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A Session with the Committee

  • 19691969
  • PGPG
  • 1h 30m
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A Session with the Committee (1969)
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  • Documentary
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  • Director
    • Del Jack
  • Writers
    • Peter Bonerz
    • Barbara Bosson
    • Garry Goodrow
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    • Peter Bonerz
    • Barbara Bosson
    • The Committee
  • Director
    • Del Jack
  • Writers
    • Peter Bonerz
    • Barbara Bosson
    • Garry Goodrow
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    • Peter Bonerz
    • Barbara Bosson
    • The Committee
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    Mel Stewart, Peter Bonerz, Barbara Bosson, Garry Goodrow, Carl Gottlieb, Howard Hesseman, Jessica Myerson, and Christopher Ross in A Session with the Committee (1969)
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    Carl Gottlieb
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    Howard Hesseman
    Howard Hesseman
      Jessica Myerson
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          • theater troupe
          • social issues
          • sketch comedy
          • satire
          • san francisco california
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            • Outrageously anti-everything
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          a comic time capsule of the Sixties
          Former Second City director Alan Myerson decided to found his version of an improv-based sketch comedy company in San Francisco. Some of the players who played there over the years also clocked significant time with Second City, and one can see the two companies having a kind of dialogue about the possibilities of the form as well as providing a vital function of maintaining an ongoing commentary on what was going on in the country at the time.

          Most of the original Second City people were well-read, college-educated folk (frequently from the University of Chicago). The Committee's people generally had greater contact with what was happening in the street. Or maybe it's just that more of the street spilled into their doors.

          At any rate, this film is a collection of some of the more popular sketches at the time and it features some dazzling performances by a company, most of whom went onto bigger (though not always better) things. I run chunks of this for my students frequently and they always goes down very well indeed.

          Anybody interested in the intersection between American social and political history and satire should find this pretty compelling stuff.
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            • August 11, 1969 (United States)
          • Country of origin
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            1 hour 30 minutes
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