Jonathan Winters is arguably America’s greatest underutilized natural resource of comedy. Winters began doing standup in the mid-’50s, and his wild flights of free association, peerless improvisational skills, and seemingly endless array of voices and sound effects marked him as someone following a very different path than his peers in humor. Winters was popular and wildly influential but never quite rose to the highest levels of stardom, largely because he seemed too wild a card to play in many formats. While Winters has appeared in a number of movies and television shows, the man is at his best when he’s simply allowed to follow his muse wherever it chooses to wand...
Released:
2007
Rated:
n/a
Length:
79 mins