Dark Side of Comedy
Featuring different comics and their personal journeys, explores the internal battles, unexpected fame and societal pressures in the comedy world.
- 2022-2023
- 2 seasons
- Vice TV
- Documentary
- TV-14
Featuring different comics and their personal journeys, explores the internal battles, unexpected fame and societal pressures in the comedy world.
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2022
Episode 1
Chris Farley
Tue, Aug 16, 2022 44 mins
Struggling with addiction and a dangerously low self-image, Chris Farley's old friends at Saturday Night Live conspired to help save the falling star.
Episode 2
Andrew Dice Clay
60 mins
In the late 80's Andrew Dice Clay was one of the biggest comedians on the planet. His controversial brand of comedy found a huge base with white men in America - but at what cost?
Episode 3
Roseanne Barr
Tue, Aug 30, 2022
Brash, bold, and hilariously funny, Roseanne Barr made a name speaking her mind. And that very same impulse may have cost her her career.
Episode 4
Artie Lange
Tue, Sep 6, 2022
Artie Lange enjoyed mainstream success as a comedian on TV and radio, but his addiction to heroin, coupled with childhood traumas, threatened to thwart his ambition and his life.
Episode 5
Richard Pryor
Tue, Sep 13, 2022
Richard Pryor confronts America with brutal honesty, but while he fights for a voice on stage, he is losing his own battle to drugs and family trauma.
Episode 6
Dustin Diamond
Tue, Sep 20, 2022
Dustin Diamond found fame but when it ended, Dustin was lost, descending into one tragic chapter after another.
Episode 7
Greg Giraldo
Tue, Sep 27, 2022
Roastmaster. Road warrior. Addict. Dad. How beloved comedian Greg Giraldo's career - and life - was sabotaged by a toxic mix of addiction and self-loathing.
Episode 8
Brett Butler
Tue, Oct 4, 2022
Money. Success. Respect. Brett Butler had it all. Here's how fiercely original stand-up and sitcom star gained everything only to lose it all.
Episode 9
Freddie Prinze
Tue, Oct 11, 2022
A working class Puerto Rican kid, Freddie Prinze exploded onto the comedy scene in the 1970's. But his overnight fame would come to an abrupt end just as fast.
Episode 10
Maria Bamford
Tue, Oct 18, 2022
How Maria Bamford channels her mental illness into comedy, and encourages others to do the same.
