A comedy documentary featuring America's top stand-up female comedians, with performance clips, interviews and archive footage.
Production
Rare archival clips of comedy legends in their prime.
Writing
Jokes that hit harder three decades later.
Director
Gail Singer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the 'Year of the Woman' in politics, this doc captured a wave of female comics demanding space in a male-dominated industry.
Ellen DeGeneres hadn't publicly come out yet; her material here dances around identity in ways that read completely differently post-1997.
US
