Doug Stanhope's the Unbookables
2012
Action / Comedy / Documentary

Doug Stanhope's the Unbookables
2012
Action / Comedy / Documentary
Plot summary
The Unbookables is a narrative documentary about stand-up comics who have spent their careers pushing limits--on stage and off. Relegated to small venues and touring in a crappy van through the Midwest they careen between the desire to succeed and the reality that there may be nothing left to lose. Road life is far from glamorous: comics come and go and cruel pranks and hard drinking punctuate their obsidian dark comedy on stage. They succeed and fail-spectacularly. When they face being fired for going too far on stage, the conflict culminates in a showdown: compromise or double down?
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Just...no
Move along, nothing to see here, folks
If you click on the reviews that score 7 and above, they are virtually all written by one-review-wonders - aka, people who were involved in the production. This is one of the most tedious and pointless "documentaries" I have ever experienced. They have assembled a crew of some of the unfunniest, least appealing, least engaging comics on the planet, who then spend the rest of the film riding from dive bar to dive bar in a filthy bus, smoking their lungs out the entire way. You may have more fortitude than I have, but I was only able to handle about fifteen minutes, and that achievement was pretty tough. Presenting this as a study of comics who push against limits might be a way of justifying this waste of time. But the truth is, there's not a shred of humor here.