Leave Them Laughing (2010)

Directed by

John Zaritsky

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 29m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A comedian with Lou Gehrig's disease uses humor to face her terminal diagnosis. The film follows her as she blogs and performs, finding laughter in the midst of dying.

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What happens

Leave Them Laughing: A Musical Comedy About Dying is a 2010 documentary film directed by Academy-Award-winning director John Zaritsky. It follows the life of singer and comedian Carla Zilber-Smith, after she is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease, as she blogs and jokes her way through a disease that carries a certain death sentence. The film premiered at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on May 6, 2010, winning the Special Jury Prize for best Canadian Documentary. It was nominated for Best Documentary at the 31st Genie Awards.Cole, Yolande (March 2, 2011). "Western Canadian nominees for Genie Awards honoured at Vancouver reception". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved June 2, 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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