Film about a comic recovering from trauma

A film about an aspiring stand-up struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder has been given a UK release date.

In I Used To Be Funny, American comedian Rachel Sennott plays Sam Cowell, who is trying to recover from her experiences and get back on stage

Meanwhile, she must decide whether or not to join the search for Brooke (Olga Petsa), a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.

It is the first feature film from Ally Pankiw, who was story editor on Schitt's Creek and directed the first season of Mae Martin's semi-autobiographical Feel Good as well as the  Black Mirror episode Joan Is Awful.

It premiered at the South by Southwest festival in March last year and has an average rating of 7.3 out of 10 on review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, with Collder calling it ‘beautiful, haunting, and heartwarming’ and Variety praising Sennott’s ‘tightrope of a performance’.

 I Used To Be Funny will open in cinemas in the UK and US on June 7.

Published: 16 May 2024