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Original title

Funny

Year

1989

Running time

81 min.

Country

United States

Director

Bran Ferren

Cast

Cinematography

Bran Ferren

Producer

Associates and Ferren

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: 1988: Chicago Film Festival: Nominated for Best Documentary

1989: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)

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Funny

1989

Bran Ferren