Sindhu Vee - ALPHABET In her deeply personal stand-up special ALPHABET, Sindhu Vee explores being a parent (to kids who really haven't turned out how she had expected), being married (to a great communicator), being a sister (to someone waaay cooler than her) and being a child (who has lost her beloved mother). Vee also considers other serious topics: the hair we want, the friends we have, and what exactly makes a balloon fancy?
7.1Taped 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.
0.0In her debut special, Rosebud Baker uses her signature wit and combative edge to take on everyone from health care workers to ex-boyfriends to her very own family.
4.0Danish singer and comedian Annika Aakjaer first one woman show.
8.7Brad Williams navigates relationships and everyday life as a little person.
7.6An HBO special edited from three performances from Chris Rock's 2008 comedy tour: London (dark suit, dark shirt), Johannesburg (black suit, white shirt) and New York (shiny jacket). Topics include the ongoing presidential campaign, the possibility of a black president, George W. Bush, gas prices, low-paid jobs, ringtones and bottled water, sex, relationships and the correct use of the n-word
6.6Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham brings his rude, crude and slightly demented posse of puppets to Ireland for a gleeful skewering of family and politics.
7.7Eddie Izzard takes her show to San Francisco to give a brief history of pagan and Christian religions, the building of Stonehenge, the birth of the Church of England and of Western empires, and the need for a European dream.
7.9It's Bad For Ya, Carlin's Emmy nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin's noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, patriotism, overprotected children and big business to the pungent examinations of modern language and the decrepit state of the American culture.
0.0Talegaver Til Børn celebrated its 15th anniversary in December 2007 with three sold-out shows at Forum. The FBI's annual charity show was produced in collaboration with Unicef. For 15 years, between Christmas and New Year's Eve, people have been able to laugh for a good cause in the company of the country's best stand-up comedians, and the 2007 shows definitely lived up to the success of previous years.
5.3The last day of the year. Perhaps the biggest party of the year. In a fireworks display of jokes, Mick Øgendahl says goodbye to the old year and takes us into the new.
0.0Niels Hausgaard's show at Vega, from his 2006 tour "Vildskab" (Wildness).
6.0Katherine Ryan makes a welcome return to the stage in this stand-up special. Having previously denounced partnership, Katherine has since married her first love... accidentally.
0.0A pretty unprepared set. Oh well. I made this as a test to show to some men.
6.6The multi-platinum selling comedian performs his first holiday-themed stand-up special with his friends.
6.8A recorded live performance of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham portrays a comedian whose revival of an old-fashioned art has made ventriloquism more relevant to modern societal concerns. Starring his six main characters, from Bubba Jay, a Nascar-obsessed hick, to Peanut, a flamboyant gay monkey, Dunham’s puppets have dirty but inoffensive senses of humor that mock the American Dream.
6.9Combining his amazing talent and his unorthodox sense of humor, Jeff Dunham returns, yet again, with a hilarious stand-up comedy and ventriloquist performance. Starting off with the infamously known Walter, scrutinizing every bit of today's American society. Followed by two new characters, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, who continuously threatens the crowd with Silence and Death, and Melvin the Superhero.