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A famous comedian and artist wants to display his work at an art museum. Just when he thinks he has lost his touch, a series of famous comedians drop by to help him rekindle his artistic and comedic spark.Following his recent death, watching this film is my way of getting to know Jonathan. I think it worked! Robin Williams does his hackneyed, humorless bit (and Winters makes a nice remark about how Williams has overshadowed him), and Jim Carrey even shows up. In fat, Carrey's few moments on screen are quite funny to me -- which is odd, given that I am not a huge Carrey fan. He has a quick wit, and I wish we saw more of that and less of his physical comedy in films.

This is supposed to be a mockumentary but its not funny and nothing gets paid off. Most of the time Winters seems like he's senile and all of the cameos seem to have no idea what to do. I'm willing to guess that the premise was just "Winters will ad lib, he's funny" but NOTHING works. It's so bad that at first I just thought it was a terrible documentary. It was only when I learned that it was trying to be funny that I realized how awful it truly was. Poorly shot, edited, acted, set up, delivered... a blight on the man's legacy and virtually unwatchable.