‘Call Your Mother’ Trailer: Meet the Moms Behind the Most Famous Comedians

If you forgot to call your mother on International Women’s Day, well, here’s a friendly reminder from Comedy Central.Well-timed for release this Sunday, the trailer for the Comedy Central documentary “Call Your Mother” has dropped.

In this documentary, stand-up comics you know and love — including Roy Wood Jr., Kristen Schaal, Jo Koy, Bridget Everett, Fortune Feimster, Louie Anderson, and many others — celebrate the women who raised them and made them funny.

“Call Your Mother” premieres this Mother’s Day, May 10, on Comedy Central.

Watch the trailer below.“Call Your Mother” is directed by documentary stalwarts Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, the filmmakers behind “Jesus Camp,” set amid an evangelical Christian summer camp; “Freakonomics: The Movie,” based on the bestselling book; “One of Us,” which chronicles the lives of three ex-Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn; and “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You,” about the famed television writer and producer.

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