On the one hand, this doc is likely to rile up the “comedians are the last truth tellers” club. There’s a scene where Chris Rock literally says that comics have replaced philosophers. And it can feel like the film’s thesis boils down to “be real,” which can seem a lot, in this case, like “be angry.”
On the other hand, it may offer a lesson to comedians to bother to put work into their craft, and to commit full to,…