As a film, Too Funny to Fail is workman-like. It does the job it needs to do, gives the performers room, and assembles the pieces of the story in a clear and coherent fashion.

| Mar 7, 2018

With some of the funniest people on Earth enthusiastically discussing their greatest failure, it's the interviews that really sell this insanely entertaining film.

| Mar 5, 2018

... Too Funny To Fail is one of the most entertaining comedy documentaries in recent history.

| Dec 20, 2017

The sketch comedy series was truly ahead of its time.

| Nov 11, 2017

Too Funny to Fail, which is now streaming on Hulu, is a sprightly and hilarious look at what a title card calls "arguably one of the most spectacular failures in television history."

| Nov 8, 2017

The documentary revels in the details of how the show confounded the network and infuriated many viewers during its seven-episode run.

| Oct 25, 2017

Too Funny to Fail continues a streak of outstanding niche original documentaries from Hulu this year.

| Oct 25, 2017

For a movie about a cancelled 온라인카지노추천 show, Too Funny to Fail is surprisingly cheerful, in large part owing to the fact that so many of the performers and writers on the show went on to such great comedy heights.

| Oct 25, 2017

Too Funny To Fail amusingly looks at how a series with so much talent crashed and burned almost immediately - even with a lead-in of one of the top-rated Home Improvement.

| Oct 21, 2017

Too Funny to Fail succeeds in being funny about failure.

| Oct 21, 2017

This isn't so much a rise-and-fall story as just a story about a very rapid fall, and even the documentary's participants have trouble taking the subject seriously. But that just makes the stories they tell even funnier.

| Oct 21, 2017

Too Funny to Fail is a fascinating story of just how much risk Hollywood was willing to accept back then.

| Oct 21, 2017

Even if this isn't an entirely inventive approach to an oral history of a failed experiment, Too Funny to Fail touches on a profound idea that runs through popular mainstream artistic pursuits.

| Original Score: B | Oct 21, 2017

In many ways, Too Funny To Fail captures a time when television was actually more willing to take those kinds of risks and abuse.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 20, 2017

That Too Funny to Fail doesn't meaningfully reckon with the insidious sexism within comedy is not much of a ding. As sweetheart hagiographies go, the doc is joyous and funny.

| Oct 20, 2017

What Too Funny to Fail does do is make it clear, more broadly, that groundbreaking comedy is hard even when you've got a dream team creating it.

| Oct 20, 2017

Not unlike the series, the documentary's secret weapons are [Stephen] Colbert and [Steve] Carell, who are interviewed separately but maintain a connection that eventually broke them for a wide audience on The Daily Show.

| Oct 20, 2017

Too Funny To Fail should be praised for reminding people that this wondrously bizarre show exists.

| Oct 20, 2017