As one comic after another recalls triumphs, misadventures and painful lessons learned, the stories become redundant.

Stephen Holden

The New York Times

Though the engaging documentary treads through unavoidably familiar territory — the loneliness of the road, the anguish of bombing — its chorus of testifiers often find sharp new angles of approach.

Sheri Linden

The Hollywood Reporter

Dying Laughing is a movie about stand-up with no performance footage. It’s like a documentary about baseball with no game footage — but it’s great and it’s valuable and it’s wonderful, because we love seeing and hearing these all-time greats talk about what they do with such passion and candor.

Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times