Andrew! Alexander!
2018 · 4m · Canada
Directed by Josh Raskin
Genres: biography, documentary
Tones: contemplative, tender
Producer Andrew Alexander drives Second City alumni in a taxi while revisiting early struggles and building SCTV. Conversation traces a comedy empire from modest roots.
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A reverential taxi ride through comedy history—exactly the kind of safe, hagiographic doc that makes Felix's skin crawl; even the tender moments feel like they're checking boxes rather than interrogating the actual cost of building an empire.
Raskin's restraint is the thing: a four-minute form that trusts conversation and moving landscape to do the archival work, situating Second City within a lineage of North American comedy institutions while the taxi becomes both confessional and time machine.
The decision to keep the camera mostly on Alexander's hands and profile rather than cutting to archive footage creates this intimate, almost vulnerable space where the legend becomes a person remembering—a formal choice that transforms what could've been hagiography into something genuinely reflective.