Dying Of Laughter

Alex de la Iglesia's unsentimental black comedy dissects the destructive relationship between the members of a popular Spanish comedy team as though it were a rare disease. As the film opens, revered comedians Nino (Santiago Segura) and Bruno (El Gran Wyoming) are trying to force each other off the highway en route to a highly anticipated TV comeback. Although the feuding former partners estranged for many years, flashbacks reveal how close they once were. They met in a backwater disco in 1972, where Nino was a lounge singer who longed to perform at swank clubs and Bruno was a bartender who aspired to be a TV host. They team up for an amateur contest and bomb, but a...