It Started As a Joke

It Started As a Joke — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 10, 2019
• Runtime
• 76 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Comedy
• Director
• Julie Smith Clem

It Started As a Joke — Cast

Eugene Mirman Self H. Jon Benjamin Self Mike Birbiglia Self Wyatt Cenac Self Jim Gaffigan Self Janeane Garofalo Self Jon Glaser Self Ira Glass Self