It Started As a Joke
- Release Year
 - 2019
 - Runtime
 - 1h 16m
 - Genres
 - Comedy
 - Documentary
 
- Directed By
 - Julie Smith Clem
 

This documentary chronicles the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival – including a final farewell show. The film celebrates Eugene’s unique brand of humor and his role in the alternative comedy movement, offers a bittersweet goodbye to an era, and reminds us of the healing properties of comedy – even in the most challenging of life’s circumstances.