Phunny Business: A Black Comedy

Phunny Business: A Black Comedy

What do you get when you mix comedy, race, and politics?

2012 · 81 min · ★ 6.5 · Documentary, Comedy

A bittersweet valentine to All Jokes Aside, a little known, but extremely influential, black-owned Comedy Club. Comedy, race and Chicago politics collided at this cultural gem and we hope our humorous telling of this story will provoke discussion, and in some small way, promote a greater understanding between the races.

Directed by John Davies · Written by John Davies

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

3h 10m together

Phunny Business: A Black Comedy

Maeve

Both from John Davies.

More from John DaviesSee all →

Acceptable Levels

Acceptable Levels · 1983

Acceptable Levels

A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by the army. Back in London, editing the footage, the producer and researcher on the project wrestle with how to present the incident, and with their responsibility to the people in the film.

Cover Her Face

Cover Her Face · 1985

SeriesCrimeMystery

Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James. It details the investigations into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead.

Maeve

Maeve returns home to Belfast after a long absence. Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herself and other people.

Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

Sizwe Bansi Is Dead · 1974

Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry yo prove their identity during the apartheid era

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter