All Jokes Aside

Praise for Raymond Lambert's award-winning documentary "Phunny Business:" "Full of history and context and has a sense of humor befitting its subject matter." --Neil Genzlinger, New York Times "[One of] the best documentaries of the year." --Roger Ebert "A wonderfully entertaining documentary about the club where it all began for many of today's top comic talents. " --Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter "This is one documentary that comedy fans won't want to miss." --Huffington Post "Breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing... Isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told." --Nathan Rabin, head writer The Onion/A.V. Club "A gem! A funny, insightful, honest knockout winner of a film about the serious business of comedy. A film that's an absolute must see movie. Four stars!" --Sergio Mims, EbonyJET Online "An invaluable look back at an all-too-brief but shining and important moment in the history of comedy." --Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times "The heartwarming and ultimately heartbreaking hidden history of south side Chicago's premiere Black comedy club. Inspirational, motivational, hilarious." --David Rensin, author and contributor editor Playboy Praise for All Jokes Aside, Raymond Lambert's iconic Chicago comedy club: "I did a show at All Jokes Aside, and I got about four standing ovations...it was about the best show I had at that particular time in my career." --Bernie Mac "All Jokes Aside was a mecca; when you went there to perform, you saw black folk running a comedy club the way a comedy club should be run. Ray Lambert took it to the next level." --Steve Harvey "If you can get booked here, be a headliner at All Jokes Aside, you knew that, you know, you were considered in the upper echelon of comedians working at that time." --Cedric the Entertainer "If you went over the roster of comics that played All Jokes Aside, it would be a who's who of comedy." --D.L. Hughley "Whenever anybody asks me how I got my start, I don't hesitate to mention All Jokes." --Craig Robinson "You couldn't just be Black, you had to Black and funny and good at All Jokes Aside." --Sheryl Underwood "It (All Jokes Aside) developed a discipline in those of us that were there that you carried with you through the rest of your career." --Don D.C. Curry "All Jokes Aside was the one club where you didn't feel that sexism. I experienced equality with my fellow male comedians." --Laura Hayes "Not only was the club a great Black comedy club, it was a great comedy club...period." --Mike Epps