Stand-up legend Doug Stanhope sends his hand-picked comedy pals on an insane stand-up comedy van trip across the Midwest. Rowdy pranks and blistering comedy sets hit a major speed bump in Kansas, when they run headlong into a club owner who tells them to clean up their acts or get out. Now, the comics must choose: will they change their acts or get fired? Get in the van with comics who are unsafe at any speed.—Jeff Pearson
The Unbookables is a narrative documentary about stand-up comics who have spent their careers pushing limits--on stage and off. Relegated to small venues and touring in a crappy van through the Midwest they careen between the desire to succeed and the reality that there may be nothing left to lose. Road life is far from glamorous: comics come and go and cruel pranks and hard drinking punctuate their obsidian dark comedy on stage. They succeed and fail-spectacularly. When they face being fired for going too far on stage, the conflict culminates in a showdown: compromise or double down?