at New York University, but grew into an hour-and-a-half documentary that premiered earlier this year at the South By Southwest film festival. It follows the episode from the Tuesday m... [Read More]

Conan O’Brien does not plan to sit at home interviewing backyard squirrels and playing on Twitter all day, forever. Since his exit from NBC’s The Tonight Show, just a short time ago, he has managed to put together a 30-city comedy musical tour, which has already sold out. Now, it’s being reported that he will also be in the movies. He is in talks with a media company to film his “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour” for a documentary. [Read More]

Believe makes the mistake of trying to match its subject’s zaniness when it would be better off emulating the smart, serious, ambitious man underneath the flashy exterior. [Read More]

A new documentary about the late Bill Hicks, American: The Bill Hicks Story, is making the film festival rounds, and it's more than fair to say that it's going deep into the heart of Hicks country this month when it screens at Austin's SXSW. There will be three screenings of the documentary at SXSW, plus a panel discussion remembering Hicks on March 20. Here's a clip from the movie that not only shows the blend of actual footage with animation the filmmakers have chosen, but also includes comedi... [Read More]