SF DocFest 2025: Anxiety Club

CLOSING NIGHT

Anxiety Club offers a heartfelt and humorous exploration of anxiety through the lens of some of today’s most brilliant comedians: Tiffany Jenkins, Joe List, Marc Maron, Aparna Nancherla, Mark Normand, Baron Vaughn, and Eva Victor. With a mix of stand-up performances, sketch videos, exclusive interviews, and relatable everyday life scenarios, they candidly share their personal struggles with anxiety, the world’s most prevalent mental health condition, affecting more than 300 million people globally.

The film provides access to the private exposure therapy sessions of Tiffany Jenkins – a comic and author with millions of social media followers – as she confronts her deepest fears with grit and self-deprecating humor. Additionally, world-renowned meditation teacher and author Tara Brach, PhD, guides another brave comedian through an intense and transformative meditation experience. Viewers will also discover why Hollywood’s Laugh Factory took the groundbreaking step of hiring a psychologist-in-residence to support its comics.

Join these comedians as they reveal how vulnerability and humor can coexist, turning their mental health battles into powerful narratives that resonate with audiences everywhere. And, have some laughs along the way.