Comedian

Year: 2002

Grade: B+

Country: USA

Director: Charles

Review

two stories take place here – one about jerry seinfeld who has scraped all his old material and tries to build back up from the beginning; the other follows orny adams who is close to his big break. don’t watch it for the comedy – there’s some good material for sure, but it’s more a documentary about stand-up comics, specifically adams and seinfeld, trying to get what they want out of the biz. they are in much different places in their careers and lives and that provides for interesting perspective. surprisingly seinfeld is the grounded one of the two. adams comes off as annoying while seinfeld seems much more of a regular guy who (except for the porsche and private flights) hasn’t had nearly the success we know he has. if you’re a seinfeld fan.