One of the Best Movies of 2012 – The New Yorker, Hammer to Nail, AV Club
One of the Best Film Performances of 2012 (Tim Heidecker) – Indiewire
“The most culturally relevant movie I’ve seen all year. Heidecker’s performance [is] a fearless, incredible exhibition of tightly controlled, passive-aggressive rage turned in on itself.” – Grantland
“Tim Heidecker gives a compulsively fascinating performance.” – Variety
“By far one of the most wildly inappropriate and pitch black comedies I’ve ever seen in my life.” – Film Threat
“Transgressively brilliant.” – Village Voice
“A work of art that’s both simultaneously hilarious and disturbing.” – Hollywood.com
“A powerful generational statement.” – Indiewire
Press
Tim Heidecker on youth, Louis C.K. and why The Comedy is 'grotesque' (Los Angeles Times)
Interview: The Comedy Director Rick Alverson On Provoking Audiences -- And Why His Next Movie Is About the Ku Klux Klan (Indiewire)
24 hours of discomfort, comedy, and discomfort-comedy with Tim Heidecker of The Comedy (AV Club)
Interview: Rick Alverson & Tim Heidecker Talk The Comedy, Juvenile Criticism, Exploring Middle Class Inertia & More (The Playlist)
Festivals
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Official Selection, South by Southwest
Official Selection, BAMcinemaFEST