Netflix is getting into the business of producing its own material, and one of its first products was THE COMEDIANS OF COMEDY. It's a documentary about the Comedians of Comedy tour, a show that unites a number of (unknown to me) comics and has them play nonstandard venues, such as rock clubs and town social halls.
The documentary's premise and the comedians' self image is one of cutting edge -itude, of people who refuse to sell out while they probe the limitations of their art form. In other words, they haven't hit it big and they say "fuck" a lot. I thought their sets were amusing, and I even chuckled once or twice, but there isn't an Eddie Izzard among them. Ah, well.
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