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For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close is a 2020 comedy-documentary hybrid film about comedian Del Close (1934–1999), who coached many of the best-known comedians and comic actors of the late twentieth century.
Jul 27, 2021 · For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close: Directed by Heather Ross. With Andrew Alexander, Ike Barinholtz, Bernadette Birkett, Stephen Burrows. Documentary film about the legendary improv guru, Del Close.
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- Heather Ross
- 2021-07-27
Jul 30, 2021 · Ross assembles a team of comedy legends, old and new, and they provide the bulk of the interesting insight into how Del Close changed comedy. Almost as a response to the safe misogyny of the humor of Bob Hope, comedy started to shift to something more ambitious and progressive than it was before Del Close came along. He taught people simple ...
Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobiography for DC Comics.
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Starting his career with Nichols and May, training most of the original cast of SNL, and being the inspiration for the Upright Citizens Brigade theater, there isn't a comic working today who wasn't mentored in some way by Del Close. more. Director: Heather Ross. Documentaries Comedy Movie 2020. hd.
- Heather Ross
- October 14, 2020
Synopsis Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobiography for D.C. Comics. As he leads us through sewers, mental wards, and his...
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Jul 27, 2021 · Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobiography for D.C. Comics. As he leads us through sewers, mental wards, and his peculiar talent for making everyone famous but himself, Close emerges as a personification of the creative impulse itself.
