It's a decent enough film for comedy buffs though there aren't a whole lot of surprises.

Do you have to be sad to be funny? You'll have to sit through a slew of micro-anecdotes and shop talk before you get any answers from this choppy documentary - longer than any decent comic would defer a punchline.

If only he had probed a bit deeper, and widened his scope beyond the predominantly white, male subjects (including our own Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan and Stephen Merchant), this could have been a fascinating film as well as a funny one.

If 'Misery Loves Comedy' is a stream-of-consciousness exploration of the world of comedy, then that consciousness belongs to Pollak.