He’s back! Stand-up comedian, best-selling author and chat show supremo, the lovable Chatty Man and Tooth Fairy himself….. Alan Carr is back on tour in autumn 2011 with a brand new live comedy show, Spexy Beast, that will also be filmed live for DVD. After a few years of rubbing shoulders with A-list celebrities on his very own chat show, award-winning Alan Carr returns to his stand-up roots in his first major comedy tour and Live DVD in four years.
Alan Carr recorded this live perfomance at the Hammersmith Apollo in May 2007 to a sell-out audience. Alan talks about childhood and adolescence in his trademark frank and hilarious style.
An unknown girl breaks out of her daily grind by undergoing an intense audio-visual trip.
An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.
Four university friends are perpetually vulgar. When one of them falls in love with her neighbor, her mother who sells pickles disapproves. Her friends try to help her but they get in trouble and always end up at the police station.
1983, 6 minutes, Super 8. Backdrop screening used throughout live performances.
Random Acts of Intimacy is a film about brief moments of contact and sexual intimacy. It addresses notions of erotic memory, sexual fantasy, sexual desire and romantic love. It explores the possibility that sex with strangers might be the closest we get to realising current notions of romantic love - intense, passionate, impulsive.
Léo is a very boring guy with a mediocre life. He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't go out to have fun, he barely talks to his mother, he doesn't like people, he has no friends except his adorable fish he calls Cyclops. It's Valentine's Day and everyone is with their date, except Léo, who feels the need to meet someone. After all, he's almost a grown man and can't live his whole life in his own apartment. Bored, Léo downloads a dating app and decides to meet someone who will make his heart beat faster. His life turns upside down when he meets the charming Bia, a bisexual, feminist, tattooed, and full of attitude girl who soon piques his interest and invites her on a date. But Léo has a big secret that he's been keen to hide from everyone forever, he has a third eye.
La Vanessa was the organiser of the first gay rights march in Chiapas State, Mexico. Four years after her murder in 1992, this study of mexican transvestite culture documents a period of fear marked by 29 brutal murders. It originally aired in '96 as part of Channel 4's Latino Nights line-up ("a season of programmes from and about Latin America"), and--aside from showing up at a few niche trans-festivals here and there--seems to have disappeared altogether after that.
Katarina is a music teacher obsessed with an unfinished symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej an introverted inventor whose financiers are reputedly shady and dangerous. Then one day, her ex-husband Pietro shows up in her house and locks her in a cage.
Fate brings together three fascinating lost souls – a monk with a sack of money, an innkeeper with an uneasy conscience, and a father who’s lost his son – in young Chinese director Zeng Zeng’s mysterious tale of guilt, punishment and ambiguous redemption.
This picture shows Col. Roosevelt, accompanied by Lieut. Greenway and other prominent officers of the Rough Riders, galloping up to his headquarters, where he dismounts and walks into his tent. This view was taken in the camp with the Rough Riders, and is an excellent picture of Col. Roosevelt in the environment he loves so well.
A well-known intellectual is married to a woman who is obsessed with his wealth and power. He brings in a retired police officer to help him write his latest book. In the ensuing events, an affairir develops between the police officer and the professor’s wife.
Mongrel, the castrated barbarian rogue, meets a mysterious woman beneath the streets of the desert city of Ul'Imir.
Touring to over 1.5 million people and hosting hit shows '8 Out of 10 Cats', '10 O'Clock Live' and 'The Big Fat Quiz of the Year' means that Jimmy knows a thing or two about making people laugh. The show is packed with one-liners, stories & jokes—some clever, some rude and a few totally unacceptable.
Recorded live at Hammersmith Apollo, Russell questions the values of heroes and leaders. ‘Messiah Complex’ is a disorder where sufferers think they might be the messiah. Did Jesus have it? What about Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Hitler? All these men have shaped our lives and influenced the way we think. Their images are used to represent ideas that often do not relate to them at all. Would Gandhi be into Apple? Would Che Guevara endorse Madonna? Would Jesus be into Christianity? He concludes it’s all a load of rubbish and encourages the audience to stop voting, ignore advertising, look to the transcendent within themselves and others...and kick over some bins on their way home. Plus there’s sex. Obviously.
Force Majeure (French) (pronounced: fors mah-ZHur), "superior force", "chance occurrence, unavoidable accident": 2 years and 27 countries, Force Majeure Live was filmed during Eddie's mammoth 2013/2014 tour and takes you on a truly hilarious journey, offering a rare glimpse in to the mind of the master of surrealism.
After receiving rave reviews in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, Bill Bailey brings ‘Qualmpeddler’ to the Hammersmith Apollo London. A brilliant mix of stand-up, stories, music and old-fashioned wit distilled from his own extraordinary experiences and reactions to the modern world, he looks at Cut-Price Shark Diving, The Hiding Skills of Dentists, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance & Internet Shopping, Mandarin Ambiguity, Religious Dubstep, and Fashioning Replacement Hamsters. All in all, vintage Bill Bailey with trademark musical mash-ups, multi-lingual riffs, films, songs, philosophizing and silliness on a grand scale…plus one amazing owl. “Qualmpeddler is... part rock-concert, part political discourse, part philosophical enquiry... masterfully constructed... the thinking person’s comedian...” - Herald Sun, Melbourne.
Seann To Be Wild is the highly anticipated, debut live DVD from one of the most dynamic and charismatic young comedians to emerge in years. Nominated for the Fosters Comedy Award at this year's Edinburgh Festival, Seann's unique style of comedy has audiences in the palm of his hand. Packed with hysterical personal anecdotes and observations we can all relate to, and mixing off-the-wall reflections on young modern life with wild physical humour, don't miss the chance to see the debut live DVD from one of the most exhilaratingly fresh talents around. The real wild cat of comedy! "Sharp, creative observational comedy... See him now, before the stadium tour" - Sunday Times "...with the looks, gags and charm to become something quite special, Walsh is this generation's Dylan Moran" - Time Out
Tammy went back to her hometown and performed at her high school. It's easy to make strangers who found you in success laugh, but how about people who knew you before puberty? In an 80s flashback, this former captain of the cheerleaders became the most likely to make you laugh!
Presented by Team Coco, James Veitch's comedy special explores technology, retro gaming, and finding love through troubleshooting theory.
Stand-up comic and long-time Conan writer Laurie Kilmartin jokes about single motherhood, the abortion gag that got her doxxed by MAGA, losing her own mom to COVID, and why trans women are cis women's best allies.
HBO Comedy Half-Hour is a stand-up comedy television series of specials by various comedians, usually live from The Fillmore in San Francisco, with the format of a single comedian presenting a routine for the full half hour. The series ran on HBO from 1994 to 1999. Comedians who appeared on the show include Louis CK, Janeane Garofalo, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Dave Attell, Gilbert Gottfried, Bobcat Goldthwait, Patton Oswalt, Norm MacDonald, Margaret Cho, Laura Kightlinger, David Cross, Steve Harvey, and many others.
A week on the road with stand up comedians Doug Benson and Graham Elwood.
From London to Letterman, Trevor Noah has been through 6 countries since his last wildly successful tour (That's Racist) of his homeland. With all new material, his new show, It's My Culture, takes you with him on his travels from New Zealand to Zambia, New York and London. South Africa's pre-eminent comic is to tour in his favourite place, home. It's My Culture shines Trevor in a global spotlight without ever forgetting the country where it all started. The craziness of home on the world stage lets everybody know: it's his culture.
Actress/comedian Janeane Garofalo performs in her HBO solo stand-up comedy debut.
In this brilliant one-man show, the mild-mannered, thirty-something Steven Banks arrives home after a long day at his dead-end corporate job, still dreaming of being a rock star. Steven receives a message on his machine from his boss, Mr. Buttle, informing him that he never received an urgent speech Steven wrote for the board of directors. Steven must scramble to write a new one, but he has less than an hour to do it. Along the way, he continually procrastinates and distracts himself from the task at hand, playing with toys and various musical instruments, baking cookies, putting on costumes, leafing through an old high school yearbook and performing some hilarious original songs along the way. Meanwhile, he's got to deal with his grumpy landlord Mr. Mescue, his clingy girlfriend Phoebe and even a broken toilet. Will Steven ever finish his speech? Or does fate have something else in mind for him?
Jimmy Carr finds humor in the darkest of places in this stand-up special that features his dry, sardonic wit — and some jokes he calls "career enders."
Thailand's renowned stand-up comedian Udom Taephanich shares his unique stories and perspectives in this groundbreaking interview with Yuthana Boonorm.