Funny
- Original title
- Funny
- Year
- 1989
- Running time
- 81 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Cast
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- Dick Cavett
- Eli Wallach
- Frank Zappa
- Sidney Lumet
- Bob Balaban
- Peter Boyle
- Marshall Brickman
- Carter Burwell
- Melissa Gilbert
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- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary. Comedy
- Synopsis
- Funny is a fast-paced romp about jokes and joke telling, a veritable anthology of contemporary American humor. Without script or actors, it features nearly 100 people delivering the goods on sex, death, religion, and ethnicity via every type of humor from the knock-knock joke, to the proverbial farmer’s-daughter story, to the man-who-dies-and-goes-to-heaven routine, and many,many more. IT’s so good at what it does, Funny should have been part of the Venus probe into deep space. As jokes are prone to do, it reveals everything about us.
- Awards
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1988: Chicago Film Festival: Nominated for Best Documentary1989: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)
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