The Unbookables

2012
Not Rated
1h 35min

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6,0/10

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"The UnbookablesÂ” is a narrative documentary about standup comics who have spent their careers pushing limits: on stage and off. Relegated to small venues and touring in a crappy 1976 camper-van through the Midwestern US, they careen between the desire to succeed and the reality that there may be nothing left to lose.

Road life is far from glamorous: comics come and go and cruel pranks and hard drinking punctuate their obsidian-dark comedy. They succeed and failÂ—spectacularly.

As the tour proceeds through Texas and Kansas, other Unbookables join the fray. We visit decrepit hotels and mid-century cityscapes as the comics indulge their addictions and goad each to do riskier bits onstage. When they face being fired for going too far at a comedy club, the conflict culminates in a showdown: compromise or double down?

Fiercely proud of their uncompromising art, we learn of a world in which the audience isnÂ’t always right, and where making people laugh isnÂ’t always as important as making people think.

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Move along, nothing to see here, folks

If you click on the reviews that score 7 and above, they are virtually all written by one-review-wonders - aka, people who were involved in the production. This is one of the most tedious and pointless "documentaries" I have ever experienced. They have assembled a crew of some of the unfunniest, least appealing, least engaging comics on the planet, who then spend the rest of the film riding from dive bar to dive bar in a filthy bus, smoking their lungs out the entire way. You may have more fortitude than I have, but I was only able to handle about fifteen minutes, and that achievement was pretty tough. Presenting this as a study of comics who push against limits might be a way of justifying this waste of time. But the truth is, there's not a shred of humor here.