A woman has candidly reflected on her “funny trauma” of her father’s viral breakdancing career. “My dad abandoned my family when I was five years old. That is a wife and four kids,” she said. “He ...

This is the situation into which we are dropped at the outset of Ally Pankiw’s “I Used to Be Funny,” a story of trauma, catharsis and stand-up comedy. Through a jarring nonlinear narrative composed of ...

“You know that the person that was stolen is still here,” director Ally Pankiw told me during an interview for her poignant and remarkable movie I Used to Be Funny. The person in question is Sam, ...

Sam (Rachel Sennott) is depressed. Dissociative and disconnected, she spends her days bed-rotting, microwaving lunch meat and searching her name on Twitter. Never mind getting onstage at Toronto’s ...