It Started As a Joke

Documentary, Comedy

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Julie Smith Clem

Status Released

Release Date 2019-03-10

Storyline

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.