Fran Solomita

When Stand Up Stood Out

Fran Solomita

Lenny Clarke, Bobcat Goldthwait

Documentary covering what came to be known as "The Boston Gold Rush" of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Boston stand-up comedians like Dennis Leary, Steven Wright and Colin Quinn burst upon the national scene, giving audiences a taste of the hard-edged social and political commentary that came out of that city.