Doug Stanhope's the Unbookables (2012)
The Unbookables
Take A Ride on Comedy's Dark Side
95 min
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?
- Release date
- January 19, 2012
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Andy Andrist as Self
- Brett Erikson as Self
- James Inman as Self
- Kristine Levine as Self
- Travis Clinton Lipski as Self
- Sean Rouse as Self
- Elliott Threatt as Background comic
- Brendon Walsh as Self
Crew
- Jeff Pearson · Director
- Jeff Pearson · Writer
- Michael J. Epstein · Producer
- Griffin Gmelich · Producer
- Mary Jones · Producer
- Wes Johnson · Cinematographer
- Chris Millar · Cinematographer
- Wes Johnson · Editor