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It Started As a Joke

  • March 2019
  • 1hr

    16mins

  • Documentary
  • Comedy
  • Directed by

    Julie Smith Clem,

    Ken Druckerman,

    Starring

    Eugene Mirman,

    H. Jon Benjamin,

    Mike Birbiglia,

    Wyatt Cenac

    ...

    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.