COMEDIAN

Year: 2002
USA: Miramax
Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Colin Quinn, Chris Rock, Garry Shandling, Jay Leno, Bill Cosby, Orny Adams, Robert Klein, Kevin Nealon, George Wallace
Director: Christian Charles
Country: USA
USA: 100 mins
USA Rated: R for language
USA Release Date: 11 October 2002 (Limited Release - Los Angeles and New York)


Synopsis

Jerry Seinfeld is again working as a stand-up comic. COMEDIAN is the unique and engaging look at what it took for him, and by extension every stand-up, to get there. Neither a concert film, nor a biographical documentary, COMEDIAN closely examines the birth of a comedy act and offers a window into the details of backstage life and the challenge of making people laugh.

It was shot on two hand-held digital video cameras by director Christian Charles and producer Gary Streiner, who followed Jerry Seinfeld from club to club every night he performed, following him for well over a year to enable them to make COMEDIAN.