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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 31 Jul 2013

The brilliant Robert Klein narrates with knowing affection, but despite the wonderful archival footage and painstaking assemblage of these…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 31 Jul 2013

Think you know all about comedy…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 30 Jul 2013

Works equally as social history as a survey of standup comedians of the Borscht Belt…

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By Scott Macdonald (9) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Jul 2013

Not all styles of humor stand the test of time, and the documentary When Comedy Went To School, about the Borscht Belt stand-ups who worked…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 29 Jul 2013

By no means a great documentary, but it's a very entertaining one, mostly because of the entertainers it spotlights - the generations who passed…

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By Nicole Herrington (32) for The New York Times (9,847) on 29 Jul 2013

Fortunately for the filmmakers, most of the comedians interviewed here — Jerry Stiller, Jackie Mason, Jerry Lewis and many other (mostly…

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By Andrew Schenker (354) for Time Out (7,510) on 29 Jul 2013

What’s missing is the onstage archival footage that would show us why this humor mattered in the first place—there are only a handful of…

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By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Jul 2013

This enchanting documentary on the rise, fall, and small-scale rebirth of the Catskills has something of a fairy tale quality…

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By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jul 2013

It confuses nostalgia for earth-shaking cultural upheaval, never really expounding on the actual effect of the Borscht Belt circuit's influence…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 06 Jun 2013

A humorous look at Borscht Belt comedians during the Golden Age of American Comedy…

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