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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 8707
Released: May 13, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Jerry Seinfeld is a working stand-up comic again. COMEDIAN is a candidly revealing, intimately observed, and often very funny look at what it takes to be a comedian. On-stage, Jerry delivers his hilarious brand of observational humor. Off-stage, he struggles with difficult material, confronts self-doubt, revels in small successes, and accepts help and support from friends and colleagues, including Colin Quinn, Ray Romano, Chris Rock, Garry Shandling, Jay Leno, and Bill Cosby. COMEDIAN also discovers the sharp wit of rising young comic Orny Adams -- outspoken, insecure, and fanatical about becoming the "next big thing." What emerge are two fascinating journeys by two contrasting personalities who have some surprising parallels.
Description of Comedian:
If you see Comedian expecting a concert film with Jerry Seinfeld, you'll be disappointed. But if you're looking for an incisive--almost surgical--examination of the psyche of a stand-up comedian, this is your movie. Comedian zigzags back and forth between the hugely successful Seinfeld, who's trying to get back to his stand-up roots by developing an entirely new act, and an unknown comic named Orny Adams, whose naked craving for success is almost painful to behold. Adams lays bare his ego to an embarrassing degree; Seinfeld is more subtle but just as revealing about the fears and anxieties that drive him to go back on stage. By following these two through comedy clubs, festivals, and spots on David Letterman's talk show, the documentary cunningly explores how jokes are put together, the in-the-trenches camaraderie (tinged with competition) of stand-ups, and the sheer existential terror of trying to make people laugh. --Bret Fetzer
Comedian Reviews:
Very funny back end of comedy! 
2009-12-04 - This movie was really great! The two stories that you see in the movie are different but awesome! You really get to see the hard work that it takes to be a stand up comedian. This is a must have for the collection.
Learn Standup 
2009-11-16 - I bought this thinking it would teach me how to be a standup comic.
I was very satisfied, the video helped me get a behind the scenes overview of how comics develop thier acts. It was also an entertaining movie.
bad features
2009-10-02 - they doesn't say that the DVD din't have spanish subs, in general a great dvd, but shame on the subs....
Rather Disappointing
2009-08-15 - As a big Jerry Seinfeld fan, I expected more. It was rather interesting to see Jerry at work crafting a new act and encouraging a young comedian, but too many scenes were too dark, literally - you could barely make out the faces and there was way too much of the immature, narcissistic Orly Adams.
The young egotistical Adams was quite a contrast to the more professional comedians, but he was painful to watch and now he's just sad because six years after this film he still isn't a well-known comic probably because he didn't take the good advice most people he met gave him.
Very Good 
2007-12-05 - This was a great DVD. Jerry is seen, "behind the camera." He is human, he does say things that aren't always funny. The DVD was edited beautifully by putting in all the clips in a way that put a lot of theme into the DVD. Being labeled as a, "slow movie," is descriptive, not derogatory. The film encourages interest and understanding into the lives of comedians and Jerry Seinfeld himself. It is a very classy film in that Jerry does not have to be the star everyone knows that he already is. Watch it!
