It's a decent enough film for comedy buffs though there aren't a whole lot of surprises.

| Nov 11, 2015

Do you have to be sad to be funny? You'll have to sit through a slew of micro-anecdotes and shop talk before you get any answers from this choppy documentary - longer than any decent comic would defer a punchline.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2015

If only he had probed a bit deeper, and widened his scope beyond the predominantly white, male subjects (including our own Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan and Stephen Merchant), this could have been a fascinating film as well as a funny one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2015

We hear plenty of engaging anecdotes, though, taken together, they don't do much to illuminate a subject that has been thoroughly explored elsewhere ...

| Apr 30, 2015

Are they miserable? No; everyone seems to be having a great time. Are they funny? Um, not so much.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2015

For the most part ... this is a pretty safe discussion about a very unsafe art form. We can only imagine what's in the outtakes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2015

An evident labor of love and also a work of grating amateurism.

| Apr 23, 2015

While genial and never dull, the film is all over the place, a classic example of trying to do and say too much.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 23, 2015

While there's no single, monumental insight here-no a-ha moment that cracks the code of comedy-there are a ton of stories and opinions that comedy nerds should love.

| Original Score: B | Apr 23, 2015

Explaining humor is usually like boiling water - it evaporates. But the funny folks in actor Kevin Pollak's well-structured doc can actually break down what they do.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2015

Pollak obviously had fun, but you get the feeling the best bits never made it in.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 22, 2015

A documentary that asks many comics big questions about the dispositions of comics - but doesn't often enough put anyone off balance, the audience included.

| Apr 22, 2015

Commingling industry shoptalk with introspective insights and wrangling testimonials, the film casts an incredibly wide net, but doesn't reveal much of anything.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 18, 2015

What might have turned out to be a movie about comedy only for comedians is instead a funny and engaging look at the most twisted and naked branch of the entertainment world.

| Apr 17, 2015

Whatever it might take to get these admittedly very funny people to truly bare their souls, Pollak doesn't appear to have found it.

| Jan 23, 2015