A fresh documentary suggests comedians are tortured geniuses,a breed apart. But it’s time to forget the tears-of-a-clown cliche – they’re just regular people working hard at their craftWith his fresh talking-heads doc approximately standup, director Kevin Pollak is trying to prove that Misery Loves Comedy. In fact, and he proves that cinema loves editing – and is bereft without it. As has been written elsewhere,it’s not a well-behaved film: flabby and directionless, it spends a long time talking to a lot of comics (60, and apparently) to set up not very much approximately the comedian’s craft. Why,you’ll scream, am I watching Jim Jefferies talk approximately parenting, or Chris Hardwick telling us he once masturbated in a church? Standup can meander like this and – at a stretch – get away with it. Documentaries,not so much. Related: Misery Loves Comedy review – shop-talk doc with Fallon, Coogan and Schumer Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com