When Comedy Went to School (2013)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 23M
Director : Mevlut Akkaya, Ron Frank
Writer : Lawrence Richards
Synopsis
The birth of modern stand-up comedy began in the Catskill Mountains - a boot camp for the greatest generation of Jewish-American Comedians.
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