Taped live before a sold-out audience at the WaMu Theater at New York Citys Madison Square Garden, Ricky Gervais: Out of England The Stand-Up Special is a high-spirited hour of offbeat observations and understated humor from the actor/comedian/writer/director.
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.
Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
With his signature pitch-black sense of humor, Ricky Gervais takes the stage at the London Palladium in this provocative stand-up comedy special.
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
In his first special in seven years, Ricky Gervais slings his trademark snark at celebrity, mortality and a society that takes everything personally.
The comic performs at the Chicago Theatre.
A year after Animals, Ricky Gervais comes back with his second stand up comedy tour: Politics.
Ricky Gervais Live IV Science or the way things worked before we invented God. The hilarious fourth live smash hit stand up show from Ricky Gervais, following his complete sell out tour - filmed live at London's Hammersmith HMV Apollo
Half Mick, half WOP, hard-headed comedian Andrew Santino returns to his Chicago hometown for a stand-up special with the authentic taste of a city made of Italian beef, Old Style and deep dish. Shot at the historic Vic Theater, Santino touches on everything from growing up thinking he was black and a disgust with bachelorette parties, to his bouts with severe acne and male porn stars envy.
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
The Dutch cabaret artists Harrie Jekkers and Jeroen van Merwijk have performed solo for years. The two old friends have made a program together and perform with songs, stories and dialogues.
2014 standup special originally aired on Comedy Central.
The Comedians of Comedy is an occasional stand-up comedy tour featuring Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Brian Posehn and Maria Bamford that was documented in a 2005 film and 2005 Comedy Central television series of the same name, both directed by Michael Blieden.
From an inauspicious beginning performing comedy routines in the back of a burger joint in New York, unorthodox stand-up star Zach Galifianakis has made a splash on the scene with his inimitable brand of humor. In this live show filmed at San Francisco's Purple Onion nightclub, the versatile funnyman serves up a healthy dose of his signature wit.
Self-released DVD showcasing a variety of Zach Galifianakis' comedy routines. Includes clips from VH-1's "Late World with Zach" and some of Zach's stand-up appearances.
Filmed at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes is back in a new hilarious stand up routine.
Nick Di Paolo delivers his commentary on the current state of our society, as only he can, from the Cohoes Music Hall in Cohoes, New York. Labeled too “dangerous” for Netflix and too “honest” for Comedy Central, Nick released this full length stand-up comedy special FREE to the people.
In her debut stand-up special, Hacks star Hannah Einbinder takes viewers on a psychedelic thrill ride of storytelling, characters, jokes, and more.
Rhys Nicholson flexes his biting humor as he discusses horse tranquilizers, angry letters from viewers, and more in this stand-up special.
Jaspreet Singh takes on "mundane" topics like the ever-growing motivation market, godmen, serious parenting to the "tough" bouncers like his door bell, the salad he made and the absurdity of the teenage. His first comedy special is a perfect amalgamation of his niche observations, signature laid back attitude with quick paced punchlines.
The venomous, no holds barred style of standup comedy legend Paul Mooney is on full display in this concert special. The vitriolic funnyman spares no politician or pop icon from his scathing wit, throwing jabs at Sarah Palin, Mel Gibson, Tiger Woods and many others. Defiant, socially relevant and always hilarious, it’s a legendary Mooney performance, taped live at the Cobb Energy Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.
David O'Doherty performs his annual Christmas comedy show, this year, to an empty room.
Several comic greats pay tribute to the legendary stand-up stage founded by Budd Friedman in 1963.
Craig Ferguson, the Scotland-born host of the Emmy-nominated "The Late Late Show," takes the stage at Boston's Wilbur Theatre for this performance captured during the East Coast leg of his 2008 stand-up tour. Known for his amusing observations and wry humor, the newly anointed United States citizen takes a swing at a variety of pop culture topics.
The legendary Tracy Morgan returns to his roots in his new stand-up special, "Tracy Morgan: Bona Fide". Tracy delivers a hilarious hour that includes everything from growing up in the projects to the time Prince threw him out of his house after a party.
Amy Schumer gets real about lasering her face, postpartum sex, her baby-naming disaster and chewable Viagra in this cheekily candid stand-up special.
I efteråret 2005 tournerede Jonatan Spang landet rundt med sit første one (wo)man comedy show ”DAMER”. Showet er optaget i Store Vega i København. Hvorfor har græske statuer så små tissemænd? Hvorfor er kønsrolledebatten kun spændende, når man kalder koner for kællinger?
Fresh from his role in the Broadway musical hit "Hairspray," self-effacing stand-up funnyman John Pinette delivers nonstop laughs at the Montreal Comedy Festival. An all-new routine covers topics from health food to family get-togethers, and backstage footage and hilarious outtakes add to the fun. Pinette's successful acting career extends to TV and the big screen as well as the stage; his films include Duets, Dear God and Junior.
Lisa Lampanelli's shocking and hilarious appearances on television from "The Tonight Show" to Comedy Central roasts have made her the hottest comic in the country. Now her second Comedy Central special, "Dirty Girl," is presented on CD and DVD. "Comedy's Lovable Queen of Mean" (New York Times) gets down and dirty on Dirty Girl "No Protection," and it is filthy funny.
Incisive comic Jen Kirkman gets real about women's bodies, the value of alone time and an Italian private tour guide who may have been a ghost.