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Synopsis: Barry Crimmins is pissed. His hellfire brand of comedy has rained verbal lightning bolts on American audiences and politicians for decades, yet you've probably never heard of him. But once you've experienced Bobcat Goldthwait's brilliant character portrait of him and heard Crimmins's secret, you will never forget him. From his unmistakable bullish frame came a scathingly ribald stand-up style that took early audiences by force. Through stark, smart observation and judo-like turns of phrase, Crimmins's rapid-fire comedy was a war on ignorance and complacency in '80s America at the height of an ill-considered foreign policy. Crimmins discusses another side of his character, revealing in detail a dark and painful past that inspired his life-changing campaign of activism in the hope of saving others from a similar experience. Interviews with comics like Margaret Cho and Marc Maron illustrate Crimmins's love affair with comedy and his role in discovering and supporting the development of ma
Director(s): Bobcat Goldthwait
Production: MPI Media Group
  6 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
Year:
2015
106 min
Website
62 Views


I really still feel

I have to accomplish,

and if I do I think I'll be

able to put my little tile

in the grand mosaic of life.

And those two things are,

of course,

I'd like to overthrow the

government of the United States'

and I'd like to close

the Catholic church.

- In a lot of ways I think

Barry is his own worst enemy

when n comes to ms career.

He's rarely had an agent.

He can be incredibly stubborn.

He doesn't like to delegate.

He has a hard time

trusting others.

So if you add all that up

and it's not a good mix

for career advancement.

- Would you welcome now,

in any condition,

Barry Crimmins.

Bar.

- Been on sort of a

health kick lately.

Lotta wars going on

right now.

I think cable TV

should pick up on it.

Start a cable war network.

All war, all the time.

- To take Barry and put him

in between Jeff Dunham

and a guy doing

MC Harmer yokes...

It was a very stark difference.

It wasn't exactly profitable

to be doing really

harsh politi...

It was probably doing

fun political stuff.

"Quayle's an idiot,

Reagan's kind of", you know...

But he was, you know,

almost he was edging into

Noam Chomsky territory,

but doing it in front

of a neon, you know,

thing of Charlie Chaplin

with people drinking

blender drinks.

- They're talking about putting

Reagan on Mount Rushmore.

Wow, huh?

If they do that we'll have

to raise a bunch of money

to buy Lincoln and

Jefferson blindfolds.

If they're going to honor him

they're going to put him on

the million dollar bill.

This way all his friends

will have something

to remember him by.

Oh, that HUD scandal

was nothing.

They created homelessness

and got paid extra for it,

and I'm the jerk for

pointing it out, excuse me.

Sorry America at home, too.

Those of you that

still have one. Okay.

- Before like a lot of

these guys like Bill Maher,

Jon Stewart, he was like

one of the first guys

that really would nail

that kind of thing.

So he was the always...

"I know you like Bill Hicks

but you gotta go find

Barry Crimmins. "

- One of the questions I've

always wondered about Barry

is how does he

make any money'?

You know?

And I dare say this.

If you don't know anything about

the lineage of Boston comedy

this place would not exist

if this guy didn't start

where he started

way back in the 80s.

He's a nice man,

he's a gentleman'

he's a funny man.

He's one of the best

performers working today.

Please welcome

Mr. Barry Crimmins.

Give him a nice

round of applause.

Barry Crimmins.

- I became a vegetarian

a long time ago.

You know what happened,

I was...

I was eating a chicken leg which

was a bone with meat on it,

and I was holding it

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