The cliché that comedy and torment go hand-in-hand gets another spin in the documentary Misery Loves Comedy, in which the actor Kevin Pollak interviews 50 comics, and comic actors, about their craving for the laughter and approval of strangers.
Late in the day, the picture gets around to addressing the question of whether one needs to be miserable to be funny, but you can’t say it’s done with any thoroughness.
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