It is a realistic series embodying a journey of contemporary interviews with legends and comedians. The series embodies the journey of comedy through history because this is not only history that makes us laugh, but it also shows us how comedy affected the social and political scene through real history in this context.
The CNN program would be enjoyable just for its wealth of vintage clips...To watch this series is to remember - or, depending on your age, to be introduced to - earlier comics who were incendiary in their own way, in much less permissive times.
