Holy Rolling in the Aisles

The words “standup comedy” and “insightful documentary” don’t traditionally coincide. There was Seinfeld’s Comedian, of course, and 2005’s raunch-orific The Aristocrats, but while such films tend to reveal a great deal about the decidedly unfunny creative process of crafting material, they fail to achieve what the best comedy does in the first place: making the audience laugh at the absurdities of the world around them.

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