The Comedy Store

The names, the faces, the anecdotes, the history, the place, the ups, the downs, the turn arounds, the insanity, the laughs, and the humanity all bundled up together. If you love comedy and miss this series, you'll have a hole in your life that will never be filled.

9/10 Film-Series "The Comedy Store" (🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷/10 comedic piglets)

You probably need to be a stand-up comedy nerd like me to appreciate this. But Mike Binder, (comedian, actor, author, and now director)... takes us on a five part journey into the famed comedy venue called 'The Comedy Store' in California. Firsthand interviews with almost every famous living comedian on the planet provide a look into not only comedians and their process, but the evolution and origins of this famed comedy venue!

From the stylized opening that starts every episode to the final "round table" in episode five, you will love it, as you bathe in the nostalgia of American stand-up comedy.

I think anyone could have produced a good documentary on The Comedy Store and it would be an enjoyable watch. But Mike Binder made this so much more and it's a truly special piece of work. I could yammer on ad nauseum who gives a care what some random dude on the internet is saying. Just watch it. If youd on't, you will have missed out on something truly wonderful and you will feel that void in you for the rest of your days.

Produced with love, this five parts series pays respect to Mitzy Shore, her family, the forum she created and the hundreds of comedians who call it home. While it does not shy away from the bad parts, neither does real comedy. Absolutely worth the watch.

Started watching while being bored and couldn't stop. So much history of the Comedy Store that was amazing and sometimes sad to watch. Thank you Mitzi Shore for keeping the place alive in the hard time's RIP