Director Kevin Pollak interviews over 60 of the most successful comics working today to learn about the rare personality of a comedian and their motivations to (willingly) get into one of the most deprecating professions.

Insightful and hilarious, When Jews were funny surveys the history of Jewish comedy, from the early days of Borsht belt to the present, ultimately exploring the entire unruly question of what it means to be Jewish.

Features the hottest up-and-coming comedians handpicked by Jamie Foxx.

Convinced that he's dying from a bizarre array of symptoms, struggling comedian Spencer Kaminsky returns home to visit his five childhood doctors in a single day, all while desperately trying to avoid the friends and family that he left behind.

Concert footage of four female African-American stand-up comedians discoursing on topics such as marriage, children and men.

Recorded when Eddie Izzard was playing a limited seven week sold-out run of his celebrated stand-up show. A completely new show from his previous thirteen week run at the Ambassadors Theatre the year before.

Aspiring stand-up comedian Will is forced to face the realities of relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs.

Story of a legendary comedian who nobody's ever heard of and his hilarious backstage climb-to-the-middle.

The cameras follow trailblazing comic, Joan Rivers, for a year and cover her entire career from her break on the Carson show, to her heartbreak over the suicide of her husband, and her role on Celebrity Apprentice. Rivers reveals her relentless desire to keep working with humor and empathy. Wickedly funny and surprisingly moving, Rivers is once again returned to the spotlight she so richly deserves and cements her reputation as one of stand-up's towering...

Comics talk about the trials and tribulations of starting a comedy career in Chicago, where the comedy scene is as polarized and segregated as the city itself.