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When a middle-age therapist who moonlights as a stand up comic combines humor with healing, she navigates the delicate balance between laughter and vulnerability, revealing how comedy can be a powerful tool for human connection. Comedian Allison McArthur makes the transition from full time therapist and part time comedian to full time comedian and part time therapist, in this documentary short.
Director
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$1,000

An inspiring, triumphant and wickedly funny portrait of one of comedy’s most enigmatic and important figures, CALL ME LUCKY tells the story of Barry Crimmins, a beer-swilling, politically outspoken and whip-smart comic whose efforts in the 70s and 80s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. But beneath Crimmins’ gruff, hard-drinking, curmudgeonly persona lay an undercurrent of rage stemming from his long-suppressed and horrific abuse as a child – a rage that eventually found its way out of the comedy clubs and television shows and into the political arena.

A chaotic intervention. An action-packed stay in rehab. After a weird couple of years, John Mulaney comes out swinging in his return to the stage.