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A feature-length documentary of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, celebrating the alternative comedy movement in NYC, and reminding us of the healing properties of comedy.
Directed by: Julie Smith Clem & Ken Druckerman
Premiered: SXSW 2019
Released: April 3, 2020
reviews of it started as a joke
2008-2017
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival was the world’s first sincere-and-ironic comedy festival, celebrating the close-knit comedy community in NYC, while making fun of the trappings of mainstream comedy festival programming.
The EMCF ran for 10 years at Brooklyn's Bell House and Union Hall, after being started as a drunken joke by Eugene, Julie Smith Clem, and (EMCF attendance streak record holder) Mike Birbiglia.
“It’s the comedy event that comedians themselves look forward to”