It Started As a Joke(2019)

movie - first aired/released 2019-03-10 - 76 min - audience 4.8

Documentary, Comedy

Directed by Julie Smith Clem, Ken Druckerman

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.